I am all tapped up!! 100 buckets, my Halfpint is all bricked up. Finished today and sap was plinking my buckets. Love that sound!!!
All tapped up
I am all tapped up!! 100 buckets, my Halfpint is all bricked up. Finished today and sap was plinking my buckets. Love that sound!!!
Put in 38 taps on Saturday. Some trees were weeping and a few were dripping -- although a slow drip. A few more taps to put in later today. Let the fun begin!
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!
Drilled about 450 this weekend and only about three were wet. 325 to go next weekend. Snow is about 4 feet deep and frost is about the same. Should be boiling by April.
30x8 Leader revolution, wood fired blower, steamaway/hood. 903 taps all but 54 on pipeline and 3 vacuum systems. Hauling sap this year with a 99 F350 7.3 diesel dump and of course back up is the Honda 450 and trailer.
100 buckets??? 2 gallon or 5? How do you collect?
2024 - New Maine resident, 12X12 sugar shack under construction
2019 - New 12X12 boiling pavilion
2018 - New Mason 2X3 Hobby XL and homemade RO
I tapped yesterday and today should be a good day if the sun stays out... No crust on the snow, so wore snowshoes and took the requisite number of spring tumbles. My brother is here from San Diego, so at least I had someone to laugh at me this year! It makes the melting snow down you back more tolerable.
Jamie Jones
2017 - 120 taps, 68G syrup - automated pumping from collection to head tank
2016 - 118 taps (about half on 3/16"), 60G syrup
2015 - 115 taps, 58G syrup - new wireless blower switch and remote pump switch from tank to shack
2014 - 120 taps, 53G syrup - hobby vac
2013 - 120 taps, 40G syrup - Sunrise Metal 2x6, 12x14 sugarhouse
2012 - 44 taps, 6G syrup -gravity tube, 4 steam pans on block arch, plastic greenhouse shack - (I'm hooked!)
Tapped 150 yesterday, ran 25 on some 3/16 about a 400ft run with 20' drop, buy the time I finished the run I had sap in the barrel. So hopefully it is going to work well.tapping 200 more today if I can sneak out of work early enough.
Finished tapping yesterday (March 8th). That is the latest I've tapped. New vacuum this year! I have two small sugar bushes. Both with about 250 taps, one was rebuilt this year with Wet/Dry lines and mainline's coming off the Wet/Dry with whips. Short lateral lines with only 5-7 taps on each. The other sugar bush is still set up with the old gravity system 3/4 inch mainline with long laterals and 20 or so taps on each. It will be fun to see the difference in production between the two areas. It will give me motivation to rebuild the "ol" gravity system that is now on vacuum if the production is noticeable between the two.
Hawkins Sugar House
Sunapee, NH
2x6 Patrick Phaneuf, raised flu
3 Hp Atlantic Fluids Vacuum
500 taps
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