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I boiled down 150 gallons last night which took me 10 1/2 hours without RO

We're done. Mark pulled the taps the other day. I cooked down 130 gallons of sap in 9 hours today. This was my first and last cooking of the season; I hurt my foot last Fall and have been forced to...

I built my outfit over twenty years ago and it worked really good. I went to the Roth Sugar Bush and measured a commerical one, and reduced the measurements down to what I wanted. I built it from an...

Could you explain with pictures of how you Float works? Are you using the tank nearest the chimney for a pre-heater?

Thanks, I'll try that.

I tried making candy a couple of years ago, I bought molds, cooked, cooled and stirred and after a few tries got the batch into the molds before it hardened, but then tasting them they had a rubber...

We save enough cloudy sap to fill our cooker to the brim and then in July we drain it and that Stainless Steel is totally clean, no scrubbing, just hose it out.:cool:

When my father-in-law was alive he would always say he wished he lived by Mille Lacs lake because the trees were really sweet like 25 to 1, are you in that area? He lived NW of Barnum and it was 45...

I was wondering if the indicator paper had slipped down too, but the lines on the two papers are still 1/4 farther apart when they should be equal. I suppose the pat answer is to blame it on the...

We are done for the season. Collected 100 gallons yesterday, should be done with cooking and bottling in another couple of hours. 31 gallons of syrup from 1550 gallons of sap, about 325 taps on Soft...

I have two Hydrometers, one for use in the Sugar Shack and the other in the house for finishing and bottling. The other day I took it off at 31 and the next day in the house with it just after ...

We are done, I finished cooking at 11:30 a.m. Monday, boiled off 1300 gallons. Still have to bottle about 8 gallons though. Total of 26 gallons; last year we made 46 gallons. Now the work begins to...

Cut up pallets today and yesterday. Have around 300 taps, collected 150 gallons today will start cooking tomorrow.

My Sapping Buddy started tapping yesterday should be done on Wednesday (300 taps) located N.E. of Brownsdale, dry so far. Snow is knee deep but on north side a LOT deeper, he's hoping some will melt...

That's the way we do it but wait until late July or August to drain it. I fill it to the brim though.

Well now that my season is over I'll introduce myself. I'm Tom and live in southern Minnesota. Started sapping about 25 years ago when I went out to my windbreak and saw a drip on a branch; tasted it...

We collected 150 gallons yesterday, I cooked a 100 gallons down today, and the other 50 gallons uncooked will go in the cooker tonight to clean it up, it will smell really nice in August when I dump...

We fill our tanks with the "Too strong to cook" sap and let it set (covered) until some time in August (when it reaks super bad) and then dump the tanks, rinse with water and they are really clean...

I have nothing to do with the Nature Center. They only do a few gallons to show the school children how it's done. I've been doing it for about 25 years, here in Austin for 2 years (Soft Maples), and...

We collected 150 gallons today, 1600 gallons so far this year. It takes 55 gallons of sap for one gallon of syrup.

We collected 350 gallons today, we're boiling now, my shift is from 11:30 tonite till 9:00 in the morning.