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Update on the craziness in the far north. March 5-6 were great. About a gallon per tap per day. Some taps yielded 2 gallons per day. Then today, March 7, the weather seemed about the same, and 51...

We are near Winchester. This is always too early, but with the tropical forecast, we caved in to FOMO and put in 51 taps on Sunday March 3. Most were immediately dripping furiously. Then the sun...

Crazy year so far. We are in the snow pile around Winchester. Still 2.5 ft of snow in the woods as of 4/1 when we tapped. Had to shovel a 40 foot long corridor through a 5 foot deep snow bank just...

Things might finally be loosening up in the Great White North. Collected about 2.5 gallons per tap over the last 6 days. Of course had to pull everything from the woods because we'll have 48 hours...

So far we've only collected about 80 gallons on 45 taps, since 3/16. Finally starting to drip today in the bright sun. Last year we were done on April 6. Based on the glaciers still covering the...

Hey, Mercer Maple. We've been making $1000/gallon syrup only since 2016. The trees in Winchester are still sleeping. Every year we say (in retrospect) we tapped too soon. Then we do the same...

Hey, Mercer Maple. We're pretty close to you, over by Winchester. Put in 22 taps last evening, and similar results -- nada. You are a stud for putting in 75 taps through this deep, wet snow. ...

Just put in 22 taps this evening. Had to trudge around in snow shoes to avoid sinking in up past my knees, and didn't crash even once. However, no sap in any of the holes. Weird. Mrs. TwoSaps...

Great run last week. Collected 200+ gallons on 48 taps, with many buckets overflowing. On Saturday afternoon alone, got two gallons on a couple of taps. That's a lot of drips. Sugar content was...

Game on. We put in 42 taps on Saturday (3/13), and less than 24 hours later, we had 41 gallons of sap. Some taps produced almost 2 gallons in less than a day. Of course others were dogs -- the...

Still pretty frozen up by us. We installed 4 taps last weekend, just to see. Produced only about 3 gal sap total for the whole week. But the forecast looks so bueno here, we're jumping in today.

That seems awfully warm for bags, which will likely reach air temp before long, and especially if it was not very cold at night. Supposedly it behaves like fresh milk, as far as food safety.
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We did 4 test taps on 3/5, thinking that the ground and tree bases likely were still too frozen by us to allow much sap production. Looks like it is still too early for us -- only got a few cups of...

Holy sap-o-rama, Batman. Went up to Winchester area this week, to find every 5-gallon bucket, and even the 18-gallon drums overflowing. Collected 157 gallons on 29 taps, and who knows how much went...

Greetings from the Great White North (still). We put out 29 taps last Wednesday (3/18), and collected 64 gallons of sap in the day and a half before it froze up. Cooked about 2.3 gallons of syrup...

TedA, my theory is that when you first tap, you pull off a tree trunk full of sap, which is pressurized when the warm temps cause carbon dioxin to come out of solution (instead of being dissolved in...

I love the optimism. A couple years ago my brother cleverly floated our frozen buckets in the jacuzzi until they thawed enough to put in the pans. And yet we still sucker for tapping too early...

Is anyone getting any sustained sap flow in the far north (Iron, Vilas, Forest county area)? We've tapped early in the past, gotten the initial flow of sap stored in the trees, and then not much...

Nice run this weekend. We have about 50 taps on buckets. Collected about 1/2 gallon per tap just on Saturday afternoon alone. Collected 64 gallons overall, to make 1.5 gallons of nice, deep...

Anyone with a good method for cleaning the sap boiling pans? For us, "stainless" steel, isn't.

The few warmish days last week in the far north gave us 67 gallons on about 60 taps. Not great, but the sugar content was still excellent -- about 27:1 sap to finished syrup ratio. Produced a nice...

Brad, I don't know this from decades of personal experience, but a scientific paper I read (I think from a guy at University of Vermont) concluded that the holes start closing with the formation of...

I'm almost embarrassed to share this, but what the heck. A week ago I did an experiment by actually shoveling around one of our trees in the woods, to see if having the sun able to warm the ground...

Everything is still pretty frozen where we are near the UP. Collected a grand total of 2 gallons of sap from 64 taps during the day on Saturday (about 38 degrees for a high). Many of these are big...

We are having similar experience. We put in about 40 taps two weeks ago, and gave a grand total of about 6 gallons. There is still about 20" of snow in the woods by us, and I suspect that the...