80ish taps done since last wkend. Have about 60 gallons of sap waiting to boil. I have 1 more line to tap but I might skip it this year.
SRM....I'm pretty close to you. Lone Pine. Shipe Run...
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80ish taps done since last wkend. Have about 60 gallons of sap waiting to boil. I have 1 more line to tap but I might skip it this year.
SRM....I'm pretty close to you. Lone Pine. Shipe Run...
Not ideal weather but I might be tapping 1/2 my trees Sunday.
One final run for me and I'll be calling it. I'll probably do my final collection Wednesday evening.
I'm currently at roughly 10 gallons. Hoping this final run gives me 3-4 more gallons. Sugar...
That sounds lovely. haha. I do ok with my setup.....once I get the sap to my house (my IBC tanks are on a trailer at the family farm.....trailer back 150-200+ gallons to my driveway). My RO feeds...
Odds are you "batch boil" like me. I always have overestimated how close to syrup I am when I shut down my evaporator.....then it takes fooooorevvvvver once you bring it in house to finish. I don't...
luckily Friday/Saturday will be cold.....I'll be able to catch up. ha. 10 day forecast looks great.
All tapped. 81 taps. Collected 150ish gallons on Saturday and boiled down to about 10 gallons worth of concentrate. I'll probably finish that off tonight or tomorrow.
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SRM...I'm probably just down the road from you. Lone Pine.....Shipe Run Road.
collected 300 gallons and slowly working my way thru it w my driveway operation. :)
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i've tapped a couple big walnuts in the past and they ran really well. do it. haha
5 day forecast looks great...10 day not so great. pretty warm. last few years I've been wrapping up the beginning of March. Long winter = short transition into spring? Luckily its just a hobby so...
officially started yesterday. sap was flowing pretty good. this week looks good.
Roughly 80 out of 100 taps done. I'll be done tapping Saturday. Next week looks good...here comes the start of the season :) Hopefully it doesn't warm to quickly. Last year I called it by March...
If forecast holds.....I won't be tapping until the 13th and 14th. I've been busy and not really ready so I'm welcoming the cold blast :)
thanks for the offer! i'm south of pittsburgh.....a little far for a tubing run. most of my stuff can wait until next year but i was hoping to reroute a few lines. i did a panic 2nd buy also on...
I'm starting to think maybe next weekend for tapping. Now through Wednesday doesn't get higher than 34. I don't think I'll miss much if I wait one more week. I'm not quite ready and I wanted to...
This weekend is looking more and more like a good starting time. I'm not ready....guess I gotta stop procrastinating.
I am done also. Finished with 15 gallons....up 2 gallons from last year. New PR and it felt like less work and more enjoyable.
Pretty happy the weather stayed low enough that this was mostly a...
I expected some big runs but things just arent flowing like i thought. Holes might be healing some plus the cold overcast pittsburgh days arent helping. I was already planning on shutting down this...
Very nice Chris!
Im wrapping up Sunday. On track to beat last years 13gallons. I should reach 15+ if the forecast holds and trees produce. The driveway setup this year worked out well so far.
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Good day for me...I had a lot to finish and catch up on. Made 5.5 gallons. Huge day for me. 9.5 gallons for the season. I went to collect this evening....I was expecting a lot but the trees were...
get ready for the sap tsunami....i hope :)
I haven't collected since Friday....now I'm nervous. haha Collecting tonight.
Made 7 gallons of syrup this weekend...along with spilling a full gallon in the driveway (i wanted to cry..ha)
I gave up on the golf course. My inlaws have 100+ acres in lone pine. I have 85 taps that lead to a 275 tank that I usually collect once a week. Roughly 200+ gallons of sap per week @ 2%. I’m...
yeah....those are them. everywhere i've seen them, they end up costing to much to justify filling them up and giving them away to friends. fillmore prices are pretty good on these.