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Boiled down another 40+ gallons of frozen sap on Saturday, (4/7). I pulled my taps and buckets on Friday. Had to bring the buckets into the house overnight to thaw out a little bit. My evaporation...

I agree with prarietapper, blower from a clothes dryer is the way to go. This is my second year using the one I got for free from my local appliance dealer out of a used clothes dryer. We love free...

I boiled another 40 gallons of sap on Saturday (3/31) and had just over 1 gallon of dark syrup. Anybody else have dark syrup? It seems a few years ago I had really dark syrup but thought it had...

I boiled down 80 gallons of sap Saturday (3/24) and got 2+ gallons of dark syrup. Took about 13 hours but it was worth it. And collected another 30+ gallons of sap yesterday.

I collected over 30 gallons of sap this afternoon, that gives me a total of 60. Looks like the boils on for Saturday.

I collected 30 gallons of sap on Sunday (3/18), hopefully more to come this week. I'd like to have at least 40 gallons of sap to boil this Saturday.

I tapped 19 trees on Friday (3/9/18). I kicked a couple buckets yesterday afternoon and there wasn't much in them.

Pulled my taps and buckets last Thursday (March 16) and had a lot of ice chucks perfectly shaped like 5 gallon buckets or 2 1/2 gallon buckets. So on Saturday (March 18) I made another gallon of...

Boiled down my 80+ gallons of sap on Saturday (March 11) into 2.5 gallons of fantastic syrup. I'm guessing I have another 20 gallons still in the woods frozen in my buckets. Been in there a week...

Collected 70+ gallons yesterday. The 5 gallon buckets were either half full or running over, very good day for me. I'll be boiling this weekend!

I tapped this afternoon with some help from my daughter :D. We put in 19 taps and none of them ran but I wasn't expecting them to with the temp at about 25 degrees. But we'll be ready for tomorrow...

Another year for me is done. Collected a total of 85 gallons of sap for the season and made just over 2 gallons of syrup. Surprisingly my syrup was not as dark as it was last year, very nice color....

I collected again yesterday (3/10) got about 12 gallons, half of that came from two tress. It was 27 degrees this morning with a light frost on the ground, it should run today. Firing up the cooker...

I collected on Tuesday (3/8) and got about 15 gallons of sap, so my 50 gallon barrel is chuck full. My plan is still to boil this Friday. I'm glad for the cooler weather with no snow pack around my...

I agree with what Cedar Eater says. I'm just small timer (make about 2 gallons of syrup) but a little anal about how my syrup looks. I find the best is to filter it right off the cooker, then let...

Collected yesterday (3/7/16) from my 19 taps and had about 35 gallons sap. When I got home from work two of the buckets in my yard were tipped over and one of the buckets in woods, the hose had...

Finally got my 19 taps in on Saturday afternoon (3/5/16). Of course my yard trees were going great and the ones in the woods were doing ok. By the looks of the forecast I won't have any snow to...

Hi flyyer

Really liked your blower system. This is my 3rd year with a barrel stove and I need to get a blower on it to increase the evaporation rate. I've been a little worried about putting it...

Friday (3/27) I boiled down 40 gallons of sap and now have another gallon of sweet dark syrup. So for the year I've boiled down 80 gallons of sap and produced 2 gallons of syrup. I pulled my taps...

Wow did it run today! I collected 45 gallons of sap today off my 19 taps so now I have a total 65 gallons to boil down on Friday. A few of the 5 gallon buckets were almost full. Think this weekend...

Thanks for the tips WI Sugarpop. Anybody that has 300 taps out I'll listen to.

The kids & I collected 20 gallons of sap yesterday (3/22) off our 19 taps. I won't be boiling until Friday so my...

Thanks for the info WI Sugarpop. I did talk to a friend (and neighbor) of mine this morning and his syrup is dark also and he talked to a couple people that live close to us and there syrup is dark....

I boiled down my 40 gallons of sap yesterday (3/21) and produced a gallon of dark syrup. Anybody else have dark syrup? This is my 4th year of making maple syrup. Years 1 & 2 I had beautiful amber...

I'm with you motowbrowne, I checked my good yard trees and there might be a couple gallons. Going to leave everything in the 5 gallon buckets and hope for a better today tomorrow.

I collected 15 gallons yesterday afternoon (3/18) so I'm up to 40 gallons now. Looks like for sure I'll be boiling this weekend.