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  1. #31
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wanabe1972 View Post
    There are a ton of fields over that way. Find a hedge row full of maples and stop and ask the owner. Most of the time they will let you run lines and leave them up from year to year. I have a friend that does this in Greenwich almost 400 taps all in hedge rows. Offer up a little syrup or offer them a little per tap. For years I've looked for places to tap and now people come to me. I have become more selective usually due to distance from me and access. My daughter just bought property a half mile from me and said I think there may be a few maples on it. Well if 45 to 50 mature sugars and reds are a few then by God she's got a few. Don't tell my wife but this is my summer project.
    Nice! Yeah, the mature maple hedgerows are way more common out in Greenwich and washington county in general - my wife is from out that way and I always drool over all the collection tanks and releasers and even a few "road hops" as I call them (the overhead sap transfer lines) that we pass on the way to my inlaws. It's funny, though, I think it's catching on as a pastime out here in Saratoga County finally.

    HIt me up if you ever need a hand setting lines up your way. I'm still learning and always interested in meeting folks who share the hobby in this area.
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    2015: 8 bucket taps (7 red, 1 sugar) on DIY barrel evaporator
    2016: 13 taps (bucket and tube) on block arch and hotel pans
    2017: SAME
    2018: 25 taps on 2x3 flat pan and resurrected barrel arch
    2019: 25 taps...same setup plus DIY 3x150gpd RO filter
    2020: 50 taps, all buckets..."new" oil tank arch setup
    2021: 100 taps (50/50 buckets/3-16 tubing) on 2x4 divided pan
    2022: 150 taps (50/100 b/t) on 2x4 pan with sap warmer pan
    2023: SAME
    2024: 150 taps, added single-post 4x40 RO system

  2. #32
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    Sugars are all running like champs, only the most sun exposed and mature reds are producing measurable sap so far this week. I've got enough collected to do my first boil on the new (to me) 2x3 flat pan on Saturday.
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    2015: 8 bucket taps (7 red, 1 sugar) on DIY barrel evaporator
    2016: 13 taps (bucket and tube) on block arch and hotel pans
    2017: SAME
    2018: 25 taps on 2x3 flat pan and resurrected barrel arch
    2019: 25 taps...same setup plus DIY 3x150gpd RO filter
    2020: 50 taps, all buckets..."new" oil tank arch setup
    2021: 100 taps (50/50 buckets/3-16 tubing) on 2x4 divided pan
    2022: 150 taps (50/100 b/t) on 2x4 pan with sap warmer pan
    2023: SAME
    2024: 150 taps, added single-post 4x40 RO system

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    Over in Washington County, Cambridge area. Boiled about 300 gallons yesterday. Friend 30 minutes south of me boiled a few hundred gallons and drew off two gallons of syrup at the end of the day. He still has a lot of sap remaining in his tanks,

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    Holeintree...
    Was that you who sent a pict of your shack to channel 13 yesterday? Bob seemed to know what he was talking about. That doesn't happen often with weathermen.
    Leader WSE 2x6 w/hoods
    12"x20" Mason Finisher
    250 taps.. Majority on tubing
    14'x20' sugarshack
    Kubota RTV900XT
    Home built Auto Drawoff
    Leader MicRO 2 RO
    www.mallardpondmaple.com

  5. #35
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    Default Arch is up!

    Assembled this year's block arch today - took advantage of some leftover Durock and beefed up the front panel (hole for a swinging loader door) and the back end with the flue. Set to boil tomorrow!

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    2015: 8 bucket taps (7 red, 1 sugar) on DIY barrel evaporator
    2016: 13 taps (bucket and tube) on block arch and hotel pans
    2017: SAME
    2018: 25 taps on 2x3 flat pan and resurrected barrel arch
    2019: 25 taps...same setup plus DIY 3x150gpd RO filter
    2020: 50 taps, all buckets..."new" oil tank arch setup
    2021: 100 taps (50/50 buckets/3-16 tubing) on 2x4 divided pan
    2022: 150 taps (50/100 b/t) on 2x4 pan with sap warmer pan
    2023: SAME
    2024: 150 taps, added single-post 4x40 RO system

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    What a day - fired up around 10:30 and was throwing clouds of steam by 11. Celebrated our neighbor's birthday around the fire and boiled down every drop of sap I had!

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    2015: 8 bucket taps (7 red, 1 sugar) on DIY barrel evaporator
    2016: 13 taps (bucket and tube) on block arch and hotel pans
    2017: SAME
    2018: 25 taps on 2x3 flat pan and resurrected barrel arch
    2019: 25 taps...same setup plus DIY 3x150gpd RO filter
    2020: 50 taps, all buckets..."new" oil tank arch setup
    2021: 100 taps (50/50 buckets/3-16 tubing) on 2x4 divided pan
    2022: 150 taps (50/100 b/t) on 2x4 pan with sap warmer pan
    2023: SAME
    2024: 150 taps, added single-post 4x40 RO system

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    Boiled just under 20 gallons on our fryer this weekend. Went through a 30lbs. tank of propane but worth it to get liquid gold.
    2014 6 Taps Block Arch and momas canning pot, 3 gallons YIKES

    2019 100 taps and a new adventure with a home built arch.

    2020 90 taps, my wife and I and a Bucket RO...

    2021 112 taps and a modified Bucket RO.

    2022 120 taps, modified Bucket RO a Wife, Son and Springer

    2023 ~110 taps Nothing new

    2024 90 taps health issues, family

    2025 75 taps New RO Bucket filter canner

  8. #38
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    Quote Originally Posted by red/one View Post
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    Boiled just under 20 gallons on our fryer this weekend. Went through a 30lbs. tank of propane but worth it to get liquid gold.
    Yikes, thats a lot of propane — I'm finishing off my concentrate from yesterday on the stove as we speak, though. Worth it!
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    2015: 8 bucket taps (7 red, 1 sugar) on DIY barrel evaporator
    2016: 13 taps (bucket and tube) on block arch and hotel pans
    2017: SAME
    2018: 25 taps on 2x3 flat pan and resurrected barrel arch
    2019: 25 taps...same setup plus DIY 3x150gpd RO filter
    2020: 50 taps, all buckets..."new" oil tank arch setup
    2021: 100 taps (50/50 buckets/3-16 tubing) on 2x4 divided pan
    2022: 150 taps (50/100 b/t) on 2x4 pan with sap warmer pan
    2023: SAME
    2024: 150 taps, added single-post 4x40 RO system

  9. #39
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    Anyone else in Saratoga county tapping? I usually wait until the 21 of Feb but im on vacation starting the 14 and the weather looks about right. I have a bunch of work to do on the 100 tap woods but the new 50 on 3/16 and the other 65 on vacuum are ready to go. I will try to get the 100 tap bush ready mornings this week but if not ill fire up the vacuum and run the two mainlines while i fix the third. My tanks still need to be plumbed to the RO but im going to do that this morning after work. Head tank needs a good scrubing and hook the feed line to the floatbox. Im not where id like to be right now but alot of the work in the sugarhouse i can do while sweetening the pans. Good luck to all it looks like it is going to get started. Jeff
    2021 230 Taps on vacuum
    Smokylake 2X6 pan set with auto drawoff
    Homebuilt 2 4x40 membrane RO
    Homebuilt filter press
    Rebuilt arch with under and over the fire air we have named V 2.0
    Smokylake steam bottler
    Hoods and preheater
    500 gallon vertical polytank to store sap for RO
    Adding a laser eye to my bottler for autofill/stop

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    Tapping in Saratoga hopefully this weekend. Put up new mainline just need to run laterals Saturday and tap Sunday.

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