Originally Posted by
Ken McGarry
Good to hear from others in my neck of the woods. I've been sugaring in Lincoln County, Tenn. near the Coldwater community since '02. I started out with six taps and boiled in a canning pot set on cinder blocks the first two years. I bought a Half Pint evaporator from Leader in '04, which I still use. I tap sugar maples exclusively and usually put out 30-40 buckets per season. This has been an unusual season, mainly because of the prolonged freezing weather in February. Normally Feb. is our peak month, but here we are in mid-March, smack in the middle of the best sap run I've seen in years.
When I look at your pic, it looks like all your sap will run out of your buckets. Maybe tubing would work better.
150 on 3/16 gravity 2018 and 120 sap sacks
14 x 20 sugar shack
2014 New custom 2x6 arch "The Firestorm" w/ preheater, AUF & AOF
Smokey Lake pans and water jacket bottler
2024 new 2x8 set of drop flue pans and hood from Smoky Lake. Lengthen our arch.
Just a hobby but seems like more work every
year
3 generations working together
Wife that guards our syrup
43.74° N