1,000 taps in the last two days. Dropped my phone in the woods yesterday, luckily found it today. Forced off the mountain by whiteout this afternoon. Sap was flowing from smaller trees.
1,000 taps in the last two days. Dropped my phone in the woods yesterday, luckily found it today. Forced off the mountain by whiteout this afternoon. Sap was flowing from smaller trees.
Looking foreword to your up dates. Lets hope for a great season.
Brian Ryther
Mill Hollow Maple
10,000 taps
3 Liquid Ring Vac Pumps
5x14 Leader Vortex Evap
Lapierre 2000 RO
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I will drink to that Brian!
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
Another 1,000 taps in. Snowshoes will be required on the mountain after tomorrow.
Back to tapping yesterday. 3' snow with 5' drifts makes for slow going. Back to it tomorrow.
Great to see you back at it. Looks like a late start for everyone this year. Hope you are doing great and still cancer free!
Brandon
CDL dealer for All of West Virginia & Virginia
3x10 CDL Deluxe oil fired
Kubota M7040 4x4 Tractor w/ 1153 Loader hauling sap
2,400+ taps on 3/16 CDL natural vacuum on 9 properties
24x56 sugarhouse
CDL 1,000 2 post RO
WEBSITE: http://danielsmaple.com
Still healthy Brandon. Spent today digging out tanks and tapping some more. A couple small trees were dripping on the sunny side. More snow for tomorrow, then maybe some sap this weekend.
3 bushes with vacuum going today and upper bush gravity till some snow melts. I may be boiling this weekend.
good luck Van
Tough day today. Mainlines frozen solid under 3 ft of snow, deer walking up to the tubing biting it in two and walking away the way they came, and squirrels on an all sap diet. Oh well, that's sugaring. Back to it tomorrow. Some sap today but the rain slowed it down.