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    Quote Originally Posted by fishman View Post
    RMG in Rudyard Michigan got 31,000 gallons of sap yesterday. That’s a lot of syrup.
    i assume you meant 310 gal.... my son had spring break so he stayed at camp with me for a few days... got maybe 40-50 gal of sap on some of those days... he leaves for a doc appt n i get 155 gal.... made for a a crown royal n aleve kinda night... boiled that down for 3 days n only wound up with only 5 gal of syrup even though i added another 70 gal of sap ... musta had a low sugar content... anyway that ran the total up to 13.5 gal of syrup so i pulled taps n cjeaned up... sounds like the run continued well into april but it was budding pretty good when i left for home. speaking of ro's, son says he's getting me an ro bucket for father's day... that should help....

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    no misprint on the gallons of sap. that's at least 500 gallons of syrup in a day.

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    so you collected 500 gal of sap per day for 2 months? how many taps?

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    I don't think it was him personally but they collected 31,000 gallons of sap in one day which makes about 500 gallons of syrup.
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    ah, i misread. i thought he was trolling so i was trolling back. my bad. need to slow down when i read these posts. apologies to ed.

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    RMG has a pretty big operation. I bet all the big producers had two really big days that last week and a half of season. Kind of puts it in perspective when they make as much syrup in a half hour as I do in a whole season.

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    Third year tapping, going to put in this weekend Chassell MI. I'm doing 35 buckets this year and next week looks warm though overcast.

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    Likely early/mid next week for me in Chassell as well! Do I know you GanaSugar? We gotta be close!
    All my life I wanted to make my own syrup. Now I'm livin' the dream!

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    Hey Nasion, I'm on south entry, ended up digging down to the ground today and putting all my buckets out but waiting to tap until Tuesday.

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    I ended up tapping my 35 trees yesterday in the sunshine when it was just above 30 degrees, no trees running at the time of tapping, a couple of my trees, which have been prolific producers in years past, had some sap frozen in the lines when I checked around 9pm. Hopefully 40 and sunny today I'll see which taps will be producing this week.

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