Tapped in Bedford, NH
Just thought I would throw my hat into the ring. We have 42 taps in for us most of which are on tubing with 4 more on buckets that I will hang later in the week. All trees are reds and were dripping Saturday and Sunday! Any other small timers in?
Bill
2016-2018, 50 taps on hobby vacuum, boiling outdoors on the Mason 2x3.
49 taps 2015, mix of hobby vacuum and gravity, boiling outdoors on the Mason 2x3.
42+4 taps 2014, still on a WF Mason 2x3 Hobby Evaporator
43 taps 2013 on a WF Mason 2x3 Hobby Evaporator
10 taps 2012
Follow along on our sugaring adventures at our website:
http://littlecreekmaplefarm.com
Still waiting, might start tapping on Thursday. Good Luck this year. Lee
Lavoie's Sugar Shack
130 taps
Homemade rear fired oil evaporator
oil tank evaporator
Home made stainless steel flue pan
Homemade R O
addition on barn for sugaring
2 children who love hauling sap
golden retriever who love syrup
Barry the helpful neighbor who loves bottling
Good wife who likes to think she finances this insane hobby
I'm waiting out this week too, and get through this cold spell we're entering. I plan to tap Thursday and Friday evening and be all tapped in for the weekend. I only run 15 taps, all buckets.
I taped 14 out of my 20 planed, ended the week with 28 gallons of sap. Made about 3/4 gal of syrupnow the freeze up all this week. Hopeing for good weather next week and I will put out the rest.
Started in 2013 with 15 taps on buckets and a turkey frier.
Now 2020, 250 taps, 3/16's with vac. 10x14 sugarhouse. 2x6 Leader raised flue. Homemade 50 gal per hour RO.
Munson's Maple’s
Small timer here in Merrimack, tapped about 20 trees and got 9 gallons over the weekend. It's about typical for me, my best day last year I only got 17 gallons.
Good luck this season!
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 tapped 5 trees last week (before my cordless drill broke). So far, each tree has given me about 1/2 gal each the last 3 days. I don't expect that to continue this week, with the colder temps. I plan on finishing up my tapping next week -- watching that weather forecast closely over here.
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 tapped 23 of my 70 and only got about 18 gallons of sap through this warm up. I'm further North though. I made a quart and a pint last night. Now waiting for the next warm up.
Pete Nightingale
Lisbon, NH
3 Teenage sap haulers & Plenty of friends and family to restock the beer fridge
2012 1 tap and a pot
2013 10 taps, oil tank evap, 2 gallons of slightly too thin syrup
2014 48 taps improved oil tank evap 3.5 gallons, ouch??
2015 88 taps 78 5/16" and 10 3/16" nat vac 40"x 48" Homemade Arch 13.25 Gallons
2016 100 taps 65 on 3/16 & 35 buckets 17 gallons + unknown amount of maple / Jack Daniels testers
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