Just curious if anyone has tapped yet, and/or plans on tapping?
Tapping Cortland County?
Just curious if anyone has tapped yet, and/or plans on tapping?
wait'en till presidents weekend in Feb,traditional that is when I tap,50 yrs of tapping then has always seemed to work good,i am in the foothills of the adirondacks'
Dings Hollow maple - Whitney Point , NY . Started tapping today , hope to finish Saturday . warm up next week flush lines out - then game on
yup it's getting thereOriginally Posted by sugarman3
FIRST GENERATION SUGARMAKER
First boil 2/22/2012! Went Pefect!
3,500' of laterals
1,000' of mainline
2012 - 105 taps on gravity, 12 sap sacks.
2013 - 175 taps on gravity, 25 on sacks = 200 taps for 2013! Second year.
2014 - 250 taps on gravity, 25 on sacks
Tapped on February 16, 2014
2015 - adding vac sap puller no more gravity for me!
275 gallon holding tank for 2014
20'x30' Sugarhouse
Planning on tapping this weekend.
Still running
You guys still having any luck with the sap running? We have about 50 taps, 25 buckets and 25 on gravity lines. And we only got a little yesterday. And today the few buckets I checked are fairly low as well. Are we done running already?
Still seems to be running pretty good here in Broome. I've collected about 60 gallons of 2% from 26 taps over the 2 and a half days.
I am considering pulling the plug after this run so I can get everything cleaned up, put away, and move on to getting my hit and miss engines out and ready for the upcoming shows this year.
Took quite a while for trees to thaw out from that 10 below the other night. They didn't open up until last night. We got about 1.5 gallons per tap last night into this morning. They've all been tapped since mid January.
shrunken producer, from 8,000 taps to 4,000 to 5800 to 9500 to 11,000 vac
5x16 woodchip fired evaporator with 5x10 max flue and 5x6 revolution front pan
CDL 20+ RO
Double 10"filterpress
sp-11, bb2, airtech L63, L160, L230 vac pumps
CDL low profile electric releaser
MES 8000 electric releaser
CDL 4000 tap mechanical releaser
Wow, you guys are doing much better then I am. Our buckets had maybe an inch in the bottom the last two days. Not even 30 gallons since the weekend. But you are right, it was very cold this weekend. Maybe being a little further north might take us longer to thaw out. That's what I'm going with. So Thursday should be a good run. Thanks for the updates guys.
Just checking to see if anybody else in Cortland is having any good runs? I can't be the only crazy backyard sugar guy in Cortland..... can I? We're all tapped, but not running very well yet.
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