Okay where is PATheron? If he is this busy already to be updating us I think he might have over done it with the tap count. Either that or he had a little time to rethink his layout and started tweeking it all over in a last minute panick.
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Okay where is PATheron? If he is this busy already to be updating us I think he might have over done it with the tap count. Either that or he had a little time to rethink his layout and started tweeking it all over in a last minute panick.
BIGSAP!!! BIGSAP!!!! Sorry guys, I let you down with the warnings. I started tapping in and came down real sick. Had a bad toothache the other day and by that night it was so bad I had to call my dad and have him take me to the emergency room in the middle of the night. Turned out it was absessed and got into the dentist yesterday and they actually removed it. Put me in a lot of pain and couldnt do anything so sick like that. Before I got sick though I was right at it and got right around 950 taps in. I havent got my big pump hooked up yet so I stuck a couple of old dairy pumps on it. I had one little piston pump Doug gave me and an sp11 and l didnt even have time to go fix leaks so I just turned them on and had around 12 inches of vac and it actually ran pretty darn good that way. Id say maybe 500 gallons. I think its going to be tomarrow before Im going to be well enough to be back at it. The weather looks on and off but I think I feel pretty good about it. It takes me a long time to get all my taps in and last year they ran till April so Im going to just do what I did last year. Ill keep you posted once things start moving foreward again. Pretty wiped out even today. Hard to sleep with all the pain and that runs you down too. Theee(temporarily incapacitated)rooooon
Theron,
If you have sap,have you checked the sugar content? I would be interested to know.
Dave- Its 1.2%. Ive found in the past that the first stuff is like that. Plus this is the stand with the small trees in it. For some reason the first stuff is low and then it gets better as it goes. I hope its not a sign of whats to come. I really dont think that it is. Ill keep you guys posted as it comes. Theron
That is what I tought it would be. Keep testing it when it gets to 2.0 its go time. keep us posted.
Gentleman not to be the one with bad news but it's going to get COLD again!!
We will wait until our normal time to tap Valentines day!
Top inch of the ground is muddy but it is frozen below that!
Jim
Theron hope things get better for you quickly. I got the flu real bad last year right when the big run came for me, that sucks.
I am also going to wait a little longer.
On 2 trees that I wasn't going to tap this year I drilled a small 1/8" hole to see and there is nothing. I wanted to check sugar content.
I will keep an eye on them and when they start to run then I will think about tapping in.
I agree with you Jim walking around here it gets muddy quick but just below that it is still quit frozen. that really cold Dec and the 1st week in Jan really froze things up.
You guys are probly better off tapping in usuall time like you said. Ill keep you posted on the sugar. Theron
I think I will have my big pump hooked up this week and Ill try to have a couple thousand taps in by the weekend and we'll see how it runs. Theron
Theron, too bad about your tooth! I was tempted to look you up on Sunday, I was at Patterson's picking up a new syrup pan that had been dropped off there. The weather was questionable though so we hit the road for home. Richard says you're "enthusiastic". No kidding!