Barely wet the buckets here, collected about a quart per tap thus far. My trees are still all iced up, even the ones on the south side of the hill. Maybe this weekend?
Barely wet the buckets here, collected about a quart per tap thus far. My trees are still all iced up, even the ones on the south side of the hill. Maybe this weekend?
I've got 90 buckets tapped here in Bowdoin. I'm at about 360' elevation, just below the ice that they got just up the hill from us. We had a little running on Tuesday, maybe 30-40 gallons. Its running a little today on some of my trees. Still a bit too cold for a real good run. Hope to collect before any rain and maybe first boil this weekend.
2' x 4' W. F. Mason Hobby Evaporator
14' x 20' Sugar House
170 buckets for 2014
Tractors, ATV's & Kid Power
8+ Dairy Goats, dozen hens, beef
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Things are still pretty frozen here in Cornville, not much running.
200+- taps buckets & tubing
waterloo/small 2x6
raised flue
Ferguson TO30
24x24 saphouse
5" filter press by D.L.Sheets Maple
1996 SkiDoo Skandic
Sap just started to dripp here in Freedom (Waldo County) I have buckets at 700 ft. and they are doing a little better than my pipeline that's at about 500 ft.. System facing South. Not enough to boil but hoping for 150 gals. by wks. end.
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2X6 Leader Drop flue
20X24 Suger Shack
3 ambicious boys
2 Yamaha snomobiles with 35 gal. collection sleigh
150 taps that consist of: buckets, bags, and pipeline on gravity
I've got 270 in on vac and 100 buckets out. we fried the electiric motor on the vac sat. night, and sunday got about 60 gallons off those taps on gravity. some buckets did well, others not so well. not much has changed since sunday except all the sap i got is frozen, in both the tanks and buckets. Tomorrow the vac pump should be up and running again and another 50 or so in on a gravity setup. a little over 500' and facing NNE
I'm hoping we'll have enough to sweeten the pans on sun night, and things are starting to look good for next week too. good luck everyone
Last edited by MainelyMaple; 03-09-2011 at 06:24 PM.
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800 taps
-500 vac
-300 gravity
40x13 King evap.
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spun up to lexington today about 3:30pm found myn mainline dripping and lots of sap still sitting in the lines. had about 60 gals off 108 taps. and much to my delight it was 3%. didnt have the gps for elevation but can tell you the trees were free of ice. its comin!!!!!
150 buckets
75 on tubing for 2011
homemade evaporater @ 20+/gph
2 boys getting "woods wise"
1 wife getting "maple wise"
still enjoying every minute of it
It has been a great year down in pa. 37 gallons of syrup and the forecast is perfect for sap.
3X10 Lappiere Cross Flow Raised Flue
Lappiere 250 Turbo RO
800 ish taps??? for 2015
rossellsmaple.com
MAY THE SAP BE WITH YOU
Spent last 2 days tapping and some sap was running but not much. Sunniest trees ran and anything in shade did not at all. Barely a trickle out the mainline with nearly 1000 on it. Thinking this weekend will be when things really get started.
1700 Taps /1600 on Vac. 3x10 King evaporator
20 head Charolais cattle
8 head Lowline Angus
28 Miniature horses
90 hives honey bees
JD 4430 tractor
going to finish hanging buckets tomorrow. Should be around 350 when we are done. cleaned pans and will set on arch in the PM and it will be go time here. Both mainlines were dripping today with temps only in the high 20's. All the trees we drilled were running also but not strong just a drip. More people keep asking us to tap there trees, how can I say no. The AM looks good for a run of sap here we will see. Have fun everyone.
best outdoor syrup made in Maine...... loosing that title as we are moving indoors to a 12x16 sugar shack with a new to us 2x6 .
Making syrup.
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Today we got...nada! Nothing, zippo, zilch. It was nice and sunny in the morning, but it had clouded over by 4 when we got up to collect the four buckets we have out. The tubing wasn't doing anything either. I don't think it warmed up much, because there is still a lot of ice on the trees up on the hill. It has melted in town, but it looks like an ice sculpture up there.