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Sam,
I've been struggling with the same issue. There are lots of flue collars available from England for too much and way too much postage. I just found this site:
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I pulled taps from trees that had quit flowing sap. They had been tapped for 3 to 4 weeks and sap flow had decreased to nothing for the past week. This is my first year so I'm learning as I go. I...

Yesterday I finished boiling my sap and finished my first syrup! We got 2.5 pints from aprox 30 gallons of sap. Today I pulled some taps and tapped some different trees. Hoping for a couple more...

Around here, we use the Cedar to hold the salmon and cook them on Alder wood fires. I will be using Maple syrup glaze to hold the Garlic and Creole seasoning on the salmon this Summer!!!
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That looks like a Bigleaf Maple (Acer macrophyllum) leaf. They grow here in the Pacific Northwest and since our climate is similar to New Zealand's, it is very possible they were introduced from...

Sam,
I found this site while looking for barrel stove evaporator ideas. I think this is an older model Leader Evaporator half pint on a barrel stove. This is the direction I'll be going for next...

Sam,
Nice find! It looks like Michigan pattern axe head. The old ones have better steel in them than the modern imported ones do. When you re-handle the axe head, you should consider removing any...

Hey Everybody, My name is John and I just got started in making maple syrup. I live in Puyallup, Washington, and my girlfriend and I are tapping Bigleaf Maple trees at her place in Maple Valley WA....