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I have the Mason 2x4 XL...with the sectional pan and just the standard bricked arch. I also have a blower and I have been getting around 12 gallons an hour, depending on what type of wood I burn.

How much sap are you talking about? How big is your evaporator now?

Tapping old Cemetery maples...disrespectful or not??? Saying that person makes an effort to carry in, carry out and walks around the outsides of the cemetery.

For all that are interested take a peek at this post...it's a 2008 post but still good knowledge about ice in our sap.
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Well I hit 48 and my taps are flow'n!!! I have 80 taps out and a WF Mason 2x4....got an idea im going to be busy. Going to collect either tonight or tomorrow...everyone let me know how you did

I've used a similar set up last year. We had about 150 gallons of sap, we just kept adding warm sap until we had about 4 gallons of concentrate then moved it over to a turkey fryer and finished it...

I've come real close to doing it myself. I've read and heard of the war stories so I watch mine like a hawk....glad to hear your back in business.

It's amazing how it's always about next year. I just built a small shack and stuck a brand new WF Mason 2x4 XL in there and now I already want to expand this and redo that......it's an addiction!!

Just wanted to check with everyone on bud status....A few of my red maples have already started swelling their buds....does this mean that it's coming to a end???

I just recently bought the Bill Mason 2x4 XL...I'm glad I went "big". The only problem I'm having is that I didn't buy the blower so I have to keep the sap level way down low to get a good boil. I...

Thanks for all the help. The only thing that i see about running around an inch in the pan is that my pan thermometer is at about 1.5 inches....not sure if I'll get a good reading with that low level...

If I don't have sap coming out of my preheater into my pan I do have a pretty good boil all over entire pan but mostly up over the fire box. The arch is not insulated, just bricked. I have been...

I forgot to mention that the pan is a sectional pan for syrup density.

So you can actually just leave sap/syrup in the pan and just walk away for a few days??? Here I am trying to hurry and get every last bit out of my pans even taking the time to clean the pan each...

I recently purchased a 2x4 evaporator that is rated at 9-12gph...with me doing the math i'm only getting 5.5gph. My raw sap is about 47 degrees when it's coming out of my warmer into the pan. The...

Got a semi good collect last night...74 taps got me about 67 gallons in two days. Boiled a little today and noticed a few inches in my buckets again. Hopefully these next few days will fill'em back...

Got 72 in so far......ran out of buckets!!!

The person that told me that info also told me that the quicker you can boil off your sap to syrup the better the quality, not sure if that's true but that's what sparked my idea that maybe my sap...

So i'm a little on the newbie side and So I've heard that adding semi-cold sap to my hot sap may down grade my syrup quality outcome. Well I recently purchased a WF Mason 2x4 XL with a 5 gallon...

Sugar bug finally got to me.....Just put in 23 taps in Gardiner....all but three were running excellent!! Might put some more out this weekend if not next week.