Alright , I have been reading this thread. I understand not everybody is doing this as a living etc. However new 5 gal. food grade buckets are either cheap or free as well as defoamer. Alot of the stuff that people try to convert to maple is the cheap stuff that could be had for very little $ . I hate to even say this again, but this is food . People eat it and feed it to there kids, give it as gifts etc. As was posted the maple industrie had better suck it up and pull its weight and use the proper tools to do the job. If not we are going to be moderated by the goverment. That will cost us even more than defoamer.
