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    well, the good news is the vendor is willing to ship me a new pan...thought I was going to have a fight on my hands....

    Sam. I'll get in touch with you early next week about a pickup... I have to go to maine tomorrow and then have a ton of sap to boil on sunday....

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    Sap has been slow since Monday. Still had about 120 gallons af sap to boil today. I ran out of pallets before I ran out of sap, but got a solid 2 gallons of syrup out of the 90 or so gallons I boiled. The new arch is not perfect, but probably runs about 12-15 GPH with flat pans.

    Sam

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    It looks liek we had a little run yesterday, but things have been slow overall for about a week. Is anyone seeing some decent runs?

    First batch came out nice and I am anxious to get some more sap in the tanks for another boil. If it ios fast and furious I will boil midweek. If it takes all week to get 150 gallons of sap I will wait unill Sunday.

    Sam

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    sam, I drew a few gallons yesterday, so the rate has slowed way down with the weather....the weekend long range forecast looks better

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    I tapped 10 more trees yetsreday to bring me up to 32 taps. Some of these trees were is a swampy area that always runs early. They were dripping right away from the time I placed the taps. Collected about 20 gallons of sap from the existing taps. Finished the day by filtering and bottling the syrup from Sunday's boil. I missed the two gallon mark by one 1/2 pint jar.

    All in all not a bad few hours of sugaring.

    sam

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    I can't tell if I have a run today, my buckets are under 14 inches of snow
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    I would go and check them. I checked a few on the way in the door and they were half full or more. Tomorrow is going to be a big run and Sunday should be a 100 gallon plus boil. I haven't checked sugar yet, but if it holds up I could be looking at 5 gallons finished by Sunday afternoon. That would be pretty cool for 30 taps and my new home brew arch.

    Sam

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    Now I'm tired. Just broke trail to all my taps through a solid foot of snow. Then I buried my sap tanks in a huge pile of snow that should last through at least a week of warmish temps. I'm thinking that wrapping them in a reflective blanket might also be a good idea.

    Sam

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    are anyone's trees budding?
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    I haven't seen any buds yet, but I also have not looked.

    Boiled off about 90 or so gallons yesterday and have about 2 more gallons ready to be filtered and bottled.

    sam

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