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60 or so taps on gravity.
1 gal L
2 gal M
1 gal XD
Pulled out on 4/10

Not having big runs with my gravity fed 5 gallon buckets, in spite of the trees obviously waking up and doing their thing. I'm fairly sure that if I had my lines all on vacuum, I'd be doing fine.

Get 5 gallon foodsafe pickle buckets from stores that use sour pickles on their Maine itialian sandwiches. Don't take 'em if you suspect :o they have been used to store other foods (like pizza sauce...

Pulled 40 taps on 3/30. Cloudy sap in most of the buckets. Snow disappeared from around the trees several days earlier. Not interested in late season sap/syrup. I got five weeks of nice high quality...

Pulled 40 taps on 3/30. Cloudy sap in most of the buckets. Snow disappeared from around the trees several days earlier. Not interested in late season sap/syrup. I got five weeks of nice high...

3-22-2013 update
Ran really well today and yesterday, the best it has run all season.
I'm pleasantly surprised that the syrup is still coming out really light.

Here's the update from Webbs Mills Village, Casco Maine:

I set my first taps of the season 1 month ago up until about 2 weeks ago...(40 taps total.)
Most of the sugar maples I tap are on a...

Set some taps and it was running really well tues. and weds. The few trees I tap wake up real fast as they face steeply south and not deep in the woods. I could've tapped as early as 2/12 because...

Tapped trees - around 2/13. South facing trees running well so far, weather ideal today...can't complain yet.
"Widespread Warmth Expected Next Week" has me a little concerned things are going to...

Well I guess I'm unsure whether I had buddy sap or metabolic sap. I boiled 24 or so gallons of freshly collected hard maple sap last Saturday, maybe 4 gallons of which was kinda cloudy. It had a...

Just made some fudge with some slightly buddy syrup :razz:. After the preparation I didn't notice the buddy odor or unpleasant flavor in it. The high temps called for in the recipe accomplished...