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Bought my evaporator from Thor a few years ago. Can't recall the $ limit before duties. What I did is call them ahead of time and have them split the invoice in two. Brought a buddy up and he...

i make a loop. that way the sap is less apt to go back into the tap hole. i tend to make a little longer drops when i know it's a tree that's going to be tapped below the lateral.

there's some studies UVM has done. i believe on their site the research is there. i want to say dr tim said you'd need around 20" or more to see good results with taping below the lateral. i have...

i unfortunately pulled the plug friday. Took a trip south to pick up a new puppy friday a.m. Returned to full tanks of 0.9% sap. without an R.O, that's not worth my time. it was odd because our...

woke up to a good 9-10" of snow this a.m. supposed to get another 4-8 i guess. boiled last night what came in yesterday... which was not a whole heck of a lot! trees are slowing down big time. ...

had our longest boil of the year yesterday. a good 9 hours. had sap from friday/ saturday's run to boil. that combined with a very strong run yesterday kept us busy all day. nitre is becoming a...

got about .8 gpt yesterday. sap still testing 2%. I don't have an R.O.... with some of the sugar content some of you guys are, unfortunately, getting i think i would have thrown in the towel by...

good sap run yesterday. not too sure how much i got, but when i started boiling last night it was coming in as fast as i could boil it off. based off syrup totals and sap sugar content i'd say...

took too long for the trees up here to thaw out yesterday. got less than 1/2 gpt. hopefully today is a better day. it's starting off 18 degrees warmer so there's hope.

Hey Spud,
our season normally ends 2nd week of april. i'm in Derby vt, north Facing at about 1,200 feet. half my bush is in a swampy valley that stays cold. the sap ran very hard for me between...

looking like another disappointing run today. got too cold here last night it think. woke up to 21 degrees... same the day before. this happened to me all last year, which caused a horrible year. ...

my assumption would be a coincidence. the nitre that i am getting this year is thick and sludge like. However it is not sticking to the bottom of the pan at all! makes filtering a pain, but pan...

had some good flows friday through sunday. sugar content dropped a tad to 1.9%. hopefully the freeze today will bump it back up. had a good old fashion march snow storm saturday evening into...

i understand the quality control part... as far as making "fancy" syrup. Buti feel like the color/grade of your syrup is vary much dependent on the site of your sugar bush and the trees themselves. ...

i scrub the flues in my back pan every so often. i have a hood on it as well. I have an electric winch and pully system to raise my hood up about 3-4 feet off the flue pan. then i lift the front...

bout the same as spud here. bout .5 gpt the last couple days, but my sugar content is still 2%... so the pump is still running. i'm not sure if i've ever ran my bb4 dairy vacuum pump for 6 days...

we're certainly not getting any great runs here, but the sugar content is staying strong. even without any freezes the past few days, we're still at 2-2.25%. had frozen over puddles in the driveway...

i had the same issue as you with mine. i had to add more slope for it to drain and not get airlocked. mine was originally sloped 1-2%. Not sure the exact percent of slope now, but i'd say around...

i got about 1/2 a gallon per tap yesterday. really didn't start running much till noon-1:00. haven't tested the sugar yet, but last run was 1.5%... hopefully it's better than that! should be...

i clean my bb4 pump at the end of the year, or if i suck some sap up, with diesel. i usually let it run for half an hour or so, then drain and fill back up with oil. On the subject of oil turning...

while i don't have a drop flue (i have a raised flue 2.5x8) i assume the procedure would be very similar especially since you have a cold and hot float box. what i do at the end of the boil is...

keep boiling and adding sap until syrup comes out the syrup pan. if you don't have enough sap for the first run to make syrup, just make sure you block off the syrup pan connection to the flue pan...

i put a row of fire brick on top of my grates right in front of my door. i also have more than 2x stack height compared to my evaporator length which helps with a good draw up the chimney. i am...

has there been any studies, or do you foresee any that would compare it to the cv spout? the price point seems pretty reasonable!

figured i'd revive an old thread rather than start a new one. kind of looking for reassurance or advice on building a preheater. from reading Dave's post (think he has a 3x10) and some UVM...