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Getting ready in Polk County, post reports of run/no run with these temps the next few days please

Plan to Tap just south of HWY 8 on Wed night in Polk County. Snow pack has came down quite a bit, hopeful to get in with the fourwheeler if possible. I see bags out on several trees in the area,...

Do you have air to your fire? Best thing I ever did was add a blower. I also learned that too much wood is not best in my cooker, there is a sweet spot as far as how much wood to add in my stove to...

collected MOnday....nothing since in polk county

10 day forecast does not look good, hopefully this isn't it for the sugar season.

anybody tapping in polk county yet?

boiled down about 200 gallons this weekend and finished off a previous batch. Up to about 6 gallons finished at this point with a few gallons to finish off in the fridge. We will see what happens...

Things have really turned on in Polk County since Saturday for almost everyone I have talked too. Next few days should continue to run well.

boiled down 35 gallons of sap today, didn't want it to sit in storage on a 70 degree day. Drained about 2.5 gallons of sweet from the pan and put it in the fridge. Crossing my fingers for next week.

I was washing all my buckets and lids when a buddy called me up in Polk county and said his taps were dripping. I finished up my washing and went straight to the woods with 40 taps, buckets and my...

Final Tally for 2014....13 gallons.....season over

sitting in my garage boiling down my last 6 gallons of sweet in year 2. Cleaned 40 plus buckets yesterday and all storage.

Had a great run on my taps on the north facing banks today, no signs of buds popping and still some snow here and there on the slope. I think the sap gods are giving me another week.

First boil of the season today and ended up with 6.25 gallons of some very very very dark syrup. Tasted good. Some of the sap had been sitting in storage barrels for a week packed in snow. I'm...

in polk county tonight half of my trees might be done. The southern exposure trees with no snow around them appear to be done, however, everything on the north side of a down slope with snow around...

I am a little nervous with the upcoming weather forecast that this could be a short short season.

70+ gallons off of 40 taps since friday night....running out of storage

The flood gates opened up on the back 40. Collected about 50 gallons today off of 25 taps. Got stuck a few times in the wet snow.

Putting the finishing touches on a new build for a 3x5 arch. Was thinking of putting door on the side of the firebox rather than the front. My firebox is wider than deeper so it would be a little...

I have the same question. I have a 3x5 flat pan. We are in process of building the arch. I have a 2x3 fire box and then a 3 foot run under the rest of the pan to the stack. I plan to have 4...

Went out to put in a few more test taps and they were dripping pretty good so we put upped our total to 15 taps in trees. Looks like next wed will be the start of the season. I expect to put out...

Anybody having any action in Northwest Wisconsin?

I tapped one test tree in Polk County last night just to see what was happening. I had shoveled the snow away from this tree a few days earlier and it is in an area with lots of sun exposure.. It...

I made a return trip to the sugar bush today. My path from yesterday was hard as a rock. Did lots of shoveling and used the mountain machine to widen the trail a little. I feel better today than...

I borrowed a friends mountain snowmobile to take the 1/2 mile journey back to my primary sugar bush. I was hoping to get a trail packed down so that I could haul sap with my junkie old snowmobile. ...