had some good flows friday through sunday. sugar content dropped a tad to 1.9%. hopefully the freeze today will bump it back up. had a good old fashion march snow storm saturday evening into yesterday. fat, heavy snow!
must have had some good wind because all my tin blew off my wood piles. we've made over half of what we did last year already. looking like another decent week this week and into the weekend.
Awfully thankful for an understanding wife!
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
- Vincent “Vince” Lombardi
Good luck to all!
I turned the pump on at noon today. I’m hoping I will get a 3-4 hour gusher starting at about 2. Every drop counts.
Spud
My woods is just starting to freeze up. I got 850 gallons in 7 hours. Sap is only testing at 1.3%. This is not what I hoped for. It appears my sugar is going to be very low for the rest of the season. The neighbors around me are having the same low sugar. I can only hope for a very high gpt this season, to make up for the low sugar.
Spud
My bucket operation, mainly tapped on 2/27, now stands at 4.3 gallons sap per tap from mid-morning collection. Spot checking a few buckets just now I'm guessing I'm at or near 5 with what's in the buckets now not yet collected. It's going to be a good freeze tonight and a warm day tomorrow and some good sugaring weather in the 10-day forecast, fingers crossed! My elevation is about 300' I think! You guys have me wondering about my sugar content... I need to break down and get a sap hydrometer anyway to enter the RO world... maybe I'll pick one up.
2024: 28 taps, 7 gallons. RB5 purchased but not opened :-(
2023: 30 taps, 17 trees, 11 properties, Sugar Maple & Norway. 2x3 flat over propane & kitchen finish. ~11(!) gallons.
2022: 9 taps, 5 trees, 4 properties. 3 hotel pans on 3 Coleman 2-burner stoves burning gasoline; kitchen finish. ~3 gallons.
2021: 2 taps, 1 sugar maple. Propane grill then kitchen finish. ~Pint.
All years: mainly 5/16" drops into free supermarket frosting buckets. Some plastic sap buckets hanging on 5/16 sap-meister.
Sap is running 250 gph and climbing. Sugar is still 1.3%
Spud
looking like another disappointing run today. got too cold here last night it think. woke up to 21 degrees... same the day before. this happened to me all last year, which caused a horrible year. next hand full of days are looking a little more promising. fingers crossed!
Awfully thankful for an understanding wife!
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
- Vincent “Vince” Lombardi
Good luck to all!
When does your season normally end? Are you facing North?Originally Posted by tcross
Spud
Now 5.7 gallons sap per tap for the season to date. Goal is 10 gallons (though last year was more like 14). The last 36 hours or so was definitely my biggest run yet at about 1.4 gallons per tap. Would easily be 2 per tap if I were counting only the sugar maples and not the norway maples. Now if the sap could just go ahead and not go bad between now and Friday when I can boil next.... that'd be great... (I think it'll be OK but that's always a stressor, isn't it?)
2024: 28 taps, 7 gallons. RB5 purchased but not opened :-(
2023: 30 taps, 17 trees, 11 properties, Sugar Maple & Norway. 2x3 flat over propane & kitchen finish. ~11(!) gallons.
2022: 9 taps, 5 trees, 4 properties. 3 hotel pans on 3 Coleman 2-burner stoves burning gasoline; kitchen finish. ~3 gallons.
2021: 2 taps, 1 sugar maple. Propane grill then kitchen finish. ~Pint.
All years: mainly 5/16" drops into free supermarket frosting buckets. Some plastic sap buckets hanging on 5/16 sap-meister.
I got 1.47 gpt since yesterday at 10:00 am. Sap ran all night at 170 gph. House temp is 32 and I know part of my woods froze last night. Should be another big day.
Spud
1.5 gpt yesterday but at 1.1%.
825 Taps
2 HP CDL Rotary Vane Vacuum Pump
2000 Gallon Poly Tank
H2O Electric Releaser
2023- 825 taps 17325 gallons of sap
2022- 800 taps 12375 gallons of sap
2021- 350 taps 3815 gallons of sap
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