Rub it in to us "flat panners" why don't ya.Quote:
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Rub it in to us "flat panners" why don't ya.Quote:
Originally Posted by Russell Lampron
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n8tch. Well that's encouraging...and that's right where it is. The guy who will be doing the frame work is good at it. I was going to have him needle scale and POR15 the frame anyways, but now he can fix the frame for me. He'll go through the underbody and see if there's other issues too. It wouldn't be so bad if the truck had coil suspension, but it has leaf spring and the front spring mount is beyond the crack, so crossing my fingers it holds together. The crack's about 6" long and runs diagonal along the frame.
Brad, the rest of the frame rail forward is junk. Better to cut/replace.
Russ, I've found the downside with a 600 is the amount of rinse water that gets dumped into your feed tank. It takes a little bit to boil off all that extra water. On the other hand, it is nice bring 1000 gal of sap from 2% to 15% in a few hours.
on the frame... oh... yeah better to replace. on my 300 its nice it doesn;t take much to rinse the sugar out. I boiled for 45 mins. another 100 gallons or if my sugar was a 2.0 I might have had a draw off. smelled really good though.
I was surprised, I picked up another 50 or 60 gallons today. Usually don't leave the pump on but I guess its worth it. Might have hit 32 with a cold wind, but the sun helped.
actually got 38* here picked up 60-70 gallons on vac. I'll take every drop already down to 31*
My little 125 has to run for a long time to get the percentage into the teens. I am using an NF 270 membrane again and the fast flow rates help a lot. I'm going to check into the pricing on an 8" tower to turn mine into a 400. When I do a sugar flush I slow the concentrate flow down so that I don't pump too much water into the feed tank. The sugar gets pushed out pretty fast and most of the permeate goes back to the permeate tank.
Really glad I got a new case for the Iphone last night. Cause it took a swim in the woods tank. If you are on the phone, don't try to take the releaser apart at the same time.
Didn't get much of a run last night. My vac check valve froze shut at some point, took some time and creativity to fix with minimal tools.
Sat. Collected 500 gallons from what'd run since Wednesday. Boiled Sat. night and made about 13 gallons combined with Wednesday's run. This syrup got set aside for candy/cream making. Almost had a couple near catastrophes in the syrup pan. For some reason the syrup pan float wasn't keeping up and had a syrup pan full of syrup to sugar. Happened again for the second draw and then went OK the rest of the night.
Sunday. Walked the woods and got it up to 25". Groundwater well out of service. Cooling line from stream across the field is back service. Only trees that are really running are the sugar maples on the hillside. Sap ran most of the overnight, and it got just above freezing on Sunday, so it ran OK. Enough to bring home another 1000 gall. Made about 20 gallons of syrup last night. No issues with the evap. Things ran pretty smooth. Really liking the intenso-fire style arch that I got last year. Burning all hardwood loads w/ 24" sticks and getting 17 min. load times.
As usual, the syrup tastes lighter than the grade's showing. Not sure why syrup's coming out so dark. Had the same issue last year. May need to put a bubblemaster 1.0 in for next season. I'd like the color to correlate with the flavor to some degree.
mine is dark with lighter flavor as well tastes more like a medium. I though it was Amber but it wasn't thick enough...
With the bubblemaster I am making syrup where the color is matching the flavor. The syrup that I made last Wednesday is still in the finisher and hasn't been filtered or graded yet but looks like it could be golden or amber. It tastes like it should be amber, it tastes to good to be golden. I will be boiling again tomorrow night and that syrup will be blended in with the syrup in the finisher.