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Started tapping today,getting ready for the weekend warmup.Got 228 taps put in on gravity tubing.Have about 250 more tubing taps to put out, plus 125 buckets.I have doubled my tap count from last year, hoping for BIGSAP.I got one test bucket out for over a week now,that has not even covered the bottom of bucket.It has been below freezing here for several days,-3 this morning,glad to see a warmup coming.
Good luck to you Robiez. It certainly was a chilly week here in Alex-Siberia. We're gonna hit them all over the next few days. Maybe even get to sweeten the pans on Sunday.
Todd
I have almost a half an inch in my bucket tapped 3 weeks ago,,,think that will change by monday,,
Parker, I'm sure hoping it does! This is the same weekend we hit them last year and we thought it was a week too early. Still winter. Close to four feet of snow on the ground still.
The mixed precipitation and higher temps should get the trees thawed out so that the BIGSAP will come fairly quickly. It worked that way for me last weekend. I got twice as much sap overnight Friday after the wind changed direction and the rain started than I did the whole week before.
Checked some barrels today,a few lines were dripping.Tapped another bush this afternoon with 65 taps and most of those were running ok.I got to the end of the mainline and there was a steady stream coming out,not bad for 65 taps on gravity at 5:30 and 35 degrees,and started this morning at -4 degrees.Getting out of work early tomorrow to finish getting everything tapped.Hoping to have enough sap to sweeten the pans on sunday.
Got another 100 taps out today.Some were dripping pretty good,and others were not dripping at all.I have about 150 taps left to get out,which should be no problem getting done tomorrow.Then it is just tying up some loose end in the sugarhouse.
Got the other 150 taps in today, that brings me up to 575 taps.I tapped a new bush today,it is a field side bush with good southern exposure,and the snow has pulled back away from the trees about a foot.When I tapped this new bush this afternoon sap was running good.I should be able to collect tomorrow and maybe even boil for the first this season.
Robiez, get anything over there this weekend? not a whole bunch here. Weather definitely didn't cooperate today
cardigan99,things have let loose down here.I have been boiling two and three nights a week,and both days on the weekend,and not keeping up.If I am not boiling I am collecting.1200 gallons of sap this week though the 2x6,averaging around 40 gph,thats alot of boiling.I have made almost 30 gallons of syrup so far. I have been so busy sugaring this is the first time I have been on the Trader in over week and a half.Got to go more sap to collect,probably another 500 to 600 gallons tomorrow.
Brett