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Hoping to start tapping this week when the temps bounce back.

Tapped about 80 trees on February 21st in Brunswick. Sap was running for 3 days, but now frozen for the next week.

Installed 12 taps in 10 trees, don't have the best tree spacing, wound tubing back and forth to get to the trees. Overnight overflowed a 5 gallon bottle, replaced with a 35 gallon tank. Have about 80...

Tapped most of my trees 2/10. Got about 20 gallons 24 hours later, collected sap on 2/16 got about 35 gallons. Not flowing as much as I hoped.

In Rensselaer County just east of Troy. Put 70 taps in on February 22nd. All were flowing as soon as I hammered in the spiles. Collected about 130 gallons the following Friday through Sunday....

Still making syrup this past weekend. Got about 50 gallons of sap between last Monday 3/13 and Sunday 3/30. Had about 50 gallons in the tank from last weekend. Finished 3.8 gallons and boiled off the...

Got about 50 gallons of sap out of 60 taps last week and over the weekend. Will see if the cold nights Monday and Tuesday produce more sap this week. I guess it will be over after that. So about 12...

Starting to think about maple syrup. Looks like we are starting to have winter weather setting in. I need to start working on modifying the evaporator to take the new 2x3 pan that I bought to replace...

Pulled my taps this weekend. Had 60 gallons, but the finished syrup is really dark. Finished the year with 5.5 gallons of syrup, from 35 taps, 200 gallons of sap. Hope to expand a little next year,...

I have had 4 weekend boils this year. First 3 I got about 2 gallons of light syrup. Last one got 2 gallons of dark more flavorful syrup from 70 gallons of sap. I have been boiling on a home built oil...

I ended up with 70 gallons of sap through Sunday, ended up with 2 gallons finished syrup. Much darker than last weeks. Leaving the taps in another week.

Monday-Friday last week only had 12 gallons and another 12 Friday night to Saturday. Nothing on Sunday from 30 taps.

How about a couple of electric blankets?

Tapped trees a month ago in Brunswick, NY. Hung about 30 buckets. First weekend in March boiled off about 12 gallons, last weekend had about 40 gallons, this weekend only about 28 gallons. Hoping to...