This is a case of regional names causing serious confusion: Betula lenta - Wikipedia Betula nigra - Wikipedia The scientific name for what you and...
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Looking good! Funny how you say you’re “down” to 125 from 200. Still a lot of work. I imagine if you wanted to do more, it would make sense to...
This one’s for Horkn :rofl: :lol: [MEDIA]
If you're going to cut it down anyway, I'd put a dozen taps into it and bleed that sucker dry. No need for ethical tapping practices in that...
It’s a lot of work, no doubt about it. Especially without a reverse osmosis system to get rid of a lot of the excess water before boiling. If you...
I fill the jars while the syrup is still hot and let them cool overnight up side down to help seal them. Yeah 15 gallons of sap with the water...
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Good call :handshake: I’m boiling now with mostly sugar maple, but the aspen I’m mixing in with it is what’s really throwing the heat. In 3 hours...
My uncle one town over got his setup going just now too. I think he has 13 gallons to boil. Nice little joint venture this year between he and I....
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What in the name of Japanese Rammstein was that?!?! :confused: :rofl: :lol:
I haven't gotten any as firewood personally, but that looks a lot like princess tree (paulownia) to me. Your thoughts Chud ?
I always thought it would make more sense to have a bar with removable rails. Once they get clapped out, replace them and not the entire bar, and...
One more longer length and one shorty. The behemoth on the right is a crotchety section of mulberry I’d like to mill as well. That one was…. Heavy...
Processing fresh beech to me smells sweet, almost like a caramel scent. Burning it is just a generic wood smoke smell. It’s a subjective thing...
Between the handful of people that bought it, all of them were practically salivating when they saw it :rofl: :lol: Everyone is so used to buying...
I pretty much decimated my inventory of 3 1/2 year old red oak in the last couple weeks, selling just under 3 cords. All the dead ash I’ve been...
28/72 burning a load of red oak, elm, black birch and red maple chunks.
I know if the bearings ride too low, they’ll be pinching on the solid part of the bar and you can crank up the tension all you want but the gap...
