Please let this forecast be true !!
http://www.accuweather.com/en/ca/sau...50576_pc?day=6
Keeping my fingers crossed,,,,it will be the first good run for us in Northern Michigan and Northern Ontario.
Terry
Finally going to get sap !!
Please let this forecast be true !!
http://www.accuweather.com/en/ca/sau...50576_pc?day=6
Keeping my fingers crossed,,,,it will be the first good run for us in Northern Michigan and Northern Ontario.
Terry
2011- 35 taps, ,,,milk juggs and buckets-propane turkey fryer !!
2012 -75 taps,,,,, 40 on tubing into buckets, and 35 buckets - 3nd hand Homemade arch, brutal.
2013- Just over 115 taps and still adding more.
2014, new SS flat pan and new arch built, guessing 75-100 taps this year.
2015, 50 taps on Shurflo pump.
2016- Getting a line across my creek this year.
2017-took a year off, Jamaica was fun !
2018- 45 trees tapped, keeping it fun !
Hello Terry,
I hope that the forecast is going to come true for you…..it seems everyweek, that it looks like there is a good chance of a warmup for the weekend, and as the week goes on, the warmup disappears.Your latitude isn't too far south of me, so maybe……..Keeping my fingers, toes and whatever else I can crossed for all of us.
10th year in….
100 sap sacks...Actually, I hope to never have to use them again!
1000' feet of 3/16th on gravity (not sure how many taps yet)
14x14 sugar shack
New 2x5 Hybrid Drop flue from Smoky Lake
5" filter press from Daryl
Sap Dog Chloe
Dont worry grama, i always wanted to make syrup in May and June.
custom made 2x7 intensofire
With SL pans
250 deer run
300 3/16 (new 2016)
500 sacks around the neighborhood
Hopefully its true. They can only keep postponing the warm weather for long enough. It should run right on through the Easter weekend.
Hey Mike......
Fingers and toes crossed, we deserve our sap by now, lol.
I have had taps in for 2 weeks now, collected a total of approx. 75 gallons I think, need to check, I do have it written down. I hope the first day next week to get more than 75 gallons in a single day.
The sap I have boiled has given great light syrup, delicious. Anxious for more.
Come on weatherman and dont change it !!
Terry
2011- 35 taps, ,,,milk juggs and buckets-propane turkey fryer !!
2012 -75 taps,,,,, 40 on tubing into buckets, and 35 buckets - 3nd hand Homemade arch, brutal.
2013- Just over 115 taps and still adding more.
2014, new SS flat pan and new arch built, guessing 75-100 taps this year.
2015, 50 taps on Shurflo pump.
2016- Getting a line across my creek this year.
2017-took a year off, Jamaica was fun !
2018- 45 trees tapped, keeping it fun !
We still haven't had consistant weather for sap flow... it's been about 3 days 3 times... I hope it lets loose soon!
Glad you're gonna get some soon Terry!
2012- Can't Remember 1st year...
2013- 41 taps made 13 Gallons of Syrup
2014- 20 taps made 5.5 Gallons of Syrup
2015- 43 Taps made 10 Gallons of Syrup
2016- 43 Taps...
Ah yes to be a weatherman.......75 gallons of sap I'd be estatic with that about now.....For the past month the 5 day accuweather has always said the warmup is comming, just to downgrade it and push it off for another five days. I stopped looking at the forecasts and I'm sleeping alot better at night...Oh well making syrup well into april should make for some huge runs....as long as the reds and silvers don't break bud the first warm up they see....And my taps don't dry up either
Good luck all,
Tim
Wow you're going to be warmer than us here in S.Ontario. Looks like we have to wait till Friday for our run.
As an aside - do you find accuweather to be more accurate than weather network? I've just looked at both and while their highs for week of the 24th are about the same,
the lo's are completely different. (I like accuweather's better - it has lo's going down below 0, whereas weather network has above 0's for the entire week!)
Homeschooling mama to 8
2010-30 taps, steam pans on a fisher grandma bear woodstove outdoors. Bottled 18.5L
2012- 70 taps - 20L
2013 - 70 taps, 3 steam pans on concrete block arch. 50L
2015- 70 taps, 50.5L, 3.3lbs accidental sugar
2021 - 120 taps, new-to-me 2x5 flat pan with a cast iron arch atop a brick firebox.
Don't know if it's in Canada or not but try http://www.weatherunderground.com it's been pretty close for me...
2012- Can't Remember 1st year...
2013- 41 taps made 13 Gallons of Syrup
2014- 20 taps made 5.5 Gallons of Syrup
2015- 43 Taps made 10 Gallons of Syrup
2016- 43 Taps...
Just when we thought it was going to warm up here, the forecast is calling for another snowstorm and cold temps this week.
2024 - 16 taps - buckets on our best producing trees, still boiling on a block arch with slight modifications/refinements over the years.
2021 - 25 taps - all buckets
2013-2020 - 30/41 taps: discovering which trees were the best producers
2012 - First year - 21 taps in our backyard - block arch evaporator with 3 steam table pans!
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