Hey Mike, sounds like your trees are also finally awake, as are mine, thought the best producers are still in their jammies :-) Got around 15l today. FINALLY. Now I'll leave that sap jug out in the snow (aw crap now I have to go and dig a snow bunker....forgot to do that earlier) and with luck it'll freeze. If I get around another 30l by Friday night, then I'll have 3 frozen or semi-frozen sap jugs. Then get Shack Whacky ready to go and try to do the poor man's RO so I boil only the sweet.

Yeah running drop lines in deep snow could be fun esp as the snow melts/rots around the base of the trees. Maybe put the 5g pail in something fairly stable, like a milk crate so it doesn't tip over?

ETA: I have 30 plastic 5/16th spiles, used only one season. They're taking up space and I'm never going to use them again. Want them?