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Good Season here too... finished another 12L on Saturday/Sunday, and puts us up to almost 65L on the year. I would imagine the warm weather will kill the season for my trees down south as some of...

We finished out 4th batch, from trees in Southern NB, last weekend. It was a nice amount of sap for the week, just over 600L and some more from the trees in my yard in Fredericton. I bottled have...

No I did not, but had time to finish the entire batch so I did not need to worry about it this time. Probably a big run to collect Saturday so I will likely have to leave it next week, which also...

Excellent, I have the same basic set up as the other gentleman here and I thought I was doing something wrong. Great explanation of the front pan with only one partition, makes sense.

Hey Maple Lady,

Thanks for the information. You are right, definitely not expecting cold weather for the next week in the southern part of the province where my trees are for sure. If weather...

We have completed our second boil and bottle of the season.

First on March 16th, had collected about 350L of sap and got almost 7L of syrup.

Second, March 23rd, collected about 500L of sap...

We will collect our first round on Saturday. Sounds like most folks have seen slow run's first of the week. It has to be running good today with the warm sun, wind, and general spring like feel!

We have decided to push tapping out another week to March 8th, hopefully the weather doesn't turn next week and we miss the first run but its just so cold and with the mess on the weekend I don't see...

Well, I am tired of the snow, wishing for warmer weather, and tapping no matter what March 1st. Maybe for the 1st time ever it won't be a last minute weather change and a panic trip to the lot to tap...

Has been very busy here. We have bottled nearly 90L of syrup, most recently this weekend it was very dark and so we will likely be pulling our taps this weekend also. If we keep having years like...

Hit up Princess Auto or Amazon once you put in some sap and buy a tank heater. Used for farming to keep tanks from freezing and should slowly melt the block... could take a while depending on the...

Good stuff. We had a great week too, freezing up on the weekend caused its problems and ended up boiling from 5:30am Saturday morning to Sunday morning at 3:30am trying to get the batch finished in...

Cool App. Thanks for the site info. The second batch went much better and is significantly thicker at 220, as I am used to. Makes sense too according to the site you shared as it says my temp goal is...

Yeah, a timer certainly makes sense. I’ll try it next Saturday when I boil again.

Wow, I have the exact same rig, bought last year and I love it. I however have probably only ever gotten 12-15g/h out of it... I am usually doing too many things at once and probably don’t pay...

I am working on my second batch. First batch boiled last Saturday came up to the right temperature but now seems thin in the bottle. I seem to remember my first run in previous years was a bit thin...

Good luck! It get harder as the addiction grows. I collected 500L of sap from 73 taps today with the help of my father and father in law. Now I have probably 10-15H of boiling to do. This one week...

All tapped at home and at woodlot. 90 taps in all, most ran well at home in Fredericton, lots of snow in my yard so they are slower than the woodlot tipically. We’ll head there on Saturday and see...

I bought one of them, from CDL, and broke it on the first tree with a regular Dewalt 18v drill. I am fairly "new" to this, but the metal seemed really soft. I got my next cobalt drill bit at Princess...

I have not tapped yet. Last year I tapped early and feel like nothing ran well. Could have been the year, could have been the early tap... either way family can get together March 3rd to tap, so...

Time to get this thread kicking again.

I will be tapping March 3rd, tapped early last year and everything froze up... plus its the only time family can get together to lend a hand. Almost going...

Great information. Thank you very much!

I run a small operation with a CDL Econo 1.5x6 evaporator. I was thinking of adding a blower this year just wondering if folks think there is a real benefit to this? If so, what should I be looking...

Looks like good stuff. I really like your labels and bottles. Where did you get them and what size are the bottles?

Man I love that stuff. We made our first batch this year. 1L made 3 small mason jars, mixing it by hand was a lot of work. That homemade rig looks interesting.