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Maple syrup! I picture guys like jehler getting their cordless drills charged up to drill taps into sugar maples. Exciting time of year! (not)

hold your horses there Betty, it's not quite time to do that, yet.

Woody wrote:hold your horses there Betty, it's not quite time to do that, yet.

Last year it was, wasn't it?
We got a week or more of freezing and thawing going on here in the forecast.
Gotta be close.

aunt betty wrote:

Woody wrote:hold your horses there Betty, it's not quite time to do that, yet.

Last year it was, wasn't it?
We got a week or more of freezing and thawing going on here in the forecast.
Gotta be close.

All depends on when it thaws. Here it is supposed to be in the teens again next week.
There might be some flow this week, but it wont be for long and it will be a pain in the ass to get to.

Ill trade a Michigander some South Georgia cane syrup for some of that maple syrup.... Any takers?

FlintRiverFowler wrote:Ill trade a Michigander some South Georgia cane syrup for some of that maple syrup.... Any takers?

I see your Georgia cane and raise you a couple cans of Steens.

Flightstopper wrote:

FlintRiverFowler wrote:Ill trade a Michigander some South Georgia cane syrup for some of that maple syrup.... Any takers?

I see your Georgia cane and raise you a couple cans of Steens.

What is steens?

FlintRiverFowler wrote:

Flightstopper wrote:

FlintRiverFowler wrote:Ill trade a Michigander some South Georgia cane syrup for some of that maple syrup.... Any takers?

I see your Georgia cane and raise you a couple cans of Steens.

What is steens?

It's a brand name of cane syrup.

aunt betty wrote:

FlintRiverFowler wrote:

Flightstopper wrote:

FlintRiverFowler wrote:Ill trade a Michigander some South Georgia cane syrup for some of that maple syrup.... Any takers?

I see your Georgia cane and raise you a couple cans of Steens.

What is steens?

It's a brand name of cane syrup.

Roddenberrys comes from Cairo, Ga.
But the stuff I get comes from a great uncle of my wife down around Waycross. The Okefenokee swamp region. Good stuff home made.

FlintRiverFowler wrote:

Flightstopper wrote:

FlintRiverFowler wrote:Ill trade a Michigander some South Georgia cane syrup for some of that maple syrup.... Any takers?

I see your Georgia cane and raise you a couple cans of Steens.

What is steens?

It is delicious.

Its usually toward the end of february, march for tapping, but this year cold be later. The best sap runs early though, so some places are gearing upa nd getting ready, we just havnt had warm enough weather yet, and its supposed to get real cold again.

I always thought they were just hammered in, bit drilled.

assateague wrote:I always thought they were just hammered in, bit drilled.

Old schoolers used the old hand drills with wood bits, a cordless drill and 1/2" bit works a lot faster!

All sexual innuendo aside, do you use the same hole year after year? Or do you "rotate" trees? Or just the location on the same tree?

assateague wrote:All sexual innuendo aside, do you use the same hole year after year? Or do you "rotate" trees? Or just the location on the same tree?

C'mon Jim, you know when a hole goes dry, flip it over and tap a new one.

I knew I wasn't gonna get anywhere with that question.

assateague wrote:I knew I wasn't gonna get anywhere with that question.

From everything Ive read and heard, you wanna move the tap year to year couple inches over and up or down, giving the tree enough time to fully heal the previous years tap.

BrewGUN wrote:

assateague wrote:I knew I wasn't gonna get anywhere with that question.

From everything Ive read and heard, you wanna move the tap year to year couple inches over and up or down, giving the tree enough time to fully heal the previous years tap.

Brew is right, you move it.

Woody wrote:

BrewGUN wrote:

assateague wrote:I knew I wasn't gonna get anywhere with that question.

From everything Ive read and heard, you wanna move the tap year to year couple inches over and up or down, giving the tree enough time to fully heal the previous years tap.

Brew is right, you move it.

Move it like raspberry bushes! ZING!

aunt betty wrote:Maple syrup! I picture guys like jehler getting their cordless drills charged up to drill taps into sugar maples. Exciting time of year! (not)

i use a stihl power drill to tap the trees.... going to be later in the season this year im afraid. i may come back in two weeks and start tapping and running lines to the sugar shack

assateague wrote:All sexual innuendo aside, do you use the same hole year after year? Or do you "rotate" trees? Or just the location on the same tree?

always rotate a few inches, the bigger trees i may ut 4 taps in. need to a let the holes repair themselves