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1st, thanks for suggestions and comments. We are underway.
Started tapping 2-21 put out 40 taps buckets and pails and already overwhelmed with sap, getting close to 1.5 gals per tap. Boiling from...

2-24 is what we're planning for, mostly south facing field maples.

Well today got the stack thru the roof, found some refractory mortar, and boiled out the new flat pan.
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At this point we plan to replicate exactly the way your doing it, only thing I might...

Thanks will take that into consideration, easy to do. I need to locate sap storage containers soon.

Hello to the locals,
A little introduction: 70 acres, 30 in hard maple, decent slope, some trees 6' diameter. Previous old timer owner built shack 1950 tapped until 2000. No activity on farm since...

Very nice, would you care to share approx. costs to have this built?
thanks

Thanks for the suggestions, yep the deer are always hanging around the edge around the shack, had 22 the other day. I did get a 2x3 flat SS pan made by Thoothacher fabrication up near Bangor and he...

Thanks for the ideas and comments; do believe a divided flat pan with draw off is the way to go at least for our initial season.
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The land is 80 acres with about 30acres of rock maple, very...

I'm in the process of restoring a 1950 shack that is on property we bought a couple years ago. Lots of mature sugar maples and acreage slopes down to shack. Hopefully produce on a small scale for...

Appreciate the thoughts on the tubing, yes very nice slope down to the shack probably a 30 ' drop in elevation. At this time I'm only looking to make syrup for us and family so starting small but...

Retired a couple of years ago and moved to a new location which as 80 acres with about 30 in sugar maple and white birch. The original owner who passed away several years before i got the place had...

Hello,
new to the forum as a member, but been reading posts for a while. Lots of very good information and appreciate the opportunity to learn more.
Ed
Winslow,Me.