Quote Originally Posted by Gord View Post
Agreed. Glad I tapped at the end of January, or I would have nothing to boil. Had a lot of plans and ideas to try this year, but my trees are pretty much done. I'm sure people on vacuum did ok. I'm on buckets, and they are more like decorations than sap collectors.
This was my first year on vacuum. Last year i had 14 taps on buckets and this year I have 30 taps on vacuum. I ended up tapping end of January because I am near the shoreline and the weather really didn't seem like it was going to cooperate long term. It's been a slow trickle into the tank aside from one good week in early February.

As the season stands now I've made the same amount of syrup as last year. I'm hoping my taps are still running next week and I can get a few more gallons of syrup.