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It opened up a bit for me here in the Lakes Region yesterday and today. My 3/16" lines, pulling 17.5" Hg dragged in 1.25 GPT and the 5/16" sets drew around 3/4 GPT. It's still running strong now...

Weathermen AND politicians; both generally wrong and well paid for it.

Between the cold and the wind here we've been on hold for the last few days. Today and tomorrow look good here, then snow...

Russ, glad to hear the new arch rocks. It's always gratifying when we spend a bunch of money and it pays off.

Brad, you probably know of this website, but just in case you might not here's a...

Hi Russ,

Glad to hear the new arch is working well for you. I've updated a few things on my set-up as well. I took the trees at the top of the bush and switched them out to 3/16" gravity. I...

Hi Russ,
I'm limping-in with the end of the season as well, but looking like I'll end up with an average season. I boiled off what I had today in case I'm done, but I THINK I might get another...

I tapped some telephone poles a few years ago...got 3-1/2 gallon of creosote per tap.

Parker, I'm still hanging in here in Canterbury. Looking for a run today with the sun out strong and light winds. My North facing trees haven't budded yet, so no reason to quit. I think I have...

All good here Russ; no buddy issues yet. Sugar content is WAY down here though, around 1.4% average. I think the next few days will be "it" for me this season.

Doc

NHguy; you say you're by the Shakers? I'm up the road from you. I know what you man about the temps up our way. I turn off 106 at the Beanstalk, and the thermometer in the truck always drops five...

Hi Parker,
I was happily surprised at 6:00 this morning to see the temp at 24 here as well. The report that I heard yesterday was that we were only going to get down to 29 last night. I had...

Hi Russ. My woods, too are cold and North facing, so I typically run later than everybody else around me. I'm using the clear seasonal CV's exclusively this year so I THINK I'll be o.k. during...

Hi Russ. Glad to hear that things are going well for you this year. The new deal with me this year is that I'm partnering my operation with a buddy of mine down the road. He's over 80 and has a...

Go for it! I'm half tapped in, and going all-in this weekend. Good luck.

Hi Russ, good to hear form you again. Last year it was tapping in snowshoes, this year it's sneakers...MUCH nicer tapping. I tapped half mine on Sunday, got a pretty good flow, just a bit...

I tapped in half mine on Sunday, and got good sap then, and a bit yesterday. Low last night was 25 degrees, so fingers crossed for a run today. (Stuck at work today, so I won't know until...

We spend $800B/year making guns

I'm certainly "in" for my share....maybe I can up-it a couple more AR's this year.....and another 1911....maybe another .300 blk SBR.... Excellent plan!

Hey Russ, I know why I haven't seen you post today... you're drowning in sap! Wow, I've pulled half as much today as I've I pulled so far is this (weird) season. NICE change! If you're place is...

Thanks for the update on the 3/16". My bush is on a side hill; a long run but not much fall. I can only get about 15' or 20' of fall from my upper trees, and I wasn't sure if switching would be...

And if you tap the deep aquifers that take hundreds, if not thousand of years to replenish, than don't be shocked when you run out of water.

There are plenty of things that man has done to...

I love the fact that, once it started to get COLDER, they had to change the buzz-word from "global warning" to "climate change". If you agree with them you're enlightened, when you disagree you're...

Bummed here too. I checked last night at about 7:00 and was disappointed; I expected more. Almost nothing came in last night. (sigh), what 'ya 'gonna do; it is what it is. Oh, and here's another...

I recently switched from farming to art. I have just completed a three-acre, 1000 foot long 5/16" ice sculpture. I'm afraid it may be on display for a while. I've entitled it "Where's "Global...

Wow Russ, a tree fell in the woods and it DIDN'T take out a line! Whoo-hoo!

My cold woods ran a bit as well.....looks like that'll be all I get until Saturday/Sunday, then it shuts down until...

Another options is JB Weld, the quick setting kind. It sets up as hard as steel, is machineable, and seems to stick to anything....anything dry at least.

When hammers are outlawed,..... only Russ will have hammers. Better make sure they all have proper, unaltered serial numbers. DHS may be watching the Trader....:evil: