Depressed
Well I had hopes today that it might open up some, but it seems colder today then yesterday. Taps were wet and wanted to run but no go. North wind again. Saturday in high 30's but cloudy. Sunday looks like the best day that maybe they will start in again.
10x21 sugar house
400 taps
227 gravity pipeline
Rest Buckets
I feel your pain man!! Cold as a witches tit and snowy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHAHAHAHAH
collected 550 gals. yesterday and another 660 today with vacuum the only thing running.
John
950 on vac
500 on gravity
2x6 leader maxflue oil fired evaporator
Lapierre 600 R/O
And adding as much as the wife will allow
(which is not much this year)
Just down the road from you. I got 7 gallons yesterday and very little today from 18 taps. We have only had a decent run on three days but averaged 35-40 gallons on each of them so it will not be a loss either way. Hoping for a great week next week..................
They will be running tomorrow!
I got 12 gallons out of my 30 taps today....they are starting to warm up and get moving. I helped my buddy last night, he has 40 taps on some BIG sugar maples, not silvers or reds like I have. We pulled out almost 100 gallons from his 40 taps, its insane the amount of sap he gets. All on bags. Some of his 4 gallon bags were over flowing, the taps look like someone left the faucet on they drip so quickly.
2022 4x40" RO, Welch 1397 Vac Pump, 3 Guzzler Pumps, Lapierre Releaser, 1100 taps
2021 Twin Baby Boys, Close to 650 taps
2020 Upgraded RO to 2 post and 7GBS Pump. 265 taps
2019 Smoky Lake 2x6 raised flue, Autodraw system, Maple Jet Filter Press, a beautiful new bride to be my sugaring partner :-)
2017 Expanded Sugar Shack, new 2x6 with float box, NEXTgen Maple RO, 250+ taps, still on sap sacks
2016 Sugar Shack, 2x6 evaporator, 160 taps, all on Sap Sacks
2014 110 taps
2013 35 taps
I guess we're in the same boat,I have not had any thing for at least a week and a half,heck I've only collected 40 gallon so far this year,every day I keep thinking today it will start but so far no dice.It has to start some time I would think.
homemade barrel evaporator 2 x 4 divided flat pan 40 taps 10 x 8 sap house hood and pre heater
SmellsLikeSyrup - I'm in Merrimack also and got 22 - 23 gallons today - lost count. Taps are really starting to run over here. I decided to ream out 2 taps that were dry and low and behold they began running well. (Not sure that I should have done that, but couldn't resist.) I added one more tap this afternoon around 5:00 - a Leader 5/16 straight spout that I picked up today at the Milford Agway. That thing started running like a leaky faucet. Only problem with that type of spout, my buckets don't fit it - needed to enlarge the hole on a plastic bucket. Looking like NH is going to have a good week! Better get ready for a lot of boiling time!
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!
I moved some of my taps today, i had some buckets that just werent producing anything, so I put them on other trees or on other sides of the tree and they started flowing again...you could try drilling a small diameter hole in the tree and see if it starts dripping or not, you might just be in a bad spot on the trees.
2022 4x40" RO, Welch 1397 Vac Pump, 3 Guzzler Pumps, Lapierre Releaser, 1100 taps
2021 Twin Baby Boys, Close to 650 taps
2020 Upgraded RO to 2 post and 7GBS Pump. 265 taps
2019 Smoky Lake 2x6 raised flue, Autodraw system, Maple Jet Filter Press, a beautiful new bride to be my sugaring partner :-)
2017 Expanded Sugar Shack, new 2x6 with float box, NEXTgen Maple RO, 250+ taps, still on sap sacks
2016 Sugar Shack, 2x6 evaporator, 160 taps, all on Sap Sacks
2014 110 taps
2013 35 taps
cold, windy and raw here today. 38 was the highest I saw.
Still locked up tight, even down the road at Clarks pulling 22 on the vac with about 4000 taps, I watched the releaser for a good 5 minutes and it did not dump not once! Just a trickle. Had some good sugar on snow and a rare cooked buffalo burgar!!
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