Frozen Again
Ice in the trees and lines have been plugged with ice for two days and buckets all have a good skim. Think it will be a good flow through the weekend and then trickle for a couple more days. So...pretty good chance to hit average, only shy by 3 gpt and closer on the syrup since the sugar is high this year. Be interesting to see what happens, particularly to the grade with the sap so clear and cold and the field tanks still clean. Four or five seasons back it was too warm to have a freeze/thaw cycle and the trees finally let loose without it, or perhaps the air temps didn't cycle but the ground temps/root systems did?
Bruce Treat
825 Sugar Maple Taps
3/16 w/ DSD .225 Spiles
H2O RO
H2O 2.5 X 8
Bow, New Hampshire