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    Up date on our operation.
    February 5, we got everything set and tapped 60 trees. About a third of them gave a little sap over the next two days. The 7th I gathered about 50 gallons. I'm freezing sap in 2.5 gal buckets and using the cubes to keep the sap chilled in a drum.
    We have had a good temperature reset the last two nights, low teens one night. Tonight added 7 more taps. Tomorrow hoping to get some more taps in before the warm up Saturday. Planning to have boil Sunday.
    With my 2X5 drop flue rig, I really would like to have 300 to 350 gallons of sap to start, 400 plus is better. I need more taps! My old tubing run had 50 trees, but it will need a total rehab, main line and all. We will see what I can do on Saturday. Should have worked on this a month ago.

    Good tapping to all.
    2011 19 taps, 5 gallons of syrup
    Moved from turkey fryers to barrel stove.
    A copy of the North American Maple Manual.
    "2012 in the book" 85 taps, new 24"X60" rig 5" drop flue, made 15 gallons
    2013 75 buckets and bags, 50 taps on tubing= 32.6875 gallons in glass.

    http://s1129.photobucket.com/albums/...%20rig%202011/

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    Put in 200 taps yesterday on sap sacks, added 188 today on sacks and 5 gal buckets, holes were dripping little yesterday, nothing today, too cold. planning on tapping rest of maple tomorrow, and doing our walnut run on sunday. should start running tom. or sunday temps in mid 40s

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    A real disappointing sap run here. Temps went from 15 on Wednesday 70 today and not the run I hoped for. Will up date is the morning when we gather
    Last edited by Indiana-Jones; 02-11-2017 at 02:24 PM.
    2011 19 taps, 5 gallons of syrup
    Moved from turkey fryers to barrel stove.
    A copy of the North American Maple Manual.
    "2012 in the book" 85 taps, new 24"X60" rig 5" drop flue, made 15 gallons
    2013 75 buckets and bags, 50 taps on tubing= 32.6875 gallons in glass.

    http://s1129.photobucket.com/albums/...%20rig%202011/

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    we were in the woods today finishing up our tubing, and we had mosquitos.

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    getting a good run today, but don't like seeing 60 deg days next week

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    sap is testing 2% out of trees, and is making the lightest color syrup I have ever made.

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    Monday evening we boiled what we had, maybe 90 gallons of sap. Been holding some for a week, it had to be cooked. We fired off at 4:00 and shut down at 6:30. Just as we started to draw syrup we were done. Plan to drain the pans and finish on gas this weekend.
    I'm looking at the forecast and I'm thinking we are finished. A bust of a year here in West T. Some trees didn't give a drop. Maybe I need to move north.
    2011 19 taps, 5 gallons of syrup
    Moved from turkey fryers to barrel stove.
    A copy of the North American Maple Manual.
    "2012 in the book" 85 taps, new 24"X60" rig 5" drop flue, made 15 gallons
    2013 75 buckets and bags, 50 taps on tubing= 32.6875 gallons in glass.

    http://s1129.photobucket.com/albums/...%20rig%202011/

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    Well, that's a bummer, we're not far from you. We didn't get a lot of sap through yesterday, but we're hoping for more after the warm spell next week. We added some trees to a tubing line yesterday, & the ones that had been tapped for a couple of weeks weren't running, but the new ones were pouring sap.
    Doug
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    MemProTec Concentrator 300 RO
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    hopefully forecasts will be wrong, won't get as warm or have so many days of warm they are predicting, I'm hoping for cold after this spell and getting more run, just don't know how many 60 deg. days in a row may start the trees budding. problem is there is a small amount of sap in the woods now [almost not enough to pick up ] but I don't think it will stay good thru several days of 60s, really in a predicament.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DougM View Post
    Well, that's a bummer, we're not far from you. We didn't get a lot of sap through yesterday, but we're hoping for more after the warm spell next week. We added some trees to a tubing line yesterday, & the ones that had been tapped for a couple of weeks weren't running, but the new ones were pouring sap.
    Sorry that it took me so long to get back to the thread. I held out hope for a little run middle of the week, but just got maybe 25 gallons. spent today draining the pans and boiling everything down on LP. I have 8 hours in and still time to go.

    I was running around emptying buckets this morning and the thought popped in my head. "I ran more gallons of gas through the four wheeler than gallons of syrup made.

    I still have buckets out maybe late next week.
    2011 19 taps, 5 gallons of syrup
    Moved from turkey fryers to barrel stove.
    A copy of the North American Maple Manual.
    "2012 in the book" 85 taps, new 24"X60" rig 5" drop flue, made 15 gallons
    2013 75 buckets and bags, 50 taps on tubing= 32.6875 gallons in glass.

    http://s1129.photobucket.com/albums/...%20rig%202011/

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