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Also, if you are preheating your bottles above 200 degrees, niter can form in the bottles.

You made that vice? Beautiful! I've tied a few flies in my life, but never had a vice like that (low budget).

There isn't much of a gap between the pan and the top rail when the arch is cold, but once it's been running good for a while you'll notice that gap getting larger. Look straight front to back along...

Making syrup??? Who are you trying to kid?

I am at 700 feet elevation and Sunday morning when I was finishing my last batch of syrup the boiling point of water was 208. When I hit 216 my syrup was at proper density as checked with a...

Galena
I have a five gallon bucket that I marked in gallons and quarts with a magic marker on the outside of the bucket. I use that to collect sap in. That gets me close enough for my needs.

Although it doesn't help you this year, a concrete slab under the arch is a perfect cure for that problem. I put my block arch on a slab that was already in my back yard and it was very stable. Now...

clifford555
My decision to upgrade to a "real" evaporator was based on a couple of different things. First, I wanted to speed things up a bit. Boiling all weekend long wasn't as much fun as it used...

I put in 12 taps Saturday afternoon because a friend wanted to learn how to tap. She got very excited when sap ran out of the freshly drilled holes! I've gotten about 15 gallons between Sat. and Sun....

Love the photos! The first photo in your last post is of the flowers or seed buds. Not to worry about those. The second photo is of leaf buds. When those pop, you will notice an off flavor. The leaf...

Up until this year I've used two pans on a block arch with five inch stack eight feet tall. Draws fantastic and sounds like a jet when I'm firing it hard.

Bought a new Smokey Lake StarCat evaporator to try to speed up the boiling process. I'm sure this will be a huge improvement over the cement block arch I've used for the past four years. The new pan...

Amen to that!

That's two fingers like this 👍isn't it Dr. Tim? I personally prefer Canadian whiskey!

To all traders, Please take a couple of minutes today to remember all those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice to protect our freedom to pursue those things that we enjoy doing throughout our...

I don't make enough to sell, but I give it to friends and family. My son asked me this year how long it takes to make a gallon of syrup and I figured that I would probably have to charge about $30.00...

Simple Green's odor always reminded me of black licorice!

I have had problems with those metal lids not sealing properly. The last couple of years I've used the plastic ones from CDL and have had no problems.

I put 12 taps in on Thursday evening and I've collected 41 gallons of sap so far. The rest of the week looks pretty good for sap too. I plan to boil for a couple of hours every evening this week...

I put in 12 taps on Thursday evening and I've collected 41 gallons of sap since then. Boiled for a couple of hours today. Reduced about 12 gallons down to around 4. I'm planning to boil for a while...

We'll, it's finally here! I tapped my trees today and all taps were running immediately. I hope the creek doesn't rise further than it already has or I won't be able to collect from some of my...

Too late. DC is already full of lemons!

"Old" normal? I'm not sure what you mean by that. I'm old too, but I also have a pretty short memory. Looking at the long range forecast on Accuweather, the middle of March it will be before we get...

Is anyone getting sap? I'm holding off tapping until the weather starts to look better. Last year I was tapped and sap was running by now. Ten day forecast has a couple of promising days this week,...

I have four five gallon cubes that I used once. They are the things that would've had a cardboard box that they fit in. They work great as long as the temperature doesn't go below freezing! When...