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With a garden hose!!! Lol :). if the pan gets buildup on the inside i will take the angle grinder with a metal wire wheel (same as a welder would use). This will take the gunk n carbon off and get...

19975 my boiling pan. I have an old stove top that I set the warming pots on. My friend and his son and I built the rock burning area about 8 years ago and I haven't upgraded since. Still work...

19974 I use the black plastic taps a short piece of tubing and cleaned milk jugs. Poor man setup. I hang the jugs with a long torque screw or a screw in metal hanger hook. When you have a tree or...

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I tap the in-laws property and they love the fact that we are using the land. They have 120 acres with hard maples spread randomly from one end to the other. I burn about 15 gallons of gas thru my...

Here's the best news, the temp is 30 degrees at 1030pm and clear as a bell. We might get a good run Sunday also. I hope it drops down to 25 or 26

Sorry 4 the delay, always so busy this time of year. Tapped on Thursday morning. 22 trees 19 of them had some sap flow. A few of them were running a drip every 2 seconds. 6 taps had a half gallon...

Lots of snow still and frost. I'll tap my southern exposure trees in the next few days and let y'all know if we have any flow.

My son and I gathered 10 gallons from 13 trees b4 the rain. 1 inch of rain on monday. Next weeks forecast looks promising. I will give an update for Hayward when the saps fires up again. :)

Tapped my 3 trees that start the earliest every year and each had a few drops on friday noontime. Should be running soon enough. I'll update on Sunday cause we went skiing in the UP for the...

Sap ran great today with 21 for a low this morning. Not much sap yesterday in hayward. It looks like 30 gallons today and only ten yesterday. I boiled down 50 gallons on monday and got 244 ounces...

25 gallons off of 30 trees east of HaywardThe sap is flowing good. I'm hoping it freezes Sunday and Monday nite to keep the sap rolling.

Sap is running good 25 gallons out of 30 trees it should freeze tonight so Monday the sap should be flowing good. Still a ton of snow here fell down 3x in the wet snow but I didn't spill the sap...

Hayward update. Sap definitely turned on today. The run is starting up here. Lots of slow droppers all week now most of trees had 1/2 gallon.

1/2 of the maple trees were dripping a little bit on Thursday. The weather was beautiful. Only half a gallon of sap. It's a start. Looking forward to the middle of the week when it warms up again.

1.5" - 2" is plenty deep. Enjoy The Sunshine!

I checked my test tree this afternoon (3/16/14) and low and behold it was dripping. The kids got there first taste of maple sap today they loved it. I'm going to put in 20 taps on monday morning...

Hayward update 3/13 nothing dripping out of my test tree I'm going to check the soil in the woods to see how frozen it is last year we were way behind everyone because of frost hopefully all the...

P.S. We still have 12-16" of snow in the woods and I'm still collecting with the snowmobile!!!

That's awesome!!! We are having the same problem here in Hayward 60 gallons out of 18 taps in 3 days I didn't want this much work but I'm going to enjoy it till it ends in a few days. We froze 24...

It has been slow in the Hayward area also, some of the trees dripped good on friday April 6th i have 16 taps and have collected 4 gallons total. I'm having fun in my first year of chasing sap. ...