I tapped yesterday here in Northern CT. With it being almost 50 today and it being cold last night I was expecting great flow today. Anyone else dissapointed? Or is it just my area or CT?
No Tsunami today?
I tapped yesterday here in Northern CT. With it being almost 50 today and it being cold last night I was expecting great flow today. Anyone else dissapointed? Or is it just my area or CT?
2011-8 Taps on a very crude block arch
2012- 38 taps 2 X 3 with blower.
2013- 70 taps total-50 on tubing, 20 on buckets
2014- 75 taps- Low vacuum, 2X4 drop flue
2015- 100 taps-2X6 Mason Drop Tube, low vac
2016-115 taps high vac, 60 taps buckets
14X20 post and beam shack with attached 10X14 wood shed
12 beehives and an avid waterfowl hunter.
Wishing I can quit my day job, keep bees, farm, and make syrup!
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I can only say that last year when the weather was PERFECT, I was shocked some days to come home at 2pm to find my sap saks hardely filled at all
im up in nh and tapped 40 today. 20 early in the morning and 20 about 2 hours ago. the trees were frozen solid so it should take a day to thaw. it ran a little bit up here. but nothing crazy. expecting more tomorrow with it being 40.
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Spencer Carney
350 taps
phaneuf 2x4 with hybrid pan
2-350 gal, 5-55 gal drums, and a cage tank
only 16 yr old at school making syrup!
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It was about 22 last night, and 46 today, and i have 37 tapped and collected at about 4p.m. Only got like 10 gal! along with a few other gal. from the other night, and i collected 15 minutes ago and got another 5 gal so ill have about 16 in the head tank now. I was very disapointed at the run today also. I believe this is caused by a difference in barametric pressure and it caused them to run less. If it rains the barometric pressure makes it run more i believe. I hope to boil soon with 20+ gal soon.
1150 Taps, one 250GPH RO, one 900GPH RO
2x6 Patrick Phaneuf Deluxe raised flue, with forced air, preheater,and stainless hoods.
18x50 Sugarhouse
2002 Cummins Sap Hauler
I was pretty disappointed as well, I got around 25 gal. out of 65 taps. here in Haddam, Ct.
It was pretty cold last night (18 deg. here). The trees never really thawed because of the wind. I collected about 2/3 of what I have been getting. Tomorrow will probably be better.
2 1/2 X 8 Leader revolution pans on an inferno arch with steamaway. 1500 taps, 600 gph Springtech RO, 3 vacuum systems (3/4 hp. Airablo, 2 hp. Tuthill oilring pump and a 2 hp. Busch claw pump)
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Not too great here in NW CT either. I was thinking my 3 year old drops were doing me in but the buckets are not much better. I still haven't finished any syrup and have been tapped for 8 days. Hopefully tomorrow night I'll have enough to boil again and can finish a gallon or so.
Sugerin' since 2005
75-150 taps some on vac
Maple Pro 2x6
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Im still working on gettin my taps in, have about 500 so far, ran ok today but nothing too special, plan to boil again tommorow, low sugar like 1.5 it seems, but so far made around 23 gallons of syrup
11x29 sugarhouse
2x8 airtight arch homemade with waterloo flue pan, welded syrup pan and parallel flow preheater hood
250gph cdl ro
1100+ taps for 2014, approx 1000 of them vac
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50 gallons collected yesterday and boiled down to concentrate off 70 taps. I still have more taps to put in. It hit 53 degrees in Cheshire yesterday.
41.457 x -72.907 148 elevation
2x4 wood fired evaporator with the "Hercules Blower"
hybrid pan and backflip preheater by Smoky Lake
103 taps. 44 on gravity
All sugar Maples
7" filter press
10 x 12 sugar shack
two very helpful kids
a wife that thinks I'm nuts
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New to Forum and a hobbyist but I hung 30 buckets on 2/1 and the flow seem to be getting stronger in Middlebury.
08-1 tap bucket on stove
09-15 taps with a barrel evaporator
10-same
11-same
12-40 taps & bigger barrel evaporator
Try to keep syruping fun and not a chore!
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