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Washed up for another year.

Old sugarmaker told me every sugar maker will burn a pan. Still sucks, sorry.

Everything here is still covered in snow from last week. BTW, sap ran pretty good yesterday, boiling right now.

I don't blame you Ian, it is hard to boil and entertain visitors at the same time. Happened to a friend of mine, early morning visitors, started talking and he forgot to open the sap inlet line, big...

just south of ST. Andrews .Ian only do it as hobby, not 2000 like you. Might check your place out sometime, do you open for public?

sorry the only way I could post a pic was with a new thread, I am old and not that smart. Korey has great team, Clyde and cross Clyde.

My son went down to the swamp with the horses on Sunday and cut me a bunch small dry dead elms, I split them small and have a couple cords ready for the next run. Been shut 18238down here for a week...

even my matches won't work when out there.

Looks good. Yesterday we had a lot of snow in the buckets, even with lids, hard to strain it into the drum. Sugar content this year seems low, I don't have the hydrometer for sap, just syrup.
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You will not be sorry you built it. My evaporator is over to one side, gives me space for other stuff, like the tractor and loader in the winter and my bee hives in the summer. Also table and radial...

I made some birch syrup a few years ago, takes forever to boil down, 120 to 1. Don't care about the taste of it, tastes like old fashioned candy kisses. Won't do it again, but got it off the bucket...

It happens. Even to me this spring when the front leg of the evaporator slipped down putting it off level, didn't see it, but did smell it. Just scraped it with a razor scraper. Don't be too hard on...

For sure, I am burnt out but not complaining.

and the smell of burnt pan,oops. Didn't lose too much but still a lot of work.

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Well I spent the day washing buckets, pails and all the other stuff. Next is the pans and put all that other stuff away. Very big job, but I used the evaporator to heat up the water, so endless...

Three weeks, $50. in gas for the tractor, snow up to my waist to tap, 5 fourtyfive gallon drums of sap, 20 hours of boiling, a cord or two of wood and I have 12 litres of syrup. I love this hobby....

Same as me Kyle, I keep saying tomorrow, but..... I havn't tapped for two years and I am sorry I did this year. But not likely as sorry as the people around me that listen to me bitch and complain...

It has to come up sooner or later, problem is can't handle too much at once. My bush is very open 401 runs beside so lots of wind. Some bushes are protected with evergreens, perfect.

Perfect conditions here today for a run, but a strong N/W wind stopped that.

I wonder how long you can can keep an orlon bag filter before it gets funky. Had mine for a few years, never use soap but hot water only. What kind of soap or cleaner would work with no taste, seems...

Just be careful about the pallets. I used some a few years ago and they gave off a smell , could taste in the syrup. Checked into it, some pallets coming from China etc. are treated with...

Seeing how you girls ganged up on me, I will say I am sorry and I can't take much pain. No sap again today, all the right conditions but a raw east wind. In 2012 I had all my buckets and stuff washed...

When I was dating my wife, she was 16, she just couldn't get it. I kept trying but never did she learn. That was only 40 years ago, should I give up? Hey guess what? -11 last night, sun is coming...

Galena, you mean a teenage girl learning to drive standard? Useless.