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Went to a farm auction the other day that had a 4000 gal milk tanker. Well I bought it for a reasonable price. We are row crop farmers as well as sugarmakers and my first thought is to use as liquid...

At the end of last season we got to the point on our last boil that we couldn't push syrup thru press. We were tired (34 boils) and our main business was heating up so we just shut down and barreled...

Adding 1200 new taps this year. All taps flow perfectly to one spot that requires we lift the sap about 18 ft to get it on grade to travel back to pumphouse and main releaser. Can anyone give me...

Not from NH but had the same question last May when we had an opportunity fall into ours laps. The bush for the most part is north facing and we worried that it wouldnt produce as well as our other...

Hows your sugar content. We are still going in northern ny at 1700 ft. Sap still clear but only 1.2 sugar. Had our last freeze sat night hope we can make it to the weekend.

We have a CDL 20 x 48 with two pumps in the bottom with 9000 taps. When things let loose we have to babysit the releaser for same issue. Its rated for 15000 taps, hate to see that rodeo when 15k let...

On monday the temp got up to 75. Even with collecting several times per day at all 3 bushes the sap was warm. When I tested for sugar the weighed average for over 10,000 gallons was 1.47. We...

Things have really let loose the last couple days. Got 1 gpt monday and tues and today got 1.25 gpt. Our new bush at 1700 ft has just got going and today ran 1.4 gpt under high vac.

I live in ny but grew up in Franklin county. Was wondering how your year is as compared to last year on a gallons of sap per tap basis. Here we have only collected about 1/3 of what we got last year....

We are on our first year with a CDL 20 in. Like you we didnt want to do the double 10 in route and be a slave to keeping presses going. So far we are really happy with our 20in. We know 3 other...

So Spud what did use this year?

Was at Leader last week to pick up a few little things and couldnt help but see a large quantity of boxes full of cv2 spouts on the floor next to check out . The boxes were all banged up, some taped...

We were looking forward to a decent run today and Sat. So far not much sap, only 800 gallons from 3900 taps on our 2 low land bushes. Seems every time we get sun its too cold to run and is cloudy on...

Trees are starting to thaw out some here. We have three bushes old , young and cold. Checked the tank at the cold bush this morning and wow 6000 gallons. Time to get the truck on the road to gather...

Mountain meadow what do the branon style saddles look like.

Spud , if we could get what you are being paid we would have never
r built a new setup this year. We built to handle expansion and at last count with all new equipment we are around $10 per tap at...

Set up a small bush a couple years ago that originally was only going to be 1200 taps. Well you know what happened, we found more trees! Was wondering how much vacuum loss there is out to the end of...

Reading posts on MT the common denominator seems to be deep snow and extremely difficult going in the woods either on foot or machine. We have had our own struggles for sure. Yesterday while working...

Thanks for your reply tcross. What town in northern vt are you from ? I went to high school in Franklin county vt and knew a few folks with same last name.

We bought a 40 ft high cube(9 ft inside) from a company called Interport out of New Jersey. Price was $1800 for the container that was paid in advance. Freight was extra depending on your location....

Thanks for all the replys my son starts physical therapy tomorrow. Hopefully the therapy will help him with his back issue. They think the attack was a pinched nerve that became severely imflamed...

This summer we were lucky enough to secure a long term lease on a large tract of land in the Adirondack mountains. We busted our tails setting this bush up this fall. The terrain is remote and...

We have an Airtech liquid ring pump. We change the oil every year using CDL oil . Was wondering if any vacuum pump oil would work just as well for 2/3 the $.

Due to the addition of 10,000 new taps this year and long term sickness of an employee, we are tapping now trying to finish up before any sap flows. My question is about attaching spouts to dropline...

Friend has old collection tank that has a very thin layer of rust on the bottom of tank. Can anyone tell me what you could paint this with that would still pass as food grade.