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Divide your percent of sugar by 86. 2% sap gets you 43 gallons to make 1 gallon of syrup. 2.5% sugar gets you to 34.4 gallons to make 1 gallon. Your sugar must have been a little lower than that,...

Put in 3400' of main line and loving weather above zero. I like to 20's in the forecast.

Electric pump. You could have a generator hooked up and a VFD on the pump so you would not need much of a generator to drive it because of the amp load with a VFD. It will convert single phase...

We Run 1800' up hill from pump house to the sugar shack. The rise is about 70'The is a submersable pump in the releaser (25 gal per minute 1 1/2 hp) The line is underground 2 feet. We have approx....

Yes. We are not tapped yet either but will be this weekend. Next week looks like it's setting up to be perfect. Until we start to see bud sap or bad sap keep boiling. I think we will be good for...

Wow that is a lot of sap for not many taps.

We will be tapping early this next week . Looks like the run should start next Wed. or Thurs. Let's just hope the sugar content is a little higher than last year.

Jeff 50 did you check the sugar...

Still to early. I know of someone who is tapped and it's not running very well. It looks like winter will be back for a couple weeks with lots of snow. It sure seems like it would be running hard...

Tonka

We run a CDL Intense o fire 3x12 We have had it for 4 years now and do like the it boils. We run dry 3' length wood 6" dia or smaller in it and with maple, elm, cherry and yellow birch it...

made about 40 gallons yesterday with a slight cloudiness and a great taste still. Boiled twice in the day to keep things moving. Darker syrup than we have made all year and quite good. That might...

made about 30 gallons of darker syrup yesterday. It was delicious! maybe one more good day or maybe that was it?

Decent run yesterday. Sugar was only 1.3% but we had quite a bit. We'll keep going until sap is no good. Hopefully into Sat or Sunday, you never know the snow is pretty compacted on the ground...

Hoping for 1 good last run before bad sap starts to come in. Sat and Sun forecast is for 66 and 69 degrees. Bittersweet, love to have some real spring but would still like to more syrup!!

Wow very jealous of your high sugar content. We hit 1.6% yesterday and had over 1 gallon per tap. Lightest syrup we have ever made with crystal clear sap. Please send some of your sugar this way!...

Got about 1200 gallons today after things finally thawed out. Low sugar though for us only about 1.2% we'll have to see what happens Sat. the temps should be warmer. It was 10 degrees in the morning...

Now we have no 40 degree temps in the weather.com 15 day forecast. Weird year still trying to thaw out pipes. If it ever does warm up in June it should really flow!

Ran real good last couple days. Only 1.5 -1.7 % here but well over 1 gallon per tap average last couple of days. Gotta love High vac with dry/wet lines!! Forecast look awesome.

Jolly
RMG in Rudyard always say they do well when it's a warm year because they are colder than the rest of the area. I never thought I would want it colder here. So I think your in for a real good...

Jolly
Yes I know a few who are tapping now or are tapped. The forecast looks good except for the nighttime lows are too warm. I hope it will actually start to get a little colder at night than...

Hopefully we have a little time to get some more taps in. I'm thinking we better be ready by the 10th of March. I would like to say we should have our season staring about the 15th. It is already...

We have a 3 x 12. We dry our wood about a year. We use mostly Elm and maple in 3-6" diameter and we cut them about 3' long, no splitting. The loading is much faster when we have it this way. We...

Finally hit 2% and getting around 300-350 gallons a day off 520 taps. But it's all going to shut down for a couple days. Hope everyone can get some rest for a couple of days

Getting about 1/2 gal per tap so far with 1.5% sugar. What are you guys doing to get it at 2-2.5%? First boil will be tomorrow already dumped 300 gallons of cloudy 2 day old sap!

520 taps in, ran Vac for 2 days in the afternoon. We have about 250 gallons of sap at 1-1.5%. Not worth firing up the evaporator. Hope the sugar content goes up soon
Good Luck

Turned on the vacuum pump to test and check for leaks. Very little flow, will have to wait until the trees thaw out a little. Supposed to be 50 degrees and sun today, will test again.
Todd