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Good year in the yard :)

Final Tally was .29 gpt syrup on 12.94 gpt sap from our buckets.

Great flavor and color, although didn't see the dark-dark stuff this year.

Good luck all!!

Nice run over the last 24 hours here in Georgia, VT -- just over 1 gpt in the buckets, sugar holding nicely at 2%. :)

Nice run here in Georgia, VT over the last 24 hours... over 1 gpt on my simple spiles and buckets :)

My records show I was only over 1 gpt once all of last season.

Georgia, VT -- hung 34 buckets yesterday. The SE facing slope was "drippy" as we tapped. Felt VERY good touching the trees yesterday... good things to come this year. Hope you all have a fantastic...

Not a great picture, but def a brown-olive color. Certainly not that vibrant VT Green we're used to seeing in May. The buds popped before we had that mid-20's night or three and a few inches of snow...

Sugar maple emerging leaves sure have a funny color to them.... uh oh...

All wrapped-up.

11.26 gallons of sap per tap... first time under 12. .23 finished GPT.

Can't all be record-breakers ;)

See ya next year!!

When do/should you pull the taps on the Reds?

Is there any historical data correlation between a previous year's dry/drought conditions and the following year's sap harvest?

Should you expect a less-than-usual harvest/sap flow after a...

Only .56 gpt this week here in Georgia (VT) :cry:

That's it for us. Hot one in the shack last night and today. Surprisingly good year after such a late and stunted start, even though we must have sat on our concentrate too long this week and...

Sugar content dropped a bit this week, but still higher than most years. Color still light too, not yet the good April dark gooey stuff.

We're at 64% of last year's syrup haul with only 48% of...

Best 24 hours here since last year, 1.4 gallons of sap per tap in the buckets. Still testing at just over 2%, which is a welcomed, pleasant surprise in my little woods.

Sitting at just under 6% of the sap collected same day as last year.

Change "Beef" to "Sap"
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I guess it makes sense that if we could be in the goldilocks zone last year (twice the average...

Only .48 gallons of sap per tap since tapping on the 9th. :cry: With the warm-up yesterday, was hoping trees would run all night, but they didn't, all but stopped this morning. Methinks I'll get...

I live in Georgia, VT, above Milton, below St. Albans (for reference). We're at about 300 feet above sea level -- the goldilocks zone last year (we couldn't keep up). Walking the kids to the bus...

I ordered a 2x4 in August and called a few times to make sure I got it in November. Originally promised for October, then had to have it shipped when the snows hit early in November and I couldn't...

378/1000= .378

or about .38 gallons of syrup per tap.

Small sample size, certainly (31 buckets), but we did .50 gallons of syrup per tap on 28.02 gallons of sap per tap/bucket. It was a good year; we usually do about .3 per tap finished syrup.

Thanks again All! This community is awesome! :)

This forum is truly awesome... thanks all!!!

eustis22 -- can you estimate how many gallons per hour you are processing with your unit? (you have the blower?).

Thanks!!

JQ

http://www.wfmasonwelding.com/evaporators.html

Hello! Considering the 2x4 Hobby evaporator. Probably with the optional blower.

I found some older comments about Mason Welding and Bill, the...

The Beefy Baroness is Belting it Out...

We're at 300 feet, and that must've been the Goldilocks Zone this year, just over the Chittenden border in Franklin County. Hung 31 buckets on March 6th,...

No Mas!

Over 3 GPT in the last 48 hours — no freeze last night. Still running solid.

I’m over 28 gallons of sap per tap... not at this very long, but after a couple years in the 13-16 range,...