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I am looking at expanding my operation and have come across a 2x6 evaporator setup. It looks to be a Grimm Arch with a Small Brothers flue pan and preheater. The syrup pan is an...

I am looking to get some input regarding tubing tools, particularly live viper and one handed tools.

At this time I have made do without any tubing tools, though I am looking at getting a couple...

Sap was flowing nicely today here in Warren. Good steady stream out the end of the 3/4 mainline into the tank. Have about 166 taps now. Was at 129 before two more laterals and 37 more taps earlier...

Tapped on Sunday, got a little drip out of the mainline yesterday, and a steady but small stream out of the mainline today. With 129 taps I would have expected more. Any thoughts?

Located at over...

Finished installing lines and put 129 taps in today. Have a few more laterals I can put up so should be around 150-160 taps once those are up. Not much flowing with a high of 30, just enough to get a...

Thank you for the reply. I will look into the sugar maple borer. There are several other trees with similar sections of dead wood under the bark so that would make sense. The last two are of a tree...

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While putting up lines this past weekend I discovered a handful of trees that appear to have some pretty significant damage, primarily in the form of dead wood showing underneath the bark....

Worked on finishing up the mainline and installing drops this weekend. At the end of today I have 500' of 3/4" mainline tubing installed plus around 1500' of 5/16" lateral lines and about 82 drop...

Starting out this year with a new setup. Putting up Leader 3/4" mainline, 5/16" inch UNI-50 laterals, Max Flow Flex drop lines, and 5/16 clear check valve spouts. Aiming to have 200 taps up this...

Thank you, I am leaning towards sticking with that idea for the setup. I believe I should be able to get a 2-4% pitch on the mainline, at least in the section I plan to put up this year. Will have...

At best I'd be lucky to get a 5, maybe 10 foot drop in a few places. Much of that would be reliant on tapping higher up on the tree than normal to achieve the necessary drop, and there would be...

It definitely sounds good if you have the drop. I talked with Bruce the other day and that was exactly what he was mentioning with the clogging. I believe he said he put up around 5,000 taps just to...

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This will be my second year using tubing for maple syrup production. Last year I put up about 60 taps on Leader 5/16 semi rigid UNI-50 dark blue tubing straight into a 275 gallon tote....

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I am looking for any suggestions and advice on building a first time sugar shack. I currently have a 2x4 evaporator using an extended leader 1/2 pint arch with a 2x4 leader supreme pan and...