2019 Tapping Season - Connecticut

[Cjadamec]

Love the nighttime ambiance the new shed gives.

[Tobey802]

I collect 105 gallons of sap from the last 2 today’s and started to boil tonight almost made my firat syrup of the year! Hope to draw off a little tomorrow. 0D96537E-0549-44C0-A7B4-29FC59F7B549.jpg

[Sugar Bear]

I think I may have a problem. All my taps are leaking. Not sure if I drilled too deep into the tree or not. Had some sap collection today, but not a lot. The trees are soaked underneath the tap.

Will the trees heal around the tap? Just the sight of it makes me worried that I’m wasting so much and not collecting what i should be.

Thoughts?

I’ll upload pics in the morning.

If it does not dry up within a few days then you are not drilling the hole straight enough. Make certain to go straight in and straight out. The more yaw you have on your drill motion, either vertically or horizontally, the more of an oval shaped hole you will have and the barrel of your spout will not seal it off very well.

Been there done that, but I am good now.

[Sugar Bear]

I collect 105 gallons of sap from the last 2 today’s and started to boil tonight almost made my firat syrup of the year! Hope to draw off a little tomorrow. Attachment 19358

I noticed you have 48 taps on tubing and 30 on buckets. Can you break down the 105 gallons between the 48 tubings and 30 buckets? Or was that not kept track of?

[Tobey802]

I noticed you have 48 taps on tubing and 30 on buckets. Can you break down the 105 gallons between the 48 tubings and 30 buckets? Or was that not kept track of?

Unfortunately I didn’t keep track of that. The lot I am on hardly has any grade change to it so my yield is most likely down a little untill I get a vacuum some day

[Cjadamec]

It's been a nice run this week I'm at 180 gallons this afternoon. Even on marginal days the 3/16 tubing keeps running once it's primed up and going.

[Cjadamec]

Almost about 180 gallons of sap in the last 3 days. Putting the Spurs to the evaporator today to try and catch up. Tubing is still running but mercifully it has slowed down today.

[BSD]

Going to slow things down this year, i made so much syrup last year there is no need (hard to say that!) to make as much as possible this year. I'm going back down to only one wood lot where i am fortunate enough to leave the tubing up all season. I finally got in the game yesterday and the 3/16 is cranking like always. started collecting yesterday around 3pm and it ran overnight. and pulled 350L (92gal) off about 85 taps. I'm curious just how much they would have pushed out if it was a full day's capture. It looks like it's cranking again today when i walked out of the woods at noon. I did get another string up, should be up to around 105 taps now i believe.

[Kjsdime]

Almost about 180 gallons of sap in the last 3 days. Putting the Spurs to the evaporator today to try and catch up. Tubing is still running but mercifully it has slowed down today.

how many taps do you have?

[Cjadamec]

Well I guess I was starving my arch for air a bit. I just threw a blower I salvaged from an inflatable Xmas decoration in line with my current blowe. My stack temp shot up about 150 degrees and the sap almost jumped out of the pan. I guess this means my wood pile is going to shrink faster.