Red Roof Maples 2017

[Russell Lampron]

It was hard but I resisted the urge to tap in January. I have been working in the woods and in the sugar house getting things ready to go. The plan is to start tapping tomorrow and finish next weekend.

I had some trees get blown down in July and one of them went down across 4 mainlines. It took a little work to get that mess straightened out but it's all fixed and ready for sap now. Last summer I had some problems with my back that had me wondering if I was even going to be able to tap this year. I wasn't able to get my wood cut this summer like I usually do but did manage to get enough into the woodshed to hopefully last the whole season.

This year I had to shingle the roof on my house and buy a new truck. I did the roof the last week of October. The first day started out with drizzle which turned to rain just as I was putting the last row of felt over the ridge and then it was 3 days of temps in the 30's with wind gusts up to 30 mph. It was even spitting snow a couple of times. It made a sucky job to start with suck even more. The lease was up on my truck this year and I had to replace that too. I am now the proud owner of a 2017 Chevy Silverado 1500 crew cab 4x4. I bought this one as part of my retirement plan. I retire in 6 1/2 years and the truck will be paid for just before I do.

Now it's time to make some syrup and save up for a bigger RO.

[Russell Lampron]

I have officially started tapping. I got 200 in this morning before I had to go to my grandson's birthday party. If all goes well I should get the 500 remaining taps in next weekend. I only have a couple of minor things to finish up and will be ready to make syrup when the sap is ready to run.

[Amber Gold]

Hey Russ, Glad you're feeling better and getting tapped in. My plan is to start, and hopefully finish, this weekend. Use the following weekend to get the vac. turned on and bugs worked out. Good luck this season!

[Djdj]

Things are still pretty tight over here on Bumfagon Road. We put one bucket up to monitor.

[Russell Lampron]

Hey Russ, Glad you're feeling better and getting tapped in. My plan is to start, and hopefully finish, this weekend. Use the following weekend to get the vac. turned on and bugs worked out. Good luck this season!

Hey Josh, Unfortunately the weather doesn't look good for the weekend. I hope it is wrong because I want to finish tapping and then get my vacuum fine tuned the following weekend. No need to panic yet though, it's still early.

Things are still pretty tight over here on Bumfagon Road. We put one bucket up to monitor.

Things are still tight here on Pleasant St Ext too. I'm just trying to get the vacuum taps in before I have to do it on snow shoes. The buckets won't go out until the 1st of March or so.

[red maples]

Hey Russ glad to hear your back is doing better. Goodluck with the season.

[Russell Lampron]

I didn't get much done last weekend because of the weather. I have to work Saturday morning but plan to hit the woods in the afternoon and then again all day Sunday. It looks like I will be tapping on snow shoes which isn't much fun. Hopefully all will go well and I get the rest of the taps in this weekend. I'm glad that I got the ones that are the hardest to get to done before it snowed. Everything is pretty much ready to go in the sugar house.

[Russell Lampron]

We hit the woods hard yesterday afternoon and got about 250 more done before we ran out of daylight. If I hadn't had to work until 1:00 at my regular job I could have gotten them all done. We're heading out this morning with plans to get the rest of taps in this morning and go on leak patrol this afternoon.

My wife was here when someone showed up looking for a gallon of last seasons Golden syrup. I happened to have one on the shelf and was able to make the sale.

It looks like the sap weather is here and I should be boiling by mid week.

[SmellsLikeSyrupNH]

Good luck and have a good week. I'm heading out shortly to collect and I'll be boiling this afternoon


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[Russell Lampron]

Got the rest of the taps in today. Turned the vacuum on and only had 12". Only had about 1 1/2 hours to check for leaks but found and fixed enough of them to get the vacuum to 22". The sap is coming in pretty good and the pump is on. Looks like maybe I'll be doing the first boil Tuesday night.