Season not over – the Fat Lady hasn't sung

[SapLover]

Scott - welcome onboard!

Glad you had a great season.

Any pictures of your shack you can share? I am looking to build one.

[scottdevine]

SapLover...I have many pix under my profile page? I know I uploaded many and they were there at one time. What a journey it's been...boiling my last batch this week should have it bottled by Thursday night (close to a 100 gallon batch)...going out strong!


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[valleyman]

i'm done...pulling taps throughout the day...Rookie season, 945 gallons of sap, 15-17 gallons of syrup, i am more than pleased, and the Robins, and daffodils are telling me it's time to move on to the yard work and gardening that has been lacking. I'll do shack improvements and fire pit reconstruction, and the massive clean up, for the next week and a half. The memories of this first season will last forever...thanks to MT for the advice, and information i have gathered.

Not bad rookie

[sugarridge48]

Can't believe it my buckets are half full and I just emptied them at 7am today. I think there done but a nice way to finish off the season. I can boil at my son's 11 th b day this weekend. Now I have to keep up with lots of freezing sap to keep it fresh till then.

[sr73087]

Seems like the lows wont be low enough. I am on gravity and buckets so I can't speak for others setups but I had no run yesterday at all. And it doesn't look like I will get much today either, with lows in the high 30s and highs in the 60s.

Is it time to pull the taps?

[DaveB]

I had a good day yesterday. My tanks were full when I came home and the sap was still flowing well. It got down to 30° yesterday morning which may have helped, particularly after the freeze this past weekend. I was hoping for one last good week and it looks like I may get my wish! It was only 36° this morning so I guess we'll see how things go today. I'm just leaving everything in until the sap stops flowing.

[hodorskib]

Had the largest run of the season yesterday with 155 gallons off 80 taps and had collected late the night before. Not sure about today got really warm out there.

[pyro]

No nights below 32 in the next 10 day forecast. I'm out.

Collected sap this morning. It's been collecting since Sunday night so only 2 days and the sap had a green hue to it. Not sure if it was going bad. I wasn't planning to pull the taps, but it was so warm today I just called it quits and cleaned everything up. It was still dripping pretty good mid day, but I have no easy way to keep the sap cool. We'll see how this batch of syrup turns out.

[DaveB]

My wife picked up another 200 gallons here and said that the sap was running really well this afternoon.

[Mike Van]

This coming Friday night, last chance I see for frost here. I've still got a lot of trees running, so hoping for one more run -