Has anyone started tapping yet, looking at the 2 week forecast has me itching to get things started.
Upper Peninsula 2016
Has anyone started tapping yet, looking at the 2 week forecast has me itching to get things started.
Latitude location: 45° 51' 48.0" N
2013 - 48 taps and a home made arch / pan = 19 gallons
2014 - 74 taps and counting, upgrades to Arch
2015 - 98 taps and counting, NEW custom made Arch, 30hp New Holland tractor
2016 - 0 taps :-( had to skip this year
2017 - 100 taps and back in the game
2018 - 145 taps, NEW Sugar Shack & family and friends to help.
2019 - 170 taps, 30 gallons of Sticky Bush syrup
2020 - planning on retailing some Sticky Bush
2021 - adding gravity pipeline with 60 taps
Maybe March 1st for us. Too early to tell yet.
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Look at the forecast for the first week of March, hope to start tapping then pending the weather. I'm getting the itch to feed my maple addiction.....
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Hopefully we have a little time to get some more taps in. I'm thinking we better be ready by the 10th of March. I would like to say we should have our season staring about the 15th. It is already starting to flow a little now with the warm days. Holding some wood blocks with screws in a tree to support main lines we had some sap flowing yesterday, so when it starts it's really going to go.
2011 10 taps (hooked) , 2012 346 taps (Bust), 2013 506 taps, 570 taps On Vac
2016 New 600 cdl RO All new tubing dry/wet new high vac Busch pump. Ended up with 1580 taps
2017 3500 taps +- 2018 going for 5000
5 little sapsuckers 1 hardworking wife
Kubota M6800 tractor, 121-2 Mini Ex and a couple of Stihls
65 acres of maples (going to try and tap them all)
3X12 CDL Intense-O-Fire
Best of luck for a prosperous season. Ours has gotten off to a good start down South.
42.54°N 85.86°W
Fourth season sugaring...........
2014- 3 taps, a couple quarts of finished syrup
2015- 12 taps, 2 1/2 gallons syrup
2016 - Put out 24 maple taps, and 3 walnut taps. Collected 240 gallons of sap, and bottled up about 6.5 gallons of maple syrup. About 12oz of walnut syrup.
2017 - About 4 gallons of the most amazing syrup I've ever had!
Good luck when the season breaks up there for you guys.
However with my now being nice and wishing good things upon you. Could you guys put an order in with Mom? Yeah see the whole idea of 24 hours ago I was collecting sap and twelve hours ago I was out shoveling 8 inches of snow and now have another 5 inches to shovel well its not setting well with me. I really wanted spring not more winter. Could you maybe ask her to stop trying to smother us down here with the white blankets and perhaps send them to the Canadians above the lakes.?
Had to do it. lol
43.6728° N Sanford MI.
2015 100 3/16 taps/buckets. 540 gallons of sap = 12 gallons finished. grill side burner (propane)
2016 100 3/16 taps/buckets 315 gallons of sap = 11 gallons finished Turkey Fryer/ grill side burner (propane)
2017 100 3/16 taps /buckets 797 gallons of sap = 8 3/4 gallons finished. Home made brick arch (wood)
Sounds like our typical season. I've had one year that I didn't collect on a snowmobile and that turned out to be the year that was pretty much a bust for everyone. On a positive note we didn't even see a flake of snow yesterday while you were getting pounded.
2006 - 12 taps on open fire
2011 - 50 taps new 2 x 4 flat pan + warmer
2012 - 65 taps new 16 x 16 sugar shack
2013- 75 taps and no more, well maybe 85 now
2016-97 taps
1 Lab and my wife's Springer
1st Sap of the season today in Iron County. Not enough to even talk about but a teaser for what is to come.
After reviewing the accuweather forecast for March today, I have set a date. Going to tap on March 7 for this end of the U.P in Mackinac County.
New for 2016 Mason 2x4 XL with AUF blower. No more boiling in stainless steam table trays or pots for me.
After reviewing the updated accuweather forecast it looks like the sap is going to start flowing here in the Eastern U.P. this Sunday. Looks like is going to be good for the next 2 week. Put in the first 35 taps today. I'm going to try and get the rest in tomorrow.
New for 2016 Mason 2x4 XL with AUF blower. No more boiling in stainless steam table trays or pots for me.
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