Originally Posted by
DoubleBrookMaple
My 4th year, and I never tapped before MAR 22nd. No harm with new CV's
I am checking my five weather sources for this week, and will record actual temps. I have found the NWS to be most reliable. One can select your LAT/LONG and it calculates altitude also.
I have 130 taps in on vacuum and hope to get that many in SUN for this early FEB run and test the RO
Of course, I would have liked to put the night/day temps, but I didn't and already spent to much time on this.....
................SUN.........MON.........TUE....... ...WED.........THUR
WU...........46/36.......46/28....... 39/29....... 49/29....... 37/22
NWS........ 43/39....... 45/27....... 34/29....... 46/28....... 31/19
WC.......... 44/37....... 45/27....... 37/29....... 49/29....... 35/22
ACCU....... 44/36....... 47/24....... 37/22....... 46/29....... 36/17
W4U ....... 46/39....... 48/28....... 37/30....... 46/30....... 36/21
ACTUAL...
did you mean to say February 22???
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