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Thanks guys for the comments. This forester does not work for me and I have recently learned he works with another local syrup maker.

I have a forester telling me that tapping red or soft maples tend to make them wormy and that no one taps soft maple. I have used soft maple for 16 years and never heard this also did a search here...

33 gallons per full cord for this past season.

The ONLY thing green in all this green movement is the money.

Too many are spending time and money bottling syrup for retail and selling it for less than the price of bulk.

I use maple syrup to start our apple cider wine. There is a winery at Seneca Falls NY that makes a maple liquor.

If you dont have it in your head you better have it in your wallet.

Slogan for a retired guys construction co. This may be our last erection.

Gathered 900 gallons of crystal clear sap today the clearest it has been all season. Took off 20 gallons of light syrup.

Yes we are.

Still making Med here and made Med almost the entire season. Took off 50 gallons the last 3 days. Froze up tight about daylight yesterday and is still froze. One more big run this week and looks like...

Was adding a mainline to the new vac system yesterday and noticed sap flowing into the releaser so ran the pump for a few hours and the sap was now almost 2.5 percent compared to the 1% I dumped the...

I dumped 1% sap yesterday also. 15 years of making syrup and I have never seen 1% sap.

Yes a steamaway will work with your fluepan but unless you happen to find one that will fit it will have to be special made.

A hood is optional. Its main benefit is to get the steam out of the...

You can also use a diaphragm pump no releaser needed.

The further into the cupola you end the stack the better or better yet install roof jacks go straight out and forget the cupola all together. I have a preheater for sale if you are interested.

My second year with a 2x6 and 200 taps on buckets I had to dump sap after boiling till the wee hours of the morning. Made 80 gallons that year.

I have 1" ceramic and full fire brick. Stays nice and cool for the 1st hour after that it gets pretty darned hot!! But the ceramic has prevented the stainless from turning blue.

I opened a 5 gal container of this seasons light syrup to enter a pint of it in a local contest in April. Won 3rd place with it. I didnt bottle it or reheat it at that time went to bottle it a few...

The top of float box is approx. 6 feet off of floor. The top of my feed tank base is 7 feet off of the floor.

8 feet high including the piece of stack welded to the top of the hood.
Go with a pole structure and pour the slab inside of and not around the poles. Keep the slab free to come and go as it will.

Brian,
I just updated the sugaring album and there are a few pics of rig with steamaway now. Forget the preheater and go with the staemaway now.
I dont switch sides I get away with that by cleaning...

HaHa good deal! It is almost Christmas she might even believe that Santa brought them!

Brent,
I am 60 miles east of Erie. Stop by when you are in the neighborhood.

Brent
That is the same rig that I have. You will like it!

Nope it wasnt me.