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Old 02-28-2021, 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by vintageogauge View Post
Been there, done that, it's a lot of work and I really don't miss it. February and March in TV is much better.
We were up for 2 weeks Christmas and New years, a week in early Feb and down again in a month.

It is a lot of work, but not doing it commercially, so it's just something fun for us.

I worked with a farm that did it commercially back in the 70s and THAT was a lot of work. They used a wood stoked evaporator that needed tending and collecting sap involved lots of trees and buckets. The smell of the steam is unique though.