We've collected 500 gallons this week. Saturday and Sunday are shaping up to produce another 300. We will end up having a record year after last years record year of 40 gallons. It's been a...
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We've collected 500 gallons this week. Saturday and Sunday are shaping up to produce another 300. We will end up having a record year after last years record year of 40 gallons. It's been a...
We are up to 20 gallons for the season. We used our Deer Run RO for the first time and absolutely loved it. It was nice to not have to cook for 14 hours. We got 6 inches of heavy wet snow that...
The sap finally started running in McGregor. 200 gallons over the last 2 days. Now I'm hoping that it doesn't freeze solid in the Bulk tank before we can cook on Saturday. It's supposed to be...
First year running an RO. We have A Deere Run 125 gas powered RO. Saturday we are going to be cooking down 250 gallons. The temperature Saturday morning is supposed to be 5 above and maybe climb to...
We collected 320 gallons the last 2 days. The sap is pouring out of the lines as we put things away. Its been a great season. 45 gallons, it was our best year ever. Its seriously time to consider...
We are at 34 gallons for the season. We have enough wood for 350 gallons of sap, which shouldn't be a problem collecting this week. This will be our best year ever.
We have 750 gallons of sap to cook down tonight and tomorrow (20+ hours). It's been a great year and we will probably run out of wood before the sap quits running.
I'm in the process of cooking down 400 gallons. The niter has been minimal so far. Next week looks great and then I'm ready to be done.
Well we went out to tap this morning and forgot the drill bit at the sugar shack. Then on the third tap the bit snapped off in the tree, so we had to run to the hardware store for a new bit. We...
I was hoping to wait until the weekend of the 23rd to start tapping, but looking at the forecast we will be getting thing underway Sunday.
What works to keep the deer from chewing on the tubing in your sugar bush? They are chewing through the lines between trees. Has anyone experimented with spraying fox or coyote spent around there...
Actually maples have a very shallow root system.
I went out to the sugarbush and tried to drive a stake into the ground. Didn't even make it one inch. I'm guessing that most of our sap we collected, which was only 275 gallons on 160 taps was...
After collecting 180 gallons over the last few days, today was horrible, even with a prime freeze/thaw. I think there's still to much frost in the ground. The metro trees are letting loose but...
We have only fired the evaporator one time this season on March 24th to cook down a measly 100 gallons. This week it might run a few days but it's looking like another big snow for the weekend. ...
Being a former home brewer I still use Starr San to clean all my maple stuff. I flushed out my 3/16th after the season and only had two small mold spots in almost 5000 ft.
We cooked down 100 gallons yesterday so the pans are sweetened . There's still a ton of snow in the woods with more on the way tomorrow. The extended forcast keeps trending colder so it maybe 2...
Do you have 6 lines of 25 each or 6 lines with 25 total? If it's only 25 total you won't have enough sap to fill each line. We have at least 20 taps on each line and they work great. It could...
I think we will be able to wait until at least March 10th to start tapping.
We got 22 gallons. The thing that mad it a bad year was that the sap only ran 4 days. The year before we made 35 gallons and ran out of wood after one week.
If you tap all 350 with 3/16th you will be overwhelmed by sap. 2 years ago we did 60 on 3/16th and 200 on bags and barely kept up with a 2x6. Last year we did 165 on 3/16th and were fine but had a...
The sap ran the best of the season today. Probably 200 gallons to cook in the morning. Cooked a little down on the stove and it still tastes amazing. We will pull taps on Sunday.
I start at the top of each line. I tried going from the bottom but my pump didn't have enough power. I used some cleaner I got at the home brew store. It's a powder that when mixed with hot water...
Things are finally running good. 200 gallons in the last 36 hours. We're going until the sap stops!
What is the fewest number of days that you have had sap run in a season? We tapped 160 trees on February 25th. We had one run on March 4th of 150 gallons. The second run of 150 was on March 22nd. ...