So far this year, I'm just cleaning the dust off the equipment and getting all the buckets, spouts and lids washed. I was given two 275 gallon food grade tanks in cages, so those got thoroughly cleaned as well. ( I know there has to be a shorter name for those things: somebody tell me for goodness sake) Temps have been above freezing here, hit and miss, but now it's below freezing and going to stay there for the majority of the next ten - fifteen days. I'm shooting for 130 taps this year - all buckets at this point, so I'm just getting gear cleaned up, equipment all in order, cutting firewood & trying to be patient...... I'm in maple mode - the weather is not. Grumble....
Oh yeah, had heard of birch and hickory syrup, but never walnut. Cool to know
Last edited by Kippster; 01-29-2018 at 08:02 PM.
1999 30 taps, mom's stove, 2 gallons of something like syrup
2000-02 30 taps, helped friends, more stove boiling, got maple addicted
2003-06 50 buckets, gathered with my horses, boiled on shares, more stove boiling, 2nd place amateur syrup @ county fair
2007-16 Worked with buddy that makes lots of syrup, got educated
2017 100 buckets, 2x6 homebuilt evaporator, propane finisher. 20 gallons
2018 115 buckets, new wood/sap wagon, two cage totes