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Good to see you are doing well. We will try to stop up and see you on Sunday during maple weekend. Lee

We got a late start as i had a pinch nerve that kept from starting when i wanted. Thanks to my neighbor Barry and children we were able to tap 93 of our best trees. They collected and hauled it to...

Here in southern NH it feels like we had 3 different seasons. We get going and then it stops for a week. We have worked hard for our sap this year. Hoping for a nice couple of days. Good luck Lee

I wasn't clear I have a barometric damper on my flue pipe. I had to put a baffle to slow the flue gases down to the flue pipe. Oil fired is different than wood, because it heats with radiant heat....

Brad, hope you have enough sap for maple weekend. Your sugar house is very popular. I will know later in the week if we have extra sap. If we do I can bring it up to you. We have a French exchange...

Collected some sap today going to turn the ro on tomorrow. Took the finish pan off and put new insulation down. Maybe Monday night we can get back in the game. Been a week since our last boil....

HI Dale, keep an eye on your stack temperature. I had to make and adjust my baffle which lowered my stack temperature and increased my boil rate. I built a rear fired evaporator also. Nice job on...

We use two 30 gallon drums on our cargo carrier. We cut a hole the size of a 5 gallon bucket and use the gamma covers from HD. I put hooks on the top of the barrel and strap them onto the carrier....

I found an old fan they use in restaurants in the junk yard for 10.00. It has been working for 6 years now. If you have one around you. Good luck. Lee

We have sap in the bags and some coming from are shurflo vacuum. It is like starting a new season. No sap in either pan and not enough to start the ro. Next week we may have a few days. Then cold...

I feel like it is a new season. It has been so long since we had sap. Hope we can knock it out of the park this week. Lee

Good afternoon Chris, are you still alive? You Haven't posted in awhile. Hope your season is going well. Lee

Seems like we only get sap during the week and none on the weekends. We are working hard this year. Hope you guys are doing well. Lee

Looks like tomorrow we will put the bags back on the trees. I was hoping to wash down the holding tanks. Still cold in southern NH. Next week looks good for a few days. This hobby is becoming ...

My son drew up a plan in his engineering class.16067 This is not our design we perfected it through the years. Hope this helps. I like the drawing so much i framed it and put it in the sugarshack....

We been donating syrup for years. When groups are doing pancake breakfast we make up a bunch of small bottles and people will pay extra for the real stuff. My wife every year does a maple basket and...

No sap since Thursday. Boiled every drop we had. We emptied the flue pan and put water in it made 6 gallons. The kids removed all the bags off the trees. It is nice they can drive. The old red wagon...

My sugarmakers mentor Chris from Morningstar farm uses a drywall sanding block. I would finish the season batch boiling. Make sure who you hire to weld is experienced in welding thin stainless or...

I boiled for years on 3/4 stone in my Sugarshack. Pouring a concrete floor with strategically placed drains with a nice slope toward the garage door was the best addition I ever did in my...

Starting to wonder if we ever will un thaw here in Southern NH. I thought we would warm up today. We haven't fully tapped yet. Maybe later in the week. Keep the faith. Lee

In southern NH we have had one good run. Good luck to all of you.Lee

We have bags of sap sickles on most of our trees. Hopefully they thaw out before the trees let go. The Sugarshack is clean and ready to go. Looks like we should have a good week in southern NH.

The 3rd day we are watching our taps frozen solid. What a week we made over 6 gallons of medium amber. Then the freeze happened. We were able to flush the ro out and clean our holding tanks. Looks...

We have been using these for years. in the plumbing section they sell test caps for 25 cents glue them on the top no bugs no rain..

Chris, Barry ordered a diaphragm pump going to experiment with it this week. By the way you lost more sap in one tank than we will collect all year.lol keep us in the loop when you are boiling. ...