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I am getting the itch to start tapping but I'm afraid if we start to early we'll miss out on the rest of the season even though the last 2 weeks have had perfect temps for sugaring

we just got a hydrometer for the sap and the buddy sap was just at 2%, we did a lot of boiling this year went through a little over a cord of wood. The trees we tap are in Newton, I don't have any...

we are pulling the rest of the buckets this weekend, well bucket man is pulling the buckets. the buds are getting big and the last batch of syrup has a distinct bitter taste to it, all in all our...

At least we are not the only ones with low sugar, I think I may buy a sap hydrometer for next year, right now I am waiting to see how our second boil goes

anyone feel like there is a low sugar content this year I don't have a hydrometer to test sap but it feels like we are boiling more sap this year and making less syrup almost 100 gallons to make 1.75...

I planted 2 last spring along with 8 other trees and the only tree to die was one of the sweet sap maples, before it died all the leaves started to turn brown so I called the company I got it from...

St Lawrence Nursery has them they are silver maples about 20 each

40 glad to hear you were able to pass the pan on we are tapping this afternoon can't wait to start boiling, just went outside I have the fever bad

40 is anything flowing yet I hope to get our taps in this week, were you able to use that pan or was it too warped

that makes two of us hoping for better temps last year we doubled our buckets to a whooping 20 and made less syrup that the last 2 years, I know we are huge operation

I don't know if this is the right place for this but, what are your thoughts on how all this snow is going to affect sap flows

about 2 months ago there was someone in VT advertising copper pans with pictures on craigslist now I wish I saved the email address

Sean did you use Parlee Lumber in Littleton?

its because I was ready to go at the start of the season!! if I was still running around like a chicken with its head cut off we would be getting great runs as we speak, it feels like ever year I...

its 930 pm and if my eyes aren't playing tricks on me I think I see frost on my grass

we have had little to no sap flow in the last two days, I have been foaming at the mouth to start boiling big runs this year, I hope next week is the start of a some great runs, we made about 1.5...

thanks for the info, 3rd Gen do you have a picture of your filter set up? I am filtering into a stainless milk jug with a pot cover over it to hold in the heat

I'm looking for suggestions on how to get the syrup out of my filters after I use them, I am using cone filters I have a wool filter and 2 pre filters when I was done filtering tonight the filters...

made about 3/4 gallon of syrup today, nice light color too

I have 35 gallons of sap so far, in the morning I am going to start my first boil of the season

we set out about 8 taps and we are getting 7 gallons a day we are going to put out the rest of the taps about 8 more this weekend its been in the high 30s here

we started yesterday and all the taps were flowing hopefully we will do our first boil Thursday

we got about 6 gallons last night hoping for our fist boil Thursday or Saturday

have you started boiling yet

Well do tell how many taps did you put out? and about how much sap did you get from each tap, did they flow today?