Russ, I saw that the bearing went...good timing. Do you have a backup in case something happened mid-season? After thinking about what I'd lose from not having a spare pump, I bought another LR pump I can just connect and go.

Brad, this has been something else. I got a cold during the cold spell (great timing), got over that in time for maple weekend, only to have my daughter get sick again the following week. I thought I was in the clear, but then got sick last week. I think anyone who has kids in 1st grade, should keep them quarantined somewhere else. They're a breeding factory for germs. I wasn't complaining then about the cold, and I can't taste much, so I had Lisa taste the syrup...guess it was pretty bad

Shut the pump off late yesterday, and still got 0.5gpt! They just won't stop. That sap looked really bad though. Brought it home to leave in the pans for a month or so.

Season total of 538.7 gal of syrup produced and ~34k gal of sap processed. In breaking out our vac. woods, we collected almost 33gpt of sap, and produced ~450 gal of syrup...not bad out of ~830 taps...final tap count to be determined when I pull taps this weekend.