Western New York

[calvertbrothers]

Well today I shutdown the vacuums had 1,600 of sap overnight it was buddy. Short season for us only made 2/3rds of our crop. Sugar percentages were low all season the highest was 1.6%and the lowest .8%.The average was 1% Had a lot of 1 gallon per tap days. But had one night that gave me 3 gallon per tap. Ran out of sap storage had to drain my ro water tank and fill it up with sap. I hope you guys had a better season than we did. Time to pull taps and clean up. And start on a long list of chores the wife has planned of me. Y’all have a good off-season.

[Masnart]

I have an itch. snow is pretty deep.

[red/one]

Next week will be in the 40's. I'm waiting till at least Valentines day. Most likely the week after. We only make about 20 gallons.

[Elky81]

Well I got out in the woods today and tapped my 70 trees on the previously existing tubing system. Trees were running pretty good which I was hoping for so I could flush the system out. Then went and added some new tubing runs to pick up another 50 trees. Now tomorrow will be spent installing the new larger stack and getting the pans back up on the evaporator and pumps recleaned.

[82cabby]

Yep, I’m thinking that I’m going in this weekend. I don’t have time during the week next week to tap and I don’t want to miss what looks like it could be the first real run of the season for me late next week. The 14 day forecast looks favorable.

[sugarman3]

450 of 3500 in today

[plattmaple]

My son and I just finished up tapping the 1400 taps behind our sugar house this afternoon. The snow pack has shrunk considerably but it still makes it tough going. My 53 year old butt will definitely not have a problem getting to sleep tonight! We still have to finish putting together a new dry line that we installed this fall and put in a few saddles on some new lines that we put in. And I'm still putting the vacuum pump and releaser back together, plumbing and wiring the new RO we got this year, cleaning tanks and evaporator. It just feels like we will never get done, but I know we will at some time.
It looks like we cold get a run here starting Wednesday so we are pushing to be ready to boil by then. Then we will finish tapping our other bush when we get a chance. We had some Ash logs taken out of there last summer so that bush is is kind of a mess. I worked on fixing it up back in November but still have a bunch to do there mostly with mainline repair. We normally have 800 taps there but it looks like we will only have about 600-650 this year. In a couple spots there are too many tops so I didn't put the lines back till we skid the tops out. Next year I plan on expanding a little over there, maybe a couple hundred more.
Anyways, it's definitely go time for us! This is what I live for and can't wait for!

[82cabby]

Got about half in after work. Most were running, should get a run tomorrow before they shut down.

[Dinorocks]

I tapped about 60 trees on 2/16 and collected 60 gallons on 2/17 (before the weather turned). Hope to get another 120 gallons early this week so I can boil on 2/24.

[craig1bc]

Looking at the weather in the Buffalo area and I am going tap my trees on Wednesday. I have never successfully collected after April 1st in my neighborhood but we will see what happens this year.