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Thanks for the answers guys.... I see what's happening....

We're small time producers, just under 100 taps. We don't sell. That out of the way, I run the syrup through a Leader prefilter coming out of our home made evaporator into a stainless pot. After...

We had a bunch of friends and family come by for the 1st day of Maple Weekend at Lavoie's Sugar Shack and had a ball! Made some maple mustard and had it on some hotdogs, and to dip pretzels in. We...

Figuring you must be crazy busy by now......

Watch out in the woods....it got so warm the ticks are active!

Hey there Smells! Thanks for serving...really..
It's tough to miss the sapping season, but I guess serving your country wins out on that one. And it does look bad with such warm temps, but we're...

Glad we got those gallons done the other night....finally feels like the season is going.....now like you said Lee....where's the sap tsunami we need?!!

I have only been doing this a couple of years, so I don't have lots of perspective, but this was a SHORT season! I even tapped earlier than I did last year, and I still made less than 2009. Now...I...

Hi Bill.....it's nice to see someone on here that's not running hundreds if not thousands of taps! I DO appreciate all the expertise of the "bigger" guys, but it's nice to see someone talk about the...

Hey Mac,same thing here in Hudson.....I thought with the sun today it might run a bit, but out of my 2 best trees, I got only a total of MAYBE 4 gals from 6 taps. My smaller trees had maybe a 1/2 gal...

I've been tapped since the 12-13th and at 1st it was running great, and then the last part of this week it just about stopped. This was the earliest I've tapped in the short time I've been doing...

In Hudson NH where I live it quickly turned to rain...flooding everywhere the land is low...then came the wind....wow...sounded like freight trains coming in the night...50-60 mph gusts..pines...

**** Theron....I'm exhausted just READING that!!!! Good luck and keep you chin up........so you don't swallow any sap!!!

"My wife says I don't pay attention to anything or anyone else during Sugaring, (at least I think that's what she said.)"

Even with the super-small-time-almost-an-operation I got going, when...

LMAO!!!!! You gotta love Theron, but his #'s and enthusiasm are over the top for people like me!

I put in 9 taps on my 3 very big trees on Friday eve, today I had 6 gls of sap...just a slow steady drip. All 3 trees are roadside with full southern sunny exposure today. This is the earliest I've...

Put in 6 on the 2 trees out front of the house....put in 3 more this AM.....Obviously small time, but excited to start again. Altogether we'll only have maybe15-20 taps, but having the time of our...

Well, I for one have really enjoyed following the stories on this thread. It's great for a newbie like myself see the struggles, and triumphs of people that have a lot more going on than me. This is...

Checked out your photos.....Nice set-up...love the warming pan!!!! You're boiling a lot faster than we are, but looking forward to improving next year already.....

I think I may either get a sap hydro or maybe even one of those $65 refractometers I saw online. It would be nice to know if I'm just boiling water or actually making maple syrup!!!!

KenWP.......... Barry here from NH. I was wondering what you're using to measure your sugar levels....sap hydro or a refrac? I'm a very small time producer right now (hint..wanna get bigger!), and...

We have a VERY small operation right now, and we're burning some hardwood we cut in our own yards, and a whole lot of hardwood pallets I can get at work. That's enough for now....however we don't...

I know the majority or evaporators are wood fired, but have heard of and seen oil fired ones too. Has anyone ever made a gas fired evaporator? Or are the physics of it not good enough to get the heat...

Right you are. Most of the buckets ran finetoday in the warm weather. I have a couple that didn't produce too much, but when I looked carefully, the helper I had didn't drill deep enough....I need to...

I noticed the same thing this AM. I have three trees about 3 feet across. I have put three taps in each tree. Two taps go into a "T" and drop into a water bottle, the 3rd tap goes directly into the...