February journal

[Farmboy]

Put up tubing in my niebors yard today. That added another 35 taps. If I get my tanks clean tommorow I will probably tap all my tubing if Daylight permits. When it gets dark I will set up some spotlights in the sugarshack and brick my evaporator. Made some more progress. This will be the second year in a row I've tapped before my evaporator is finished. Next year I'm going to try to be more prepared. My pump shipped today and it should be in this weekend.

[3rdgen.maple]

Put up tubing in my niebors yard today. That added another 35 taps. If I get my tanks clean tommorow I will probably tap all my tubing if Daylight permits. When it gets dark I will set up some spotlights in the sugarshack and brick my evaporator. Made some more progress. This will be the second year in a row I've tapped before my evaporator is finished. Next year I'm going to try to be more prepared. My pump shipped today and it should be in this weekend.

Quite buying new evaporators every year and you will be ahead next season.

[Farmboy]

I won't have another one for several more years unless I expand over 600 plus taps. And my sugar shack couldn't hold much more than a 8' evaporator but I could squeeze a 3X10' in there if I really needed to. The 2.5X8' should be pleanty for a few seasons.

[CaseysSugarHouse]

Tapping tomorow all day and equipment set up

[3rdgen.maple]

I won't have another one for several more years unless I expand over 600 plus taps. And my sugar shack couldn't hold much more than a 8' evaporator but I could squeeze a 3X10' in there if I really needed to. The 2.5X8' should be pleanty for a few seasons.

600 thats a 2x6 amount of taps.LOL Im at 800 with mine and theres no looking back now or rest for that matter.

[twobears1224]

i,am still at it but,it,s looking like i,ll just have to sell sap this year.i have so much to do i,am begining to doubt i,ll have my arch,ect all setup and be fully ready to boil.
i think i,ll just tap as many as i can and sell the sap to my dad.he has 1500 taps now and a 5x14 evap that boils really well so he can use the sap.he,s retired and needs something to keep him busy anyhow

delbert

[Gary R]

Boiled some sap last night. Looks like a great run over the next few days. I've sold 5 of my backyarder pans in the last 4 days.

[Farmboy]

I tapped today. I put in 90-100 in today. I still have 35 on tubing to put in and q few dozen buckets. I moved my evaporator moved into the sugar shack. Tommorrow I'm going to get the rest of my tanks out of the trailer box and finish tapping tubing. I need to brick my evaporator too. But I can't boil till saturday afternoon so I will probably tap before I brick the evaporator. Buckets can wait till sunday or Monday unless I have time before then.

[Dennis H.]

Well it was a good day down here in PA. Nice weather and the trees were running like crazy.

I had a really nice peaceful evening boiling on the new evap. It was nice to not have a blower running in the background.
With this evap I have so much free time between firings that I am already looking at ways to improve it!
I want to make a new door for it, basicaly an air tight door. Also I will have a hood and preheater next year.

[nymapleguy607]

I tapped about 120 before the sun went down, slow going with about 18" of snow on the ground sure am glad I had snow shoes. Trees were running slow I turned the vacuum pump on for a little bit to check it and make sure everything was running. The releaser dumped a couple of times but it wasn't running real hard. Today should be better I think the trees were still thawing.