{"id":958,"date":"2020-03-01T17:29:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T22:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=958"},"modified":"2020-03-01T17:32:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T22:32:13","slug":"30-psi-tree-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=958","title":{"rendered":"30 PSI Tree Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Finished tapping by 10:30 AM.  502 or 503 total.  We loose count because a tree gets a tap but the spout is missed.  We go back to set the spout and hang the bucket but the count is disrupted now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 overnight.  The day started with a cold South East breeze. Sunny and up to 45.  Warmer then forecast. Forecast was 40. Tonight is 28.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Late afternoon we put out the tree pressure gauge.  It hit 30 PSI.  This was a fresh tap which always runs fast because its releasing the initial  tree pressure.  Like popping a balloon or tire:  there is an initial high pressure release.  During sap runs last year the pressure was around 15 PSI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Got the R\/O into the woods.  Turned over the evaporator pan.   That\u2019s easier to do with two people.  Tomorrow will be a busy day of getting ready to cook.  There will be sap this week.  Weather forecast looks like sappin temperatures with 40s\/20s. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finished tapping by 10:30 AM. 502 or 503 total. We loose count because a tree gets a tap but the spout is missed. We go back to set the spout and hang the bucket but the count is disrupted now. 30 overnight. The day started with a cold South East breeze. Sunny and up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-season-103"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":959,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}