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Ha, thanks. I tried to replace the picture that ended up as a thumbnail? My oldest fell asleep as my youngest and I finished the syrup and was half sleeping when we took that picture. I wanted to put...

One of my 3 trees, the one i tapped first about 5 weeks ago shut down. Hole healed up, no doubt. Only have two other trees tapped, one was tapped two weeks ago and is filling/overflowing a 5 gallon...

Awesome. Thanks Dennis

I think I read somewhere that if your bucket of sap has ice in it, you can pull the ice out and just pitch it because it will either be just pure water or there won't be much sugar at all in the ice....

Yeah, Dennis, doing ok with sap i guess on only 3 taps right now. One tree is pumping it out, the other two are slower going. But for the time and podunk operation i have, 20-30 gallons is a good...

Cooked tonight, got about 20 gallons of sap down to around 3 gallons and next thing i know, im in the middle of a mini blizzard and had to shut it down. Grrrrrrrrr......

Got about a gallon each from 2 of the trees and a half gallon from the newly tapped tree this morning. Was hoping for a little more, but was only about 36 hours since last collection. Will probably...

Holy Sap!!! Checked the 3 trees at the ground on Sunday morning, only had a gallon and a half total maybe after 5 days. Went up tonight and two of the three buckets were full, one was overflowed. The...

Went to ground this morning. Only about a gallon from 3 trees since tuesday. Pretty big bummer. Two buckets were clear, one was a lil yellow. Will go up friday after some good looking temps this week...

If the wind is outta the south and they make it thru chambersburg to my work in green village, i will pick em up for ya!

Good luck plutoman!!

Just getting ready to leave ground now. It got into the 60s tuesday, i collected a lil over a gallon from 3 taps, 2 old and 1 new tuesday afternoon after less than a day of putting buckets back out....

Did some rabbit hunting this afternoon up at the ground, collected from the 3 buckets, got a little over a gallon of nice clear sap. Couple warm days coming up, but temps look great for quite a few...

Daggum. Pulled my buckets last week cuz of the weather, was gonna be done. Then you guys inspired me to put them back out with the upcoming weather. Hurry up tonight and we get our two buckets back...

The buds on the silver Maples I was tapping were popping the beginning of the week. I can't speak for other maples, but the silvers in Cumberland County are popped.

I see what you did there sshirk. I stopped at walmart this morning and got both a digital and regular thermometer. So should be good to go! Thanks for the info!

Awesome, thank you for the lesson Joe. Much appreciated. I am gonna run to Wally World tomorrow and see if they have any candy thermometers. If they dont, i reckon Johnnies restaurant place should....

But my sap is boiling most of the time as im evaporating. The temp never gets to 7 degrees over boiling during the evaporating process? You guys will help me understand at some point....

Pluto, it doesn't make sense to me that i got that much syrup from that amount of sap. The 2-1/2 pints from 15-17 gallons kinda made sense, but the amount of stuff i still have from last nights 12ish...

Well, our first season is over I believe. My trees close to home are silvers and buds are popping. We only got about 10 or so gallons out of those 4 taps anyways and 2 of the gallons I had to pitch...

I cooked tonight and it got late on me because the wi dy conditions slowed down my evaporating. I have about a half gallon or so of stuff that is close to being ready to finish, but not quite. Do i...

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Guessin this isnt a good thing??

Dennis, it seems like a dark color to me. I think i got some "niter" or whatever its called. Its sitting on the counter cooling down and i can see some lighter stuff in there, not necessarily...

Well, not sure if we did good or not. The finished product was just a touch over or right at 2-1/2 pints of super sweet syrup, but more vanilla tasting to me than maple. Not sure if once it cools the...

Thanks for the replies!

Chris, i had just added new sap to both pans, so it stopped the boiling. I was using my fryer thermometer, caertainly may be off. When up to temp, it boils fairly good....