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I’ve had two different RO’s now and both of them gave me the same problem, air in the line between the sap or permate tank and the RO. I finally figured out that on both of my RO’s I had a built in...

It's recommended 3/8" or 1/2". I just installed one last week and I mainly used 1/2" line but it does neck down at the burner to 1/4".

The Michigan Maple Syrup Associations's Annual Fall Tour is coming up in just a few weeks. September 22nd and 23rd. Friday the 22nd is a Chainsaw Saftey seminar, both classroom and hands on. Saturday...

Hello everyone. Kirk, Michelle Hedding and kids here. We're in Chelsea, MI. Half way between Ann Arbor and Jackson.

Good Luck everyone.

I've turned about 5-6 gallons of good syrup into sugar in the last year. I started seeing some white dots about the size of a dime or just a little smaller around the the sugar in the last 2 batches....

Yes Eric, that's what I was looking at. I figured freezing causes problems with all pumps. I didn't know if there were more issues with this kind of pump and if they work well or not when it wasn't...

Looking for some good information from people who have used these type of pumps. Do they work, freeze up to easily and so on? I can read all the technical info And listen to all the sales speeches,...

Had Brad and Dave from Leader out a couple of weeks ago to mark the mainlines. A lot more mainlines than I thought, but we might be able to get closer to 400 taps. That would be nice. I picked up all...

Ok Michiganders, What's everyone planning for the upcoming winter? We just had some of our woods logged off to make more room for maples and get rid of some trees that were just getting to big. In...

We purchased a 2x6 all raised max flue pan with a 2x2 revolution syrup pan so a 2x8 in all this last year. It also has a leader inferno arch and hood for the flue pan, no preheater. With good dry...

H & H Sugarbush will be there.

The place was busy, but I did get all my questions answered. I talked with Bradley also for a while. We puchased a new evaporator and just needed to talk with him some more on tricks to running the...

How much D E are you using? I'm also new to using the filter press and everything that I'd heard was you couldn't use to much D E. Well, my syrup was coming out cloudy and gritty also. The press...

I've got everything cleaned and ready to tap. Just finished putting the finale touchs on a new 3X6 copula on the shack. Also built a new preheater for the evaporator. The old one only had about 14...

The wife and I will be getting up there Saturday morning also. Hope to see everyone there.

Jim,
Your tank looks nice. I've been thinking of building one myself. I was wondering. Is the space between the two tanks sealed? Why did you put the thermometer so high? And the last question. What...

We put out 183 taps this last week. Collected last night. Now I have 480 gallons of sap to start boiling down. I did get the pans sweetened last night also.

In the State of Michigan it is required to have a license for selling maple syrup. According to the state agriculture dept. it is considered a processed food. The license cost's $70.00 a year. You'll...

I use a Polaris Sportsman 500 H.O. It's a great machine and I use it with a trailer and 2- 55 gal. drums. I get a lot of mud where i'm at, so i've been looking at a used John Deere 6 wheeler. This...

Well, I poured the floor the other day. Now things will stay a little cleaner in there.
Now I just have to build a door, run a water line and get things back to normal.
Kirk

Just had my meeting with the MDA inspector. All and all, everything went great. Everything I had already done or had in mind of doing this summer was what she wanted done. So, it's nice to be on the...

MDA inspector coming out on the 10th of June. Somewhat looking forward to this and somewhat not. I've only been making syrup now for 3 yrs and selling it for 1yr. The inspector mentioned all the...

Everything better this year: New sugarshack 12x20, New to me 2x6 raised flued Waterloo/Small, 250gal. elevated feed tank, and a 2 cone leader filter/bottler. Things are much more fun with the right...

Take an aluminum pot and cook up some scrambled eggs in it. Most likely you'll taste the aluminum in the eggs. With larger batch's of syrup you might not notice it, but it's there.

No new sap yesterday, so I finished up what I had left from Saturday. The weather is looking good for the week coming up. Hopefully be boiling again on Thursday.