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She sang at my place. Sunday I could see the trees budding and the last batch was off flavor so I had to dump it. As we all know the weather just wasn't with some of us. Sugar Houses in the higher...

Just filter them out, that is what I do.

Collected 400 gal last week, boiled it off last weekend and ended up with 5 gal of syrup.

I have been using a kitchen timer for years. I would like to share a true story about how I came up with a new T-shirt. A couple years age my wife and I were boiling. It was a real nice day and she...

I put in my lines Friday and it was running ok. I let the first run go to ground to flush the line. Buckets are going up today. Other than the mid week storm (which I think will help stabilize the...

I am holding off from early tapping this year. In the past, I ended up with frozen buckets, lines and my holding tanks frozen. I think it will come around by the end of the month. If not well less I...

That is so awesome. That should be donated to a Maple museum. What a nice looking job.

I would like to see it start to cool down. Need to get some frost in the ground and some snow. Finishing up my lines this weekend and finish putting wood in the sugar house.

Bascom run this weekend to get supplies for next season. Wood is all split and ready. Replacing more buckets with tubing. It will be here before you know it.

Finally today it ran good. Buckets are dripping the way I like to see them to do, and the tubing is a steady stream. If I could get the next two weeks like today I would be able to fill my orders...

I have read a couple of posts that mention sugar %. At the first of the year I was only getting 1 to 1.5%. Last night when I collected I checked the %. I thought my refractometer was out of...

I am with you. Bring it on!!!

Thank you Karen for this information. I have noticed a differance already.

I checked again last night still about the same sugar %. But looks like I am not alone on this one. I will go with the coment from abbott that the trees need to get there cycle back in shape. Tough...

Has anyone checked the sugar content on there sap? I checked some off one of my tubing runs and it was 1%. I will need to check a few buckets. Just dosen't sound right.

I am all in, sugar house cleaned and set up, did a test boil yesterday with water to make sure things are good. Only one leak to repair and now waiting for the run to start. I am hoping to sweeten...

I might start next weekend myself. I will try to get the tubing in anyway. the buckets might be later depending on the weather. Where I work all week the weekends is the only time I got.

Last year I tapped first of March and it turned off cold for 5 weeks and the holes dried up. I am going to be patient this year. Good weather will come. Like most, I work all week so the only chance...

I tap them. I have more reds than sugar. I have seen some reds at 3.5% and as low as 1%. I would tap them. The only thing is that they bud earlier than sugar, but if you are on buckets no problem.

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I set it aside and when the weather gets warm, I add it to my holding tanks to keep the sap cold.

My stack is close to the coupla also. The first couple of years the smoke would come into the coupla during a down draft. I added another length of pipe and problem solved. I don't have any issue...

I was almost all cleaned up when I had a detachet retina again so things were put on hold. All I had left to do was flush out some lines, but that wii need to wait till fall now.

Pulled everything lase week also. Made 15 gal. Also half of last years total.

I tried to keep the tap as straight as I could. It was just my aluminum 7/16 taps. I went around and gave them a little tap so not to split the tree. All my 5/16 tubing taps were fine. Thanks for the...