Well it sounds like it is picking up around here.
I myself am in full swing working on sugar'in stuff.
I now have a nice hood and preheater lift setup. I made it so that I can remove the ropes and pulleys when not in use and would take all of 2 minutes to put back up when the hood needs lifting. I didn't clean the flue pan as often as I should have last season. I just didn't have an easy way of lifting the hood for access. Well I now have no excuses.
I am now splitting wood, it is all cut and in a big pile, just needs split. It is up at the cabin where I will be running tubing so I split enough to fill the trailer and bring it home another day back up splitting and bring another load home. I know I have way more than I need for the coming season. I cleaned up the woods in the area of the tubing and I just didn't want the wood laying there and rotting.
I counted trees there and I can get about 210 taps really easy and on vac that ends right at the driveway.
I also have to walk a stand of maples at a friends place, It will be on gravity this year but I am planning on putting vac there. He got a part of the woods logged off this year and the landing is at a perfect location for the tank. It will be a straight shoot of mainline and about 150-200 taps there. It looks like a real easy stand of trees to tube. I hope anyway.
I plan on redoing some of the tubing here at the house I want to try and have it all goto one tank and releaser instead of two seperate tanks. It might mean that I loose a few trees in the process but with the other two sugarbushes and one less tank and releaer to not worry about I think it will be a good move.