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Is anyone going to the open house at Smoky
Lake next Saturday and also Plymouth's Maple Festival?

I think you're right, we haven't heard them yet.

We did our last boil today. Will finish everything in the evaporator tomorrow and clean up and be done. Should have 75+ gals of syrup.

Plus this time of year we get cold breeze off the lake. Sometimes good and sometimes not.

We collected bag taps at 7:00 last night and they are 3/4 full this morning. Gotta keep boiling now. Good sap, good boiling!

We collected 175 gals tonight. Bag taps ran good but 3/16 didn't do much which was very unusual. Sap is not buddy and it tasted just fine. We are at about half the sap of last year. Hopefully we'll...

We waited till this morning to pull our sap. Got 155 gals off of 280 sugars. All into syrup now! Now wait some more!

Too windy today but may run until midnight!

No peepers here yet. Hope next week will be good!

Good to hear you're still kicking!

Still going here. 60 gals made. Making the good dark stuff now.

Thanks for your input. We've used cone filters for over 20 years. My son has always done the filtering and he does a great job. We do between 75 and 115 gals of syrup. We also sell sap but probably...

How do you like the cone filter optimizer?

We boiled Thursday and Friday and made almost 20 gals of syrup. That was a nice run.

I put 2 test taps in my 2 front yard Norways today and they ran pretty good today. Hopefully we will get our 275 in on Saturday.

That sounds like fun. Do your kids help? My son, who is about your age, and I are partners and his four kids have helped since they were little. They even spent time out in the woods in the stroller....

You're right about the silvers. They won't last too long. We do all sugars so we don't want to tap to early and miss out on the end of the season!

We're waiting to tap until Feb 24 or after the cold snap. Then we'll have all clean equipment for the March season. We are putting up tubing today but no taps. Then we'll be ready for the real season...

My son and I purchased a 2 by 6 set with V flues in 2011, one of Jim's first set of pans made. We really wanted to cut boiling time in half so that's why we went to a 2 by 8. I like the idea of...

We are starting to get things ready. We sold our 2x6 set of pans and had Smoky Lake make us a 2x8 set of drop flue pans with hood. We also had to have my nephew extend our homemade arch. I'm getting...

I guess its been awhile since I've posted here. Just checking to see how everyone has done the season. For us it has been a record season. Our first sap collected was March 1 and has been running...

Getting ready for a new season. Planning to put up tubing Feb 27. Hopeful to tap sometime the first part of March. Got all supplies and maple shack is ready and lots of wood. How's everyone else?

Collected 250 gal this afternoon. Got all 265 taps in. Started to sweeten the pans tonight. Here we go!

Putting up tubing tomorrow and then tapping. Don't want to miss the good weather this coming week. Hope everyone does well this maple season.

Ponds are still frozen and no peepers or bugs yet. We're at 85 gals made. Running low on wood so we will probably sell the rest of our sap.