
Originally Posted by
Brian Ledoux
The posts about us boiling until april has me wondering... if I tapped mid-february, like many others on here, will all my tap holes dry up before the season is done? Last year I missed the early run. So this year I tapped early not to miss the early run and now I am afraid the snow and cold weather is going to cause me to miss the later part of the season!
your no different than most this year. The folks that I help out are already tapped, finished up yesterday actually. they typically want to be tapped by the first of March, so I guess they are on schedule, they just started earlier so it wasent a huge rush at the very end.
FIRST GENERATION SUGARMAKER
First boil 2/22/2012! Went Pefect!
3,500' of laterals
1,000' of mainline
2012 - 105 taps on gravity, 12 sap sacks.
2013 - 175 taps on gravity, 25 on sacks = 200 taps for 2013! Second year.
2014 - 250 taps on gravity, 25 on sacks
Tapped on February 16, 2014
2015 - adding vac sap puller no more gravity for me!
275 gallon holding tank for 2014
20'x30' Sugarhouse