Tapping 2011

[Dennis H.]

Ok no one has started one yet for this season and since it looks like I will be getting ready to tap my maples in a week or maybe 2 weeks I desided to get it rolling.

The weather down here north of Carlisle is looking really good. The temps are hoovering right below or right at 32 so it won't be long.

We have about 8" of snow on the ground also. I am glad for that it won't be so difficult gathering the buckets that I plan to put out.
I am hoping to have around 200 taps this season half of them on vaccroooooom!

Good Luck everyone and you all better be getting your drills charged up.

[FunnyFarm]

I tapped 30 buckets few weeks back.. Turned out to be pointless. That's how it goes. Cleaned the bulk tank today got it set in place the evaporator is pretty near ready to go. I have another day of running tubing and a day of tapping and we'll be up and running here. Should end up around 200 tapped this year that's 120 more than last yr so we're excited. Its getting close good luck to everyone.

[innoxen]

Getting all excited... lol... doin all the mental planning for my tiny operation...

John trying to free up a weekend will get with you.... Tom

[waysidemaple]

Starting to twitch here. Tripled my tap count for this year (300) plus a new evaporator and sugar house. Should make for an interesting year I think. Goal for next year is to double that, and hit 600 taps on vac. Good luck to all this year.

[Slatebelt*Pa*Tapper]

yup maybe in the next two weeks it'll be time. it'll probably take the ground some time to warm up with whats sitting on it right now and more to come this week yet.. o-boy..

[Buffalo Creek Sugar Camp]

We plan on starting to tap on the 12th here in Somerset county. Got about 7500 to drill so it will take a week or so to get them done, as long as all goes well. The 10 day for this area isn't really showing anything promising yet.

[Gary R]

Everything is ready. Tanks and evaporator are clean. Only waiting on mother nature. This will be my first year on high vacuum. All the sap will be coming to the sugar shack I can barely remember what a pain it was to wash buckets. I will only have 104 taps. It should be more than I can handle on my flat pan. Were going to see how this season goes. We have trees to quadruple our size. I just want to keep this hobby in the thousands of dollars, not tens of thousands

[mapleack]

I'm going to start tapping this weekend, hopefully get the first 600 in. I'm still not done plumbing the RO, haven't washed tanks, the list goes on.

[Maplewalnut]

They say the first step is admitting you have a problem, with that said...

My name is Mike... and I plugged in my 18V batteries to charge last night

[umpwood1]

Here in central PA we have about 5" of snow with more coming tonight. This year I built a new sugar shack and a new evaporator. Can't wait to start boiling. Last year we tapped on Feb. 20, hoping for the same this year.
Regards,
Woody