Tapping the 2012 season

[KV Sappers]

Collected 13 1/2 gal. today. Have about 30 gal. of sap now and I'm starting to boil. Will finish tomorrow. My sap is reading at 1.6 right now.

[Dennis H.]

Turtle creek I have 200 buckets and vac taps.

The sap from the buckets are right 1.5% and the sap from the vac taps are about 1.4%
King of on the low side for the vac taps.
These are all red maples.

I boiled for about 4 hours yesterday evening, wasn't able to get thru all the sap before calling it and evening.
I have the food inspector coming this morning so I am waiting till he is gone to go collect the buckets and then boil.

[Rossell's Sugar Camp]

boiled down 250 gallons last night. I have 172 on hand right now. the contactor in my electric releaser is down and i cannot pump sap today because half my bush comes in on sap ladders. I will have to get that fixed for tomorow. Looks like a big runs the next 4 days. and i will finish tapping this weekend.

[Turtlecreek]

I have the food inspector comming on Monday, so I'm going to wait to,see what he has to say before I get all set up and he decides he doesn't like what he sees. This weekend I will be cleaning everything, preping the woods, maybe putting a fresh coat of paint on the arch. Boy I got a lot of work ahead of me, better get cracking I guess!

[Rossell's Sugar Camp]

Good luck with the inspector turtlecreek! looking for a big run tomorow! Got the Releasor fixed and the frost has set in going to be a big day tomorow! good luck to all who have tapped.

[Dennis H.]

Planning on a big run today so now saying that I should have a lot of free time to be on the trader today!!

We got back down below freezing last night and todays highs are to be in the 50's. Still below freezing so a little longer till I can turn the vac on.

I boiled for 4 hours yesterday and drew off my 1st syrup of the year, about 1 gal.

[waysidemaple]

I think I'm tapping this Friday! Can't take it anymore. Basically ready so why not.

[Turtlecreek]

Very productive today got the arch all ready to go, had some fabrication I had to do on the door and repair some fire brick. Got all of the buckets ready to be washed after church tommrow.

I got a real rude surprise when I lookd at my filters though, apparently they weren't dry when I stored them last year, and now they are all moldy! So i made an emergency call to my friends at Bryonsons in Coudersport and ordered new ones! They are real life savers they are going to ship them on Monday!

Also ran into a fellow sugarmaker out collecting and he has around 600 out and has made 6 gallons of syrup this morning.

[KV Sappers]

I boiled for 4 hours yesterday and drew off my 1st syrup of the year, about 1 gal.

Great news Dennis. Your on your way. I boiled a lot longer but did end up with about 1/2 gal. I'm having problems with the propane burner stove but did manage to get 40 gal. of sap boiled down. Only collected 8 gal. today. Will see what tomorrow brings.

[Rossell's Sugar Camp]

I have boiled down 426 gallons of water. I got 2 gallons of medium amber possibly light amber after i filter it inside. It takes a lot of sap to sweeten the pans in my evaporator! Switching sides for the next boil.