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The way my trees are running, I'm beginning to wonder if there really is a vein and I missed it.

Dave, if you get them both on tubing with a tank at both along with one in your truck, you wouldn't have to empty buckets and bags. 330 gallon totes are available at Lexington Container Company, I...

Hi Dave, I guess I need to update my tap total to 350 after getting them all tapped. I had a forester come out under the stewardship program a few years ago. He said that someone had logged the...

After waiting most of the day for the lines to thaw, I finally fired up the vacuum pump. You could hear it running through the lines and see it pour out like a slushy pouring into the bender...

hi afretired, my runs so far were intended to flush the lines, and with my delaval 76 and a 6.5 horse horizontal shaft motor from harbor freight....they are flushed!! plenty of home made parts to...

Hi Tom, you get appx 1gal. Of sap per tap with gravity on a good days run. It takes 40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup. How are you planning to boil it? I started with 5 gallons of sap, a...

The next guy that ask me that, I'm going to look around, to make sure no one else can hear, then whisper, how do you know about ..... The V E I N ?

Hi Tom, you could wait for a harder freeze to tap. Try to tap while they are frozen, just be careful not to drive the tap in so hard they the tree splits. If they leak later, you can Seat them then....

12281 150 taps in while repairing tubing as I went (part of that two months worth of work). All of my tap holes were dry even after the temp reached 40•. Vaccum manifold assembly after supper!

Is it just me or do other folks have two months of work to do by tomorrow?

Postal management, couldn't manage an ant farm! You don't have 1 manager for 20 employees unless you only have 20 employees. The board of directors are large mailers who are destroying the service so...

OK....TetraPak requires special equipment. My next piece of special equipment will be a hydraulic splitter. How do you bet sap to 275* (uht pasteurization) without making hard crack candy? Ignorance...

ive been reading about this for a while. I bought a quart at trader joes for $4, now im gonna get a sap hydrometer and see what sugar content they packaged it at. I want to be consistent when I do it...

im gonna try this with black walnuts even though its very difficult to get large pieces of nutmeat because the shells are so hard. I will definitely make some candy though!

It looks like Thursday March 5th was our last freeze here in southern Kentucky and I suppose it will run dry till next year. Last boil tomorrow. Good luck y'all!

Plenty of freezing and thawing in Scottsville Ky. One freezing night, a week of thawing, 4 days of freezing etc., etc. 8" of snow so far today and it may be Thursday before it thaws again. Can't wait...

Started out with 3 leaks in the flue pan, but they sugared over pretty quick. My wife is stilling hospital in Louisville and they want to transfer her to Vanderbilt because they can do more for...

Hi tre guy. Most of my trees are over 20' dia and a good third of them are over 25'. I'm trying to tap all of them. I just started today, I've been delayed due to my wife's illness so I wasn't quite...

Hey treeguy, Dr. Perkins said that tapping when the tree is frozen will reduce the bacteria and that's how the big producers can tap so many. My tapping has been delayed due to weather and my wife...

the extended forecast changed so i decided to tap on january 1 and i can take care of some minor details like the string of lights on the sugarshack trail....just one of the never ending somethings.

I'm tapping Sunday! The extended forcast for southern Kentucky looks great all the way to February. I was hoping for a freeze Saturday night for Sunday tapping but I can't wait. Gonna try to squeez...

ill be tapping this sunday, dec 28. next week's forecast looks like a great start for the season. im adding around 100 taps this year, hoping to get 350 on vacuum. good luck treeguy!

you know where i need to be but ive been tending to my wife in the hospital, lots of fluid retention..... Doctors wont let me tap her legs even though i point out that they havent had much success in...

I've got some pictures on my page, I can't figure out how to share them easily. I framed around ribs of plywood an laid 2x4's down the length. I lined it with roofing steel, the ends are advantec...

I got buddy sap now so that's done. Now I've just added a finishing room to the shack and need to finish the concentrate in the 40x12', on last years 2'x4' homemade rig.