north east ohio 2012

[heus]

1800 gallons of sap so far, on 226 taps. 30 gallons of syrup filtered and packed, fingers crossed for another freeze.

Jeff, can you tell me more about the piggyback? Hows it working out for you? I went by your place a couple times recently and saw you boiling.

[jhd504]

Boiled 200 gals. on Saturday. Yesterday, I drained the pans and will finish/bottle that in the next couple of days. Have 7 gals for the year so far, short of my goal of 10, but happy with the results (how can you not be happy!?). I'm hoping for a few more days of sap running, but looking at the weather forecast, it doesn't look too promising.

[woodburner]

Temp at 40 after a cold couple days, vacuum has been running for 3 hrs. no sap, none. I keep checking and looking for a glitch but no problems. No sap in any laterals. Has anyone else been checking today? Did it get colder than I thought and the trees are still frozen? Beats me?

[tom jr.]

going to check mine now nothing at 12 when i fired up. maybe holes dried up after last weeks warm? u tapped early?

[butch361]

At 11 am my gravity lines were flowing in Chesterville Oh. More like dripping it was pushing some ice through the lines.

[johnallin]

Nothing here as of this afternoon and certainly nothing since last Wed. Thought today was going to loosen things up a bit, but the weather forecast looks like we might wrap up sooner than planned.
Thinking i should have started back in early Feb that's for sure. Just over 7 gallons may be worse year ever since the half pint days.

[christopherh]

Pretty slow here to. Hopefully tomorrow I'll have some to put in the tank.

[tom jr.]

just broke loose about 4 as their was 20gal in the tank about 4:45 dumping about 7 min. feels like freeze tonight but south wind? johnallin dont even fret about forcast it has changed 6 times in 24 hours. Ed, did yours break loose yet?

[Kngowods]

We didn't get any all day. I checked a couple buckets around 6:00 it seemed to be dripping pretty good

[woodburner]

It opened up a little around 4 also. We had a high of 44 and it is in the 30s now. Hope for a freeze but doubtful with the south wind. Sap is cloudy and without a run overnight the end is only a few days away . They are getting buddy syrup north of Lake Erie on the softmaples already, so my friend near London,Ont posted today. If we make 60 tomorrow the hards will be moving also. Not much dark syrup this year.