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What area in NY are you going? In Western NY there is Wendel's in Springville or Sprague's in Postville who are dealers. Both places would definitely be worth seeing. Sprague's have a...

Congrats on getting back into sugaring! Once its in your blood you its all you think about! I have a 4x12 raised flu evaporator oil fired built by AA. I love it, works real well for us. I had Nelson...

Finally started to run better this afternoon. Drizzled a little overnight plus today for a little over a 1/2 gpt. Was hoping for more but its better than nothing. Made about 30 gal of dark. Which...

When Nelson was in Ulysses Pa he made our custom 4x12 pans with lead free solder. We are very happy with the performance and craftsmanship. We actually had him build several tanks and a 2x4 finish...

4200 gallons of sap yesterday is a new one day high for us. Looks like a couple more days of runs before the cool down.

I did see the prices came down .30 cents from last year. Very disappointing!

Finished the sweet on our finish evaporator on Sunday. Ended up right at 675 gallons. It was the most we have ever made by over 200 gallons. We did add 360 taps this year so that did add probably...

It's been a weird ending to the season. We have had a lot of perfect weather the last two weeks but not much sap. Our main bush that has vacuum pretty much quit march 18. I replaced 850 drop lines...

Finally got some sap on a weekend, even if they were small runs! SSC is holding at 1.5 sap is clear and we are making a great tasting amber. Should have a decent run tomorrow ahead of some snow. We...

Ran through the night and we had about 2000 gal at 10 am with another 1000 through the day, down to 1.5ssc. ROed it to 12 boiled 2hrs 15 mins and made 52 gal. Color came back to Amber. Hoping we...

I'm not a fan of chemicals so we simply pull the tap and let them hang and drain for a week or so. We then come back and cut off the clear disposable tap and insert the tubing on the pin. Since we...

Not much here again today. 51 sunny and a cool breeze. Was hoping for a decent run. On a good note we did get one porcupine today. It had been on a tear chewing our tubing up. My son and I spent the...

Little bit of everything today except sap! Sunny in the morning then sleet then snow and then rain. Was really hoping the rain would get it going. What did drizzle in was really cloudy so we dumped...

Not a drop of sap today. It was 45 but with a cold breeze. Another weekend without a run. Forecast has changed to a bit cooler this week so not sure if we will get much.

On Friday we passed last years total produced. Next weeks forecast is looking like we could add to it. Shaping up to be a nice season.

Still plugging on here. We had a little less than a gallon per tap yesterday and about a half gallon per tap today. That ended up 44 gallons yesterday and 22 gallons of syrup today. We had been...

Its 55 degrees here but windy. Not much running though. My son and I went fixing leaks and got us up to 26 inches. I guess we aren't going to get a weekend run again this year. I just looked at my...

Not one drop of sap yesterday. It got up to 42 but it sure didn't feel like it. But that did give me time to get things cleaned up in the sugarhouse. It was the first time we have had the front pan...

Sap didn't really start running good till 4. It just got too cold last night. We had 17 this morning. It's not supposed to be quite as cold tonight so tomorrow the sap should start running earlier....

We have had a busy 3 days here. We are at 160 gallons of really nice golden so far. We should have more but we are only at 18 inches of vac. Usually are around 25 inches. I haven't had time to go...

We tapped all but 200 over the weekend. Now we have been working in the sugar house getting stuff cleaned up and put back together. Looks like we should be busy next week.

We get a bear tag with our deer license in NY. Unfortunately no one got any of them as far as I know.

Been busy working on replacing drop lines since christmas. Its been nice working in the woods with the lack of snow but its still a pain replacing drops. There's no fast way to do it. I sure hope it...

End of the year numbers for us. First boil Feb.18 , last boil Mar 22. We ended up with 424 gallons of syrup from 2100 taps. Was disappointed we didn't hit at least 500 gal. We never had a big run...

So far this year has been a major disappointment as far as how much the sap has flowed. We have had some perfect weather and just minimal sap flow. Is that because the ground in the woods is still...