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i'm in south eastern Ct, Voluntown ,, its"s 50 degrees at 5am ,it's gonna rain and get windy today/tonight 50 /mph wind,according to tv weather ,then one day/night in 20/30's is that it ??? ...

i didn't do very well today

here in Voluntown Ct. 120 dropline/buckets in ,only 2 gallons of syrup on the shelf wondering what you all think this up=coming warmtemp will do ..warm day no freeze nights.last year this pushed out...

hey,good luck,i,m hoping the same for some flo ,had early flo couple weeks ago , just came in from brushing snow off dropline bucket covers and checking tubing,

over here in S E Ct put in 40 more drop line/bucket today wet drilling for every tap,nice ,i'l finish with the rest tap/bucket tomorrow,

got the sugar shack all cleaned up ,got wood stove boiler cleaned up,new pipe this year, R O new elements . i use drop lines and 5 gallon buckets to clean up tomorrow

thank god for the hard freeze ,i was able to tap couple dozen trees ,w/drop lines several running right away ,got the shack cleaned up ,gotta getsome new stove pipe and flush the r o

you might be right ,i'm thinking the same , but i still have mud back in the bush ,makes everything harder to do

did we have winter yet ,,, whos tapping around here .new london area,,

hey ,just saw your post,,, kinda funny we're pulling taps here in Connecticut , hope you do well ,we have nights in the 40's and days in the 50/60's

yup ,that's the plan ,start pulling gear in the rain saturday lol. tv said thunderstorm later on

not sure if i should just pull the taps or not ,more than a week of warm weather,i'm in voluntown ,rain saturday , what are you all doing

i.m in Voluntown . doing the same thing ,collecting one more time sometime this week ,pulling tap /n /buckets ,wash and put away on the weekend,while boiling........then it's on to the boat i.m...

hi i'm in the same boat 150 tap ,dropline to 5 gal bucket ........ i center a 100 gallon collection container that ,that area's buckets gets dumped into .that gets pumped to shack sap container...

check out you tube videos ,on the topic ,good visual aid

that happened to me w/one barrel i got a cow water barrel heater ,set it on top,took 2 days to melt ,,its an aluminum ring heater w/ cord you plug in ,

thanks for the info ,,,,,,,,

hi i saw your post ,i just finished making and used once a vacuum filter ,from stock pots stacked , the orlon cone was horrible... anyway the flat orlon polyester filter material came in today...

the other day i saved half a barrel of ice ,melted it w/cow water bucket warmer and checked it ,,,30 gallons,,, w,sap hydrometer to find just over ,,0,, % ,i do drop lines to buckets,mostly silver...

thanks for all the feedback

got about 20 gallons left of post R.O concentrate left to evap ,,gonna get it close and chill it for next boil ,,

90 gallons 1 1/2 % sap ,several full 5 gallon buckets , all going through R O overnight , recirculating concentrate

100 gal of sap for 1 1/2 gallon syrup ,luv my RO

100 gallons of sap put through RO gave me 40 gallons of concentrate to evaporate down to four gallons to finish off filtering along the way several times at transfers and then again into the bottler...

hey ,good luck ,,keep it fun