RO Bucket

[Silver Water]

Looking for owners reviews on the ro bucket .

Looking at gettng one for next season !

Thanks

[Cozy maple]

We purchased the R 10 kit this year. Couldn't be more pleased with the performance. Easy to assemble. Excellent instructions. Support is top notch. Would highly recommend.

[to100]

You will love it once you get used to it. The best thing that I did not expect is when you are flushing at the end you have rinse water to clean up in shed. You will be saving time and fuel.

[Northbound1]

I bought the rb20 kit before I tapped my first tree. I can't imagine not having it. Especially since I use alot of water keeping the shack clean. That permeate water is crucial

[littleTapper]

Like Northbound1, I bought the RB20 kit. Best $ I've spent on my operation. Easy to run and maintain and saved me an absolutely huge amount of time and firewood. And yes, the permeate water for cleanup is incredibly useful.

I did some non-conventional ways of wiring mine up so I can fire it up with my phone...I should write up how I did that; others might find it useful.

[steve J]

I love to see pictures of how your set up if working within a small space? my shack is duel purpose and serves as a shed 10 months a year. I am not sure I would have room for a tank to house the water that is separated. If I was going to do it I would by the 20 as the other appear to be to small.

[to100]

For my rb10 I need 10 gallon of permeate for a flush. I use a 40 gallon pickle barrel. This way you extra to use if not used for a couple of days without new sap.
Read at his site the manual for use. You could use well water without chlorine in basement.
I figured that I needed 15 gallons of sap for a minimum. 10g permeate with 5g concentrate for a slow day, usually 20 or more to make it worthwhile to start a fire. Concentrate needs to be boiled soon. I had a couple of small batches at the end that blend together as near. Being small I could do that, you will have different volumes.

[Openwater]

I just got a new RB5 RO bucket for my small-scale operation and was just wondering how you guys operate your RO Buckets. I assume you collect concentrate and permeate in separate containers, then chill/freeze or boil your concentrate soon after RO. I have a 35 gallon sap collection tank. Would it be possible to recycle all the concentrate from the RO Bucket back into the 35 gallon tank with the raw sap while collecting the permeate separately, so you're just basically continuously concentrating the sap in the collection tank?

[therealtreehugger]

Openwater - yes - recycle and RO again and again until you get a higher ssc (sap sugar content)!

I have the RO 10 kit. I attached it to a board and made it stand upright. This way I can easily bring it inside when it gets too cold. You DON'T want to let the membranes freeze! I collect the permeate in a tupperware storage bin, (15 gal?). I also start the RO first as soon as I go out, get a little concentrate in the bottom of the pan, and by the time I get the fire started and going enough to get a boil, I would have enough sap RO-ed to keep up. On a good day, I get about 10 gph, and the RO 10 keeps up nicely, but I only have time to run it though once. If I wanted to run it through more than once, I need to get it going sooner.
I also boil the same day that I RO. Sap that has a higher ssc will spoil quicker.2175221753

I would highly recommend the RO bucket or kit. You can always add on too.

[Skeller001]

I don't have many trees but bought the RO Bucket last year. It dropped by boil time down by 2/3.

[Ravenseye]

I was pretty pleased with the RO Bucket. Easy to set up and use and since I really don't have a lot of time to baby sit, it made my life a lot easier. I did make the one time mistake of thinking I was going to boil again in a day and I forgot that I hadn't done a great job cleaning so I did have to do a mid-season "scrub" to get back to normal but it still was pretty easy. I also learned not to skimp on the pre-filters. Looking forward to season 2!