Minus 31 degrees Saturday morning in Canaan Valley, WV, only question I have is how cold would it have been if we didn’t have global warming?
Mark 220maple
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Minus 31 degrees Saturday morning in Canaan Valley, WV, only question I have is how cold would it have been if we didn’t have global warming?
Mark 220maple
1100 taps on low vaccum, 900 on gravity.
900 plus taps leased and on high vacuum
35 cfm Indiana Liquid Ring Vacuum Pump
80% Sugar, 20% Red MAPLES
http://s247.photobucket.com/albums/g...Maple%20Syrup/
The only person that could answer that is an old timer that walked uphill both ways to school.
ecp, perfect answer! I’ve met many in my lifetime that walked up hill to school in both directions, some even in my own family, just like how many licks to the center of a tootsie roll pop? The world may never know?
Mark220maple
1100 taps on low vaccum, 900 on gravity.
900 plus taps leased and on high vacuum
35 cfm Indiana Liquid Ring Vacuum Pump
80% Sugar, 20% Red MAPLES
http://s247.photobucket.com/albums/g...Maple%20Syrup/
The low was supposed to be like 0! I had -19 on the porch, but the official station in the lowest spot in the valley had that -31. Typical inversion we get a lot. The top of the ridges were above 0. I figured I would tap at negative -10 to split the bark up real nice :P
actually the end of the 10day looks like a couple sap days? Hopefully it will change up, but there is a warm ridge and cold batteling it out in the models still. Havent tapped yet. 2021, tapped on 2/24. 2020 tapped on 2/4. Hope it stays cold since it was such a warm fall with no freezing temps until November!
Last edited by canaanmaple; 01-25-2022 at 02:24 PM.
Still too cold here during the day, I have the itch though, especially today with the sun out. I need to flush my lines but i can't do that until it's over 32, it was 12 this morning. I guess it's firewood cutting for today. I hope to start tapping in the next two weeks in Hardy County.
2024 - 57 Gallons - Short season, many and varied problems remedied in short order! - No buckets!
2023 - 38 Gallons - RO broke, Buckets didn't run, rebuilt vacuum pump mid-season, still made good syrup!
2022 - 52 Gallons - DIY RO, 50% less fuel, no late nights in the shack!
2021 - 48 Gallons - new pans, new arch, lots of new taps and tubing
2020 - 32 Gallons
2019 - 27 Gallons
Hit -31 again last night. wont let me upload the image of the station data but im sure itll make the news again :P
D@mn, dude, that's cold. I hope for your sake down south it doesn't go straight from -31 to 70s, or you won't have much of a season!Originally Posted by canaanmaple
Gabe
2016: Homemade arch from old wood stove; 2 steam tray pans; 6 taps; 1.1 gal
2017: Same setup. 15 taps; 4.5 gal
2018: Same setup. Limited time. 12 taps and short season; 2.2 gal
2019: Very limited time. 7 taps and a short season; 1.8 gals
2020: New Mason 2x3 XL halfway through season; 9 taps 2 gals
2021: Same 2x3, 18 taps, 4.5 gals
2022: 23 taps, 5.9 gals
2023: 23 taps. Added AUF, 13.2 gals
2024: 17 taps, 5.3 gals
All on buckets
It's a pretty unique area I'm in though. Big valley with the floor at 3200' and ridges at 4400', so it comes close to the northern climate, and has 150"/yr average of snow. A lot being lake effect from great lakes. The winds can suck pretty bad though!
but was it at least a warm 31 below?
Yeah sure late night
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