Won"t be tapping anytime soon with 3 feet of snow on the ground. This may be quite a problem once it finally warms. This snow isn't going anywhere for a while.
Snowbound
Won"t be tapping anytime soon with 3 feet of snow on the ground. This may be quite a problem once it finally warms. This snow isn't going anywhere for a while.
2011 15 taps.
2012 40 taps.
2013 100 taps, all sap sacks. Custom built 2x6 wood fired evaporator and sugar shack.
2014 125 taps.
2015 145 taps
2020 175 taps
2021 70 on 3/16 gravity lines 70 on sap saks
2022 100 on 3/16 gravity lines. 40 on saks
I hear yeah there. We have quite a bit as well. Was working on lines over the weekend, had to use snowshoes, and that was before this last storm which dumped another foot
FIRST GENERATION SUGARMAKER
First boil 2/22/2012! Went Pefect!
3,500' of laterals
1,000' of mainline
2012 - 105 taps on gravity, 12 sap sacks.
2013 - 175 taps on gravity, 25 on sacks = 200 taps for 2013! Second year.
2014 - 250 taps on gravity, 25 on sacks
Tapped on February 16, 2014
2015 - adding vac sap puller no more gravity for me!
275 gallon holding tank for 2014
20'x30' Sugarhouse
Snow is very deep in Southern NH. Snowshoed out to my block arch yesterday to start un-burying it - Snow has to be close to 4' deep. Looking at the long-range forecast, might be at least a couple more weeks before temps start to inch up ~ that's New England!
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!
in northern RI and in the dame boat. lots of snow. last week I was content with missing some run time but now I see the weekend temps and want to get it all set up. im on tubing but I need to plow the woods trail to get to my collection tank area. may take a couple of hours. then, walk though thigh high snow to put all taps in. its going to be a lot of work but that sweet smell will make it worth it. happy tapping
Originally Posted by thecabinguy
We've been taping with snowshoes and can't get a machine in the woods. Hope to get everything in place and get a run this weekend. Everything still frozen solid.
2 x 6 W F Mason arch, Leader WSE AUF drop flue pans
40 taps 2009-
New 16 x 16 sugar shack 2010
180 taps 2012 -
200 taps 2013 -
220 taps 2014 -
250 taps 2015 -
300 taps 2024
shurflo pump 2016 -
new mainlines and saddles 300 taps 2017-
added Deer Run 125 RO, Lapierre 7 inch filter press and CDL water jacket canning unit in 2019
Bombardier 400
BX 22 Kubota
2024 is our 29th year making the " nectar of the gods"
Just a hobby
my machine will be on a job site until this weekend when the last snow is cleared from my contracts. if you guys need a hand with some paths, let me know. you may not get the quad out there til june.
dave
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