First Tap

[Friar_Athanasius]

I put in my first 14 taps today & 45 more tomorrow.

[ehausinfrats]

i put in 4 taps Saturday and there was no sap running. Even the shavings were dry. Did you see any sap runs yet?

Eric

[Friar_Athanasius]

Yes, the shavings were wet and and got sprayed in the face when I hammered in the spile.

[ehausinfrats]

Sweeeet!

Eric

[user587]

Tapped 200 Sat. 2/13 - a few weepers. Tapped 75 more Sunday 2:00, 10% were wet before the tap went in. Found the swamp trees a bit wetter, the swamp has water under the snow. Forgot to check in the eve. before dark (too busy getting the evap cleaned!)

Waiting on some more taps that do not have much direct sun and are on well-drained hillsides.

[Friar_Athanasius]

One tree has already given 2 gallons of sap in 24 hours...

[user587]

As of Monday pm, some of our sap sacs have maybe 1/2 gallon, but most are dry or barely wet.

Hard freeze tonight, sun tomorrow, we'll see what happens.

[gleasondaddy]

I tapped sunday and had more wet holes then dry. Put in about 25 taps.

[emu742]

Did my first tap yesterday and already have 2 gallons in 24 hours time. I counted it dripping about 42 drips/minute yesterday. Checked today and its 67/minute. How cool!

[user587]

Collected 32 gal. from 200 taps in the swamp today (wed). Approx. 1/4 of taps were dry.