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[QUOTE=maple flats;272776]super ED, check your dates. You show 4/10, 4/11 and 11/12. I'm confused unless you meant 3/10, 3/11 and 3/12 since you posted today, 3/14. Based on the time of day you...

Good luck sapping !, ADC ,White Crow
As of 4/10 -135 taps in ( most on Ski's ) 4/11- started running on new taps set in am, but just enough frozen sap in lines to hold up the 135 run, till about...

Hi sportfreak15, Do u have any pictures of the inside ? is there fire brick all around the inside of fire box ? If so? than ,mine takes a good 2 hours to warm up the brick and really start to shake...

Seen ur post and was just wondering ??? why not rebuild it ? whats junk about it ? I'm running one that's over 30 years old . I've replaced the nozzle every year , transformer at least 4 or 5...

Wow! Rosser's Ridge ... I only got 50 in out of 500 ...not thinking it's all going to happen this year ! I'm in the tug hill area ,not really vertically challenged to bad, but I'm 6 foot and belly...

Hi Rosser's Ridge
I hear ya about the advice ,there more ways than one to skin a cat ,lol . all that I've seen made worked .Just how well ,is the point ,and having fun while u do it ! and in my...

U can buy it at a maple supply place ,or use a few drops of organic canola oil ,when needed .

Hi 12 Rubicon ,as to ur question , u maybe ok ,with just the sap in it ??? ... However if u put/leave maple sugar in a aluminum stock pot - first it will darken it ,and even corrode holes right threw...

Hi Rosser's Ridge,Just a thought ? If ur tank is round 45" (not oval )I'll call ends, by 50" long (I'll call sides)... I would agree with both u and Sean on # 3. However, maybe not in haft, maybe...

Snowshoes and shovels and a lot of sweat !and if your lucky a snowmobile and sled !
But on the other hand ...It's starting to flow again ! My lines were frozen till about 4 pm yesterday and had...

Hi miner1
An old timer, Vermont sapper, Dan ,sold me on the best cleaner for the pans ! and you can have some too ... just save a few gals., of flue pan juice (5 to 15 percent sugar sap) at the end...

Hello Asthepotthickens, Well as Ausable said "When You burn wood you have dust." But I spray down with a light mist, spray bottle of water, (only if no hot coals and cooled down !) don't want to...

Hi MaplePancakeMan
Hope all is going well ! Must be a lot warmer down/over there !I'm at the bottom edge of the tug hill area and just put in my first taps (125) on 2/27 and still got about 300...

Now, I got to get one of those goats!!! "[QUOTE=lakeview maple;204820]I put in all of them today 385 ,and a few buckets the Old Goat likes to hang up", AS I put in 125 taps & lines ,on the side of...

Chromczakc (and only one of the quarts is actual syrup-- the rest is sludgy sugar..) .....Just add more fresh sap to your sludgy sugar and boil it back down and filter ,it will be like it didn't...

Joust ,
Thinking I missed my tap date as the temps. here are looking good ! But as my luck would go I,m just getting over a really nasty stomach bug that has kept me at home and not at the shack :-(...

Joust7.1 Don't start yet (that is last years post ! you are looking at ) But I,m in Oneida county and if the weather report continues to look like the forecast I heard today, then 2/9/2013 maybe my...

along with the frogs a singing , lol. boiled up the last of it today and washed up somewhat. The silver maples are done (pulled taps), but the sugar maples and norway maples show no sign of budding...

Hi tonka, next question is how long have you had your trees taped ? maybe thay dryed up/healed and sealed for the year? This has been a bad season for maple syrup -I'm getting great light syrup! but...

That pic sure dose remind me of the good old days, with my Dad ! I still got the 55 gal stove (about 35 yrs. old now),But the G-kids love to fire it up ! And yes if u get the Maple fever ,you too...

JUST got to ask ! Are you using your sugar shack for a tax write off ? Is this grade A Amber PURE MAPLE SYRUP or even a B !!! ? I'm in Vermont visiting family at least once a month or more ,and in...

yes 35 no 5 But not fond of beer, So the Captain Morgin at the helm of the ark here ,Oh I mean arch .

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lol , think were more like enabler's: evil: smile :}

Hi Richard ,u asked "what is "splitting the bark"? I am guessing that the pressure splits the sap wood longitudinally at the top and bottom of the over driven spout." Right - Like useing the tap as...