Everything has definately stopped running
need some cold nights soon
Everything has definately stopped running
need some cold nights soon
Homemade arch, 2x4 Wesfab pan
2009 Polaris XP 550, 2002 Polaris Sportsman 700
Leyland 272 Syncro w/loader
a new black lab named Gracie
A wife that is very understanding about all my hobbies and loves to haul and boil sap
Im thinking Im a jinx every time I dont go back to Door its a bust year
Well at least we'll have some rainwater to boil. Yippie!
Having a "social boil" hopefully, weather permitting, Sunday! (we ain't got no shack)
Badgerland 2x6 drop flue to fire in 2015
Sugar Shack functional 2013.
Home Comfort wood cook for pancake sampling.
Hoping to grow the operation in 2017-18
Finally got last week's sap boiled down. Made just over a gallon of some really light syrup. I was surprised it was so light given that the sap was fairly old. I had kept the storage drum buried in the snowbank on the north side of my shack and it must have kept it colder than I thought it would. It tastes good, but I like the darker variety myself so this might go as gifts (aka. "bribes"). As of right now, this is the most expensive gallon of syrup I've ever bought.
Homemade 2X4 w/Flat Pan
50 taps....but always looking to expand
Mostly box elders with a scattering of red, silver, & sugar maples
Allis Chalmers C & Homemade Sap Sled
Sugaring 2011
So, is everyone putting in taps this weekend. Looks like better weather coming the week of the 13th. My bags are all ready so I'm ready to start drilling.
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
I'm waffling a bit, but I think I'm still going to put them in this weekend. We're usually all done here by early April so if I don't get them in soon I'll miss whatever little run we'll have. I might just put in a few and see how things go. I noticed that my last post in this thread shows the window in my kitchen is open on March 12. Everyone remember the 80 degree weather we had last year? Let's hope that doesn't happen again.
Homemade 2X4 w/Flat Pan
50 taps....but always looking to expand
Mostly box elders with a scattering of red, silver, & sugar maples
Allis Chalmers C & Homemade Sap Sled
Sugarpop, keep yer pants awn! There will be plenty of time to gather your Metric TONS of sap! Ha!
We were gonna tap this Sunday, but chasing lids and buckets for "sapcicles",......I'm gonna wait.
BTW,.............got an 8" stack on the "vapenator 2010"! Gonna really let'er rip this year!
Badgerland 2x6 drop flue to fire in 2015
Sugar Shack functional 2013.
Home Comfort wood cook for pancake sampling.
Hoping to grow the operation in 2017-18
No, bring some over.
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
We put our 140 taps in today. By the time we got done, the first ones we did had 3" in. I guess the season has started for us.
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
My oldest son and i put out 40 today all on reds. The SAP was running most of the day. I have another 30 reds to tap then onto the sugars. Can't wait for the first boil on my new rig in my new shack. Should ne a lotof fun.
2010 - 15 Taps and an open fire made 2.5 gallons
2011 - New 14X10 sugar shack, 125 taps
homemade 2x4 oil drum evap with a Wegner Metal Works pan
three wonderful sap haulers (kids) and a wife that's very understanding
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