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Tapping time #6788683
03/01/20 01:12 PM
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Any one tapping trees yet?
Put In some on Friday haven't looked at them yet.


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Re: Tapping time [Re: The Beav] #6788694
03/01/20 01:24 PM
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if this warm weather holds, I'll be tapping soon.


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Re: Tapping time [Re: The Beav] #6788701
03/01/20 01:37 PM
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A bunch around here.

Re: Tapping time [Re: The Beav] #6788714
03/01/20 01:49 PM
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We're planning to get our taps in around our place in north central Wisconsin this coming weekend.

Re: Tapping time [Re: tlguy] #6788747
03/01/20 02:34 PM
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Heading out in 15 minutes to finish one large woodlot. We have about 600 taps in and about 250-300 to do. We are delaying some as we can't get our vehicles through the snow yet. We were looking at converting an otter sled and pulling with a snowmobile for a bit but that will be slow for sure.

Bryce

Re: Tapping time [Re: The Beav] #6788752
03/01/20 02:43 PM
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Made 2.5 gallons so far.

Re: Tapping time [Re: The Beav] #6788760
03/01/20 02:52 PM
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Completed a little over 3 gallons. I thing we may be about finished I have seen a few maples round with buds. Not on our farm yet though.

Edit... I hot back from being away for work and my wife has pulled the taps for the year.

Last edited by Providence Farm; 03/02/20 06:09 PM.
Re: Tapping time [Re: The Beav] #6788828
03/01/20 04:16 PM
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I'm on the plus side of 3 gallons. and the coming weeks look awesome for flows. 50 taps out, 24 on gravity, 7 on vacuum and the rest on sap sacks. wanted to put out more but this is all time allows this season.

Re: Tapping time [Re: The Beav] #6788955
03/01/20 06:41 PM
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We make 7quarts thus far. We only put 20 taps out on 9 trees. We should have started earlier as there was a pretty good run at the beginning of the month. Temps look to be improving this week so we shall see.

Gonna try and keep some records this year and next year we might go for 100 plus taps. I have to make a sugar shack this year tho.


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Re: Tapping time [Re: bblwi] #6789141
03/01/20 09:37 PM
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Originally Posted by bblwi
Heading out in 15 minutes to finish one large woodlot. We have about 600 taps in and about 250-300 to do. We are delaying some as we can't get our vehicles through the snow yet. We were looking at converting an otter sled and pulling with a snowmobile for a bit but that will be slow for sure.

Bryce


How much syrup do you get a year and what do you do with all of it?

Re: Tapping time [Re: The Beav] #6789260
03/01/20 11:02 PM
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What company do you order supplies from ?

Re: Tapping time [Re: The Beav] #6789292
03/01/20 11:26 PM
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We get between 6 and 8,000 gallons of sap per year. We average about 2.8% sugar over the last 5 years. We don't cook any of our sap. We take it to a place about 15 miles away. He runs about 1300 trees and takes sap from roughly 6-10 other collectors. Last year was a slower year for volume. We collected 5,500 gallons but it averaged 3.3 sugar so got credit for 204 gallons of syrup. He gets half and we get half. We usually only take about 50 gallons of syrup and we get paid per point of sugar at the going rate per point for the remainder. We use that also to pay for the bottles, caps, bottling and any stuff we may want as for tubing, taps etc.
We don't own any of the 10 woodlots we collect at and they all want syrup instead of cash for the tapping of the trees. We use some to give to land owners for trapping and our own and family uses. We sell the rest. This year I have a restaurant that wants quite a bit so we hope to sell more. We have some issues this year with drifted snow in places, and my partner is experiencing some hip and leg issues so we are in need of some part time help.
We have about 100 trees on gravity lines and about 450 trees we collect in 5-6 gallon buckets so we carry a lot of sap. Hard work but enjoyable. I am 72 and he is 63 we just don't see the value in investing significant dollars in cooking equipment for that volume when we don't own the sugar bushes and our collecting future is not that long.
We get supplies from Roth out of Cadott WI and also the place that cooks our sap is building a decent inventory or supplies for those of us that get our sap cooked there. He has a very modern and nice setup and just got a new oil fired evaporator and upgraded is RO machine as well. He is a road crew supervisor and he needs to be done and cleaned up by mid- April. We are tired by then and so are the trees.

