Nothing on the sap front to report, except that my smallest and newest tree, Surprise 3.0, has more sap in its one pail than all of my 5 big 3-spilers combined. Now that's a good little tree!
So here, for your entertainment and amusement are some pics of my new sugar shack, tenatively named Shack Whacky :-) And yes I did all (oh ok 99% of the work) on SW all by my sweet lil self. I did get advice and guidance from my friends, and they did the roof and installed the chimney. But otherwise I did all the hard work. Thank gawd pallets are free, cause the cost of hardware soon made me very familiar with all kinds of screws and nails and stuff!
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Last edited by Galena; 03-18-2019 at 06:24 PM.
Been tapping since 2008.
2018 - 17 taps/7 trees...819l sap, approx 28l syrup
2019 - 18 taps/8 trees...585l sap, 28l syrup...21:1 ratio
2020 - 18 taps/8 trees...890.04l sap...gave away about 170l, 30l snafu'd....23l total for me from approx 690l
2021 - 18 taps/8 trees...395l sap, 12 l syrup
2022 - 18 taps/8 trees....7 sugars 1 red due to #2 having surgery so had the season off....582l sap, 18.5l syrup
2023 - 18 taps/8 trees...all sugars again. 807l sap, so far approx 14l syrup
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