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sounds like you may have a sihi vacuum pump hooked up without an extractor? the have an inlet, outlet and waterfeed. sounds like the mainline comes in on the suction side, blows the sap out the...

just a tip, chew lightly on the end of the tubing before you slide on the fittings. softens the tubing up

Well guys, how are things coming together for you guys this year?? whats the consenscous of tapping with our wired winter we have been having?

just another quick galvinized tank question, im running around 300 taps on pipeline to my releaser, i need a tank for the releaser to dump in, i have a galvinized tank around 350-400 gallons, my...

just noticed the "harmful if swallowed" writing on the picture

is liquid teflon or "pipe dope" food grade?

over the past couple of months i have noticed the odd bottle of syrup with a little mould growing on top of the syrup. after drawing syrup off the evaporator, filtering it into a 16x16 finisher (...

Heard on the news this AM that a 16 year old teenager in a Ottawa ontario shop class was killed after he was cutting apart a 45 gallon drum. From what i heard they were building homeade barbeques. ...

I think raised have been around for a few years (im thinking mid 1960's) lots of old raised flue waterloo evaporators around here with cross flow pans. reverse flow dropped flues are pretty rare in...

seems like the canadian way is raised flue pan and cross flow syrup pans, the american way seems like drop flues reverse flow syrup...anyone else ever notice this??? I have raised flues and cross...

i was pulling my front pans every second boil to clean, and i think it makes the world of difference. Every pipe on my lapierre has a drain with a shut off on it, there is probably between 8-10 shut...

seems like every area or region has a local supplier and most maple equipment around that area is what that dealer sells... doesnt matter what brand, but if you need to get parts or service fast make...

just some food for though...chevy vs ford thing. i was going to buy a CDL until I seen a Lapierre. CDL deluxe stainless evap doesnt even compare to lapierres. A friend of mine bought a new CDL,...

Anywone here use sulfamic acid to clean pans, finishers, bottlers, etc?? I have a bag of crystals to use that i got from my dealer and i am unsure of the amount or crystals to mix with water, how...

350 taps, ontario

mark, i agree..ive looked at there evaps online and they seem very cheap. why can't they build a flue pan?? all there pans are flat.

took pictures of it, then scrapped it

ummm agreed....thats were i started out over 5 years ago. production is now up over 100% from those first 35 taps.....

boiling new filters r rinsing them before you use them? really? never done that before...thanks for the tip

i arch boarded the whole inside of the arch (bottom too), brick from the side first, then the bottom. then the ash pit last, its not mandatory that you brick it, it it might keep your stainless from...

try and cut the brick on a 45 on the end. should come close to lining up. i just finished one, do you have arch board in it too?

last weekend in feb. tapped march 1st last year and boiled on the 4th. all buckets

a gallon jug of prestone antifreeze in a waterbowl will do the trick...

Looking at some old sugaring pictures and cant believe some of the sizes of evaps back in the day, especially with stone/block arches and flat pans.. What is the largest evaporator you have ever seen?

hi, just getting my 2.5x10 getting ready to go. Wondering what size of a feed line i should use from my feed tank to float box, it needs to be about 5-6 long. on my old previous 2 x 8 i ran a 3/4...