Sent the kids out in the woods yesterday to pull spouts. They should be done today for sure. Sunday we are planting apple trees. The kids are home all week for school vacation and it seems to be working out well for me. This year I tapped a few less trees (5950) but still got 2400 gallons of syrup for a total. The CV2 spouts worked great. I never had a single spout plug up all season. We are not completely done pulling spouts (but over half way) and only had 4-5 tips break off. My sap runs this year were larger then they have ever been but just not as many because March was a poor month with only 3 runs. I don't see myself using anything but the CV2s in the future. Another great thing about using them was the kids were able to put the new CVs on the drops during Christmas vacation (6 weeks before tapping). This made tapping faster for me. We are hoping to set the new woods up for next season and have 2-3000 more taps. Only time will tell on that.

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