Theron was not trying to be mean. Just jealous of the year you had, but not jealous of the work you put into it. It was a bad year here and the only conclusion I had was all that vac you got there dried my trees up in NY. LOL. Good job man and get after it next year too. I got to get some taps on vac for next year so all that input from you on the trader made the decision pretty clear that with the weather not being worthy of us bucket guys I gotta make the change or bust.
As far as the talk about replacing tubing goes just curious but how does one come to the conclusion in a 4 year study. I have three bushes that never produce the same from year to year. Bush one might outproduce bush 3 and vice versa next year. I have a group of three trees that have not produced in 3 years. Questioned it here on the trader earlier in the year. I was not going to tap them anymore. Well dad tapped them when I was at work and those 3 trees were the best runners this year. I think wind, temps, snow etc. is to unpredictable. If there is more wind out of the north one bush might be more protected from it than the other bush for example. Seems to me that it would take alot longer than 4 years to come to a conclusion. Curious about this cause I want to switch over to vac next year. If this is the case then I would be wanting the to buy the cheaper 5 year tubing over the 10 or 15 year stuff or am I off base here.