Never give an inch!!!!!,2014,,,,salisbury sugarworks

[Parker]

Russ..i dont think i have missed too much yet...whats your total way down there where its warm?..and i might be tapping hill when your done..dont know...i do know im having fun...and im going to have fresh holes.....i love a fresh hole....last year i made the mistake of tapping befor that 80 degree day in febuary at rte.11....a very bad idea as rte.11 for the first time ever gave poor production....i think i tapped hill in april and was blown away with the best ever production there...weired....never giving a dammm inch and having fun...very importent...
Not a drop of sap today as i was tapping..might get it done tommrow but thats a long shot.....lost a solid 16 inches of snow with this warm weather..
Sitll have a long way to go

[Russell Lampron]

You haven't missed much. I did my 2nd boil of the season last night and have only made 12 gallons of syrup. It's the same for everyone else in Loudon. Mike at Sunnyside was boiling this afternoon and it was his 2nd boil as well. A couple of other producers on the ridge tapped early enough to make some syrup in February but have been froze up like the rest of us since then.

[Parker]

The sweet godess is waiting for me to get tapped,,once rte.11 is all set the season will bust loose,,,,,end of next week ish......

[Parker]

Im all tapped at rte.11,,,was surprised yesterday and very surprised today how hard it was running on gravity..was 15 deg. Here this morning and mid to upper 30s today..ice and snow still aginst the trees but the snow has dropped to about 10 to 14 ish inches of hard pack..but they were really starting to run..gotta splice the mainline back together in 2 spots,,rebuild a carburator lube up and transport the releaser change some oil haul 25 gallons of water and cross my fingers...then leak patrol
Great day in the woods
My your tanks be full of 3.5%

[Mark-NH]

Parker, knowing your orchards tend to run cold anyway I don't think you missed a **** thing. Even my south east facing Orchard has only run twice so far and both of those were at 50% at best. You are in the game and on schedule.

[Parker]

Usualy i tap Sanborns (800) first which is south facing but never really get enough to boil until i tap north facing rte.11(1800)..but Sanborns will run log befor rte11 will..i figured it was late enough that 11 will be running by the time i get it tapped so why not have enough to boil then do Sanborns....most years Sanborns stops running by the time i tap Hill (1600, due north face and unusually cold with very deep snow)l..late march early april..i will be interested to see how Sanborns goes this year

[Parker]

Rte.11 is all tapped..was able to get the vacuum pump and releaser working,,,i only hooked 900 of the 1800 taps to the releaser to make leak checking a bit eaiser (releaser wont dump below 5 inches of vacuum),,,,,,was very surprised that i only had 6" of vacuum......hitting the woods today...

[Parker]

Got most of rte 11 up to 25" got a leak in the releaser),,,last section at 20 "...will finish it up 2mara...many, many miles today..glad i brought my headlight,,althou the moon was pretty bright

[Parker]

Got the vacuum going around 9am yesterday,,fixed some leaks then went and helped a buddy tap..had 1300 ish gal. This morning..found my new pacer pump split the housing over the winter..not sure how i did that..yah water,,i know but i drained last spring and had the plug out of it..weird...getting the sugarhouse put together is a nice day off for the legs..trying to decide which woods to tap next
Slow run today with the cool rain
Just got the new membrane at M.E.S......great deal and service

[Parker]

Sap ran pretty well for a cool start and windy day. Got about1400gal from 1800 taps...worked in the sugarhouse all day..im not really sure how i accumulate so much "stuff" in the sugarhouse or why it takes me so long to clean it up..but im almost done....hope to fire up the r.o tommrow and boil tommrow night..gonna have to do something with the sap i have because it should run well tommrow