I guess you don’t know everything that you think you think you do Dave. I just finished my 8th season with 3/16” on 125 taps. Wash my lines every year. I have never replaced or unplugged a Tee in my...
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I guess you don’t know everything that you think you think you do Dave. I just finished my 8th season with 3/16” on 125 taps. Wash my lines every year. I have never replaced or unplugged a Tee in my...
If you are flushing your lines out each year, then changing the tees out is unnecessary and a waste of time/money for you. Flushing will push out the junk that plugs up the tees. Is the logging road...
How many taps do you estimate is there? If you can keep good tight lines and get your vacuum up to upper teens to low 20’s, sap will come up the line. Vacuum is vacuum, it doesn’t know the difference...
What did end up with for season total? How does that compare with past years?
Congratulations on a great season. That’s always an awesome feeling when it happens.
How much syrup is that total? Don’t know what size barrels you use. How does that compare to other years?
What is your season total and how does that compare to past seasons?
Some of the tools you don’t need to worry about for a small install. Use small cable clamps (1/8”) instead of gripples. Double clamp. We used them for decades before gripples were invented. Any...
Your links to your pictures don’t work because it comes up saying that “you don’t have access”
Sounds like you are having some good runs and making up for a later start.
Easiest thing to do would be add air under fire. Either put a blower in your draft door location or cut a hole in the back of the ash chamber and put one in. Any squirrel cage blower would work and...
Are you able to create vacuum with those pumps? How much can you get?
There seems to be quite a few choices out there just doing a Google search. I found a bunch on Granger’s website that have a range of voltage from 110-408 and single or three phase. Price isn’t too...
Wishing good luck and speedy recovery for your wife. All of us seem to be having a strange year and not as prosperous as we would like. At least it hasn’t been a total bust. I think that the end is...
Why are you ordering it as a wood fired if you plan on putting an oil burner in it?
But you are a moderator so things are probably set up differently for your account than the average person using the Trader. It still really stinks that nobody can post pictures anymore and Gregg...
Look around for a different source for a pan than Smokey Lake. There are several, smaller companies out there that make great products that you can work with to get what you really want, not...
I would have doubts about how well the Smokey Lake vacuum adapter on one of their canners would work compared to the CDL vacuum filter. I own a 12” CDL filter that was one of the first ones in the...
Have you tried setting it up so that it pumps some liquid through it to see if it is even working? Sounds like maybe it’s not working.
Search for Cornell Sap Pricing Table online and you’ll find a chart that shows pricing of sap based upon various sugar content and bulk price of syrup in pounds.
Very sorry for your loss. I wish I wasn’t a couple hundred miles away from you so that I could come give you a hand getting going.
Good to hear that your treatments are working. Sounds like you have found a great helper for this season. It’s great to take someone under your wings and teach them how to sugar. That’s the best way...
Great to hear that you are off to a good start. It’s a good start for me here in Walpole too. Boil On!
Brad, sounds like you are on your way to recovery and getting back to moving freely. Good news! As far as the weather, the more they talk about it, the less they know. The storm is a complete miss...
Sounds like you have fun making your syrup and enjoy it. Absolutely nothing wrong doing the way you do. Many others do it your way. My Grandfather did it that same way in his retirement up until he...