Anyone thinking about tapping this weekend ? Sunday and Monday look really good. I'm in the T.C. area.
Anyone thinking about tapping this weekend ? Sunday and Monday look really good. I'm in the T.C. area.
My Taps are going in today looking at this 4 day forecast.
2017 - 1 tree Boiled on gas grill. Best Syrup I've ever had in my life. Hooked for life
2018 - 25 trees 55 gallon drum. 30X20X6 divided SS pan. Drop tubes into buckets w/lids. Made 8 gallons
2019 - Didn't collect any wood. Helped neighbor start his sugaring addiction using my trees.
2020 - planning on 25 - 40 trees. New additions are RO Bucket RB10 and 2 275 storage tanks.
Only boil on weekends
Here’s a range report for anyone who is interested. 29 taps in by 2pm and around 7pm, accumulating was about 15 gallons. So not bad for 5 hrs. The ones in the sun were dripping good.
2017 - 1 tree Boiled on gas grill. Best Syrup I've ever had in my life. Hooked for life
2018 - 25 trees 55 gallon drum. 30X20X6 divided SS pan. Drop tubes into buckets w/lids. Made 8 gallons
2019 - Didn't collect any wood. Helped neighbor start his sugaring addiction using my trees.
2020 - planning on 25 - 40 trees. New additions are RO Bucket RB10 and 2 275 storage tanks.
Only boil on weekends
I put 14 taps in 2 weeks ago to catch some early run, I put another 14 in friday and got the vac running. Flowing good in manistee county.
I put 8 taps on 5 gallon buckets ob my dads property in his sugar maples and another 33 in my woods on bag holders last weekend and collected just shy of 50 gallons to work with for my 1st boil on Saturday in Grawn. The sap was still dripping as I was collecting on Tuesday afternoon but I am sure it has stopped now.20200225_170112.jpg
Latitude:N 44° 50' 25.0463"
Longitude:W 85° 38' 57.8906"
New for 2022 (My 10th year) a 9" CDL Vacuum Filter Press
2016/2017 12' X 16' Sugar Shack 6/12 pitch roof W/ 3' X 4' Cupola.
John Deere HPX 4X4 Gator (Pop's left it to me when he died)
New for 2020 HB10 RO In A Bucket, a game changer.
2015 Purchased 50 used Bag holders.
2016 Purchased a home made evaporator and "everything" that went with it.
20 acre Sugar Bush
2017 - 1 tree Boiled on gas grill. Best Syrup I've ever had in my life. Hooked for life
2018 - 25 trees 55 gallon drum. 30X20X6 divided SS pan. Drop tubes into buckets w/lids. Made 8 gallons
2019 - Didn't collect any wood. Helped neighbor start his sugaring addiction using my trees.
2020 - planning on 25 - 40 trees. New additions are RO Bucket RB10 and 2 275 storage tanks.
Only boil on weekends
We are tapping tomorrow near the tip of the Mitt.
Tapped 20 tress Saturday, finished around 3:00. Sap started running immediately. As of this morning 18 Gallons collected.
Not bad for a day and a half! Traverse City area.
I’m glade I started early this year as it helped me work out the bugs in my updated setup. Ended up throwing out it loosing about 30 gallons of sap because of stupidity, but have now collected over 270 gallons so far from 30 taps. Still running strong in the tc area.
2017 - 1 tree Boiled on gas grill. Best Syrup I've ever had in my life. Hooked for life
2018 - 25 trees 55 gallon drum. 30X20X6 divided SS pan. Drop tubes into buckets w/lids. Made 8 gallons
2019 - Didn't collect any wood. Helped neighbor start his sugaring addiction using my trees.
2020 - planning on 25 - 40 trees. New additions are RO Bucket RB10 and 2 275 storage tanks.
Only boil on weekends