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Thank you for your advice. This season I put less taps in that tree. But It is a multi trunked tree. Not a single trunk tree like Sugar Maples are. We have Big Leaf Maples on our property that have...

We are having an odd tapping season this year out on the West Coast of BC. Our first taps went in December and had some decent flow then some warmer weather came in and had up and down flow on and...

Hi there. The pre heater pan will be fed through a ball valve that I will open and close manually drawing sap by gravity from my sap tank above the pan. So the location of the fitting doesn't matter...

I'd like to share how extremely happy I am with our purchase of our new hybrid raised flu evaporator from Patrick at Evaporateurs PJ Inc in Quebec. I highly recommend him. Patrick does amazing...

Thank you for all the comments. Last season we used unsalted butter. We are just hobby producers selling to friends, family and to individuals on our website etc but after last season I started...

Does one or the other work better? I will just be manually adding it to the flue pan this season. What's the difference between the liquid and solid and do any of them make any difference to the...

Thank you Unc23win. Just wondering if you would be so kind as to post a couple pictures of the inside of your Murphy Cup where the temp/sugar density gauge probe goes through the hydrometer cup and...

Thank you Mainbackswoodsyrup. Ya we found last year that we were getting to the final syrup stage at different temps too so I'm gonna follow the advice of some of the guys here and make myself a...

Thank you Maple Flats. That sounds great. I'm definitely going to be buying one. We boil and bottle our syrup mostly just by my wife and I so any helpful instrument will help us a lot.

Just curious how guys are liking their auto draw off's and how accurate are they? I know if I buy one I will have to still use a hydrometer to make sure the syrup is syrup but just curious if guys...

Thank you Maple Flats, yup the new raised flu hybrid pan I ordered will have high sides to make it safe from splash up above the flu's. Can't wait to make syrup from a nice efficient pan this year. I...

Thank you Super Sapper. After a lot of thought about what would be involved with trying to fabricate my own raised flu pan I have decided to go a different route and I have ordered a new custom...

Thank you Maple Flats. Last season I did do a batch of syrup on the three burner natural gas using a smaller pan on two of the burners. I was surprised how well the burners covered the whole bottom...

Thank you Maple Flats. Do you think it is more risky for me to go with a raised flu pan? What I mean is, does the same size pan need more sap in it with a raised flu pan vs a flat pan because of the...

Thank you Wiam. That makes sense. I'll make sure I never let it get below a certain level of sap in it.

I'm a small producer of 100 to 150 taps. I have a small reverse osmosis system to concentrate my sap before boiling it down. I was using a wood stove and small pans but recently I bought a 3 burner...

Thank you very much Urban Hillbilly and Mellondome. I bit the bullet today and ordered a 3 burner NG complete stand with all fittings to hook my line up to. Each burner is rated at 100,000 BTU's at...

How many BTU's are needed for a 5' x 2' flat pan--natural gas burner?

Hi Canadian_diesel1964.

I recently posted a question about natural gas evaporator on the forum here if you would be kind enough to check out my questions? :...

This is my first year making syrup. I'll have around 300 taps in this week. Currently have 100. So far I've just been using a un modified little wood stove to evaporate and as you know, they are very...

Thank you Whity

Do you moisten your filters with hot water before filtering? If so, do you not find you get a tiny bit of water in with your syrup from that?

Just finished my first batch of Big Leaf syrup ever. It is the most amazing syrup I've ever had. So full of flavor like no other I've ever tried honestly. My daughters said it reminds them of toffee...

There is actually 6 trees there Berkshires. Hard to see from the picture angle. With the Big Leafs it is common to put multiple taps in each trunk if the trunks are big enough. The tap holes heal up...

Our sap has been running very little off and on over the past few weeks. I put a bunch more taps in the other day and still have around 60 or so more to put in. One of the larger trees I tapped the...