Also, wednsday i should be boiling so call me and stay in touch. 2 releasers set up and ready to flip the switch. 3200 taps online. 4000 to go.
Also, wednsday i should be boiling so call me and stay in touch. 2 releasers set up and ready to flip the switch. 3200 taps online. 4000 to go.
4x14 Hurricane Force 5
Lapierre 1500 GPH R.O
7800 Taps on vac.
24x26 Sugarhouse
Anyone in Central VT (Waterbury area) tapped yet. If so have you collected anything yet. The weather channel and accuweather have mixed reports. It seems like it's going to stay cold enough around here to hold out another week or two.
I talked with a friend near me in Jericho who was tapping this morning in a snow/freezing rain squall....no sap coming out of the holes when drilled. Looking at the weather for this week they SHOULD run...looking at next week's forecast, I'm waiting a little longer. Plus, I still have lats to run, pan to clean, pre-heater to assemble....lolOriginally Posted by Scribner's Mountain Maple
2012 - True and Blanchard 2X4 dropflue
- 100+- taps on gravity
- pallet and plywood shack
- 2 enthusiastic kids, 1 tolerant wife who deosn't (gasp!) like maple
- 1 old lab that would rather be in the woods than on the porch
2013 - Re-doing the lines, working on arch efficiency
- adding steam stack to air out the maple sauna
- High, high hopes.....
Tubing repairs in the rain today. Temp only just hit 30 despite the forecast of 40. Not tapping yet though I might regret it when the sun comes out later in the week.
300 on vaccum
300 gravity tubing
200 buckets
100 hilltop acres
16x20 timberframe sugarhouse built in 2010
3x10 Leader max flue & revolution pans w/ Inferno arch - 2013
1998 Kubota M5400
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Temp here was 37 and sap wasn't running putting the finishing touches on the sugar house r o is washed and ready the new vacuum pump works well we need sun to thaw things out ????
Your right. If we had sun today the sap would have been dumping. The rest of the week looks good though.
4x14 Hurricane Force 5
Lapierre 1500 GPH R.O
7800 Taps on vac.
24x26 Sugarhouse
randy i hope your right.
All holes were dry today- heck, the ice in the drops didnt even begin to thaw!
4X12 A+A Evaporator
2500 taps, 1200 GPH RO
Atv w/tracks
5 generations
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Takes some nice warm temperature or a good bit of sun to warm the trees up. Was pretty darn cold over the weekend, so will take a while for the trees to thaw out.
We started tapping last Wednesday, although we tend to tap a bit early (takes a while to both tap and set up experiments at the same time). Still got a ways to go.
Dr. Tim Perkins
UVM Proctor Maple Research Ctr
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Might be tapping in this weekend depending on next weeks forcast. Good luck to you Vermonters
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
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