Southeastern WI Tapping

[MarquisVII]

Me and another sapper (Racine) are trying to team up to buy a pallet of bottles from Smokey Lake, which would cut the cost per bottle by nearly half. Currently only looking at the 16oz decanter, and a buying a full pallet brings the cost to $7.73/case. A pallet is 165 cases. So far it's only the two of us and together we can only absorb 40 cases total. Anybody else interested in joining? Pickup would need to be in Racine (or possibly Grafton at I-43).

[littleTapper]

Me and another sapper (Racine) are trying to team up to buy a pallet of bottles from Smokey Lake, which would cut the cost per bottle by nearly half. Currently only looking at the 16oz decanter, and a buying a full pallet brings the cost to $7.73/case. A pallet is 165 cases. So far it's only the two of us and together we can only absorb 40 cases total. Anybody else interested in joining? Pickup would need to be in Racine (or possibly Grafton at I-43).

I'm already well stocked up on bottles otherwise would join in. Parents grab them from Roth since they're close and I bring them home during deer season. I wish SL's non-pallet prices were better.

[creascreatur]

Me and another sapper (Racine) are trying to team up to buy a pallet of bottles from Smokey Lake, which would cut the cost per bottle by nearly half. Currently only looking at the 16oz decanter, and a buying a full pallet brings the cost to $7.73/case. A pallet is 165 cases. So far it's only the two of us and together we can only absorb 40 cases total. Anybody else interested in joining? Pickup would need to be in Racine (or possibly Grafton at I-43).

@MarquisVII I'll join for 20 cases

[littleTapper]

New tubing up at home. Doing the other two properties (one new) this weekend. This warmup is a nice tease. Definitely not chasing it. Long range says a bit more normal, or even later, start time this year? We'll see.

[seasonaladdiction]

I would be in for 15 cases. Would pick up in Grafton.

(actually located in Fredonia, probably on your route to Hilbert)

Me and another sapper (Racine) are trying to team up to buy a pallet of bottles from Smokey Lake, which would cut the cost per bottle by nearly half. Currently only looking at the 16oz decanter, and a buying a full pallet brings the cost to $7.73/case. A pallet is 165 cases. So far it's only the two of us and together we can only absorb 40 cases total. Anybody else interested in joining? Pickup would need to be in Racine (or possibly Grafton at I-43).

[littleTapper]

Worked on tubing at my two remote locations over the weekend. 38 new taps at one and extended a line at the other to add 4 more (all sugars except one large red maple). Should put me at roughly 135 total this year. Talked to a neighbor of the new place and he doesn't care if I run lines down into his woods too. If I can get a couple other folks to join in, I can really expand in that spot. Gotta plan for the future

I will never buy CDL 3/16 semi-rigid again. What a pain. Freaking mush. I had some leftover Leader 3/16 and that was a joy to put fittings in vs that CDL crap. Lesson learned. I'll gladly pay to ship rolls of Leader tubing from now on.

[MarquisVII]

I would be in for 15 cases. Would pick up in Grafton.

(actually located in Fredonia, probably on your route to Hilbert)

Great, with you we're up to 75 cases total. Anybody else??!?!

A half pallet is $8.88/case $0.74/bottle so we should at least be able to get there!

[littleTapper]

Looks like I'll poke holes in trees later this week when it's nice and frigid. May not get much when it warms up at the end of the month and it might cool down too much the first week of March, but it's definitely not too early. Pretty much new tubing/drops everywhere and CV spiles, so no harm drilling when it's frozen out there. Probably a pretty short season for my silver maples; makes me glad I added a bunch more sugars.

[WI Sugarpop]

We plan to put up our tubing on Saturday but not sure about poking holes though! Last year we upgraded to a set of Smoky Lake 2 by 8 pans. This year we upgraded to the Smoky Lake concentric exhaust system. We can't wait to try it. Bring on the sap!

[MarquisVII]

Tubing this weekend. Probably wait a few days for the trees to wake up from this deep freeze before I drill. I'll keep an eye on the forecast, but mid-next week will be the earliest since I'm out of town Mon-Tues anyways. Plenty of season - this year actually seems more normal than the last two.