Tapping today?? -Harvard MA
I’m itching to get started too. Like most. I’ve set up lines for 60 or my 100 taps so far, all in 3/16 gravity tubing. We have a nice change in weather the next 4 days which id like to ride, but then the forecast is at lest a week of cold (<40). From what I’ve read this is less risky with 3/16 on a slope providing some natural vacuum, as far as tapping too early and having taps dry up before the season is done. I’ll probably hold off tapping the other 40 on 5/16 tubing and buckets until we get the next warming wave. Curious if anyone else in central Ma tapping this week?
Tom
2022 is season 7
2016: 20 taps on buckets, 4 gallons on a borrowed 2x3.
2017: 32 taps on buckets, 8 gallons of syrup, on a "loaner" Lapierre 19x48.
2018: 80 taps. First time tubing. New 10x12 sugar shack, Lapierre 2x5. Made 17 gallons
2019: 100 taps. 22 gallons. Added a small RO 50 gph.
2020: 145 taps, 30 gallons, sold half. Murphy cup is a great addition.
2021: tapped Feb 23, 150 taps, 35 gallons.
2022: 200 taps. I lost 50, added 100. Having fun but short season?