Well here comes the warm weather will start tapping in a few days...drip drip drip..........
Well here comes the warm weather will start tapping in a few days...drip drip drip..........
The weather man sure is gona make it get warm real fast.....
Tapped friday most trees running ..lots of snow makes it harder...
where is the sap?? not much going on too warm....
Cooked today the 17th with my new 2x6...took awhile to learn it but after a few tweaks and such got off 4gal of syrup...drained her out and rinsed it down..out of sap... trees not runin good for me.....me and my twin boys had a good time together making syrup...
the 18th..the trees were realy going about 4-5pm ...low pressure in front of the storm front coming..no cooking today just collecting...
The 19th...pulled some taps from some trees that are budding out ..moved them to a valley facing north these trees are pumping out the sap..will be cooking all day Tues....
The 20th..cooked today..had a bunch of visitors checking out the cooker...only one sap hauler out of the bunch.....had a great time only had one screw up while bsin...smelled it and I knew I had trouble....had a little area in the syrup pan burn 2x3" patch right in front of the draw off slot...no harm done 7-8 gal of syrup...rain is in the forcast....
Crappy weather...gathered alittle over 100gal today..warm and rainy...it will help settle the mud..got a few night crawlers out by the house tonight...the end is near...
March 22...sap is slower today..bottled some syrup and went fishin..even the fishing was slow...