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I like the suggestion of using a cooler. Then you could use the cooler to bring home some fresh fish. Just keep the weight under 50 lbs to save some money. If you do check the cooler as a second...

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This is what we use. We put only one 55 gallon drum in the trailer. We are low land and have to pass through 100 yards of swamp. When things start to thaw the rig goes through with no...

Boiling maple syrup, again...and killing misquotoes. Only 300 gallons left to boil off. Due to the warm weather and no nit enough time to boil any more, Dad is dumping the buckets in the ground as...

Hit the 2300 gallons of sap mark yesterday. With 40 gallons of finished syrup and more to boil off I'm taking tomorrow off then hitting it hard all weekend to finish the boiling. Trees are running...

66% sugar is what we are after. Thus we are looking at how dense the solution is at certain temps. Thus when the temp of the syrup and my mix is equal the hydrometer would float at the same height....

I always had the thought in the back of my mind that the hydrometer is only accurate at 211 degrees or Hot or 60 for cold. So at any other temp the accuracy is off. So I made a simple sugar...

Collected over 400 gallins of sap Wednesday on 275 taps and due to time, only picked up the buckets that were overflowing or close to overflowing. This weekend should be a big day for collecting and...

We store our sap outside in large 275 gallon totes and haven't had a problem. Last year the warm weather spoiled about the last 30 gallons but that's unusual. I've read somewhere on this form that...

It's started, collected 700 gallons off of 275 taps last emptied on Wednesday. Looks like a bumper week.

Heading up to the cabin to boil. My Dad got up to the cabin last night and discovered the two 7 gallon buckets on our tree by the cabin were overflowing. (They were empty on Thursday AM) ...

I cleaned the bottom if my pans using some cheep dollar store oven cleaner. Let it sit for a few hours then washed it off with the hose. Worked awesome

Still to soon. Trees are waking up 2 had over 3 gallons in the bucket, but most of the buckets were dry or just a few drops. Looks like another week before any boiling here

@ dschultz all I can say is that sucks. Up around Siren we have maybe 1.5 feet of snow which is manageable. It's also been a few degrees warmer then around The Eau Claire area I'm heading up north...

I like wunderground.com they seem to do the best job by using independent weather experts. Most news stations get their weather from NOAA. And the problem is NOAA is a government run program. While...

I would think that when the frost leaves the ground that the sap would run better. Since the moisture can now move through the soil and the roots are able to soak it up and move it up the tree. So a...

Most forcasts can only get the temp right to about 3 days out. After that its just a guess, and the forcasters use the average temps from years past as a general rule.

Tapped about 100 trees this AM. Rain/ice pellets started around 1:30. Going to wait on the rest of the tapping until tomorrow. Would have waited another week based on the forcast but, because my...

We have been using this same pump from Harbor freight for the last 3 years. We use it to pump 55 gallon drums into a holding tank. The tank inlet is about 10 feet above the pump, the pump takes...

Headed north in about one hour when my daughter gets out of school. Planning on cleaning the boiler, clearing trails and setting out the buckets. We are going to tap one week from today. Still lots...

Got the wood cut for next year just need to split some of the bigger pieces. Now I'm just reading MapleTrader and hoping that the whether will cooperate this year.

Is there any way to put the sugar bush into agriculture (ag) land tax instead of recreation use? If you can, is there any limiting factors such as you have to be making syrup for commercial sale and...

Got to the woods on Friday and suprised to see sap in the buckets. Collected another 110 gallons on 300 buckets. Boiled down to 4 gallons of syrup for the year. Buds are growing and with some left...

Collected today 300 taps only yielded 110 gallons of sap. Not even enough to start the fire. Won't have time to boil until Friday so HOPEFULLY it will keep. But even the if nothing runs we might...

Dad and I tapped 275 trees on drop lines this weekend. Lots of snow which will hopefully help drop the temps to freezing faster on the upcoming warm weather. Some trees were already starting to drip...

http://mapletrader.org/ I bought two off of Ebay for $25.00 a piece. One was for 0-10% BRIX. And the other was for finished syrup. They are not high quality but they work just fine. The 0 -10%...