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I’ve been playing with this sugaring hobby (addiction if you ask my wife) for 6 years and I’m finally starting to ignore that first urge to tap. It seems like every year we get what looks like the...

Al, Not sure if you are getting snow like us tonight but those event tents don’t have a very good snow load rating to them haha. I may be speaking from experience

I’m in eastern Ontario. The trees in south edge my bush along the roadway are producing well in the sun, while the trees 500’ into the bush to the north have barely produced anything yet, and I’ve...

The weather forecast is a double-edged knife....I’m glad because I’m not ready, however it fuels my procrastination of gettting everything ready haha.

I will have a decision to make. because this was built as a temporary shelter, i built it in the most convenient spot for me to build it and boil now rather than the ideal spot i would like a wood...

Looks great to me...it’s considered a work in progress rather than redneck haha. @maple flats, I used a 10x10 pop up last year for a day. Turns out they are not rated for much of a snow load. Now...

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Last year was our first season trying our hand in the syrup hobby and we got hooked. A year of procrastination on building a wood shed/ sugar shack followed. While having a few...

Cost is really the only pro to dirt. I myself just do this as a hobby, I don’t make any profit and don’t plan on it. I do my bottling in my house or garage. I want to build a 16x12 sugarhouse to...

Lol, tweegs reading that makes me ponder too.... might just start collecting it for future endeavours

I am located near long sault/cornwall. Sap seems to be running decent, best day I’ve had is 75 gal off +/- 60 taps. I have been able to boil off everything until this weekend. I still have about 60g...

All great suggestions. I do have 5gallon food grade pails here I was Leary of pouring 219 degree liquid into plastic. Jbelany i will go to our local restaraunt and have them set me aside a few large...

Rookie boiler learning as I go... I finished +/- 2 gallons of syrup last night. I didn’t have a storage container large enough so I drew off into a clean aluminum sap bucket. Is there any issue with...