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I just posted a bunch of stuff for sale as a fast move (10 days!) promts me temporarily getting out of sugaring.

about 1.5 cord of syrup wood- split to use in the evaporator- free to a good home,...

i never use matches just the cheap blue propane torch. works like a chahmm, as we say here in maine. don't even think I have a lighter in the sugarhouse. I also use it on the wood stove to get her...

Brunswick we have has 125/150 taps in for about 2 weeks (some a bit less). Collected last week about 55 gallons, another 100 yesterday. Boiled and sweetened the pans, pulled maybe a gallon of...

Im curious what to do at the end of the season when all of the sap is out of my storage tanks, and in the back pan. Before it gets too low, do I pull it all and do the last few hours on the finisher?...

Here is the story, boys and girls

http://www.wcsh6.com/life/programming/local/207/article/235656/144/Maple-Sugar-Season

You can see old segments here, so I imagine it will be on there at some point, for those interested

http://www.wcsh6.com/life/programming/local/bill_greens_maine/default.aspx

Cross post from the "Tapping Maine" group.

Today I had the pleasure of taping a segment on backyard sugaring with Bill Green. Really nice guy and hope it came out ok..and of course represents "us"...

Today I had the pleasure of taping a segment on my backyard sugaring operation with Bill Green. It runs on Monday March 18, dunno what time. Probably 5 or 6 and rerun again at other times. Great...

We got 55 in here in Brunswick at one of our spots, will try for a late night or early morning tapping before work this week to get the other 50-60 in. Id be happy with 110 or 120 this year. Let the...

Not yet in Brunswick

GM- meant to send you a note, nice pic in the paper!!

I think your draft may be effected by that 90 degree turn in your stack too.... you won't get smoke going that way if the draft is right.

Hey Lou, how are ya buddy? Haven't seen you around the trader very much!!

Nice work Don! I can tell you caught the maple bug! Now you will be thinking about syrup until next season!!! And I speak from experience, I tried for the first time to use iMovie when I was inducted...

I just bought a pretty substantial size commercial range for my kitchen and Id like to find a griddle I could put on top of all 6 burners. Its 36 inches wide. Problem is they are friggin BIG money in...

I finished off 7 or so gallons from last week and got it all bottled up which was really nice. Boiled for 6 hours today, got rid of all of the sap. Not sure what the barrels look like...I hope for...

How ya'll doing with syrup? Up here in Brunswick its been warm for 3 days straight and things ran like mad, but shut back down yesterday and heck, its friggin snowing now.

We have been doing OK,...

Ahh OK. flooding it makes more sense I guess. 30 seconds? I was worried it would still be steaming for a few hours!

As for my GPH...its a crude number but I used the stopwatch on my iPhone and...

****. Was so happy that after a 10 hour day I could fill my 40 gallon head tank and know that everything would be fine once I went inside. Came out first thing in the am and **** syrup pan float box...

Ohh no! Looks like your collecting in a bog! Hope you got her out ok, nice looking rig! (though Im a JD Gator guy myself)

We all call is "Sweet". " I got 14 gallons of sweet to finish off tomorrow night.."

Someone on here last year was talking about using stainless steel ball bearings in the pan...like mini raised flues.....dunno if they ever actually tried it or not

I cannot speak for the 2x4 but I can speak to Bills craftsmanship and producing quality product way lower than the competition. Bill is also just a nice guy. He's just one dude, in a shop in his...

First off, make sure you have a SYRUP hydrometer....and not a SAP hydrometer. Made that mistake.

Second...the theory is to have the hydrometer "bob" in your almost finished syrup...the reason i...

This is a very interesting discussion- I hope others will chime in. Lots to learn about this...probably lots we dont really know. Too many variables in this business.