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    Another homemade RO question

    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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    Thank you all for the input. Based on the...

    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...
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    Never ran tubing...Where do I even begin?

    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...
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    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...
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    Homemade RO volume & pressure question

    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...
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    Tapped in Beacon Falls

    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....
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    Tapped in Beacon Falls 3/7

    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,...
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    Considering your input and advice, two factors...

    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...
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    Thanks for the input. I've looked into both...

    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...
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    Batch boil vs. Continuous flow

    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...
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