november journal

[smitty76]

Does anybody know where the classifieds went?

If you go to the mapletrader.com page it is the fith one down on the list. open it and all it will let you do is search. Type in (for sale) or (wanted) in the search box and hit enter. that should get you there.

[Sugarmaker]

Revi,
Hope you get to feeling better very soon!
Regards,
Chris

[Dennis H.]

Beautiful day today. Temps were in the low 60's for us.
So I got out and finished up a few outside things.
I now have the cable for the stack cover done.

[jrthe3]

just in from sugar house got 1000 feet of main line wire srong got my two ladders all most ready for tubing after it got to dark outside went into sugar house and built manifolds for sap ladders and vacuum manifold/boster build hope to string my wet and dry lines tomorrow and install ladders and test hope weather holds out

[maplecrest]

high wind again today, need to take chainsaw for a walk, but this invasion of my sugar woods/ privacy continues another 5 days.

[PATheron]

Guys- Ive been talking to guys up in vermont about fall tapping and the they told me in the fall they found the sap to be .75 to 1%. The other day I tapped a decent one tap tree and checked it today and guess what it was? 2.1 % Thats better than I ever saw last spring. Does that mean if I make BIGSAP with my BIG VACUUM Im going to fill MANY barrells this spring? Theron

[3rdgen.maple]

Patheron last fall I ran some test taps in hopes of a fall taping on a bunch of trees I dont tap currently. Sap percent was high 1. and low 2. That same spring I averaged 2.1 for the season. Not sure if that means anything or not but I didnt personally see any difference in sugar content between fall and spring.

[PATheron]

3rdgen- Im not posative either way either. The guys that did it in vermont were getting low sugar. About half normal and the studies show that too. I would say that my fall 2% is a real good sign that there is good sugar in the tree the only thing is is if we have a warm spring the further you get from an honest freeze thaw even with vac the sugar goes down. So even if the trees are sweet and I make sap with vac alone it will be low in sugar so we need the freezes if we can get them. I think its a good sign though. Im saying the sugar is high this year. Theron

[Sugarmaker]

Boyd,
Keep up the good work on the tubing and vacuum systems!
Yes I am also thinking about getting some more taps for 2011. Need to get on the road and find some big maples!

Regards,
Chris

[3rdgen.maple]

Patheron, I personally cannot rely on any findings I had here at all last year anyways. Was definately a weird season for me. But I'm with you and am going into this season with a positive attitude and if you are getting 2% now I would think its going to be atleast as good and even better sugar content come spring. The only thing scaring me is that the summer and fall for my area is darn near identical to last. I have to check sugar content soon and see what happens this spring. If anything a couple years of comparison between fall and spring sugar content might just lead to some good data going into the season and what to expect.