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Nothing today really as it rained off and on all day and cloudy, and now more rain headed our way but up north Snow headed that way. Pipeline just dripping a little today nothing big and buckets zero. I know I am not alone in waiting and hoping and pacing and getting restless.:o
I got minimal today I'm on the nh mass border. My trees ran last night I had between 1/3 and full buckets this morning. Then today best bucket was 1/3 full. Your right on the pacing about. I have 3x as many taps this year and a much tighter route, but I've done the same driving or more for 1/4 of the sap.
I can see it now $70 for a gallon of syrup
Trees thawed out this afternoon around 3pm was coming in around 100 gallons every twelve minutes. Also looking at another 5-8 inches of snow Sunday. At least tomorrow looks good.
i got about 10 gallons of sap from 600 gravity taps. About what I expected.
El Zippo here too!
It started flowing OK around 4pm, here in Temple (South Central) and hasn't let up too much. Just under a gallon per tap since this morning. Drew off 3G and will probably need to boil tomorrow night. I must be in a warm pocket, plus some vac helps. Hope it stays cold so the trees don't get all jumpy...
Yes now we want the cold to stay.
Late this afternoon there was a drop every now and then coming into the releasers.
I didn't get much yesterday either. It was coming into the releaser about as good as I have seen it this season which isn't very good. I will boil tonight for the 6th time this season and the 5th time in March. The number of times in March would only be 4 if not for maple weekend. A new record here and not a good one.