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We've had our 9" CDL for three years now. First year we thought we made a bad investment also. We now filter hot 200 degree + syrup through with 1 orlon filter and 1 pre filter placed loosely on...

Glad to hear your having a good season Dave. We pulled our taps last night only because we ran out of bottles. The trees ran like I've never seen the last couple of days. We had tapped on the 27th...

We have the 9" vacuum filter as well for 3 seasons now. The best we found to work is with boiling syrup is to use about one cup DE per gallon. We put the orlon filter in first and then clamp the...

His sap had been in the bags about as long as ours were. Thats why I was wondering if it was possible that mold would be there that quickly. All i know is that the RO doesn't like it. The gauge on...

Here's my dilema. We've run about 400 gallons of our sap through the RO with no problems whatsoever. Another guy wanted us to run some for him(80 gallons). We put his through our filter to the...

We tapped ours on Feb. 26 this year. Put in 105 taps and omitted a couple of woods that we normally tap due to an excess of snow our own aging!! So far not a lot to show for our efforts. We ran...

Yes Dave you did send your version of the manual to me. I believe we've got it figured out now. I do still have a couple of questions. When doing the wash cycle do you run through both...

We bought a used Deer Run 125 RO this season. The manual explains pretty good at how to do certain operations on it such as soap washing, acid cleaning etc. There is no info on what to do if it...

Thanks for the reply. I wish some of the details were of how and why were listed.

I have a question about the Deer Run 125 also. When you first start flushing the membrane after storage I had the red valve on top open about 1 to 1 1/2 turns to get a little pressure and the brass...

We tapped our's also on Monday the 11th. Exactly one year and one day since we finished last year. What a difference in seasons!! We've got 140 taps in and about 80 gallons of sap so far to show...

We pulled taps on Wednesday evening-boiled the rest we had in the bulk tank on Thursday and did our final boil this morning. We got everything cleaned up by noon today and ended up with 237 pints of...

Sunday 3/18/18--Took today off other than picking up sap. Back to boiling tomorrow. We went Monday thru Saturday last week and just kept up with the sap. Back at it again tomorrow for at least two...

Tuesday March 13---boiled all day yesterday and all day today and it looks like tomorrow also. Once the trees woke up we have to get right at it to keep up. Weather looks good for the next few...

Sap here in Grant county flowing very slow this year so far also. We boiled on Friday to clear up what we had (about 60gallons). We will boil again today with about another 60 gallons or so. We...

Irish Ridge, Glad to hear you are up and running. We tapped yesterday and today as the 10 day looked good to us also. Out of 33 gallons we made last year we only have three pints left so we better...

Irish Ridge isn't the only one here in the SW corner of the state to be done. We shut down the same day as him. We ran out of good dry wood and ambition as we had a good month long run. 33 gallons...

Irish Ridge, we decided we would collect what sap we had as of last night and try to finish up today. The trees have quit for now but may start up again after this cold snap. We will be over 30...

Wow-- there's no quit in those trees the last couple of days. Boiled all day today and lost ground. Our 300 gallon tank has room for about two more inches as of tonight. Hopefully tomorrow we can...

Irish Ridge, Glad to hear you're caught up with this last run. We'll get caught up tomorrow around noonish. I was beginning to think we were going to drown in sap after this last run. Wishing we...

Finished boiling the sap we had yesterday and so far got just short of nine gallons of syrup. Hoping mother nature cooperates and gets us some moe sap. We have some just trickling yet and the trees...

We're also up and running. We've got 123 tapped and figuring we'll take what we get now. Last year we tapped on 2-27 and should have tapped on 2-20 so we missed a good weeks run. As far as the...

Irish Ridge,
We're pulling the plug on production this year. Sap that we collected today was cloudy and the buds are really coming. No sap flowing at all now. This was our first year and are...

Irish ridge, We're in Grant county north of Lancaster. Windy here too, but only blew off one bag. We've got about 70 gallons of sap from the first 35 taps. A little more work on the evaporator...

We tapped 35 on Friday. Had to go visit the grandkids Saturday and Sunday morning so we didn't tap the other 65. Going to go home early today and tap the rest of them. It looks like the season is on.