St. Lawrence County

[Michael Greer]

Nice runs March 8th and 9th in Potsdam. I gathered 160 gallons from 160 buckets...can't complain about that. Silver maples are still very slow.

[Joust7.1]

Michael, sounds like you have as similar size operation. I have 141 taps out right now and just finished my third pipeline to add about 50 more. I finished processing all my sap last night after sweetening the pans on Sunday night, enough to make about 5 gallons. Sugar was the highest I've seen from my woods at 2.5% on my first gather. 250 gallons of sap collected since Thursday.

[Michael Greer]

We're pleased so far. Scott Lalond and I made about 28 gallons so far. One more good run and we'll surpass what we did last year. I just bought 10 more buckets...

[cncaboose]

Good runs thru the weekend. We didn't get to bed til after midnight for 4 nights running. It's nice to have a break to catch up on sleep and life. Sap testing 3%. Made 48 gallons of light so far.

[Joust7.1]

My third and final pipeline for this year is up. Some of those fresh taps leaked a bit late afternoon as we drilled, no real flow on anything else. My goal of 200 taps looks in range now with 187 online (50 of which are on buckets). I should be able to get to 200 just by adding a couple more laterals on a few trees that I missed. I still have a buch of small aluminum buckets that I can put out if I want to stretch my gathering time. Looks like limited or no runs until the middle of next week around here. We received 2" of snow overnight and a cold day ahead. Vacuum Day today, hopefully I can get it set up and try it tomorrow when it gets to the mid 30's.

[Michael Greer]

The snow is nice. Makes me feel like the season could go on for a good while, and it's good to have a couple days off, eh? I've got a couple more buckets I could hang so why not.

[SWEETER CREATIONS]

Jon : were at about 160 so far , 140 of light 25 Med open for maple weekend stop over . Mike

[lmathews]

How many taps are you up to Mike(sweater creations)?Sound like your doing well this year.

[Sunday Rock Maple]

Scrubbed out all the tanks and chased the evaporator with water today. We are at 260 so far, looks like possible sap on Tuesday.

[cncaboose]

Chased the evaporator on Friday night, got 3 more gallons of light, cleaned and drained it on Saturday. It looks like it will next weekend before we get any more sap. Could be interesting getting around if we get the foot of snow that is promised.