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Wow what a difference! Went from 4.5 gph last year to almost 8 last weekend! What took me so long to do that?!? Appreciate all the help!

Yeah the grate has definitely burned up. I will flip it and try to get more life out of it, thank you for the tip. As for the cloth, oh well...

Interesting. I guess I've always been gentle, having heard anecdotally about "splitting" the tap hole. Maybe I just need to giv'r a bit more. Will bring along a mallet when collecting this week...

Thanks all for the encouragement and affirmation. Good to know I'm in the ballpark. Here's what I rigged up over the weekend, a section of 1.5" nominal black iron with 5/8 holes drilled under the...

I'm in the process of rigging up some air under fire in my barrel evaporator. Would like to plumb the air in from the back of the barrel via some 4" flex duct and a variable speed duct fan, and then...

I had the same problem after tapping last weekend. Always just used the blue plastic taps and had sporadic leaking. If I just tapped a week ago is there any reason why I couldn't pull them and...

Hi All -

As part of a course I'm taking, I'm interested in talking with a few hobbyist/backyarders with buckets and less than 100 taps. You know who you are, folks with very limited resources...

@sugarmaker I know what you mean! I gaze into that evaporator pan like it can tell the future. Something so magnetic about it.

This is by far the most honest and helpful thread I've come across on these forums. Not that the other threads aren't honest! Quite the opposite, I've never come across another industry that is so...

Love the stainless bolt!! Will give that one a try for sure.

And thanks Dr. Tim, such a Vermont answer...:)

Thanks, very helpful. Any tricks on how to monitor sap level without a fancy sight glass?

Bought a homemade barrel evaporator last winter with a small 18 x 32" divided flow pan. I never really had enough sap to treat it as a continuous flow pan, and would just pull the pan at the end of...