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dad bought one of the optimizers at bascoms at the end of last year’s season, so i didn’t get a chance to use it in 2018. he died in july, so he never got to see it work in our sugar house. i am...

i carry an e&o portion to my general liability. i also require a written contract with my client landowner, in which the client bears responsibility for providing maps of the boundary and/or showing...

used 1/2 gallon of white vinegar in my 2x2 syrup pan, along with about three gallons of water. never heated it, just let it sit for a week. today i was going to heat & scrub, but the mixture was...

good to meet you too, russ. i like your new arch, really nice. syrup was very tasty, too. nice location.

i spotted a few of your sugar maples, at the end of the driveway.

21 gallons, wow. ...

as built circa 1985; still going strong:

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i'll be honest, we solved that by using a 3x7 concrete pad under the 2x6 arch. has served us well since 1985 or so. dirt floor around the pad, with a wood floor to the side where the sap tank and...

sorry that you didn't feel you learned anything. it is a very common misconception that hardwoods have more BTUs per ton than softwoods, but they do not. most resin-containing woods have higher...

you might want to check your sources on that. on a per TON basis, white pine generally has more BTUs available than most (all) northeastern hardwoods. on a per CORD basis, the hardwoods have more...

on a per-ton basis, pine has more btus than many hardwoods. on a per-cord basis, not so much.

almost exclusively feed in sugar maple. very rare in any other. truthfully, i've never observed it in anything but sugar maple, and i look at 100s of thousands of trees every year.

treatment is...

the tree in the first picture is a red, not a silver.

the trees in the next two pictures are correctly identified.

the "free" stuff, such as available via USDA NRCS, isn't quite free. whatever funding is approved must still be claimed as income, and federal income taxes apply to the funding/grants. along with...

there will be a gathering to remember and celebrate eric on friday, june 9 at proctor academy in andover, nh. held at the proctor ski area. begins at 5pm.



Celebration of Eric Johnson on June...

in the past, i've successfully used the sour sap method. this year, i had no leftover sap, so i tried vinegar.

my pans are 2x2 syrup and 2x4 raised flue. i used a total of one gallon of white...

russ was likely responding to the OP, not you, when commenting on the damage-creator. the holes in the trees in your pictures were not made by a porcupine, they were made by a woodpecker (not a...

powder post beetles?

yesterday, i got around to canning my 2015 syrup that was stored in the basement for two years. 3 five-gallon pails with tight covers, but it wasn't canned. it was syrup that was filtered directly...

the moldy syrup can likely be heated to packing temperature, filtered, and canned.

the fermented syrup was likely too low density, and not syrup when packed. i have not tried to repack or sell...

that would be the right size.

yes, indeed.

sounds like a bird (sapsucker), and the insect was availing itself of a meal.

sugar maple borer is one insect that bores into maple.

sugar maple saplings are very good at remaining unbent when released either by overstory removals or low thinning. other northern/appalachian hardwoods are more susceptible to bending and partial...

to fill the ice house. local farm museum, they use it in the summer.

i use it for a few other things, too...

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appreciate the offer, parker. i'm done, though. cleaned the pans, put stuff away.

might stop by anyway, just to say hello.

wally