Tapping dates

[Packerfan]

40's coming here in Southern Wis. Next 10 days! Tap time!

[Pete S]

Still drippin' purty good at 5:30 pm western Sheboygan Co.!

[WI Sugarpop]

Hey Pete,
I see ya made a new rig. Looks good. How many taps are ya putting in this year? We have a new bush this year with 142 taps with room for expansion. Also, Dan & I help my brother put 110 taps in on his land. Plan on boiling it all at our place. Have a fun year.

[paul miller]

hey guys

just north of you in calumet co plan on starting to tap soon

hope good weather stays around

[SHOCKERS]

Put in all my Taps on Monday. Some are running good some are not running at all. Will be boiling tomorrow.

[TF Maple]

Added 40 taps today and any tree with a halfway decent southern exposure was dripping a drop a second. On the northern half of the sugar bush usually nothing.

[Monroecheeseman]

Tapped one "test" tree last Sunday, had about an inch in the bottom of the bag tonight. Tapped another 8 while i was in the woods. One of the bigger trees we have was dripping pretty good when i tapped it around 5:30pm. With 40's predicted the next couple days, i'll put more taps in Saturday and try to do a small boil on Sunday. I still have a good 6-8 inches of snow in the woods, i probably just should have waited, but the weather has been awesome around here!

[C.Wilcox]

Test tapped two trees just a few minutes ago. The one higher up on the hillside in full sunlight is dripping once per second. The one lower on the slope isn't running at all. I'm going to put the rest of them in tomorrow. Still need to finish bricking the arch and cut a hole in the roof of the shed for the smoke stack, but I think I'm just about there.

Anybody on here know who taps the woods immediately west of USH 41 a few miles south of Fond du Lac? When I drove by yesterday I noticed they had all their buckets out already.

Good luck to everybody!

[TF Maple]

In 24 hours I got 6 gallons from 30 trees tapped on south or east or west sides. Really surprised by the sugar content which I didn't check at all last year. 3.5% is the lowest I saw on one tree and everything else is 4 to 6%. It certainly would be great to keep those percentages all season. Dream on!

[C.Wilcox]

Put in 28 taps yesterday, mostly in red maples. Some were completely dry yet and others were dripping slightly. There was still a bit of snow in the woods so hopefully it's just a matter of time before they take off. I did find 5 sugar maples in the new property that I'm tapping and those ran like crazy when I tapped them. Being that so many taps were dry I am holding off on putting in the nest 25 until I see a little more activity. Maybe by Sunday night we'll have enough sap from our 28 taps to fire up, but I don't think so. I did do a test boil with the new rig yesterday night with water. For a homemade operation I think it's going to work pretty well. A small, even fire (to set all the refractory cement) still brought 15 gallons to a boil pretty easily.