Anybody have any hopes for this weekend? One day they are calling for 38 degrees but I think the trees need at least a day to thaw out before they will run at all so I might hold out to tap the fallowing weekend... What's your guys thoughts?
Hopes for this weekend?
Anybody have any hopes for this weekend? One day they are calling for 38 degrees but I think the trees need at least a day to thaw out before they will run at all so I might hold out to tap the fallowing weekend... What's your guys thoughts?
2,000+ taps and growing
3'x12' Vortex, MAX flue, and steamaway
24'x48' timber frame sugarhouse
I'm planning on tapping next weekend. I'll have all my pumps, etc. in place and the weather pattern looks more conducive to sap flow after that.
Now, getting to the trees will be another issue!
About 300 taps
2'x6' air tight arch
Semi complete 12'x24' sugarhouse in Somers, CT
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My plan is to wash tanks in this warm spell and maybe start tapping, the week after doesn't look like much sap weather but it takes me a week or better to get tapped in to that's what I hope to do. but time will tell the weather forecast changes daily, a week ago they said this coming weekend was gona be highs in the low teens so go figure!
11x29 sugarhouse
2x8 airtight arch homemade with waterloo flue pan, welded syrup pan and parallel flow preheater hood
250gph cdl ro
1100+ taps for 2014, approx 1000 of them vac
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That's weathermen for you! Can be wrong everyday of their careers and still keep a job!
I'm in the same boat, I'll probably use this weekend to get my tanks and evaporator all clean and set up and then tap this coming week and it will take me two full days of tapping or 4 or 5 half days depending on weather.... Still have hopes to get one more mainline up before tapping but who knows... Gotta wash all the buckets and etc... No matter how much work this is this is still an addiction!!! Wish my real job was the same way....
2,000+ taps and growing
3'x12' Vortex, MAX flue, and steamaway
24'x48' timber frame sugarhouse
Not a chance. Pipe dream! Sorry to be a realist.
But seriously, the 6 week weather pattern that we're in is about up. Small signs of the jet stream changing, finally. I'm figuring on the the 1st week of March will be our opening day.
12 taps for 2009.
30+ for 2010.
30+ for 2011.
2012- Still holding around 30+ with no help in sight.
2013-Still a loner but what a Fantastic yielding year
2014- Forever a loner
2017-Still here, after trying to kick the habit.
Down to 15-20 taps with the intent to save my marriage.
Sap Haulers- Kids NADA, I tried but I'm on my own.
Buckets and Sap Saks, 4 steam pans, Block Evaporator, and single burner propane for finishing.
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What's the only thing worse than the weatherman being wrong? When he's right. Seeing as how pressure systems of the Pacific can influence weather patterns in the Northeast, we get our panties in a bunch if a storm tracks 50-100 miles off a predicted course?
Seriously, I fully expect to see some sap flow this weekend, but maybe not for a few days after that. Locally (just south of Danbury), we seem to be in a streak where the temps run above expected: Where the sapsuckers have been tap-tap-tapping, the trees ran yesterday and today. Last week, we got into the 40s on three days. So maybe something this weekend, then a bit of cooler weather...
Looking at end of this month or First of March, have a lot of snow on ground and the cold weather has been a real mean weather pattern to us
10x21 sugar house
400 taps
227 gravity pipeline
Rest Buckets
I would be surprised if much flows this weekend as the trees are froze solid from the subzero temps. Gona take atleast a couple warm sunny days to change that
11x29 sugarhouse
2x8 airtight arch homemade with waterloo flue pan, welded syrup pan and parallel flow preheater hood
250gph cdl ro
1100+ taps for 2014, approx 1000 of them vac
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Crowh...5582993?ref=hl
I'm like right on the Mass border in the eastern corner so temps are staying pretty low, but today it got up to 36 here O.o I just don't want to miss any sap I can get… Hope to run another 400' of 3/4" to add another 150 taps before I put all my taps in
2,000+ taps and growing
3'x12' Vortex, MAX flue, and steamaway
24'x48' timber frame sugarhouse
Below 0 [again] for NW corner, Thu & Fri nights. No sap here - March Maybe?
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