It may be a hero or zero move, but I went ahead and tapped in this afternoon. It was a beautiful day in the woods to be working, some trees were running slowly and with the outlook for my area I couldn’t resist.
Giddy up!!!
It may be a hero or zero move, but I went ahead and tapped in this afternoon. It was a beautiful day in the woods to be working, some trees were running slowly and with the outlook for my area I couldn’t resist.
Giddy up!!!
That looks like a good forcast for some runs, Has some potential freeze nights to make it even better! I think you will do fine. Still getting ready over here.
Regards,
Chris
Casbohm Maple and Honey
625 roadside taps + Neighbors bring some sap too!
3x10 King, WRU, AOF and AUF
12" SIRO Filter Press.
2015 Ford F250 PSD sap hauler
One Golden named Maggie, Norwegian Forest Cat named Lucy
Too many Cub Cadets
Ford Jubilee and several Allis WD's, and IH tractors
1932 Ford AAB ton and a half, dump truck
www.mapleandhoney.com
Your temperatures look slightly warmer than my area. Humm, I'll have to give this some thought. Wednesday and Thursday are cool here. I'd hate to get going and freeze up. I'll wait till Sunday to decide. Good luck and let us know how it goes.
Two 2x4 concrete block arches with three steam trays each
Tapping in Mount Vernon since 2016, 30 to 70 taps, 5/16" tube to 1.5 to 3.5 gallon buckets, some trees on collective gravity tubing to 5 gallon buckets.
Mostly sugar maples, a few reds on 200 year old homestead
Let us know how you do, good luck!
It's February, so I say go for it! We aren't quite ready here yet, or we'd be tapping too!
How have you made out with your early tapping? Seems like there would have been some good runs in the past weeks.
West Sumner Sugar House
West Sumner, ME
500 +/- Taps - 2 x 8 CDL Venturi - 3 Shurflo Solar Systems - MES Dolly 300
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Yes we have 100 test taps in Lewiston where we live and 300 taps in Sumner where our sugar house is. All went in this weekend. Had a decent run yesterday while I was getting my Shurflo system online. Pump ran for about 3-4 hours and pulled about 20 gallons of sap. Its tough having the majority of our taps where we cant get to them during the week. Once runs are more consistent in Sumner we will move the Shurflo system up there, or build a second one. Its new this year.
West Sumner Sugar House
West Sumner, ME
500 +/- Taps - 2 x 8 CDL Venturi - 3 Shurflo Solar Systems - MES Dolly 300
https://www.facebook.com/WestSumnerSugarHouse