West Virginia Mapler 2016

[Russell Lampron]

I'm nervous about the weather up here too. Big freeze starting now and warming up into the 60's with no freezes next week. I'm at 63 1/2 gallons of syrup so far and need to make 175 to be at 1 qt per tap. I was hoping to make 200 this year but time will tell.

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

Russ,

I'm just over .15 per tap, I was hoping to do .3 in bad year, .4 in normal year and .5 in a great year. Sugar lowest I have ever seen it but sap has ran better than I have ever seen it over 9,000 gallons in 12 days and all of that in February except few hundred gallon March 1st. Normally we make majority of our syrup March 1st to 21st, so would be tough if it ended March 8th but it could have been worse. We can just pray things change.

[esetter]

Over down here. Getting warm and trees are budding some. Im a hobbyist. Ended up processing 50.5 gallons into about a gallon and a pint. Really enjoyed it. Id like to see some of your guys operations sometime! Hope you get the weather to hit your goals.

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

Over down here. Getting warm and trees are budding some. Im a hobbyist. Ended up processing 50.5 gallons into about a gallon and a pint. Really enjoyed it. Id like to see some of your guys operations sometime! Hope you get the weather to hit your goals.

You are more than welcome to come down anytime.

[esetter]

Thanks for the invite , Id gladly trade you a couple days of free labor for knowledge. I just build an arch this season. Way better than propane! Are you still getting some sap?

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

Thanks for the invite , Id gladly trade you a couple days of free labor for knowledge. I just build an arch this season. Way better than propane! Are you still getting some sap?

Not much work to do here but you are welcome to come up sometime and I will help you all I can and show you as much as you want. I have people come here quite often and I help and train them as much as I can.

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

Thanks for the invite , Id gladly trade you a couple days of free labor for knowledge. I just build an arch this season. Way better than propane! Are you still getting some sap?

Not much work to do here but you are welcome to come up sometime and I will help you all I can and show you as much as you want. I have people come here quite often and I help and train them as much as I can.

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

Picked up 580 yesterday(Saturday) night and boiled it off late to keep from running on ground. Picked up another 1,040 today and left several hundred in field. Get up at 4 in morning and boil it off before work. Already down below 28 just after 10 and looks like a good freeze tonight. Tomorrow may be the beginning of the end but this freeze should get us maybe 2 more days. We are over 12 gpt so far and this is normally halfway point of season.

[Sugarmaker]

Brandon,
Nice job!
You might nod off at work a little today!
I am going to go out and check the containers in a little bit. My guess is there is several hundred gallons to pick up today and be ready for a good run the rest of today and into tomorrow. So very similar weather as your getting. For some reason it just doesn't feel like we should be at 1/2 the crop. I think the rest of the crop will be out there if we could get through this warm spell?? Maybe I am wrong? My taps will be 6 weeks old March 19. Not sure I will wait or pull the taps prior to that? Its all about the weather now.
Regards,
Chris
Regards,
Chris

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

Boiled 1040 early this am and 1260 tonight. Took about 2 hours each boil. Got down to 23 last night and had a good 12 hour freeze. Syrup went back to light tonight after doing acid wash on evaporator before this run and steamaway after early boil this morning. Picked up 2175 today and already have 915 in sugarhouse for tomorrow early am. Sap is 1.2 so sugar is terrible but making up for it with tons of sap. Guessing we are going to be about 14 gpt in 19 days before this ends probably by tomorrow. I have never seen 3 runs of 4 to 5 gpt in 19 days like this. It has been almost unreal even though ratio has been around 70 to 1.