Walk in the woods...
Beautiful day the other day, took a quick walk in my hillside sugarbush. Found at least 10 more nice trees ! Marked em and now I have increased my taps by a third ! I noticed the tapholes on some trees from last year have a vertical split in the middle of the hole, I am assuming this will heal. I use the smaller taps and try to be very gentle tapping them in, is this normal ?
With 41 taps I need to get moving on my sugarshack expansion and "new" evaporator build.
31 Taps in 2011 with buckets, Barrel evap
45+ Taps for 2012 with buckets, 2x5 Dryer Arch with steel pans ! 8x11 Sugar Shack, Dump Stations,
60 Taps for 2013- Insulated Dryer arch, AUF,
2014 watched from sidelines...
70 Taps for 2015 - dryer arch, new 2x5 divided pan from Smokey Lake with a float box !
70 Taps for 2016 - added a preheater and new grates for the Dryerator.
80 Taps for 2018 - Dryer arch got new front and door