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  1. #21
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    I thought last Sundays weather would have made for a good run for sure...it had been cold for several days and the day started in the 20's and got up to 55. The trees were doing nothing. I was hoping for another cold snap like we have now so I thought I would move and tap another woods. I took down all my buckets and tapped fresh trees. When I gathered Monday all of those were full - the sap was clear and had maybe the best sugar content of the year - a strong 2%. Those trees ran for a couple more days and I hope they have a good run left in them after this freeze...or maybe two. We'll see.
    RC Maple

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    Hope you get more good sap. This next week looks good for sugar making. To bad our trees had the buddy taste to them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by William B View Post
    Hope you get more good sap. This next week looks good for sugar making. To bad our trees had the buddy taste to them.
    We'll see. I was hoping I would have something to gather today but when I checked my buckets around 5:00 the most any had in them was an inch or so. For these larger trees it might not be a couple days yet until they turn loose.
    RC Maple

    14X14 sugarhouse - new for 2012
    RO Bucket - RB10 - New for 2019
    2x3 barrel evaporator with continuous flow pan
    55 taps - most on buckets
    This is next year!

  4. #24
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    Default Tapped

    Sorry about not reporting in on when we first tapped.http://mapletrader.com/community/ima...s/confused.png

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    Smile Tapped

    Sorry about not reporting in on when we tapped.
    We tapped woods on vacuum 2/14/18.
    Have hauled every other day when the weather was right for sap to run. Have made close to 50 gals of syrup so far off of it.

    Finally got to tap two more woods each having 1,000 taps on 3/2/18.
    We hauled one of them yesterday and only got 750 gals. of water hoping for at least 1,000 gals.
    Today we will haul the other woods.
    If the sap is not buddy then it looks good for the rest of the week into next week for some good runs.
    Last edited by William B; 03-06-2018 at 06:48 AM.

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    Cool Hauled

    Looks like we are in business for making some good syrup for the next 10 days weather wise.
    We hauled sugar water and boiled down to a light amber!

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    Smile Good Runs

    We hauled 1,700 gals. of fresh sugar water yesterday and Ron boiled it down to a very light amber!

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  8. #28
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    Unhappy Monday is it.

    Monday will be the haul for us this season.
    We have had a good season due to the weather in March.
    Sure looked bleak in February with just the vacuum only thing running.
    Ron has made over 300 gals. of light amber.

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  9. #29
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    I quit around the same time as you. This was my worst year in 6 years. I got 0.14 gallons of syrup per tap. When I started making syrup in 2014 I made 0.25 gallons per tap and it's gone down every year. I only got about 7.75 gallons of sap per tap and my sugar concentration was down around 1.5.
    Leader 1/2 pint - Kawasaki Mule - Smoky Lake Filter Bottler
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    2013 - 44 taps - 16 gallons syrup, 2014 - 109 taps - 26 gallons syrup
    2015 - 71 taps - 13.5 gallons syrup, 2016 - 125 taps - 24.25 gallons syrup
    2017 - 129 taps - 17.5 gallons syrup, 2018 - 128 taps- 18 gallons syrup
    2019 -130 taps - 18.5 gallons syrup, 2020 ~125 taps-19.75 gallons syrup

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