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I started tapping today and should be done tomorrow(Sunday). Weather will be prime this upcoming week with lows in the upper 20's and highs in the 40's. Crazy year for weather.
We tapped buckets Friday night and Sat morning next door in Ashtabula County. Sap was running good on my big trees.
started tapping Wed. afternoon should finish sometime Friday decided after seeing next weeks weather that this season may be a short one hope not but seems like we are not going to break this pattern we are in. temps may start to progressively continue to warm as we go through time I think that should be obvious
we have been running for two weeks and are over 100 gallons. i know some over 250 gallons. taking a break with the freeze up this weekend and recharging for the next run. pays to be ready and tap early.
just finished friday afternoon [tapping] I'm going to be real interested in knowing if tapping really early like so many have if your season will be shortened or if you have to retap still alot of guys around me have yet to tap seems like the weather is going to the colder side and more normal have to wait and see
I believe there was a study done on early tapping, and from what I remember it didn't yield much more sap. It probably didn't take into consideration of check valve spouts, vacuum&tubing either. The end of the season totals should be pretty interesting this year.
I normally tap around valentines day and have been told the same about yield most around here like to wait until presidents day the earliest ever I have tapped was the 8 of Feb, and the latest was last year on the 28th and boiled until the 9th of April used the cvs and was really impressed we will see this year do like the snow and cold we are having though
I started tapping on thursday to make it snow this weekend and it worked:lol: earliest i tapped was feb 4th in 2002, sap didnt run till the 15th when i decided to tap the rest of the woods.that winter was warmer and stranger than this one. turned out to be a very good year. the latest i tapped was march 15th in 08 so much snow and cold couldnt get in the woods, again another good year.I will finish tapping this week about 300 more to go. hopefully i find some doors by the weekend:o
Wondering were you've been Tom, good to hear from you!