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The pan acid has been helpful, as has the vinegar. Part of the reason I am still fighting with this is that on this old pan there is considerable buildup near the top of the partitions and the top...

I'm glad somebody else is thinking about more forceful ways to remove stuff that is really stuck. I just bought a box full of different types of non-metallic abrasives that fit on my air grinder...

I just finally got my pans sweet tonight. First Boil was Monday night, I had about 600 gallons of 2.2 percent sap. Today I boiled about 400 gallons of sap that I didn't have time to test. But I...

The other thing about this situation that nobody has mentioned is: if you are seeing "low" vacuum at the top of a 3/16 tubing run, you still have vacuum, which is good. In my gravity 3/16 lines, when...

One thing you might be missing here is that the foaming can be related to the niter buildup. More niter makes the front pan foam more. So cleaning will help with both potential causes. Also, you...

I would say my Mon-Wed total came to roughly 2 GPT on my current 200ish taps. I didn't get to test sugar content again after my 1.8 on Tuesday night, but it doesn't matter because all the sap got...

Funny, I had a decent run the last two days. Very rough estimate 1 GPT which tested at 1.8 percent. That's up at 1700 feet elevation in Brookfield. I don't think things froze last night, and it is...

The physics of propane bottles is pretty fun. The propane in the bottle is mostly liquid, and a little pressurized gas at the top. It sits there at equilibrium when you aren't taking any gas out of...

Well, we lost a lot of snow this past week. Up at the sugarbush it is always deeper than at the house, but I am starting to be able to see the base of the trees just a little. I bet there is still...

Wow, this week has been insanely warm! I suspect the sap has been ready at least some of this week. Maybe someday I will be ahead enough by February to take advantage of an early thaw like this,...

I haven't yet. I was counting on another week or two to get things in order, but the forecast coming up is starting to look threateningly like a sap run could be in the cards. My woods are up at...

I'm still a newbie, but I read an article on the Lapierre website <https://elapierre.com/us/blog/three-level-tapping/> that makes a case for tapping three years in a row straight up and down-...

My sap was a bit cloudy over the weekend, but it tasted fine and I boiled it. There has been too darn little sap for me so far this season. I've been consistently getting less than 1 gpt per day on...

My sugarbush is at about 1700, and my house is 8 miles down the road at about 1000. BIG differences in weather between the two places! Always more snow up there in the bush, and usually colder...

Oh, that makes sense, thanks! I should probably do something similar- the weather looks like it is going to remain unfavorable for several days- I don't see a guaranteed freeze until Sunday night...

Can you clarify what you mean by "boiling out the pans"? Does that just mean boiling things to sterilize them before they sit? Or will you be doing some draining of the pans too?
I too am...

I'm very new to this, but I have done a ton of reading on doing natural vacuum tubing setup. 5/16 tubing isn't recommended for generating vacuum, 3/16 tubing is what people use. For every foot of...

This may not have come as a surprise to others, but I was disappointed last week when I showed up at Leader in Rutland and learned that they were closing the location permanently. I know things...