still holding off from tapping if you can trust the ten day forecast looks like cold for some time to come and a later start for this year. Hope its wrong.
long range cold ?
still holding off from tapping if you can trust the ten day forecast looks like cold for some time to come and a later start for this year. Hope its wrong.
Last edited by white mt; 02-21-2014 at 06:19 PM.
same here, the 10 day doesn't show much promise. we have consistently tapped 2-3 days earlier each yr then the previous yr for the past 7 yrs... until this yr.
Mo too! Old Man ain't done yet!
I tapped my tubing last weekend and have the vacuum pump on now. The sap is coming in but real slow. I'm thinking that the long range forecast is probably wrong and we will see a warm up in a week. At least that's what I am hoping for!
Russ
"Red Roof Maples" Where the term "boiling soda" was first introduced to the maple world!
1930 Ford Model AA Doodlebug tractor
A couple of Honda 4 wheelers
Four chainsaws and no chickens!
I strongly resisted the urge to tap a few days ago. Hope I made the right choice.
Noel Good
1998 to 2009: 15 taps on buckets, scavenged fire pit and pans
2010: New 2x4 SS flat pan w/preheater
2015: New to me Lapierre 18x60 raised flue, new shack, new everything!! 59 taps 23.75 gallons
2016: 85 taps 19 gallons
2017: Purchased 2.5 acres and tubed half with 3/16. 145 taps total 49.25 gallons
2018: 200 taps (162 on 3/16ths 38 on buckets) New NextGen RO 63 gallons
2019: 210 taps 73.5 gallons
2023: 210 taps 89.75 gallons
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For those of us that are new, and already tapped did we do any long term harm? Once it warms will it start flowing?
Certainly will.
How much affect does all this snow have on the trees? I was always told that the snow has to melt back away from the base of the tree to have any "good" runs.
1,200 taps on USFS land, 3x8 King w/Steamaway. Lapierre RO.
Used to have an old neighbor that said a thunderstorm during sugaring, meant 3 weeks to follow with no sap due to cold weather. We had a thunderstorm yesterday afternoon. I hope he's wrong, but the time I heard him say that which was probably about 25 years ago, it stayed below freezing for close to 3 weeks and some days never got much above zero. We had tapped the 3rd week of February and made syrup that week, had the storm and didn't run for almost three weeks. Then broke loose and went on to have a record year. So don't loose hope yet. Long way to go until spring.
Sugaring for 45+ years
New Sugarhouse 14'x32'
New to Me Algier 2'x8' wood fired evaporator
2022 added a used RB25 RO Bucket
250 mostly Sugar Maples, 15% Soft Maples. Currently,(110on 3/16" and 125 on Shurflo 4008 vacuum, 15 gravity), (16,000 before being disabled)
1947 Farmall H and Wagon with gathering tank
2012 Kubota with forks to move wood around
Tapped out Monday and Tuesday, ran a little yesterday but you are right long range shows cold for a week, Rained all day but plenty of snow still on ground and hard as a rock now.
10x21 sugar house
400 taps
227 gravity pipeline
Rest Buckets
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