Hokey1499
This is always the great dilemma. Too early/too late. If the forecast holds I think you will be fine maybe a week early. I am thinking this weekend or next myself.
Hokey1499
This is always the great dilemma. Too early/too late. If the forecast holds I think you will be fine maybe a week early. I am thinking this weekend or next myself.
2 X 6 Smoky Lake with auto draw and reverse flow
16 X 16 Smoky Lake Filter/Finisher
2017 82 on gravity and 31 on drops to buckets
I’m going to tap this weekend, can’t wait to break out the snow shoes.
2017 - 45 taps on buckets 260gal sap 6gal syrup
2018 - 92 taps on bags
All boiled on a homemade 2x5 fuel oil evaporator using 6 steam pans
We are partially tapped and a few bags have started. The 3/16 lines that are up started waking up as soon as we got the shurflo running. Slow, but it's a start.
John
2x8 Smokylake drop flue with AOF/ AUF
180 taps on sacks
75 on 3/16 tubing with shurflo
Eden Prairie, Minnesota
I was hoping to wait until the weekend of the 23rd to start tapping, but looking at the forecast we will be getting thing underway Sunday.
2017 160 on 3/16th
2x6 homemade arch
2x4 copper drop tube flue pan
sawmill shed converted to sugar shack
I'm gonna double from last year! I think tomorrow I'll put out 10 taps across a very large Silver (4 taps), 2 Sugars (3 taps), and 2 Boxelders (3 taps). Forecast for Plymouth looks perfect weather for the next weeks straight.
Tapped today in Eagan, MN. In 1 1/2 hours there is 2-3" in my buckets! Yay!
... hoping it really gets going this weekend.
I am up near Hinckley and planning to tap this weekend.
Well, near South Haven, put in half the taps today, no sign of drips. Let's hope for a great season!
2016 - 17 Taps, some elm's no clue. . .. .
2017 - 34 Taps, All Maples
2018 - 45 Taps, 7.4 gallons
Trees are tapped and bags are hung in Oak Grove Minnesota. Couple trees dripping slowly hoping for a good season. The long range forecast looks like a fast warm up. Hope there wrong!