Wow wurmdert - that is serious tubage - have fun!
Wow wurmdert - that is serious tubage - have fun!
I'm loving the fact that we're finally getting some real winter! It's just not any fun unless you're tapping with snow shoes on !
" A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."
Mark Twain
900 plus taps , 435 vacuum, 565 gravity
2.5 x 10 Thor on Tsunami arch
H2O Concentrater 300
Squeezing Bees
and
Draining Trees
Since 1980
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All the snow put us behind. Holding out for the long game. It may not pan out, but with no freeze in the last 3 nights we opted to wash and get setup rather than rush tapping. Plenty of downed lines and deep snow to move. Longterm forecast seems to shift back to more seasonable.
Greene Maple Farm Sebago, Maine
7 Generations of Maple Syrup
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Phillip View Farm
Sebago, Maine
30 Highland Cattle
2 Alpacas, numerous pigs
Chickens, lots of chickens
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We're in the same boat. 3-4' of soft snow in the woods, down right miserable today. More of the same tomorrow, gotta love it
Still sloshing thru the woods tapping on snowshoes. Less than half trees tapped today were running. Was a good day to replace a vacuum pump. Not finding any frost under the snow.
1700 Taps /1600 on Vac. 3x10 King evaporator
20 head Charolais cattle
8 head Lowline Angus
28 Miniature horses
90 hives honey bees
JD 4430 tractor
Tapped a couple hundred today. Running 3%. Doing 3-400 tomorrow. Still a long way from being all tapped.
Greene Maple Farm Sebago, Maine
7 Generations of Maple Syrup
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Phillip View Farm
Sebago, Maine
30 Highland Cattle
2 Alpacas, numerous pigs
Chickens, lots of chickens
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Took a while for the flow to pick up today, but it ran hard. Still going. Should be a great day for sap tomorrow!
Steven Abbott
Over 900 taps on vacuum
30" x 10' D&G Woodsaver evaporator with Steamaway
Half acre market garden
2 farmers in training
I went out and saw that the trees ran today big time! We might be able to sweeten the pan tomorrow.
I think it's going to freeze tonight, so tomorrow it will run again.
Then a warm up and freeze up into the weekend.