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Flow was a little all over the place today. Some buckets at 1 gallon plus, others near dry. That's not so unusual for my bush as I have a wide variety of tree sizes and the ones down low near the creek tend to flow early, while others are not so active. The south side of big trees had the most sap. Makes sense along side my thoughts about snow keeping the ground gold.
Let's see what tomorrow holds.
Sam
I'm thinking yesterday would not have been a good day as it never got below 35 at night.
Emptied some buckets and ended up with about 25 gallons that I collected and left some on the trees. I didn't feel like empting 1 quart per bucket on this low ones. It will start eventually.
Got stuff in bound to tap another 15 or 20 trees. I may end up around 70 taps this year. If it's quick I'd like to catch what I can.
Sam
pulled 25 gallons toiday...couple more days like that and I can start the sweetening.
I got somewhere around the same today. Also threw 10 more taps in and probably add 10 more tomorrow. I think I'm somewhere around 65 taps right now. If it really starts to run I will be buried. For the moment that does not appear to be an issue :(
Sam
Just finished up emptying buckets. A little closer to 50 gallons between last night and today. I'm planning to finish up prep Friday afternoon and start boiling on Saturday.
Sam
Wind was an issue today. This evening I went and collected buckets that were blown all over the place.
Sam
I leave some sap in my buckets to prevent that if its going to be windy. Hard to do when there is little to no sap of course
the downside to that is that if the sap in the bucket freezes. In that event I let them sit in the house for a day to thaw out. I will probably have to warm some sap to pump into the holding tank in order to thaw that out for boiling this weekend.
yep...froze solid....so now Ima have to warm up some sap and dumop it into my buckets to loosen the ice blocks so I can thaw THOSE and dump that warm sap into my holding tank to thaw out THAT ice
maybe boil sunday