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New season
Anyone else getting ready for the new season?
Hobbiest 5 gal. Or so /year.
When is everyone thinking of tapping. I know it depends on the weather forcast but last year was crazy I tapped late 2/24 ( I usually tap around that time) but last year I missed a couple of weeks of good flow. After the 24th things dried out for awhile and started again later in March.i'm thinking of tapping around the 10th. Has anyone ever had taps the dried up from no flow?
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I started getting ready a couple of months ago with flushing the lines. This shows where I need to fix them from the animal damage. Still have some tubing to repair. Last year I tapped on 2/12 and untapped on 3/25. The taps had definitely dried out. I tapped a new tree the week before and it was producing but with the warm weather the season was over. I will wait until Feb to start looking at the long range forecasts in order to figure out when to tap.
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Slowly getting things ready here. Got the vacuum system all together, going out today to check and set lines. Biggest progress this year was helping 5050 get his new RO built. No sugar shack this year - that will happen after this season, but some progress there doing site work and getting wood milled (Thanks Teddy!) I hope it stays cold for a few weeks yet!
Best to all this year!
John
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Johhs help
Yes we have been busy with the RO, and milling your beams Thanks John!!! This week is looking good but no time to dig in now!Hope it hold off a bit???
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I cleaned out the sap house today and ran some water thru the evaporator to get the dust out. Might swap some spiles out this week and tighten up some laterals. Not tapping yet, but the sapsuckers are and the sap is running where the birds got to the few sugar maples I do have.
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Tapped Today
Since the weather looks favorable, I tapped today. May be a little early, but we'll see.
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Going for it
Plan to reinstall all my lines n tap Saturday looks good? I will see if it was easier to remove n reinstall then to fix all the squirrel chew downs that I had last year.
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Just came in from all day reinstalling lines cleaning totes that went great will remove n install next year n then on way easier then fixing all the chew down n holes!!!! Then tapped all my lines just bucket trees to go only 9-10 of them and its rippin good!!! Checked all vacuum gauges n 2 of 4 full 29" other 22" and one other doesn't have a lot of drop n it was runnin great so that good just have to keep an eye on them the squirrels are bad! The weather looks good some real cold followed by warm its here!!
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So almost nothing yesterday - maybe 5 gallons.
Run started late today, I thought it was going to be a bust, but at 5pm I had 50 gallons. I looked just now (before 9pm) and I have over 100 gallons (on 91 taps). Gonna leave vacuum on tonight for a while as it is coming pretty fast still.
So lots of work todo tomorrow...
Teddy - get that RO fired up...