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  1. #1
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    Default Tapping Central Pa 2020

    It's just about time to tap here in central Pa. I hope everyone is ready.
    I have all my tubing ready to go; just some minor adjustments here and there.
    I'm not planning to tap until after the 1st of February.
    Feel free to post your activity here!
    115 red maples on vacuum
    100 taps on 5/16 gravity
    35 taps on 3/16 gravity
    50 taps on shurflo vacuum
    about 60 buckets on giant roadside sugars
    neighbor bringing from 45 taps
    30'x 8' Aof/Auf Evaporator
    Homemade 125gph Ro
    Lots of Homemade Equipment!

    http://s848.photobucket.com/albums/a...%20Sugarshack/

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    No taps in yet for me either. Will be watching temps for the end of next week myself and if extended forecast temps look favorable I guess we can put the kids to work and have some fun. Hope everything is going well for you Paddy and good luck!
    8n Ford wood/sap hauler 42 Taps on buckets and bags Homemade oil tank evaporator

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    Well, I got 145 taps in tonight! Sap is flowing rather well.
    They are all 5/16 gravity into 3/4 inch main line. I am going to let the sap run on the ground
    until Monday morning before hooking up my tanks.
    It looks like almost 50 degrees here on Mon, Tues, Wed.
    Should have my first boil Thursday.
    I need to get 100 3/16 taps plugged in, and put out about 50 buckets
    as time allows.
    115 red maples on vacuum
    100 taps on 5/16 gravity
    35 taps on 3/16 gravity
    50 taps on shurflo vacuum
    about 60 buckets on giant roadside sugars
    neighbor bringing from 45 taps
    30'x 8' Aof/Auf Evaporator
    Homemade 125gph Ro
    Lots of Homemade Equipment!

    http://s848.photobucket.com/albums/a...%20Sugarshack/

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    Cleaned, sanitized all my laterals that were up last year then put about 80 taps in this afternoon to rinse. That will run on the ground while I finish tapping.
    Still need to put the steam stack through the roof and connect my water line and I think it will be time to clean everything and start boiling. Maybe Sunday or Monday.
    Matt,
    Minehart Gap Maple

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    I have 42 more taps in this morning on 3/16. Sap was literally running down the trees before
    I got the tap pounded in. Also hooked up the 145 taps that I put in Friday night.
    I'm going to keep tapping a little bit every day, and hope to be done by Saturday.
    I have 50 buckets to get out yet. The last two years I tried to time them to the optimal weather.
    I think that might have been a mistake; so this year out they go with all the rest of the taps on tubing!
    115 red maples on vacuum
    100 taps on 5/16 gravity
    35 taps on 3/16 gravity
    50 taps on shurflo vacuum
    about 60 buckets on giant roadside sugars
    neighbor bringing from 45 taps
    30'x 8' Aof/Auf Evaporator
    Homemade 125gph Ro
    Lots of Homemade Equipment!

    http://s848.photobucket.com/albums/a...%20Sugarshack/

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    The 42 taps on 3/16 I put in yesterday morning almost filled a 55 gallon drum until this evening.
    Last nigh I put in 30 and this morning another 35; all on 3/16.
    I have 90 taps at the house that need plugged in yet.
    Tonight I have the evaporator and all the tanks rinsed out.
    Don't know how much sap I'll have tomorrow, but thinking I'll have
    enough to boil.
    Anybody else in central Pa. tapped yet?
    115 red maples on vacuum
    100 taps on 5/16 gravity
    35 taps on 3/16 gravity
    50 taps on shurflo vacuum
    about 60 buckets on giant roadside sugars
    neighbor bringing from 45 taps
    30'x 8' Aof/Auf Evaporator
    Homemade 125gph Ro
    Lots of Homemade Equipment!

    http://s848.photobucket.com/albums/a...%20Sugarshack/

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    We had our second boil tonight and drew off about 3 1/2 gallons of syrup.
    All taps on tubing are in , and also about 50 buckets.
    We tapped our buckets yesterday at 1;00 and they ran really good!
    Some trees giving maybe 4 gallons of sap on two taps.
    3/16 tubing was running faster than I have ever seen.
    Will probably get as much tomorrow as we got today!
    115 red maples on vacuum
    100 taps on 5/16 gravity
    35 taps on 3/16 gravity
    50 taps on shurflo vacuum
    about 60 buckets on giant roadside sugars
    neighbor bringing from 45 taps
    30'x 8' Aof/Auf Evaporator
    Homemade 125gph Ro
    Lots of Homemade Equipment!

    http://s848.photobucket.com/albums/a...%20Sugarshack/

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    Got all my tubing run (3/16) and will be tapping in tomorrow. Weather looks good until the weekend when it looks like it will slow down for a couple days then pick back up next week!

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    Looks like we are in the deep freeze here until Sunday.
    It was a pretty wild beginning to the week with a 2 gallon
    per tap run! Monday I boiled until 1:00 am and couldn't get it all done,
    and still had 150 gallons we didn't get to the sugar shack.
    To date , I have boiled 1100 gallons. Sugar content has been fairly decent.
    The evaporator was emptied this morning, and Sunday will get a good cleaning
    in preparation for the next run.
    Next week is looking good!
    115 red maples on vacuum
    100 taps on 5/16 gravity
    35 taps on 3/16 gravity
    50 taps on shurflo vacuum
    about 60 buckets on giant roadside sugars
    neighbor bringing from 45 taps
    30'x 8' Aof/Auf Evaporator
    Homemade 125gph Ro
    Lots of Homemade Equipment!

    http://s848.photobucket.com/albums/a...%20Sugarshack/

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    PA Dept of Ag called me yesterday when I was at work and said they were outside my sugar shack. Ran home quick and showed them all the paperwork. Passed with no comments. They seem to really want to work with us sugar makers lately. Russell Redding even went out of his way to get answer to some questions for me last year.
    Matt,
    Minehart Gap Maple

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