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It’s good to hear from So Nh. I cut my teeth in maple living at my parents house in Litchfield on while going to Alvine (class of 94). Those trees are gone now, all houses instead. Not many sugar...

I have pix in my signature of my 1/2 pint that I repurposed the warming pan. I used the preheated pan for a float box.
It doesn't help to warm the sap if the steam condenses on the under side of...

Mike that looks nice, but what really is awesome is looking at a collection tank and seeing what 27" can do. My woods stinks, it looks like a telephone pole farm, but with good vacuum I can still get...

Boy this is a painful, frustrating, sleep deprived and rewarding hobby.

Thanks for the help. I am off to tractor supply tomorrow. I did put a fan on the pump, but after what you were saying I think I will take it off.
I will change the oil and see what happens.

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Thx Ben,
There is a moisture trap (house water filter with a racquet ball) in line but it might let vapor by. Plus the releaser is closed off now so I don't think it's water.
The smoke smells...

I hooked up my bb2 last night and at levels higher than 15" the exhaust had smoke puffs coming out. Last year I ran at 26 " and had a fan on the pump so I didn't notice the smoke.

Is this part of...

Has anyone tried this in just the front pan? This is the only pan I could put this in, and I like to make light syrup. Im wondering if it would be worth it.

For the last two or three seasons now I have noticed that the foam/bubbles in the front pan constantly changes. I don't mean when I fire or when I am low on wood, but the pan will foam/bubble up in...

Any thoughts on connecting the vac line to the dry line and the releaser supply? It might take longer for the releaser to = vac levels but guarantees consistent constant levels.

I like late fall, no bugs and no leaves.

Be careful when you leave sap in your feed tank or feed line. If you have a freeze at night and add sap to a tank with a frozen feed line you will look ready to boil but the sap will go no where. My...

Josh I have seen that happen on my old releaser. I pitched my vac line so the sap would run back in the releaser. Even if it dosent splash the air seams to have a fog when the air rushes in when it...

I picked the wrong day to tap. Not because it was mid 40s out and sap was running, but yesterday my brother, friend Jeff and I went on a 8+ mile hike. We did Mt Liberty with 4+ feet of snow. We hit...

Parker, sounds good. I will be cleaning tomorrow and taping Thursday. Best of luck this season. I will swing by some time on the way home from picking up my girls.

What you need is a garbage truck arm. The ones that dump those green trash barrels with the wheels. just drive up and hydrological will do the rest. Or a dump station sounds good too.

I personally dont have Boiling Sodas, but I do have sugar house cleaning sodas, equipment cleaning sodas,talking about maple sodas, tubing sodas and TV sodas. Just to much going on near the HOT...

You might want to look at the mods I made to my old half pint. I did a float box that acts as a warming pan (old preheater), thermo ports and reversible with valves. I would draw finished syrup off,...

We all say big government is to blame, lets be real, it’s LOBBYIST, BIG BUSINESS that push legislators to make licenses and fees that the small guys cant\wont pay. The big companies can absorb...

I was wondering, if the CV’s were installed in a downward angle the ball would be against the fingers and in a normally open position and there would have to be a big surge to seat the ball. If the...

Parker I cant believe you are still boiling, it must be getting stinky in there. Keep going! and keep the maple gods happy.

I couldn't help my self. And yes I haven't boiled any sap this year and my friends and family are saying its starting to take a toll!

When the buds swell like this its all over

To remove the tubing from fittings, stick in boiling watter and pull. I would only do this after you cut the fitting off the tubing because the tubing will be stretched out and not reusable.

The thing I noticed about with the hobby releaser was at high “of vac the float would hang up, so I put stainless nuts on the float. However, this would make it fill to almost the top to dump, and...