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Congrats on your retirement Van! I’ve been lurking here for years, following your reports to help guide my own tapping timing, and just generally enjoying your posts. Good luck with everything!

Just looking at the weather here... below freezing until 2/20, and that's the farthest the forecast goes. At this rate I won't be tapping til March!

Thanks for your answers on this a couple weeks ago. You were right, and indeed the sap did start running again just fine!

Hobbyist here, in Hancock NY, been at it 10 years or so, usually with about 30 taps and buckets. But I'm only in the area weekends, so limited in when I can tap and collect. So anyway -

I was...

Where'd you get your antimicrobial spiles, or what kind are they? I wanted to get some but couldn't find anything that seemed right.

I'm seeing a few more freezing nights in my area next week. You think think this season will keep going...?

Glad you're feeling better. That's great to hear.

Thanks for the advice. Put in my last taps this weekend. I'm just a hobbyist so it goes according to when I can get to it.

About the...

What do you think about the weather this upcoming week - think the trees will start to bud / our season end? Usually the end of my season is April when I realize it's obviously over.

I'm in Hancock NY, weekend home. Trying to decide on whether to pull my 25 taps this weekend, or leave them til I come back up next weekend. Any suggestions?

That's good to know. Makes me feel better about my eventual production this season.

So generally is there a bit of a lag as far as the trees "thawing out." In that, I would have thought temps...

Glad to hear the sap started flowing again. I was out of town this weekend, but last week I got near to nothing. Hopefully I'll return to some full (and likely frozen) buckets.

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"Tappers"? Is that the correct term?

Anyway - I'm in Hancock, NY, small hobbyist. Have had a dozen or so taps last couple years. Went up to 30 taps this year. In years past I always had...

Great, thanks for the replies. That's about what I thought but good to hear confirmed.

I'm a very small hobbyist producer, usually have about 12 taps that I run for a couple weekends to get some yearly syrup for my family. I work in the city and only come up to our home in Hancock NY...