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Very good analogies. Ohhhh there's so much more to a maple tree than people realize.

I just wish they didnt plug up as much. Why not a larger ball and seat for it maybe in the elbow not near the...

A visibly clean drop can have or does have same microbal load as a filthy black one? I guess at the end of the season everything from the tree to the releaser is equally contaminated.

Too bad...

All done in poultney vt ...2000 gallons if sap at .9% just isnt exciting! Weird seeing snow and being done. Unfortunately the trees have nothing left. With this cold weather and no freeze the trees...

How do standards spouts block off the newest wood rings when vacuum can travel across the tree both horizontal and vertically? That vacuum can't travel a half an inch from the end of the tap to the...

I don't know I think I would be concerned about taps heaving. It's actually one of the issues I find with check valves is that they have a lot more than any other spouts. Very rarely do I have a CDL...

I have been using these check valves on and off for 10 years. When I first use them I doubted them but after a couple years I realized that my main lines were not adequate and potential ice jams...

Air leaks will introduce bacteria. I find that drop lines where a spout was leaky for a couple days those are the drop lines that get filthy. I believe the reason why you see it closer to the...

They are all expandable. The 7.5 hp pressure pump will serve 4 membranes, with a booster pump added

Absolutely! Ive done just that. All you need is a vessel and a recirc pump. Very simple to do. Probably looking at around 4000

Yes we had pretty much perfect weather for 5 weeks. Tapped in by Feb 10th and boiled the 12th. We usually start off slow but this year it was full bore right off the bat. I think anything over...

No tropical weather this spring thank God, I was waiting for it. Greenes or mahar? Lots of producers big and small in the area. Although you used to see a lot more sap tanks in the back of trucks...

We finished up boiling out the pans yesterday, two freezing nights coming but it's pretty well over down here. Definitely was a good year for the lower elevations. We finished out with 3090 gallons,...

Funny what a thousand or two feet in elevation can do. One of our hardest runs yesterday at about 37 degrees

Well I think we're on our last day or two here. Sugar is horrible around .8. hard to stop when sap is crystal clear, syrup tastes phenomenal, sapflows are good and there's snow on northern facing...

Why does the sugar drop? All the carbs are gone or the tress just don't convert as many carbs to sugar? Weather not cold enough?

Wish we had some sugar in our sap, down to1.0. but making some great tasting almost Amber syrup. Next week will probably do it for us here in the lower elevations. We're currently at a .49 so that's...

Don't overdrive the spouts is your only way to help this, and possibly tapping later in the year

We're down to 1.3 after the 2 warmer days with no freeze and marginal Thursday night. A small freeze last night forecast said 24 but I woke up to 30. Definitely a better year for us in lower...

We're down to 1.3 after the 2 warmer days with no freeze and marginal Thursday night. A small freeze last night forecast said 24 but I woke up to 30.

Out sugar hasn't tested over 1.8 all year as...

Slowed way down yesterday afternoon once sun went behind clouds. Need freezing night again! That's the problem down here in the valley we lose our freezing nights quick but they're on their way back....

Get as much in there as you can because it'll shrink down once it cools I prop my barrels up on a rock so that the bong is the high point they seal much better

It has always been by color but not the same colors.

It used to be light, amber, dark Amber, b and commercial (without looking at old sales slips from Bascom)

Now it's golden, amber, very...

Pretty quiet on here! Not too many regulars posting updates anymore.

Had a big boil yesterday about 9500 gallons of sap ended up with around 190-200 gals of amber Rich still. We may have touched...

I find my dry line works on freeze up at night, so in the morning it ices up also. I am thinking about adding a second dry line in which I leave the valves off so they cannot fill on the overnight...