This Week
I say this coming week things will change and we will go into April this year. Several years ago we had this same weather pattern and it was the best year we had and it looks like its going to be a repeat so hopefully all are tapped out and ready to rock and roll and the rest is rock and roll history
10x21 sugar house
400 taps
227 gravity pipeline
Rest Buckets
The weather pattern looks like it will be changing in the next couple of days -- fingers crossed that the days will be warm and nights very cold!
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!
I will be all tapped on Saturday. I still have to run 30 taps on 3/16" after everything is all finished. Not going to be fun with all this snow
I'm optimistic with this weather change, cuz we need it...
Just hope wmur ain't lying
Mike
12 x 16 Sugar house
18”x72” CDL drop flue
Homemade 4 post RO
125 taps on vacuum (Guzzler)
Smoky Lake 7” filter press
Started tapping this week on Weds while it was warm. Hope to be fully tapped this weekend.
throwing my taps in this weekend
30 +- Taps
Homemade evaporator with 2x3 flat pan, 1x2 preheater pan/finishing pan, lots of ideas, not enough time
Last year I was too early with 1/2 of my taps and they dried up before the season got good. This year I'm tapping about 40 this weekend and then I'll tap the other 50 just before the next warm up. Hedging my bets in case I time it wrong again. Made all my drops today, also trying 30 on 3/16 natural vacuum this year, hope that improves my season a little. Good luck all.
Pete Nightingale
Lisbon, NH
3 Teenage sap haulers & Plenty of friends and family to restock the beer fridge
2012 1 tap and a pot
2013 10 taps, oil tank evap, 2 gallons of slightly too thin syrup
2014 48 taps improved oil tank evap 3.5 gallons, ouch??
2015 88 taps 78 5/16" and 10 3/16" nat vac 40"x 48" Homemade Arch 13.25 Gallons
2016 100 taps 65 on 3/16 & 35 buckets 17 gallons + unknown amount of maple / Jack Daniels testers
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