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Actually our shack is in the White Cloud area. We tap trees in GR and White Cloud. I have a WesFab small bank filter press, but found that it didn't work with the batch sizes we do. We've been...

We were done last week. We made about 43 gallons which I'm very happy about. We dumped a little sap, but I still have to pick up about 140 buckets and I'm sure there will be 300-400 gallons in...

I'm sure mine are all frozen as well. My sugar bush is about an hour north of GR and that makes this weather a pain. Last year one weekend we had 5 gallon ice cubes and it was highs in the low...

We've had a lot of flies this year in the sugar shack and they've been landing in the sap. I just make sure they spit out any sap before I toss them out.

Pan looks worse for wear, but we found only one leak . Who knows what we will find once it's in the arch and boiling sap. Hopefully nothing else opens up. My help really is pretty good, except I...

Last weekend was my first boil in a new sugar shack. The previous two weeks we were furiously getting set up and ready. I sent an email to my helpers that we will be tapping the last Saturday of...

I'm looking at probably the 24th if the weather looks right. A few days between now and then look favorable, but my trees wake up pretty slow. We typically tap in GR a week early and haul up to the...

New sugar shack and hoping to put about 50 trees on 3/16 tubing.

All done for this year. Collected 1636 gal of sap and made 25-30 gallons of syrup won't know for sure until we bottle. The week I was gone my "friends" didn't test the syrup and I know it was over...

I bought a Smoky Lake Murphy Compensation Cup that will tell you the proper density based on the temp.

We tapped 80 trees last week and so far have about 80 gallons of sap. We tapped 240 in the White Cloud area on Saturday and it was running today. This week looks like it could be a little hit or...

In my original 2 x 5 "custom" evaporator I would finish on propane. My syrup pan wasn't quite right to really make syrup on the evaporator. My 2 x 8 leader with max flu pan work great and I pull it...

My evaporator runs it's self and is fine tuned I can walk away for 10 minutes.

I don't know what your problem is, I've never burned a pan.

Tapped 200 trees Saturday (March 5) and gathered 400+ gallons Tuesday. Ran the sap we brought from home 330 gal and the 400 through my new arch. Took it easy for a couple hours Tuesday night to get...

Bought a new arch this year and it looks like that was a mistake. I hope to use it at least a few weeks.

Some of my buddies tapped 100 trees 1-1/2 weeks ago and we have about 200 gallons of sap...

I tap mostly reds, because that's what I have. I have found the same thing as others that some reds run good and others are not very good at all. The sugars that I tap are very consistent and the...

One of my friends missing tapping because he was in Florida. This is how he got his fix. Looks like it works.10951

Put in 160 taps on 5 gal buckets today. Still need to run the laterals for my test run with tubing. Arch is in place and ready to have the insulation and brick put back in. A few things to clean and...

Planning on tapping Saturday. Ran the snowblower around the Shack on Saturday. Too many things to do. Rebuilding the door for the arch and rebricking, finish cleaning the pans and a few storage...

Pulled the taps Saturday. The season turned out better than I thought. We made 36 gallons of medium and dark this year. About 300 taps yielded 1,472 gallons of sap that we processed. Our sap ran...

Put in 160 taps today. Probably some more next weekend. Many of them were running this afternoon. Hopefully we can start the evaporator next weekend. Saw two bald eagles feeding on winter kill...

I've had good success with Atmos. To keep it liquid I just place on a handle on the side of my syrup pan.8881

JD4720 with a JD snowblower. My Cabin is 1/2 mile down a "seasonal" road and my trees are all over my deer hunting woods so I needed something to get after it.

I sure hope it starts late. Normally I'm working at getting things ready, but with the snow and cold I am way behind. There might be something about a brand new granddaughter that has interrupted...

Hi,
I'm Bob from Grand Rapids. Our shack is near White Cloud. We tap trees in our yards and around the shack. It's family and friends from deer camp.