Big_Eddy, $300 a cord for firewood....holy liftin. Is that a full cord or a face cord cut, dried, split, delivered and stacked for you? I go in with some friends on a load of log length wood and we do all the work, but at $1000 for approx 22 cord wood (12 for them, 10 for me) it still doesn't come anywhere near $300. And there is enough deadfall around that I can buck up for kindling.
Slowly fixing my sap with distilled....oh jeez I'm such a bad person, my syrup's not 100%....*eyeroll* and it's only 2 batches that are getting this treatment. All the others are fine and 100% pure syrup.
Been tapping since 2008.
2018 - 17 taps/7 trees...819l sap, approx 28l syrup
2019 - 18 taps/8 trees...585l sap, 28l syrup...21:1 ratio
2020 - 18 taps/8 trees...890.04l sap...gave away about 170l, 30l snafu'd....23l total for me from approx 690l
2021 - 18 taps/8 trees...395l sap, 12 l syrup
2022 - 18 taps/8 trees....7 sugars 1 red due to #2 having surgery so had the season off....582l sap, 18.5l syrup
2023 - 18 taps/8 trees...all sugars again. 807l sap, so far approx 14l syrup