Wayne County 2019
It’s been a crazy couple weeks with little time to give an update. We tapped around 450 trees on January 26, had planned to tap earlier but the temps were too warm.we had our first boil on January 28th. January 30th gave us a beautiful deep freeze and we thought we were finally going to have a maple season like we did 5-6 years ago. Needless to say that was Short lived today is February 20th and we are entering an early spring. Tulips are coming up, peepers are out and trees are budding along the Big Sandy river and gradually making it up the hill side. Forecast calls for 60 degree days and 40 degree nights. Being completely in the New sugarhouse has been great just wished we were able to run more sap through it and the season was longer! We may get lucky and be able to boil some sap for Mountain State Maple Day this weekend but I’m guessing it will unfortunately be water.
Wishing all a safe and productive 2019 maple season
Rich
A&A 2x6 drop flue
Stainless steam hood
Smokey Lake bottler
Electric Water Jacketed Bottler
Home-built RO - double XLE 4040
535 gallon haul tank mounted on dump trailer
'97 f-250 sap hauler
2014: 40 taps on buckets boiled on turkey fryer made 8 1/2 gallon
2015: 100 taps on 3/16 gravity 17 gallons
2016: 300 taps on 3/16 gravity, 3/4" mainline
2017: 750 taps on 3/16