Hope folks didnt give up early. i collected handy to 800 gallons from sunday and mondays run, and expect more coming in today. Tomorow looks fairly promising too, although hard to say yet.
I had...
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Hope folks didnt give up early. i collected handy to 800 gallons from sunday and mondays run, and expect more coming in today. Tomorow looks fairly promising too, although hard to say yet.
I had...
It is definately an addiction. No question. I started 2 years ago with 11 buckets and a couple canning pots on a wood stove. I just finished tapping today, with 505 taps on 3/16, and adding...
I got about 125 gallons of sap from 360 taps on gravity over the last 3 days. Hopefully not a representation of what is to come.
I got most of my taps in 2 weekends ago. Still waiting on fittings to finish out my last section. Stepped things up quite a bit this year with 360 taps on gravity soon far, another 100 more to do,...
So you are talking about heat loss out the side of the evaporator? I have my rockwool between thee manifolds and the outer skin, soon I assume that should look after that
Dave, I do have to ask why the manifold should be covered in refractory. I was under the impression that some folks are making heaters to preheat the forced air up to 300-400° to increase...
Thanks for the insight, I will add some more refractory over the air tubes.
As for the temps, I guess I'll have to wait and see what happens. Hope it holds up for the season. If not I will have...
Yeah,sorry about the photos, relearning how to do attachments...
I tried the roxul last year, it worked pretty well where it wasn't in contact with any wood. It is rated for something like 2100°.
I will see what I can do about the grates.. I have. Spares, but I can probably flip the
I put some skins on the arch once the forced air was done. It is all recycled 16ga stainless, riveted in place.
Added 1-1/2" rockwool insulation inside thee entire thing, then fire bricked the...
Picked up a new set of pans in the summer, so it was necessary to build a new arch.
Decided I wanted to spend a little time on it and make it a bit more presentable than the. Old oil tank arch from...
Im nothing more than a barkyarder with too much ambition. My taps are across the road, but my processing takes place at home.
I only had a wood stove and 2 canning pots 2 seasons ago. Now i have...
Thanks all. Lots of information to hash out.
Just by a preliminary survey of the woods, i should need about 6-8' of rise, but i will be bringing a transit with me to run my mainline.
I am planning on running tubibn through a small bush this winter, around 400 taps all said and done. I don't think i will have enough slope for a 2% slope on my mainline, so i am looking at sap...
I am also in NS, i have a CDL rep near moncton that i deal with for most everything. I am actually waiting for prices right now on bottles from him.. Pm me for his info if you like
Thanks for the info. Dave, you are a real wealth of knowledge.
Thanks for the replies. Dave, I was planning pretty much the same as your design for my AOF.
I will hopefully start building over christmas, but will see what ends up happening.
Also, i know...
The wife bought a bouncy castle for our daughters birthday party. Now i am wondering what i could use the blower for with my new arch i am building.
I have a new CDL 2x6 pan set with raised flue...
Found an M5 pump with 5hp motor locally and was wondering if anyone knew what it would be capable of supporting? 200 taps, 500, 1000? I see they are 55 cfm, but i dont see what they can pull for...
Bill, hope the new evaporator is working good still.
I'm looking at pulling my taps today or tomorrow. Have been getting some cloudy syrup lately, and a lot of my taps are drying up. Should...
I boiled wednesday, thursday, and sunday in the last week. Boiled about 320 gallons or sap over the 3 days, I made about 6.5 gallons of syrup over the 3 days. Still have my pans sweet, so...
I have been finishing between 222.5 and 223.5 this season. I am at about 30 feet above sea level
I cant agree about them producing lower % sap. I have 1 Norway in the yard, it produces nearly double the sap as any other tree per tap, and never less than 2%, occasionally up to 2.5%
Sooo... the wife wants to start a business, and me and my father both are obsessed with maple syrup.
We are looking at a piece of land, which I walked today, I figure there are between 5-7000 taps...
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Finally started my continuous flow yesterday, until the wife came in and distracted me long enough to scorch my syrup pan (I put all the blame on her, not on the Bud)
2 x 4 homemade, all from...