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We had a situation similar to Toquin last year. Early taps were slowing and burning out and we tapped thirty more taps and they gave us 2 or 3 good runs of clear sap and extended our season a week...

Pulled my taps on 2/26 and 2/28. Tapped on 2/1 and 2/3. Made 47 gallon with 220 taps so we did o.k. Had some dry taps and a couple running yellow and enough syrup so decided to give it up. Made a lot...

Never been able to make real light syrup. But it's OK. On 2/12 it got darker so on 2/13 I drained and cleaned the pans. I filtered the half cooked sap and returned it to the pans. On 2/14 I boiled...

Didn't collect yesterday. Had to go pick up a new door for the evaporator. Noticed a crack in my door so thought I better replace it before it broke in two. Got home about 5 pm and checked buckets....

Ran like wildfire today (2/4). Some of the taps were dripping almost to a steady stream. Collected 290 gallon of sap. Tested 3.0 from the first load (threw out a little ice) and 2.5 from the second...

Got 156 taps in today. Was running when the sun was out, but slowed down this afternoon when it got cloudy. Have 50 more to put in tomorrow and we'll be all tapped. Made a half barrel and pump...

Just looked at the 10 day forecast. Mid 30's for next 4or5 days, then 40's and pushing 50 for the next 5 days . I think we'll get going in the next couple days. A little early but got to go by the...

Not sure what to do. Got quite a bit of snow on the ground , but getting light rain today and yesterday.

I'm thinking the same as Toquin

Wash the monkey bread down with the syrup and whiskey. Seriously, all of the ideas sound good.Boiling the meat in the syrup sounds a little strange but if you guys do it, must be it doesn't ...

Could you just cruise the area and find other trees within a couple of miles and maybe get permission to tap. Don't let here win. She may win the battle but you win the war.

Got 12 hens. Get 10 eggs a day. Got 9 dozen in the fridge now. come on down , I'll give ya a couple dozen.

What is your Sugar Shack eats.Do you have meals in the shack? We do!! Wife will make pancakes or french toast and bring it to the shack. We have a spear in the shack for brats and hotdogs. We hard...

We are getting some dry holes and doesnt seem to flow when i think it should. Maybe just the strange year.Maybe need to retap but Im not going to. We've made 42 gallon so far from 178 taps so we're...

Tried to post this morning but it didn't work for some reason. Finished tapping Sunday morning(2-12-23), 66 taps, for a total of 178 taps. Have made 19 gallons of syrup so far. On Tuesday ( 2-14-23)...

Collected 200 gallon of sap from 112 taps. Unfortunately not quit ready to boil yet. Have about an hour more work in the shack and we,ll be boiling .Don,t usually let sap sit around but i guess 24...

put out 112 taps today, running like crazy, got about 60 more to do tomorrow , using a 2x6 leader evaporator, built a new 16 x 20 sugar shack the old 12 x16 shack was in bad shape. i'm 62 years...

Sugarmaker, I'd like to see some 3's. In the last 9 years we averaged from 2.6 to 2.9 with the exception of 2012 when we averaged 2.2. Dr. Perkins, according to our records I don't see the trend you...

Sap is testing terrible. Ours has been 2.0 to 2.2 . Talked to another producer and he said we were lucky, he hasn't had any above 2.0 . How about the rest of you guys? Same story ? On another note,...

Tapped yesterday, got done about 4pm. , 165 taps. Collected today from noon to 2pm, got 300 gallon of sap. Sugar content was only 2.2 . Good run, poor sugar. Boiled 200 gallons away, get up early...

Haven't collected yet. The tree in our yard the buckets are 3/4 full. Had 2 landowners call to tell us we had full pails at their house. Going to collect shortly, then set the pans on the arch and...

Tapped today,165 taps. Running so fast we had to put valves on some of the spiles. One tree we had to drill a vent hole, the sides of the tree was sucking in.

I've sanded my pan to get the burnt layer off

I was at Sugar Bush in Mason a couple of years ago and there was a producer there picking up his new flue pan. If I remember correctly, it was 16 feet long and 6 or 8 feet wide. That was a BIG pan.

Bloomingdale Mich Been tapping over 40 years. Tapped today and yesterday,160 taps. Sap is running. Might have enough to boil tomarrow,we'll see. Have a three year old 2x6 drop flue Leader Evaporator