first run of syrup

[ducky]

well with this past warm i we tapped a few trees, i got 6 taps in wednesday , got a little run, abouta gallen, then i got a dozen more out saterday morning and those where the really warm days and got about 12 gallons total ad got a quart and little jelly jar work ou of in, got to try out our new evaporator we made it worked slick, so now we will just have to wait till the next warm up and maybe make a gallon or so , sure does taste good

[lilweasel]

I can't believe you already tapped. It will be another month before I get going. Hard to beat fresh syrup!

[barkspud]

Nice I see on the news today where folks was tapping but didn't catch where it was..

[trappingtime0]

We tapped half of out 300ish we are doing on saturday we collected sunday and got about 80 gallons from 150 taps after this cold snap we are gonna get the next 150 out and i think thats all we are doing this year instead of the 500ish we did last year

[ducky]

this was mostly a test run to test out the new evaporator . and we had to buy new taps as some jerk stole out set up out of the trees last year. got new sized taps so the bit and brace didnt work cause these new ones are called "tree savers" and arnt supposed to hurt the tree as bad. but i was surprised we got as much as we did, but lil weael we got warm up and we was hoping it was goin to last but it didnt. maine should be starting to unthaw a little, one more storm and we should be melting but we wont as the almanac says snow and cold and only one week of warm during season

[trappingtime0]

Im hoping that after this week of cold it will warm up and the sap will run good we just went up to auburn and got all our bottles and are ready to go we just have another 150 traps to get out still

[daswolter]

Ducky do you have any pictures of the evaporator you made I'd like to see that.

[ducky]

ya you was only half a hour away from me when you was in auburn lol. where in auburn did you get them ? and i will get some pics of the evaporator tomm.

[nytrapper23]

Guys here in western ny are also tapping trees.

[ducky]

it says the forum doesnt have enough space for the picture. idk why but it does

[kickapoohayseed]

We had a teaser run this past weekend, here in the Midwest! Sure hope we get the run we had last year.

[reno656]

We've made probly 50gallons on are 1900 trees this year so far this snow storm in Vermont should extend are season a little .

[trappingtime0]

We have had horribal weather this year so far it hasnt warmed up enough yet we made i think about 20 gallons so far on our 300 taps but we should normally have 50 by now

[trappingtime0]

Reno are you all on pipeline? Thats a lot of taps we only have maybe 100 on pipeline the rest are buckets

[ducky]

i cant imagine how maple sunday went up here cant get much of a run any more

[trappingtime0]

We managed to do alright for our maple sunday this year it wasnt as busy because of the weather but we had a decent turn out. We had enough syrup for all the people but not by much. This weekend is supposed to be a good weekend for the sap to run.

[ducky]

i hope,stinks its the last weekend of season down here wish we could get the biologists to extend it to april 15th or so , that way the rats and beaver get a chance to move. need to get some syrup made regardless