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    Quote Originally Posted by DrTimPerkins View Post
    My expert opinion is that the sap will run until it stops. That's about as good as it gets.
    No wonder you make the big bucks
    first year 2012 50 taps late season made 2 1/2 gals.

    2013 2x6 homemade arch 180 taps. 20 Gals.

    2014 40 on 3/16 gravity 160 on buckets.

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    my non expert opinion is that buckets are all done in southern NH unless you have a micro climate or unless the forecast for Fri-Sun gets colder overnight. Tap/Vac you might get a few more days. Alot of my taps dried up in mid march and just never ran again. I just checked one site with about 150 buckets and maybe 25 have 2 gallons and the other 125 are dry empty. Odd year overall
    Years sugaring with Grandpa on a turkey fryer
    2013 50 taps on steam table pans outside
    2014 125+ taps on half pint 12x8 sugar shack
    2015 2x6 Sunrise metals JDL drop Flue 300 taps
    2016 Bought my first house. New area, less time, 125 taps
    2017 More time and getting closer to 300 taps again

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    I pulled all of my buckets today, just need to finish off the flue pan contents in the syrup pan, clean up and thats a wrap for 2017. It doesn't feel like we are into April with all of the snowstorms but they are forecasting 76degrees a week from today April 11th. Time to get to the garden and other spring chores.
    Years sugaring with Grandpa on a turkey fryer
    2013 50 taps on steam table pans outside
    2014 125+ taps on half pint 12x8 sugar shack
    2015 2x6 Sunrise metals JDL drop Flue 300 taps
    2016 Bought my first house. New area, less time, 125 taps
    2017 More time and getting closer to 300 taps again

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    We are still hanging on for now. Collected nearly 8 gallons of sap on Monday (4-3-17) from our trees with very strange results. Some trees I expected to have a lot of sap (in the sun) were nearly dry, while others buried in the woods under the snow were running great. Very inconsistent results this year. My wife and I collect data on every tree that we tap, so it will be interesting to see how the weather and the snow have affected each tree's performance. We are hoping to get one more small run this week as it was unexpectedly below freezing again last night (28 this morning). Still about 8-14 inches of snow on the ground.
    2015- Didn't know my new property enough to tap anything. 4-feet of snow on the ground.
    2016- 41 Taps with home made barrel evaporator. Made 1.5 gallons syrup.
    2017- 79 Taps with home made block arch evaporator. Made 2.47 gallons syrup
    2018- 91 Taps again with home made block arch. Homemade RO worked great. Made 6.96 gallons syrup.
    2019- 84 Taps. Building another arch. RO in place. New Smoky Lake 2x4 Divided Pan. Everything switched to 3/16" tubing.

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