I’ve been running a homemade 3 x 150 gpd RO with an aquatec 8852 pump the last few seasons and it has been great. Rough calculations put me at being able to pass through 6 gallons of raw sap per...
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I’ve been running a homemade 3 x 150 gpd RO with an aquatec 8852 pump the last few seasons and it has been great. Rough calculations put me at being able to pass through 6 gallons of raw sap per...
Thank you all for the input. Based on the responses, I'll definitely be keeping it simple and least expensive the first year; which means avoiding the main line, support wire, etc. I'm leaning...
I picked up access to a small sugarbush of about 50 nice sized (18-24” diameter) trees in an area of about an that I’ll be tapping next season. The area with the maples is roughly an acre and...
Thank you for the reassurance, I think I’m on the right track...we’ll see toward the end of the week when I run it.
Hunt4sap ~ I used all 1/4” OD flexible plastic tubing & stab / shark bite...
After going back forth over the last few seasons on whether or not I should build a homemade Mattatuck Maple style RO setup, I bit the bullet over the winter, researched it the best I could and built...
The last few days, the weather felt like it was time. The long range forecast looked good, so I decided to tap. I put 10 of my 30-35 in yesterday afternoon, and it appeared to be having a nice run....
Tapped on last Saturday, 16 trees, 28 taps on buckets. Collected 13 gallons by Monday (3/9) noonish and boiled it down to 36 oz of fininshed syrup. I know it hardly enough to start the evap for,...
Considering your input and advice, two factors have me leaning toward batch boiling again as I did last year. First, I already have a homemade 304 stainless pan I welded up a few years back to boil...
Thanks for the input. I've looked into both Mason & the 1/2 pint, and it seems like both are nice rigs. I guess my question is more along the line of what would be the advantage of a 3 section...
Last year I decided to run about 18 taps in my yard in order to get a gallon or two of syryup and show my kids what is all about. To my pleasant surprise, both the kids and my wife thought it was...