Good you got the bugs out of the system befor the big push!
Good luck!
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Good you got the bugs out of the system befor the big push!
Good luck!
Good luck!
Spiles are changed,most of the repairs are made, started tapping today
Ben Fisk’s woods in Lempster
2022 maple season for Salisbury Sugarworks starts today.
I have spent the winter working in an 8000 tap woods making improvements an hour away from here. We got that tight night befor last.
Well, that's the season,,,just made a barrel of off flavored, I have about 1800 gal of .4% that's going on the ground. Little less than half a crop.
Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes...
Welllll,,, Ray came yesterday with his 1986 C30 and we tag teamed 3000gal of .6%of sap which looked and smelled a little off back to the shack, I crunched it but did not like the taste,,kinda like a...
Another slow start yesterday. It did manage to run looks like 1200 or so gallons, left it in the tank.. I love that big 2850 gallon tank compared to the 1500 gal. Tank that had been there.
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Make sure you tell TTHHEERROOONNN, I don't have many hero's in my life, but, he is one of mine. I remember his first posts and what he started with. The man is the definition of stone cold hustle.
That's great to hear!
Ohh, I don't know,,there was all kinds of money available for Covid affecting my season last year,,just like with the energy efficiency grants that i looked into and turns out I could have gotten and...
Ultimatetreehugger- that's the best post I have read all season. I had to get my calculator out for that one. Awsome runs only come as a result of hard work, and sometimes they still don't come...
Hold the line!!!!!!!
NhShaun,, sounds good, keep at it if you love it....
Got the 2 tanks of 5% turned into a smaller tank of 8% and had a fantastic boil,,made some really very good B.My vending girls from the...
I was pretty tired last night and got all ready to boil the 4.5% I had but, was just not focused enough. Got another 525 gal at 6pm, started trucking at 4:30 this morning, hauled in 1300 gal of .5%....
Buddiness is not detectable in sap? Well, you are the maple doctor,,but,,many times I have tasted sap that tasted just like chewing on a fresh green maple leaf. Is that caused by something other than...
A 1992 f350 with a 7.3idi. With a 525gal. Tank. Boiling .5% are sap grants you hero status in my book. That is WANTING IT..as the great THEERROON and ROYAL MAPLE would say. How is your wood pile...
Dr Tim, wow,,I don't remember seeing any when I was there years ago, but, I was distracted by one of your co workers. I am curious, you say soft maples flowering don't make buddy sap?
Got a surprise freeze last night,,
I always go to the bitter end..much later than anyone else I know of or read on here about...and most years I make at least some buddy syrup,,Bascomes always buys a barrel of 2. Dr. Tim,,how many...
Froze last night, made 65 gal of very good B. Sugar spiked from .3% to 1%. Ran 2100 gallons in 12 hours, tank had 150 gallons in it 15 minutes ago. Still no bud taste in the sap.
Had a neck of...
How far along are your soft maple buds. Good luck with the rest of your season! Keep us posted on your sugar content
Wound up trucking 2k gal of .3% sap in, turned it into 400? Gal of 4%,, had 600 gal of 5% that I was gonna boil today but wound up fixing lots of smashed t's and pulled taps..dumped both head tanks...
I knew as soon as I posted the vac was tight it was a bad idea..18" last load..3 pulled spiles from branches...trees really rocking and rolling in this wind. I expect more damage
Tremendous winds..powers out..definatly wiring up me welder to the sugarhouse for next year. Today's sap looks like its .3%...amazingly vacuum a solid 24.5"