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I never ran out of permeate inseason. I've only ever needed to supplement my permeate as I first get ready fror the season. Then I draw municiple water, which in my case is from a large open...

I have one property line that a neighbor planted in reds and sugars back about 1978-1984. Most of those trees are now tapable, the soil was fairly furtle but I don't think they ever fertilized those...

Silvers grow faster than reds but5 I'm not familiar with Autumn blaze, it's likely a type of Japanese maple, but that's only a guess. I have no idea on growing speed
I will comment, that silver...

Either high fence or a 5' high protective cage around each treel Otherwise the deer will chew all of the buds off, eventually killing a majority of the trees.
A few years back I saw a writeup about...

Growing out of control for sure. I started in earnest back in 2003 (however when the kids were young, back in the 80's we did tap 7-9 taps 3 different years) I started with 27 taps in late Jan, 2003,...

You say some areas are wet, those areas might be best planted to silver maples, but if 2' or more above where there is normally standing water after a heavy rain, or in the spring reds usually do...

I don't know about Mass, but in NYS ag and markets does check at times. In my 20+ years my syrup as far as I know was only tested one time. I do sell at one store, it's possible an inspector has...

Yes, it looked like they were looking for a disaster. I hope when he finally gave it a hard hick that it didn't hit drop flues.
Back when I bought my 3x8 raised flue the previous owner had thrown a...

I tried, but A&A doesn't do oil fired and A&A has a considerably lower price that converting it will still be a few $1000 under what the ones who do sell oil fired charge. Besides, I've even made...

If the deer can reach the trees, they will eat the buds. Sometimes that kills a tree, but if protected usually not. You say southern Quebec, are you close to Vt of NH?

Based on my experience on Sugars, reds and silvers I'd encourage you to plant mostly reds, maybe some sugars on drier land. Silvers seem to yield the least sap unless you have good vacuum. On decent...

The video that come up in the above link shows me that not everyone believes in splitting their wood to wrist size. on my 3x8 I never put a log like that in my arch, all but 1 piece was wrist size,...

I only recall that as rt 220 turned about 90 degrees right, acroass a wide but shallow river, we went straight. At the end of that road we turned Rt then a ways later about a 45 degree left onto a...

That question might best be directed at Tom. Send Bascom an email and explain the seminar you attended at request him to answer this question. I't possible it can be dual purposed, as long as the...

Steve, I'm sorry for the long story. We didn't get caught up with those high speed cars nor the police chasing them. I don't know the results, but the one car we saw in the median was on it's roof,...

I'm sure there is some data available, but my thoughts are that most producers on the smaller end are not very likely to tell anyone how many taps they have, as the size of an operation gets larger I...

That's all more than I had. I have a display of old taps, all look to be cast steel or caste iron. some have patent dates of 1888 and othewr dates around that time, others have no info on them. I got...

As I cut down on the number of taps, I sold my 3x8 wood fired evaporator and I bought a new 2x6 evaporator. I got it made by A&A Metal shop in Monterey, Va. I just picked it up this past Wednesday....

BAP, I'm still waiting to learn how you clean the 3/16 lines so you don't get any plugged tees. Please educate us all, it could make the use of 3/16 laterals far more adventacious for many. There are...

DMF, do you get any plugging in your tees? I'll give my method, to compare, however I got some plugging and then I started changing the Tees every year, (2 yrs change them, the 3rd year whole new...

BAP, I've never said I know everything, in fact I've made sure to only comment on things I've had experience with, or I open my comments saying I'm just guessing. But, I'll stick with my opinion to...

Before I started changing tees every season, I had as I recall about 3 tees plug, out of about 150 taps. Since I use 3/16 x 3/16 x 5/16 tees, the blockage stopped at a 3/16 fitting, that closed off...

You've been lucky then, I still won't chance it at $.34 a tee, it's cheap insurance in my book and the time is during the fall cleanup before the weather starts getting cold. I final rinse with...

BAP If you make that statement you have little or no experience using 3/16 lateral lines. I have about 8 years using it, if you try to use the same tees from year to year, it will bite you hard,...

Cornell has a tubing notebook, it will help you answer every question you have about using tubing, it's not cheap, but it's worth every penny.