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  1. 03-25-2012, 08:18 AM #31
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    Good luck with the run after the freeze. Most of my trees are reds which are well past the bud stage now. It's not worth dirtying everything up again to make some mersh.

    My 1st day sales were similar to yours. People that came in the afternoon said that there weren't many people at any of the places that they had stopped at. Hopefully the crowds will be out in force today. I'll be dumping a little bit of syrup for odor purposes into the evaporator today again as well. The steam from the simmering evaporator should show up better today with the clouds and cooler temps.
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    slower turnout today than yesterday. Still fun to chat up maple any chance I get.

    just washed five tanks- either I am getting a jump on end of season clean-up or getting things ready for the "second half" of the season.

    doubt it will be like this this year, but buy 3/25 last year we had made only 228 gallons. We ended up the season on April 7th with 519 gallons.

    good luck to all still at it...

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    all tanks and releasers cleaned, buckets dumped, reds pulled (10 days ago), pumps fueled, wood in woodshed, 250 gals of empty barrels...

    I'm ready for whatever comes...
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    Duck and cover! Its gonna runnnnn!
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    think we have about 1000 taps still in- and if we gathered it all, we might have 15 gallons of sap. One pump still on, one shut off for the night. Was 40 and overcast today. Plan on keeping vac on till Saturday but I am not very optimistic at this point.
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    80 gallons of woodsy smelling sap being boiled in now. Got some cold PBR, some loud country music and 1200 deg stack temps....at least I'm going out it style...
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    Eric,
    You are the MAN!!!!
    Hope the messed up season didn't hurt you too bad.
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    We are done. Had the vac running on a 250 tap bush from noon till 8pm and the releaser dumped once. Pulled all buckets and short tubing runs. Buckets washed and put away. Will pull vac bushes this week with vac on. Think we will be around 270 gallons- our worst ratio of syrup/tap yet. As a life long Red Sox fan I grew up saying "there is always next year"...

    -Eric

    p.s. Parker is still at it. His north facing, higher elevation bush in Hill is still running...He WANTS IT....
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