Northwest PA

[Dave Y]

It sounds Like all of you fellas in the NW have called it a season. I am debating on wheter or not to collect this next run. Last week I collected close to 2000 gal of sap and made 53 gal of syrup. 15 light, 10gal med, 25gal dark and 8 gal B. total of 88 for the season.I boiled for 72hrs this past week. With27 hr boil on sat and sunday. I am going to retire the old grimm as I literaly boiled the guts out of it. I am working on getting an other rig for next year.

Chris, your 210 tank was a real blessing as it alowed for more sap to be colected at once and was easy to unload with my little 12v pump.

Brian, that canner I got off of you worked out very well also. it doubled as a finisher. I finished my syrup as it came off the evaporator. I would like to thank you all for you advise. Hope everyone has a good season selling the fruits of your labor. Take care

[Sugarmaker]

Dave, You had a great year! Now to marketing all this syrup!

Jake your note reminded me that I met a sugarmaker yesterday at the car wash cleaning his equipnment. Looked like a half pint pan and small preheater and a 50 callon leg tank. He was looking for some more buckets, and methods to clean pans, so when I get to talk to him again I will suggest the trader web site to him also.
Chris