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    Default Tip top of tapping 2021

    Hello maple sap tappers! Wishing you all a good start to the season from Southern IN. I’m around the Mt. Vernon area and it appears weather is right for sap flow. 47 taps as of this week and wasn’t expecting to tap at all! You all know what it’s like. You say to yourself around December “I don’t know if I’ll have time for it this year, with work, family, projects, etc...” Then it’s January 15 ordering a bag of taps, extra tubing, filters, and on and on...

    Happy tapping my friends!

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    Best wishes for a great season to all.
    Dr. Tim Perkins
    UVM Proctor Maple Research Ctr
    http://www.uvm.edu/~pmrc
    https://mapleresearch.org
    Timothy.Perkins@uvm.edu

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    Just made a little over 2 gallons off my 30 taps. Looks like the upcoming weather will be perfect.

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    We tapped this past weekend, letting sap run on the ground to flush everything right now. Believe our count to be around 120-130 trees. Added more trees and built 2 homegrown automated(?) vacuum systems with shurflo pumps. Also purchased a new Smoky Lake Corsair 2x4. Lots of untried stuff, equal parts excitement and apprehension at how, or if, the new vac/pump systems will work. Hoping for a first boil this weekend. Good luck to my fellow Hoosier sugar makers!

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    Thanks guys, I was wondering if anyone here in the real southern Indiana had started yet

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    Tony, which 2 x 4 pan or pan set did you get?
    2004 - 2012 2x3 flat pan 25 to 60 taps
    2012 2x3 new divided pan w/draw off 55 taps
    2018 - didn't boil surgery - bought new evaporator
    2019 new SML 2x4 raised flue high output evap. 65 taps
    made 17 gal. syrup
    2020 - only put out 53 taps - made 16.25 ga.l syrup
    2021 - Didn't work out
    2022 - 25 taps on bags / 8 taps on 3/16's line - late start

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    We already had a Smoky Lake divided flat pan, so we stayed with that for now. If things go well and we continue to expand, maybe we will purchase a flue pan in a few years.

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    Hey kharper, just bought a Geo Tracker from a guy in Haubstadt. Eventually it’ll be a mud/sap buggy.

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    Finally time up here. I have 75 taps out so far. The 30 sugars in the woods produced 35 gallons yesterday. The silvers in the yards are just starting to run.
    Sunrise 2X4 Hobby
    Smoky Lake Hybrid Pan

    2020
    100 Taps

    2019
    40 Taps

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