Bryce

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Re: Tapping time [Re: The Beav] #6789293
03/01/20 11:28 PM
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mn north of blakely
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Don't you guys get winter?


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Re: Tapping time [Re: bblwi] #6789428
03/02/20 07:53 AM
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Originally Posted by bblwi
We get between 6 and 8,000 gallons of sap per year. We average about 2.8% sugar over the last 5 years. We don't cook any of our sap. We take it to a place about 15 miles away. He runs about 1300 trees and takes sap from roughly 6-10 other collectors. Last year was a slower year for volume. We collected 5,500 gallons but it averaged 3.3 sugar so got credit for 204 gallons of syrup. He gets half and we get half. We usually only take about 50 gallons of syrup and we get paid per point of sugar at the going rate per point for the remainder. We use that also to pay for the bottles, caps, bottling and any stuff we may want as for tubing, taps etc.
We don't own any of the 10 woodlots we collect at and they all want syrup instead of cash for the tapping of the trees. We use some to give to land owners for trapping and our own and family uses. We sell the rest. This year I have a restaurant that wants quite a bit so we hope to sell more. We have some issues this year with drifted snow in places, and my partner is experiencing some hip and leg issues so we are in need of some part time help.
We have about 100 trees on gravity lines and about 450 trees we collect in 5-6 gallon buckets so we carry a lot of sap. Hard work but enjoyable. I am 72 and he is 63 we just don't see the value in investing significant dollars in cooking equipment for that volume when we don't own the sugar bushes and our collecting future is not that long.
We get supplies from Roth out of Cadott WI and also the place that cooks our sap is building a decent inventory or supplies for those of us that get our sap cooked there. He has a very modern and nice setup and just got a new oil fired evaporator and upgraded is RO machine as well. He is a road crew supervisor and he needs to be done and cleaned up by mid- April. We are tired by then and so are the trees.

Bryce


Very interesting. I'd like to do it next year as a hobby (not nearly at that level of course) but know absolutely nothing about it.

Re: Tapping time [Re: The Beav] #6789643
03/02/20 01:02 PM
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We've collected almost 600 gallons of sap. On track for making 25 gallons of syrup.

This should be a big week.

Re: Tapping time [Re: The Beav] #6789658
03/02/20 01:28 PM
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I am going to tap Saturday.
Still have 20" of snow against the trees.
We run about 100 taps.

Re: Tapping time [Re: The Beav] #6789681
03/02/20 01:44 PM
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Tapping either Fri. or Sat. Last 2 yrs we tapped on 3/8. Usually 150 of my taps on buckets and buy another 200 . Goal is 60 gal of syrup.

Re: Tapping time [Re: The Beav] #6789783
03/02/20 03:48 PM
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I tapped my trees over the weekend. A good friend of mine enjoys making various outdoor-related YouTube videos (he is very talented) and came up with this....


Hello Everyone,

Here is the link to a new poverty Hill Adventures video about Dino. It is titled The Maple Syrup Maker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEqNmyL-sno

Had a bunch of fun filming it at Dino's place.

Have a great weekend,

Brian


....and a little off topic but he shot this video the weekend prior (note, Bone Creek is what I named a small tributary on my property where the farmers of yester-year dumped their cow(etc.) carcasses (I added to it for a while until I built my sugar shack and couldn't stand the smell of the decomposing carcasses). Also note, I caught a beaver in the trap I set during the rendezvous which was an added bonus!


Hi,

Here is the link to a new Povertyhill video titled Rendezvous at Bone Creek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkd6K53BhFo&t=2s

Thanks,

brian


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Re: Tapping time [Re: The Beav] #6789805
03/02/20 04:21 PM
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Running fast and high sugar here.


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Re: Tapping time [Re: DuxDawg] #6789983
03/02/20 07:51 PM
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Running slow here. Got the 4-wheeler around two woods today. Tough going and won't be able to haul too much out as the snow is deep in some places. We have two wood lots left to tap but snow and help issues may delay the tapping or maybe not at all this year.
With little frost in the ground and a couple nice days with some freezing at night we thought it would run better than it has been. We plan to collect Wednesday.

Bryce

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