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hey maple king...u coulda brought that sap up to me and id have boiled it into 50 gallons of syrup, if u have too much

cant help u personally danno ....my only woods with CV's is a first year woods also. It is my best running woods this year but cant say its because of the adapters. I have heard the neighbors are...

turned on the vac this m orning at about 930...wind is very cold but temps about 35. sap came in surprisingly good. expecting about 3/4 a gallon per tap in the tank by morn. neither woods ran much...

i also had no breakage on the CV's but i have heard of some. ive heard some having problems with sawdust binding or pluggging the ball...and some valves getting damaged and sucking th ball into the...

turned on vac this morning but froze so heavy that doubt ill get much. sun is warm though...

glad to hear good things about the CV adapters. i have them on my new woods is all, so i cant say one way or the other. they'll be everywhere next year.

i agree...dont pull yet. If u have vacuum, keep the pumps running. Especially the last couple years, the buyers will take anything. Last year we made fancy last boil but it had an off taste...he...

should finish tapping the last thousand tomorrow....i know i'm behind. ive made a third crop outta the first tapped woods already though. sugar seems same as last year. been running alrite but...

disappointed in myself....wanted to tap monday but talked myself out of it. now im behind...got about 2500 tapped, 5500 to go. they're running good. glad we got that last 6-8 inches of snow....not...

might start tapping tomorrow also, but not sure. have 8000 to tap so cant wait too long but weather reports is holding at about 32-34 for near future. have one more day of setting up my new woods...

whose buying bulk for $3? i might be interested in selling some to pay my bills...would like to hold onto the bulk of it but gotta pay the man...Leader in this case. Tim

My father had copper pans when i was in high school. i remember we had just bought a brand new 6x10' leader back pan the year before we burnt out in 95'. we actuall tried digging it up this past...

We also used to use bleach water but the squirrels liked it. We now use an organic cleaner called LOC, but I'm open to suggestions also. Its seems no matter what there are always chew spots as well...

i have a Leader vacuum pump with a 13 hp gas motor. i want to convert to electric by way of a 5 hp motor. i have the 5 hp motor...now i need a generator big enough to run the pump and some other...

power is 1000 feet away. i agree with you, break down risk is there. you see i go through my uncles land to get to ours...so theres no road or anything...yet. im just brainstormin...the best...

thats Brad Gilliland from Leader. he's who helped me flag my woods before i started building my system. Flagging is the first step. Get one of those sight levels to mark your mainlines. they say...

oh and the Verona meetings are excellant. stop in a see us if you go, we'll be one of the Leader dealers.;)

ive built my own system of 2000 taps and a few for others. the biggest thing is tension. if your using vacuum, act like your not. maintain your slope and tension on everything. wire on your...

the generator will run all the time to ensure the thermostat starts the pump when it warms up...its not so I dont have to walk back there. it helps with that a little but i'll still be back there...

once i start the generator in the beginning of the season it will run straight through. the thermostat will start the pump when necessary. this way i will have power all the time to run things such...

the main reason is so i can install a thermostat....my pump is 20 miles away and 1200 feet off the road...I'm makin too many trips up there to first start the pump, then haul sap

it sounds like you guys say the waste oil thing is out for my diesel generator. but how about vegetable oil? someone told me today i need a whole filtering system that heats and add chemicals. i...

i'm new at this waste oil idea, but definately intriqued. i'm going to switch my vacuum pump over to electric through a generator. does anyone know if i can run my generator off waste oil, and what...

i have a 3500 chevy. i have a 300 gallon tank on the truck and 3 275 gallon tanks on my trailer...thats a load. we have had a 450 gallon truck tank in the past on a 1500. it worked but we were...

yah this year is suckin bad. no freeze in sight on the ten day forecast. ive got 35% of my sap i had last year. and last year wasn't that great. my sugar is still higher than it was all of last...