North East Ohio 2019

[woodburner]

Hello way back, I had chewing and a lateral destroyed like that but it was coyotes. I guess it was their territory and they were not happy. Never had deer bother the tubbing. Finished tapping at noon and had a good run. Test buckets ran almost full. Sweeten the pans and hope to boil some tomorrow. Great day in the woods today.

[WaybackAcres]

Coyotes makes a lot more sense now that you mention it. I probably jumped to conclusions with the deer.

Even during the season we still get a good deal of chewing. I'm thinking of coating the problem area tubing in Vaseline and then sprinkling Cayenne Pepper on it.

[Jen4jas]

Went ahead and put my twenty taps in today. I was debating but decided to go forward with it. Mainly because we have majority of our trees are silver maples and they seems to bud earlier than the sugars. Also bought a new continuous flow pan today looking forward to using that on my wood fire homemade evaporator! I know I am significantly smaller then most of you but I sure do learn a ton from you all so thank you for posting!

Heres to a great maple season!

Jason Moore
Ravenna, Ohio
Year one 5 taps - two quarts
Year two 10 taps a gallon
Year three 20 taps - 4 gallons

[maplehick]

Finished tapping Friday. Boiling today!

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[karl evans]

I have about 1/3 of my taps in. Still not running great but steady. Alot of the trees I tapped today we're not running or barely wet. A few running good. Rain is to start soon. That might kick it in.

[johnallin]

As of this weekend, I have the vacuum line run from the shop to the sugar house and the new Airtech pump has a dedicated 220 circuit. Vac pump is setup in the shop with line going out to sugar house. Pretty happy with the way it turned out. Next is setting up the releaser and moisture trap in the sugar house and booster in the woods. Fingers crossed hoping the weather gets cold so I don't miss any thing.
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[Kh7722]

Well decided to pull the trigger (even though I previously said it was to early) and tapping tomorrow. This weather is definitely weird here, and the forcast looks good for the next two weeks. Hopefully it will last until the actual end of the season but time will tell, got alot riding on this year so hopefully not shooting myself in the foot.

[kmlibben]

In southern Ashland Co. here, thinking about tapping tomorrow....seems a bit early and some of the locals with more experience say to wait, but forecast looks ideal for at least the next week. I only tap about 15, so the idea of tapping half doesn't seem worthwhile at the point. Advice?

[christopherh]

Sitting on the fence right now, I’m sure I’ll be tapping very soon. Eager to get this season started!

[heus]

Like John said I hope for colder weather. Don't plan to be making syrup for a couple of weeks.