31.5 this A.M. and the wind has died. There's frost on the grass - I don't think it's enough to get a run started, but we'll see in a few hours. Tonight too, maybe?
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31.5 this A.M. and the wind has died. There's frost on the grass - I don't think it's enough to get a run started, but we'll see in a few hours. Tonight too, maybe?
I'm pulling for you Mike! I have another 11 months to wait here :(
steve
Well, I picked up 10 gals from 60 taps. Wow, some run. Maybe tonight for frost, here's hoping. Good thing was I had sap from all but 2 taps, and those 2 hadn't done much all season. I can't imagine mid March and there's no more frost? Someones gotta be full of it, I hope it's the weatherman.
yea surprisingly my vac taps got a run of about 150 gal after the minor frost last night, so i guess it was enough, about a half gal per tap that is. its all cloudy and gona make commercial but its something to trade at bascoms towards more stuff! hope to get the same tommorow
At 4:45 AM, one thermometer has 27.9 & the other 28.1 We should be back in business!!! :)
yea we had a frost here as well car windows frosty and the puddles in the driveway were iced up a bit too. maybe i can get a bit more sap yet this season, buckets are still up.
25º this morning at my place in Stafford. I was worried that we weren't going to go below freezing because it was 35 around 10pm last night. We went below around midnight so we had a good freeze.
My wife said that most of our taps on buckets were running pretty good but some weren't running. I have hope that my trees in the woods are doing well!! I'm glad that I have different bushes in different locales but it's just been so warm lately!
I'm hoping for a few hundred gallons before things dry up again for lack of freezing weather. The next week looks rough, but the last week of March (according to CrapuWeather) looks pretty good.
Dave
yea had a good freeze here last night, i think my sap is buddy tho since its been cloudy and a bit of an off taste last boil, not sure if enough of a freeze will change that or is good sap all over for the year? still gona make some C to trade towards tubing stuff at bascoms open house tho
I had 40 gal/sap, about 20 off my runs last week. 40's better than none though, as I'm about 400 gal behind my average years. I dumped buckets at 4:30 & they were running pretty good. Another little frost tonight would be just great. My place is at the bottom of some hills, when there's no wind, the cold settles in here pretty good.
yea i got nothing at all here on my gravity lines and buckets, i mean zero, not even wet or a single drip in the tanks! but my vac gave me about another 75 gal cloudy buddy sap!