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Same here finished up last Sunday, collected 767 gallons of sap ended up with 22 1/2 gallons of syrup. Was a great season on my new evaporator. All cleaned up and waiting for next season. Time to...

Well said I was done once but the sap ran good last Thursday, ended up with another 160 gallons so I had to fire up. This time I'm done pulled the collection tanks last Saturday.
Ended up with a...

Finished up Tuesday, ended up with 17 3/4 gallons. I still have to clean up the evaporator not sure what I'll end up with that. As far as gph with dry hard wood I could get 20gph but most of my wood...

Hello stimya, I'm also just a backyard hobbyist. Been playing with maple syrup for the past 22 years. Started on coleman cook stoves to propane to a leader half pint then to a 2x6 leader with patriot...

Love this new evaporator. Getting 12gph using wet pine. Boiled down 98 gallons so far
drew off 1 1/2 quarts last night.
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When I had my 2x6 it ran great at 625-650. Now on my 2x4 I was running 800, if it dropped to 700 my boil in the syrup pan would drop off.

Just finished putting four laterals up totaling 45 taps which go to a 100 gal tank, didn't tap yet but thinking about tapping next Monday. Still need to put up one more lateral with
10 taps and 15...

Finally did a test boil and got everything cleaned up today. I wasn't getting a hard boil at the back of the flue pan so I added another row of fire brick which leaves me about 8 inches open in the...

Person25 I guess you could call it a custom job, he only makes about 6 raised flue setups per year. Bill told me that he focuses more on the small divided pan setups due to demand. If you're thinking...

The days are going by fast, spent today mortaring everything up. Next will be getting the pans plumbed up and wiring up the blower. Put together 50 drops tonight going to replace all tubing and drops...

Spent the day cutting fire brick. Tomorrow I'll get them mortared in and hopefully I'll be able to do a test boil next Monday.

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Flatpan1 that's great to hear, I was hoping to get 15-18/hr. Wasn't able to get much information on this evaporator. Bill did say that one of his customers was getting over 20/hr. Might
have been...

Well starting over this year. Wanted to down size and keep it in the hobby mode. So I sold my leader 2x6 last year and bought a 2x4 raised flue mason.
Finally got time to start setting up. Leveled...

Bill Mason is a fantastic person and is very quick to respond back. I ordered a 2x4 raised flue setup from him the end of May 2018 and picked it up the end of November.
I finally started setting it...

If money is really the case than I would go with the pan first, would definitely make a difference for this season.

The smoky lake evaporators look quit impressive, I just down sized from a 2x6 leader with patriot pans to a 2x4 mason with raised flues and am very pleased with the workmanship. If you can swing it...

Thanks for the info, looks like I'm going to talk to Mr. Mason. I'm down sizing because it's just the wife and I and only looking to make 10-12 gallons a season, only have 80 taps on my property. In...

Looking to buy a 19"x48" Lapierre Mini Pro or a mason 2x4 XL, what do you think would be the better evaporator?

Finally totaled every thing up. Ended with 30 gallons, 15 med and 15 dark. Best season ever. Ratio was 40.6-1. Will have 3-4 cords of wood next year. Already purchased a 500 gal milk tank, and...

Done for the season, out of wood and too muddy to haul across the lawn.
Haven't totaled up yet. Still have some finishing off to do this week should end up with about 26-27 gallons, and only burned...

This is also my second year with my patriot 2x6 pans. I started with 80 taps and now I'm up to 140. Floats are very easy to set, averaging 25-30 gallons per hour as long as I pay attention to firing...

Same thing here every thing is frozen. Had to work this past weekend, kept light bulbs on a few fittings so that they don't freeze solid. Also put a small propane heater in the sugar house yesterday...

Added 60 taps on 3/23.

Maine 80 taps

Definitely agree with heus. I compared the Leader 2x6 patriot to the 2x6 Phaneuf Deluxe. I was already to order a Phaneuf because I thought the quality was exceptional. I did talk to Patrick on the...