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So, unreturned beer kegs are illegal to keep. They are the property of the brewery. The deposit on a keg is typically $30 that doesn’t mean you have bought that keg. That is a deposit saying that you...

Really starting to thaw out and run this afternoon here. Weird thing happened, I had a leak on a saddle fitting and the sap around that fitting was frozen solid and leaking out around the fitting...

Never got above 34 degrees yesterday at my place. Had just enough sap run to freeze in the releaser. Thanks for all the advice on r/o rinsing. I ended up getting some soft water from my neighbor....

.....seems as though this thread has gone way off topic.....

Just finished tapping in Fairfax. And hooked up new vacuum and ran several hundred feet of vacuum and pump line into woods. It’s been...

Thanks,
I figured as much. But wanted to get someone's opinion before I started calling around.

Does anyone know if a hood from say, CDL, would fit and work just fine on a leader evaporator?
I have a leader 2x6 with patriot raised flue pans. And the price of the leader hood is real high...

Palmer 4th,
So far so good. the battery needs to be swapped out on days like today, the temps have been above freezing for over 36 hours with little sun. so I have a second battery that I do swap...

So I have just finished setting up my guzzler pump in the woods. I have a 12v dc version, It is about 15 minutes from my house so I also have added a 100w solar panel and a thermostat switch. It is...

I too have about 25 of them on 3/4" and it went smoothly as far as installation, and I have walked the lines during the small sap flows and so far so good.
Today is our first 45 and sunny day so I...

so after reading all of this, the trees do experience wind chill. everyone agrees that the trees thawing is affected by wind, so they are affected by windchill.

Northern Vermont, I have 300 taps only collected about 175 gallons of sap so far this year. But I know people with bigger sugarbushes in more northern VT that have not got a drop of sap yet. good...

Not to disagree with you, I know you have forgotten more about maple trees than I will ever know. than why is it when the air temperature is above 40 with high winds the sap doesn't run? and all the...

I boiled the other night until about 2am, I may or may not have finished a 12 pack of beer by the time I was done. When I finished I shoveled, what I thought was enough snow into the evaporator to...

I am in the same boat. 30 or so gallons of sap frozen in my tank in the sugar woods. I will have to find a way to get the sap out of there when and if the sap ever does run again. I tapped my trees...

Yah I have 300 on gravity and got around .25gal/tap both yesterday and Saturday, was able to finish a little over a gallon of golden last night. and have around 30 gallons from the pans that I will...

60 taps in jericho and 240 in westford, only about 10 gallons from my 60 taps in jericho, didnt even check my westford tank today. 40 degrees and 30 mph winds in jericho today

probably only 20 gallons of sap total today from over 300 trees. it didnt start until this afternoon and was very slow. weather in Jericho was sunny and 42.

Youre right, sap started seeping down the lines this afternoon. hoping things will pick up throughout the next couple days so I can boil this weekend. we'll see.

Tapped all my trees a few days ago, sugarbush in Westford with 250 taps and 50 in Jericho. no sap yet. hoping tomorrow brings me some sap to my new sugarhouse. I'll let you know. it's calling for...

Tapped sugarbushes in Westford and Jericho yesterday, got to 35 degrees today but only for an hour no sap. hoping tomorrows 40 degree temperatures produce some sap..

Yeah, I got nothing.. they are and were fine on my computer when I uploaded them. Then somehow they are sideways on this page. Sorry--

I built this sugar house over the last few months with the help of pictures on this site, so I figured I would post a few pictures to help out other people that are trying to build one also. I am not...