Tapped on Friday 2/19. Started to see flow today finally in my buckets. I’m using 8 taps this year and turkey fryer. First year was last year and it made it all worth it to do it again.
2020 5 taps turkey fryer - 3200 ounces (16 200 ounce jars).
Plantsville, CT
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Finished tapping all 100 taps. The 30 on 3/16 in the woods were flowing pretty good. Some of the buckets and bags were too. The 5/16 taps in the woods not to much.
It was 28 degrees last night and suppose to be in the 40s today. I have high hopes.
Update: collected 62 gallons 1.9 brix
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2024 55 3/16 gravity, 19 5/16 gravity, 40 buckets and bags, RO Bucket rb15 kit, 5ft Phaneuf drop flue evaporator, Mason AUF arch.
2023 35 3/16 gravity, 30 5/16 gravity 53 buckets and bags, RO Bucket rb15 kit, 5ft Phaneuf drop flue evaporator.
Mason AUF arch
2022 35 3/16 gravity, 28 5/16 gravity, 50 buckets and bags, New RO Bucket rb15 kit.
2021 11 on 5/16 gravity, 30 on 3/16 gravity, 69 on buckets and bags. All sugar maples. Mostly large old trees.
Flowing great today.
Willington CT
2020 - 220 taps bags and lines in newly thinned Bush
2019 - 80 taps bags. 11 gallons syrup
RO - NGMP
CDL 9” vacuum filter
Lapierre mini pro
How much snow do you have on the ground in your grove in Willington?Originally Posted by Rich R
If you think it's easy to make good money in maple syrup .... then your obviously good at stealing somebody's Maple Syrup.
Favorite Tree: Sugar Maple
Most Hated Animal: Sap Sucker
Most Loved Animal: Devon Rex Cat
Favorite Kingpin: Bruce Bascom
40 Sugar Maple Taps ... 23 in CT and 17 in NY .... 29 on gravity tubing and 11 on 5G buckets ... 2019 Totals 508 gallons of sap, 7 boils, 11.4 gallons of syrup.
1 Girlfriend that gives away all my syrup to her friends.
Tapped on Sunday, got a little drip out of the mainline yesterday, and a steady but small stream out of the mainline today. With 129 taps I would have expected more. Any thoughts?
Located at over 1200' elevation here in Warren CT. It is typically a few degrees lower than everywhere else and any forecast. Most of my trees are in the woods on a slight slope down to the north, though many boarder a small field with some in fuller sunlight. Curious if it just needs a few more warm days to warm up or if I need to fix something with my lines? This is a newly installed setup with 5/16 laterals with leader 5/16 check valve taps and 3/4 inch mainline.
Today’s brix 2.0. Same as January.
2019 LNG fired pot, 20 taps on 3/16, 10 buckets, gave it up after 3 gal.
2020 New Mason 2x4 XL; 30 taps on 3/16
"Tapped on Sunday, got a little drip out of the mainline yesterday, and a steady but small stream out of the mainline today. With 129 taps I would have expected more. Any thoughts?" Warren was always the coldest town we worked in [CL&P] in the winter - hated it - You need a little more time to thaw than the rest of us. Last night with no frost should help - I got about 100 taps in yesterday, age is showing. 40 more today, i'll be all in.
Couple things.
This morning I had 3 moths. 2 in one bucket and 1 in another. All 3 alive. Thought it was a little early for that.
Also, this is the first time I've pulled a tap that was doing nothing after a few days, when the rest of the taps around it are running. I just went out to collect. This one particular tap is in a nice tree. Granted, all my trees are reds. The tree is healthy, the tap hole was clean and white, and it was tapped just like all the rest. The pail was bone dry. Today I pulled it, and tapped a smaller tree, maybe 15" in diameter, 10 feet away from the dry one. As soon as I drilled the new tree, the sap was running before I could get the tap in. This year, having the possibility of a short season, I won't be so hesitant to pull taps that aren't running. I have around 125 to 150 reds, and only put out 50 taps, so I don't think moving some around will affect the health of my trees.
That seems to be the case with red maples. Sometimes a taphole is just not productive for some reason. Happens more on gravity I think, but can happen on vacuum too.
Dr. Tim Perkins
UVM Proctor Maple Research Ctr
http://www.uvm.edu/~pmrc
https://mapleresearch.org
Timothy.Perkins@uvm.edu
Finally I had one of my 5 taps put out something today, was starting to get worried since it's my first time lol. I only got like 3 cups though
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