Yep-sure would like to have a sugar shack right now. However, 20 years of "Marital Wisdom" tells me, I should finish remodeling the bathroom first...
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Yep-sure would like to have a sugar shack right now. However, 20 years of "Marital Wisdom" tells me, I should finish remodeling the bathroom first...
i know what you mean! i really wish i had a sugar shack right now. a foot of snow and rain! this stinks!
spencer
I'm just hoping I can bust through the plow drift and get to my tank with the truck. I really don't feel like driving my open station tractor a mile down the road in this crap.
Guess the saps running which is good.
Slush just clearing the lines now. Gravity stuck in limbo right now. Can see the sun through the clouds. It's going to run big. Michelle
My name is Marc Duclos in Deerfield! I am on my third year.I tested 30 taps 2010 at the end of that year. Last year I had 365 taps and with out much equipment I bottled up 40 plus gals. I put up 400 taps on two sections one is all sugars around 275 and the othe is primaraly just reds Feb.14 th. I dont have high vacuum. Just 15 to 25 % grade with 5 hg witch keeps the lines empty. I am up to 550 taps and only collected 330 gals of sap this year. I am a 52 year old brick and stone mason and have been in the woods most of my life but I am realy in the woods about the lack of sap so far.
At least you had sap to boil down... we didn't have ANYTHING this week. It's weird to not be boiling down on a Sat in March.
Hi Marc, I'm in Deerfield too. Tending 15 taps and only managed to gather 2 gallons this week. Went out around 10:30am this morning and dumped the rain water out of the buckets. Used a few wet beech leaves per buckets to cover the spout hole to block rain water from getting in. Just got back and had maybe half a cup of sap between all of them. I hope tomorrow is better or I may have to dump the two gallons I've gathered through this week.
Sounds like somebody really needs to get their priorities straight. Of course the shack should come first. better yet, build the shack with a bathroom and call it even,Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard Gress
MJFlores- if you have the freezer space, you can freeze that 2 gallons and boil it with you sap next week. That's what we did 2 weeks ago, and it worked out fine.
It's all adding up to be a "freaky" season. All these "fits and starts" since early Feb. Next week weather looks all too typical, Mon-Tues-tool cold, Wed pretty good 32night/50 day,but then Thurs 60 degrees high. Bug time. And of course Sat (my only real time to boil)-Rain