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    Wink if it was up to you and mother nature...

    would any of you make syrup year round? i dont think id be able to. id be so run down lol.
    pine grove sugarhouse
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    too much stuff to worry about

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    i would. but if you could do it year round, you wouldnt be trying to save as much usable sap because you know you can do it year round, so if you get tired just let the trees run on the ground for a week and then start back up after that, when time and energy permit. so basicaly you dont have to boil everything like in the spring cause its always avaliable, in the spring there is only so long the sap runs, we have to rush and boil long and save as much as posable.
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    only 16 yr old at school making syrup!

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    If you could do it year round syrup wouldnt be worth anything. That is the only problem that I see.
    Thad

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    maple sunday every sunday would be ruff.
    2 1/2 x 10 with steam away leader drop flue inferno arch.
    550 in gravity

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    Boil enough in spring then tinker around tweeking stuff and adding this &that the rest of the year without worrying about ajob!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thats what i would call living the dream,oooh yaaaaaaa!!!!!!!

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    im usually a good people person... but i thnk with that many open houses id turn into something grumpy. ok so maybe it wouldnt be that great for some people lol
    pine grove sugarhouse
    600 taps
    16x24 sugarhouse. not even close to finished...
    4x10 leader drop flue
    too much stuff to worry about

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    Two months would be enough------ couldn't cut enough wood

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    Sounds to me like your describing dairy farming. Not to many guys running out to buy bigger dairy equipment because they "just love it" and can't get enough!

    Just saying...
    Hawkins Sugar House
    Sunapee, NH
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