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Pathfinder, I see you like RB10. How many times have you used it? How long did you flush it before use? Just got one and looking to use it tonight. Hoping to decrease boil time and wood usage.

I'm only a small producer, but it ran pretty well for me today. Tapped late yesterday. Got a little over 1 gal/tap over 24 hours. Hoping for more the next couple days before it gets cold again. Gotta...

So I got an RO bucket as well (RB10). Looking forward to its benefits! Do I need to rinse anything or clean anything before I start processing sap?

Have another 100 gallons to boil down. Gonna have to chip away at it here and there to keep up. Should be a busy week and a half looking at the 10 day. Have fun everyone!

Chicknman,
What's your setup for RO? My operation is a little smaller. I'm interested in possibly buying one and increasing taps. Any help appreciated!

Tapping on Friday after work or Sat sometime. Looks like the warm up I've been waiting for might be finally coming. Gonna be a short season for me as I've gotta shut down by April 1st due to a work...

Finishing off my final sap to syrup. Looks like 8 gallons on the year for me (with some leaky taps). Likely will stick to same tap count or go up to 40 for next year. Might look into finisher/bottler...

2x4 should be a good fit for ya with that amount of taps. I liked that it wasnt too far of a ride for a pickup in syracuse. I'll most likely be making the move to something bigger in years to come bc...

I have a nextgen 2x3 that Ive used for a couple seasons now. I learned more with it this year than last. I was loading wood every 5-10 mins with it and got close to the 8 gph time it claimes on the...

Def my last boil today. Only have about 25 gallons to go then time to pull taps with my son. He enjoys running around the woods while I'm gathering. Gets some energy out of him too. Heard peepers...

Expecting an epic day for sap today. Anyone else have sap reports yet? It'll be interesting to see what the trees are producing today.

Framerjeff, Def great time to be out boiling lately!

Was away for the snowstorms along the coast for work. Got lucky with the cold weather and not having to tend to sap bc nothing was running. Arrived home to find my bags/buckets overflowing from a...

Currently at work on "wire down duty" bc of the snow. Heads up for damage in the woods on any sap lines etc, depending on where you guys are located. Quite a bit of tree damage around.

Def hydrometer...still need to grab a second one.

Currently boiling off what I got yesterday. Looking forward to some cooler weather that I see for the longterm forecast. Hopefully it holds true. It would be great to have a small draw tonight. Time...

Any sap reports yet? Temp says 53. Hoping last night was cold enough. We'll see if I have any sap after work today.

Sweetened the pan and it doesnt look like a freeze all weekend. Should I pull all my sweet off, clean stuff and refrigerate the sweet? What does everyone else do? How long can everything last in my...

Gonna boil some off tonight after work. Temps in my area look to have lows in high 20's and low 30's. Probably not ideal but still should flow once it warms, correct? Got a little desparate the...

Thanks for the help guys! Maybe I'll be adding some more taps.

So should i make sure to have alot of sap before i sweeten the pan then make sure the sugar content is high enough to leave sweet for a couple days? Also, how long is too long to leave the sweet in...

I need to do transition away from the batch boil this year as well. When should i stop adding sap and how do i know my sugar content is high enough to be "sweet" and leave it in the pan for a couple...

Collected about 40 gallons between weds and thurs. Just under a gallon/tap wedsnesday and about half a gallon/tap thursday. Looking to boil down sat or sun. Hoping for some more on Sunday here.
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I'm in the game since Sunday. Thought i was tapping 30 but my calculations must have been off and found 4 more sap sack holders in my supplies so my magic # is 34 this year. Had flow with the warmth...

So this is what I'm getting after running through a prefilter. What'd I do wrong and how can it be corrected? I dont know why the picture is still sideways even after rotating it. Sorry about that....

It took me about 45 mins to filter my first gallon this season. Today it took about 5 minutes with 8 oz short of a gallon. The pre-filter was dipped in the hot syrup then i poured the syrup into the...