We visited Bill Mason's shop yesterday and I put in my order for his 2 X 3 Hobby XL. Now to sell my Phaneuf pan.
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We visited Bill Mason's shop yesterday and I put in my order for his 2 X 3 Hobby XL. Now to sell my Phaneuf pan.
new 2X3 Hobby XL bricked and ready:
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I had a few bricks leftover so its all solid. I may replace them with vermaculite and just cap that off
Should certainly help retain heat for the back of the pan. Do you use a pre-warmer?
I preheat on a propane stovetop butmy new Mason now has the preheater pan directly over the fire. Can't wait to see how that works out.
Tapped in Haverhill....flowing pretty good.
My drillholes, however, all leaky as I have the worst portable drill ever.
So my second boil on the new Mason 1/2 pint XL went so great I wanna boil again this minute. The preheater-over-flame kicked in and my pre-heated was actually boiling as I fed in the sap. Got about 10GPH and its much more efficient on wood than I thought it would be. Tonight I finish assembling the RO and we see what that does.
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That new set up looks great. I finally got to tap last weekend. Pulled about 50 gallons off the trees on Tuesday night, then only had about 10-15 last night. There is no cold in the forecast for a while, this could be a very short season. I'll live as i have a couple of gallons of syrup in stock. As long as i can make 3 more gallons I will be good for the year.
sam