Started to reset lines and tap last week. Will finish tomorrow. Hoping to hit " Big Sap" next week. Let the games begin. Just a hobby. Ha!
Tapped in Bellingham
Started to reset lines and tap last week. Will finish tomorrow. Hoping to hit " Big Sap" next week. Let the games begin. Just a hobby. Ha!
2 x 6 W F Mason arch, Leader WSE AUF drop flue pans
40 taps 2009-
New 16 x 16 sugar shack 2010
180 taps 2012 -
200 taps 2013 -
220 taps 2014 -
250 taps 2015 -
300 taps 2024
shurflo pump 2016 -
new mainlines and saddles 300 taps 2017-
added Deer Run 125 RO, Lapierre 7 inch filter press and CDL water jacket canning unit in 2019
Bombardier 400
BX 22 Kubota
2024 is our 29th year making the " nectar of the gods"
Just a hobby
Let's go!!!! Good luck to you!
Woodville Maples
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Around 300 taps on tubing, 25+ on buckets if I put them out
Mix of natural and mechanical vac, S3 Controller from Mountain Maple
2x6 W.F. Mason with Phaneuf pans
Deer Run 250 RO
Ford F350
6+ hives of bees (if they make it through the winters)
Keeping the day job until I can start living the dream.
Good luck! Hope we do get the warmup that's predicted! Meanwhile, careful out there in the bitter cold over the next couple of days.
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
Tapped in Bellingham today. Running pretty good.
Another year making "the nectar of the gods"
Let the games begin.
2 x 6 W F Mason arch, Leader WSE AUF drop flue pans
40 taps 2009-
New 16 x 16 sugar shack 2010
180 taps 2012 -
200 taps 2013 -
220 taps 2014 -
250 taps 2015 -
300 taps 2024
shurflo pump 2016 -
new mainlines and saddles 300 taps 2017-
added Deer Run 125 RO, Lapierre 7 inch filter press and CDL water jacket canning unit in 2019
Bombardier 400
BX 22 Kubota
2024 is our 29th year making the " nectar of the gods"
Just a hobby
Good luck in your season! It does seem like time to tap! I tapped my one yard tree (in the western suburbs of Boston) on Thursday, and I've gotten close to two gallons. Was still too cold to go tap everything at my sugar bush in the Berkshires, but I think that is changing, and I plan to go out and tap it this week.
Cheers!
GO
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
Woo hoo! Lots of similarities to last year, so far. Let's hope that bears out for the rest of the season!Originally Posted by foursapsyrup1
Woodville Maples
www.woodvillemaples.com
www.facebook.com/woodvillemaples
Around 300 taps on tubing, 25+ on buckets if I put them out
Mix of natural and mechanical vac, S3 Controller from Mountain Maple
2x6 W.F. Mason with Phaneuf pans
Deer Run 250 RO
Ford F350
6+ hives of bees (if they make it through the winters)
Keeping the day job until I can start living the dream.
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