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Boy awful quiet in here! Well after 5 nights with no freeze. The sugar gods smiled. Gpt @ 2% sap. 229 buckets. Saw the hardest run of the season so far. Ran into the dark. Hard freeze last night hope...

Im glad you found it! I did the same thing 2 years ago. The flames comin out the firebox was the clue that tipped me off. Now i check very well before assembling the rig each year

I set it up so the flues were a whisker off the insulation. Boiled like never before. This is my 3rd year with the rig and its def the hardest boil ive had. Thanks for the input.

Hi Billm . Can you say why the flues shouldnt touch the insulation? How close is correct? Thanks

Check for mouse nests in base stack. Thats experience speaking

Can i set the pans so the flues are touching the insulation? Leaving a gap towards the front to still force the heat/fire up into the flues

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Boiling in a 3x8. Raised flue. Curious on how much space there should be between the bottom of the flues and the insulation blanket. I have heard "about an inch" and that it will force the...

Here on the Bradford/west newbury line i will finish hanging my buckets up today. Got over half up yesterday. Total around 230 pails! Wooohoo! Bring on the sap! The trees were dribbling as we tapped...

We are obviously small time compared to most of you. But we use organic safflower oil with great success on our 3x8. 1 drop in the front pan is amazingly effective. And usually 1 or 2 drops in the...

Thought it was all over. But the last 2 days sap ran strong. Buckets are still holding strong! I am hoping for a couple more runs to put us over qt/tap. Sap tested 2.4% yesterday. Delicious dark...

All done here in Bradford. Pulled buckets wed. Due to family obligations. But the sap was running hard still in the 50 buckets I still had out. Over 1 gal per tap tues and again on wed.
Finished...

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great fix for the old style sapmeister taps. i was bending the hooks and getting mad last season. but used your tubing trick on about 25 taps and it has worked great. i picked up 50 of the...

I had an issue the other night boiling. Firebox was ripping hot and front pa was boiling great, but no boil in the back pan and my stack was cold. I'm on a 2x7. I messed with the arch preseason...

Norway maples are invasive. Firewood!!!!! Keep an eye out and you will notice Norway maple in the understory everywhere there is a parent tree. You think they are Sugar maples when they are little,...

I know Baird fairly well, and just want to give him credit as a straightforward, honest and hardworking guy. Give him a shout with sap!

Put out 50 buckets this afternoon. My southeast facing slopes on the road and field edges mainly, running steady at 4:00. Im in Bradford on the West Newbury line. Looks like a freeze tomorrow then...