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I sure do have a big niter/sand problem. Not sure why?? I keep thinking "well... this was just a bad sand year", but they all seem to be bad. I have a raised flu pan. I will go over my whole...

Thanks for the replies. When I bought my Smoky Lake setup I decided not to get the SSR. Now I realize that was a mistake, (Jim was right), as I will consistently scorch my from pan due to the...

Anyone out there with a Smoky Lake Silverplate evaporator (6'x2' flu pan, 2'x2' syrup pan), with same side reverse; how long can you run before the sugar sand overwhelms the pan causing scorching and...

I'm at just over a half a crop based on 0.25 gal./tap. I expect (hope), to get a few more runs this week.

I collected a little over a gal. per tap today. Most were running good. I could tell a few of the better runners have slowed down quite a bit though. Those were trees in the open and on south...

Yes, please keep us posted on the new taps vs, the older ones. I fear that mine will shut down soon, (tapped 3/11).

Same for just north of Tony on buckets. Not much flow for over a week now.

No electric.

Any idea how long our open, bucket taps will continue to flow this year?? I've been tapped now for 4 weeks and it feels like the season is just about to begin. No warm days yet, but I fear things...

Mpester... If the weather would stay cold, I think you'd be fine, but dang, it's gotta warm up sometime this spring. I'd plan on heading up next weekend, and if there is another week of cold temps...

Things finally seem to be getting going. I boiled twice only this season. Sugar was high though at 3.4 and 3.0 %. Pretty light too. Not quite Austin light, but close.18347

Still tapping my foot checking the watch, waiting for the sap to flow...it should be any time now. I might have enough drops in the bucket to collect tomorrow; I hope.

G. Cindy, I don't think you're missing much of anything yet. Most of my trees are doing absolutely nothing. I'm hesitant to even start up the evaporator with the 90 gallons I collected yesterday,...

Been tapped since last Sunday. Still not enough in the buckets to make a worthwhile collection. Too many single digit lows at night.

Looks like a collection for sure by Wednesday. Some buckets over half full, others only an inch today. Sap flow rate is all over the place, as expected early season.

I'm heading out to tap today as soon as I can get the kid moving! He's not as excited about it as me for some reason.

Well my test buckets from early last week are only 1/4 - 1/2 full. How's your sap flow?

Anything happening for you Brad?

Yeah, the old "you gotta want it" doesn't even work in this thread. Those numbers are crazy!

Thought I was being smart stuffing a section of kitchen paper towel down towards the bottom of the cup to cushion the hydrometer during quick transports out to the sugaring woods. One day I noticed...

My test buckets are at 1/4 - 1/3 full. Also 2.5 gal. size. Its slowly beginning to happen.

Doesn't seem possible, but if they start turning into gold, P.M. me and we can forget about all this syrup making nonsense. I've never been to Daleville.

Thermoworks makes a good, dependable, inexpensive digital probe thermometer.

Okay, I decided to hold off on tapping for now. Probably ran another inch today but was very slow when I checked this afternoon.

2 inches in my aluminum test buckets this evening. I put them on good runners too, (south side) yesterday. I think I'll start tapping tomorrow and finish Friday. I have to get the evaporator set...