I'm in Charlton and was planning on putting in my taps this weekend (just 75) but the long range forecast seems to be telling me to wait another week. I guess there's no sense in rushing it but was...
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I'm in Charlton and was planning on putting in my taps this weekend (just 75) but the long range forecast seems to be telling me to wait another week. I guess there's no sense in rushing it but was...
Throw in a ULine plastic bag and a tap and you'll be ready to go!
Thanks for the snowshoe advice maple flats but I got lucky with the warmer weather and was able to get the 4-wheeler through the snow to collect. It helped that I just put chains on the tires too. ...
Thanks Dr. T, I'm a bucket man as well and was wondering the same thing. Now if I could just figure out an easy way to walk on 2' of snow to collect the sap! Hoping that it will melt enough to be...
Put in 80 taps and hung the pails on Sunday and was glad to see 50 gallons of sap Monday after work. The weather forecast doesn't look too good this week but I'm looking forward boiling down...
Thanks for the advice and it sounds like I'll be waiting to tap the trees for a while still.
Anyone know if I will run into any issues if I tap my maple trees in January instead of when I usually do it a week or 2 before the first run? I have some downtime now and thought that it would be...
Very interesting and thanks for posting.
Love the DIY contraption, nice work! Sap is slow going as well in Charlton and hopefully it picks back up soon but I'm not too overly optimistic.
Looks fantastic ADK and congrats on your first boil! I can't wait to fire up the evaporator tomorrow morning and hoping for a decent sap flow today.
Put 70 taps in last weekend and the sap started flowing yesterday. It was nice to come home from work to find about 25 gallons of it. Hope everyone else is seeing some as well and looking forward...
Hi Ren,
I'm in Charlton and decided to wait on tapping the trees until next weekend. Last year was my first year making maple syrup and I've upgraded from (2) stock pots on an open fire to a 2x4...