Why is it?

[Maple River Sugar]

Why is it that you spend thousands of dollars on new equipment i.e. evaporator, filter press etc. and when you receive them, which you are absolutely lucky to before the season if you order the previous May, that are NO instructions at all! Rant over.

[maple flats]

Agreed, the maple companies are major offenders on that point. Luckily you have this forum and Proctor Maple Research to help. Proctor has many videos and how to write ups to help, and we can usually help, but it certainly can be frustrating the way maple manufacturers fail to print owner's manuals on their equipment.

[ToadHill]

Why is it that you spend thousands of dollars on new equipment i.e. evaporator, filter press etc. and when you receive them, which you are absolutely lucky to before the season if you order the previous May, that are NO instructions at all! Rant over.

Leader posts their manuals online. Here's the link.

https://leaderevaporator.com/product-manuals/

[fred]

Sounds like you need to use a better dealer. When selling new or used i do a start up, step by step with the new owner unless they are comfortable with the equipment.