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Thanks. the trees are finally starting to color up. This is about 4 weeks later than normal. You have to love Mother Nature!!!

We have only been sugaring for about 6 years now but over those years I have noticed a few things about our trees. The most concerning to us for this year being the lack of color in the stems. We...

You could do it all without tubing tools if you are only doing a couple of runs. Bring some real hot water to the site and soak the ends before pushing onto fittings, works pretty good. Alternate...

Hey Russ, Thanks for the tour and info last season. We built up an air injection system off season and are eager to do the final setup. Time seems to slip away quickly this time of season and as...

Basically there is not a minimum flow rate however I use the xle 4040 and can tell you that with a 250 psi pump you will need to feed it about 1.7 gallons per minute or 102 gal per hour. If you...

It has been slow today and yesterday with low sugar content but we are at 9 gallons of sap per tap so far this year.

My take on budding. We have 2 trees that bud first every year and by bud I mean the buds actually open. My observation is that when these buds open there is about 4 days before the rest of the reds...

Hey Bruce, on the filtering. Next season may see a new more effective process that would work from the draw like you are doing now. Very much suited to small operators. If you can I would hold off...

Well we started the season with 375 taps in on Feb 14th and 375 gallons of sap. As of today we finished adding drops bringing our total tap count to 637. We had a good sap day today 500 gallons .78...

We pushed up the 400 taps and are all in on the 15th 525 total. 380 gallons on Friday and 275 on Saturday.

We are in Dunbarton and had 200 taps in on Monday. Friday we finished up tapping with a total count of 525 taps. 380 gallons of sap on Friday and 275 gallons today. I figure it will run again in...

We put in 110 taps on 2/12 and plan to put in 400 more on 2/23!

We tapped 16 birch trees 2 years ago and made 6 gallons of syrup. We did not find that it cleaned the pans. The syrup is NOT anything like maple. The syrup we made we "thought" ended up bad so we...

We are in Dunbarton, NH 500 taps and finished tapping 2/11/12. As of today we are about 30% (30 gallons)of our syrup expectations for the year (100 gallons).

Sorry for missing this reply. All trees are on 23" of mercury the sugars run great, the reds run good, and the silvers are much better than without vacuum but still not the best.

We tried tapping some shag barks 2 years ago and got nothing! Last year we tapped one tree 2 weeks before the maples and left it until 2 weeks after the maples were done. We ended up with a about a...

OK We finished tapping today (unless we add more lines ) with a total of 503 taps. Since the 8th we have gathered 680 gallons of sap at an averaged 1.8 sugar content. Today was a steady flow...

We tapped 106 today and will try to finish the tapping (400 or so) tomorrow. 90% of the trees we tapped today were gushers. The tapping is going slow because we are tapering the inside of all the...

Well we did do pretty good for our third season.
2009 238 taps 19 gallons of syrup
2010 270 taps 9 gallons of syrup
2011 346 taps 104 gallons of syrup approximately 6000 gallons sap.

Rick &...

We had a run 2nd week of Feb, that made some nice light amber. The next weeks run was all converted to 2 150 gallon sapburgs. The syrup from the thawed sapburgs made light syrup but with a marked...

We have a 12" press and find cleanup to be a breeze. The trick to this is to empty the unfiltered syrup through the feed hole (grey hose removed). If you drain it completely you can remove the top...

Most likely it is sodium hydroxide with or without another base. The best you could do is to add some acid to bring the ph back to the ph of regular sap. Citric acid would do the job but hcl...

I can't say much for drying out but I suspect we will all be OK. A friend who taps 13,000 started last week of January. We tapped 180 on the 16th another 100 on the 25th and another 55 over the...

Well today after the sap started to flow we installed a leak valve in the sap ladder. The results with the leak valve are good, we now have 22" upstream and the ladder is chugging away. The valve...

We have silvers, reds, and sugars. Our experance has been poor with silvers and off and on with reds however with vacuum this year they are all doing well.