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Thank you for proving it's not Biden's fault Tim. That comment about it in the post above- person should be banned from site. This is no place for politics like this.

I put a blower on mine. leaf blower into 3/4" pipes underneath the grate. cut the wood to about 2-3" pieces worked best for me. Needs to be smaller than a fist size.

She just bought the house in 22. -so she's fairly new. It was a rental before that for 11 yrs. That owner didn't have any issue.

Everyone-For me, with only 12 buckets and a heavy heart to make syrup to give it away for free...I have too much to protect. It makes more sense for me to just shutdown. As for water supply-I'm on...

Well, unfortunately I was right. The syrup tastes like cleaning chemicals. I spit it out immediately. I have to assume all my buckets have been compromised-sap containers-everything. It doesn't...

The fresh smell of maple syrup in the making.
Have a good season everyone. Boil away!
Starcat in action-took 11 minutes to come to a light boil and 15 to heavy boil. Love this little guy.

Thank you all who have perfectly valid ideas. I took the long route and spoke to each and every neighbor again on my route yesterday. No one but her had issues with me putting up buckets/collecting...

Well, this is a first for me. I just walked my buckets around the neighborhood and found 4 of my buckets were down and then one bucket had pee in it. These buckets were not on their property of who...

tested sap is 6.7% combined with 8 trees. Tapping the rest tomorrow am. 27 gal collected this morning. Sap is running better about 12' up the trees. I have taps at ground level and 12' high.

I knew it was running because the birds had done the testing for me. The tree was soaked from multiple bird taps.

Just did 50 taps and all are flowing in Randolph Vt.

I plan on tapping next warm spell after middle of Feb.

Please stay on the board and check in during sugar seasons. Your knowledge is very much appreciated.

As a Vermont small backyarder-I'm worried about this winter weather. Will it be cold enough for a good sap run. Correct me if I'm wrong but the permafrost was only 3" here in Randolph. That's...

Just a heads up on this topic. I found myself fighting for a faster flow rate. I used 4x 150gpd ro membranes in series. It was super duper slow. I then cut it in half basically. 2 in series x...

VT sugaring suffered this year as brix dropped fast and days were few.
In CT they had a 3 month season. A record year across the boards.
I did burn my pan slightly on my last boil-foamed up so bad...

My brix is 1.1... I've pulled the plug for my season. Here's to the last boil-Raises shot glass with syrup.

I have some pretty dark syrup in the buckets. I'll be mixing that with the regular to try to save the flavor. Probably will boil today. Hopefully the wind has died down.

@ Tim... yikes. That could be a very expensive power issue. Have you thought about some tesla powerwalls to stop that from happening? Might make sense in a big operation.

I had the smokylake brix hydro for sap-broke on first use. No I didn't misuse it. The glass was so thin it cracked on temp change when I tested the cold sap. I bought a refracto which is a god...

I plan on storing them in my membrane housings. My ports are 1/4". Are there plugs to do this? I haven't seen any.
If that doesn't work I'll use 3" pvc and just cap it off and seal it with...

looking at the weather-it looks like the last week of sugaring.
Looking forward to gardening, flyfishing, golf, but I have to get this done first.
I want to thank everyone for their help on this...

I'm fighting sand like crazy with filters everywhere in mid vermont. Anyone else seeing this this year?
I can pour about 1 gal of syrup before I need to change the filter out then let it settle. ...

Has anyone tried to make mead (same recipe but use maple syrup)?
I was thinking of trying this but I have no idea what the outcome might be.
I plan on some of my end of season sap to concentrate it...

make that syrup Tim. I just make excellent waffle syrup yesterday and finished this morning. I tend to label my syrup by taste. If it tastes slightly carmel-I say pancakes... if robust-waffles- if...