Been perfect weather for sap but 120 gallons for 193 taps over a three day period. Now it's 70 degrees only going to get down to 45 tonight. In two days it will be 40 in the day and 28 in the night for the next week or two. Will the sap ever kick in
Where's the sap
Been perfect weather for sap but 120 gallons for 193 taps over a three day period. Now it's 70 degrees only going to get down to 45 tonight. In two days it will be 40 in the day and 28 in the night for the next week or two. Will the sap ever kick in
20 plus years of 2 by 2 flat pan
2014 new Phaneuf 2 by 6 drop flue
350 taps on gravity 20 on bucket
Its not been good so far for both sap volume and sugar content. On top of that the syrup is not filtering worth a darn either. Its also darker than normal. Lets see do I have an other complaints? Oh ya, the weather is looking crappy in the short term, hopefully it will run ok after this warm up.
I hope it don't shut down for the year because the next two weeks look good
20 plus years of 2 by 2 flat pan
2014 new Phaneuf 2 by 6 drop flue
350 taps on gravity 20 on bucket
i am in the very same boatOriginally Posted by rayi
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
Not good here at this point either but looking back at last year we did not have our first big gather until the 29th of this month and only went two weeks, who knows long range looks like we could go into mid April but Mother Nature is in control
10x21 sugar house
400 taps
227 gravity pipeline
Rest Buckets
Was a perfect day and 53* only collected 18 gal about 50 taps,who knows still waiting for a good run?
2021 95 taps all on 3/16' natural gravity 2018 home built 4x40 RO 2017 1000 sap 15gal syrup 4 runs of 3/16 natural vac 1 of 5/16 2016 775gal of sap made 12gal syrup 2015 18.5 gal about 55 taps. Have the best wife! cub cadet volunteer 4x4 sap hauler
the weather has been perfect in Northern Indiana , but haven't had any great flows yet. Collected 50 gallons off 100 taps in three days. hope the next couple of weeks produce! as noted earlier syrup is darker. anyone know what causes this or has anyone seen a season like this before?
Glad to hear I'm not the only one suffering. I'm still waiting for a decent flow. It's pretty much stopped the last two days.
Great day for sap, perfect weather , we collected 500 gallons today and its still running, hopefully tomorrow brings on another flood.
2011 2x6 leader and 125 taps and 30 buckets
2012 another 200 taps on line and an addition to the sugar house
2013 hoping to hit 400 taps on line and 25 buckets and adding a sap Guzzler
2014 Brand new D&G 3x10 traditional evaporator and going to 450
2015 D&G 3x10 and kicking the door on 500 on line
My wife Marci who puts up with me buying "Maple Stuff"
1 65 yr old father inlaw who is priceless
And the good Lord above Amen
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the sap tank is finally ahead of me as of today. ive been keeping right up to it no problem but its about half full tonight and im goin to bed. guess the ground is finally thawing out some. without the sap sucker though, i highly doubt id be saying the same thing. it flowed more today than the gravity line, and theres 3 times as many taps on better trees on the gravity line
3 taps this year... 2 on tubing 1 bucket
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