Thank you BAP, she appreciates the kind words and is doing better, but slowly. I know she enjoys having me back from being maple crazed lol. I keep checking the trees and I haven't seen them pop this...
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Thank you BAP, she appreciates the kind words and is doing better, but slowly. I know she enjoys having me back from being maple crazed lol. I keep checking the trees and I haven't seen them pop this...
I was looking yesterday afternoon and a lot of my red maples are already flowering and I'm at 1300' in elevation. We tapped 1/20 and had a huge boil the 27th. But besides last year I've never really...
Well the sad day has come that we have shut down for the season. The buds are swelling and my wife's health is not to good at the moment. She is on the mend but still not well. So we are finishing...
Sad to see you cut it short. This month has been hard. I'm going to leave the vacuum on until Wednesday then we are wrapping up the earliest we ever have
Definitely Biden's fault
If you would be interested in making some money I've got some sap that needs crunching.im only 20 minutes from you. Send me a message if interested
Thank you -Jared
I've just put a 250 watt heat bulb in a reflective hood for chickens in the arch and never had any ice form in my pans. Yeah it's a little money in electricity but it's better than having it freeze...
Glad to see you're off and running strong. What type of r.o are you using? I'm finishing the last of the 1200 gals that came in. The pump is still bringing it in at 1.40 percent on the reds and our...
The de with most certainly clog the cone filter. I tried it many moons ago and could barely get a drop through. You need the pressure to help make a layer of cake. Otherwise it will just stay...
The new rule is 88.2 divided by x ( x is your sugar content). Then minus .32 from the total of x and a quick back figure and presto . I use this formula and it's right on the money. I will be...
If it has a removable lid use a bulkhead fitting and pipe it in from the bottom. If you have bung holes just get pipe bushings and lay the barrel on its side in a cradle and pipe over to your warming...
Go to saptapapp.com that's how I found it this year
I need everyone's input here. So long story short I have a 2x6 divided pan but I wasn't able to build a wood burning arch this year. So I have built a block arch in the sugar shack with a burner with...
40-50 gph is extremely impressive from your 2x4. You should easily be able to keep up with your 100 taps this year. Now you have me looking into new pans next year. My wife is going to kill me 😂
We will definitely be upping our tap count in the future as our property is primarily maples so 100+ taps per acre is a easy feat. So yes we will be looking into the high output pan setup on the next...
Our trees are most between 15-20 inches in diameter with a few 36"+. Our thinning will be a very long process , as I'm just starting with cleaning up dead stuff now and will only thin out a few here...
I'm 90% reds with a few sugars on the roadside of our property. We have a stand of sugars behind my work we tap but every tree is new to my wife and I. We are hoping the sugars make up the difference...
Good deal randolphvt 👍
Our propane tank is coming tomorrow for the sugar shack and we plan on tapping tomorrow mid-day. Maybe we can get a boil going this weekend. What size evaporator do you have randolphvt and do you...
Awesome chiefy. My wife and I are planning on tapping Thursday morning, the next week out looks like prime weather for a run here
Keep me posted on your sugar content I'm curious about your early success
How many taps and buckets do you run randolphvt
Merry Christmas tree hugger my family and fur baby wish everyone a safe and merry Christmas and a amazing sugaring season. May the trials and contributions begin
I know I'm in the wrong thread but I have a 1/3 hp pump that I have tested to pump sap up to my sugar shack it will do about 20 gals every 3 minutes. It's over 30 ' of rise. I texted with 3/4 hose...
I recently have gotten my new smokey lake. Continues flow 2x6.( Which I absolutely love). But with my wife and I purchasing our house this spring and me building our first sugar house, we haven't had...