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21 gallons of syrup from 4 weekends, 80 taps, all tubing.

Not bad. Keeping the sap from spoiling until I can get to it next weekend is becoming my biggest challenge.

Huge, about 1 gal/sap/day each day. I’m at 1/2 the syrup I made last year and I’m still not fully tapped, and its early February ?!? 2%.

Running well for me too! I do not expect to be able to fire the evaporator until this weekend, hopefully this sap does not spoil.

The weather on Sunday was just too dreary, hoping to tap later this week or this weekend.

Any discussion of this crazy warm weather?

Need to hear from SugarBear, the oracle when it comes to tapping date… IMHO.

I also have a 2x4 XL and would like to upgrade.

Options include a used Small Brothers, a new Leader Vermonter raised flue pan, or Bill's raised flue.

Any suggestions or hindsight?

A unique volcanic eruption seems to be a major source of the anomaly:

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/03/1115378385/tonga-volcano-stratosphere-water-warming

"But yes, I am curious too to see who is still there and who has quit. My money is on the sugar maples still being there."

I pulled out when my wife detected a bitter aftertaste. In hindsight I...

Syrup I made yesterday had a slight bitter aftertaste. I could not detect it, but it was rejected by qc (wife)

Is this season over?

Or is this a result of cloudy sap?

One of the locations I tap has a 100' run-out over thorns and swamp with very little slope below a 200' hill. I tap on top of the hill, then run the 3/16 to a tank near the road after the run-out. ...

I’m in. Had the Mason going all weekend.

Gosh I hope so, made 2.8 gal this weekend on 45 taps. Drilled in the remaining 50.
What great weather, 40s, dry, really nice.

2.3 gal per tap yesterday.

After 20 hours, about 1/2 gallon per tap at 1.9%.

Forecast is good: highs of low 40s, lows in the upper 20s for the next week.

I'm 50% tapped.

Forecast shows high's of 40s and lows in the 20s.

And I busted my tapping bit, bad sign.

We look forward to your detailed report!

I sent a request to SugarBear to weigh in.

Yesterday I dug my Mason out, I’m like an “hour” from being ready.

Maybe in a week, in part because my day job will interfere with my hobbies this week.

Gotta see if Sugar Bear comments, he seems to have taped on the right date for decades.

So tempting: sunny, highs in the upper 40s, lows in the 20s. No snow. Other than the date seems perfect.

That's wicked!

On line at least it looks like SML is sold out for this year. Thinking I'll look for a used pan and if I don't find one place an order in the spring for next winter ?!!?
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50 gph on the SML 2x4 ? !

Seems the SML 2x4 hybrid should be close to a drop in for my current flat pan.

I am debating upgrading from a flat divided pan to a flue/syrup pan for our wood burning Mason 2x4 XL.

With a blower we evaporate at 17.5 gph, without the blower around 8 gph.

We draw off...

I mildly burned a batch. (Float too low). Has a strong caramel flavor. Any way way to rescue it?

I let two 55 gal polybarrels fill with sap and freeze.

I suspect it could be July till it melts. Any suggestions?