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sweetmoomoo
02-13-2013, 05:51 PM
first year doing syrup for me and im hooked, homemade 55 gal. drum evap. and tapped 20 trees on sunday got 25 gallons of sap so far, plan on boiling with the kids this weekend.
psparr
02-13-2013, 05:54 PM
Welcome to SA! (Sugarers anonymous)
red maples
02-13-2013, 05:55 PM
Welcome to the trader!!! Lots of info on here. where in sussex are you? Sussex county or sussex the town. I originally from swartzwood/ stillwater!!! Grew up on swartzwood lake!!!. Actually I was down there over the holidays and made it to the Walpack Inn. bought 3 boxes of Bread Mix!!! :)
sweetmoomoo
02-13-2013, 05:57 PM
red maple im from wantage just outside the town of sussex, i do alot of fishing on big swartzwood.
jerseymaple
02-13-2013, 08:04 PM
Good luck, love up in Sussex, do a lot of camping in Stokes SF. Love the coffee at Joes to go on RT206.
jerzeemaple
02-13-2013, 10:29 PM
Another saphead in wantage! Awesome. I'm not set up yet. My shack is close to done and I have been working on my woods thinning things out then this summer moving my 2x6 down from the Catskills. I'm over by lake Windsor how about you?
sweetmoomoo
02-14-2013, 04:51 PM
jerzeemaple im over by the ny border off of rt. 284 lott rd.
dcast99
02-16-2013, 11:11 AM
I guess we made the big time now with the folder "Tapping NJ". Have to finish the new sugar shack before I can think about tapping.
5050racing
02-16-2013, 08:15 PM
I had to inquire WHY there was no New Jersey folder and then they made one for us this year!
sugarwoodacres
02-19-2013, 08:01 PM
2.8 sugar content last week . Higher than all of last year . boiled about 160 gallons to almost 3 gallons of the lightest syrup yet. I m getting the hang of the evaporator . Good Luck to all. Its nice too know there are other nuts out there,
Sugardaddy
03-04-2013, 01:52 PM
Nice to ssee a Jersey folder in here.

Taps started going in last wekeend and have been adding thorugh the week. We're up to about 75 taps and will add in another 30 or 20 in another week. We've done all 100 at the same time and we burn out too quickly. We just finished 3 1/2 gallons last night and are looking forward to a few weeks of good sap runs, especially after last year's weird temps. Tomorrow's forecast tells me we'll have a 100 gallon day!:)