Holy cow Scott! You got the 3x10! Nice looking evap. And it is complete!
Man all I walked away with was some tubing and fittings!
Did your grandfather get that maple cream machine that he wanted to buy?
Oh I forgot I wanted to post a few pics of the open house yesterday. I'll do it now.
Last edited by Dennis H.; 09-11-2011 at 09:13 AM.
1st Generation Hobby Maple Producer, you got to start somewhere.
222 Taps, all on Vacuum! No more buckets.
Lapierre 2'x5' raised flue w/Hood and Preheater
Surge SP11, Lapierre Hobby Releaser
Modified 5" Filter Press made by Daryl with a Gear Pump
Homemade 2 membrane RO
Kabota RTV Sap Hauler
Hardy's Maple Syrup on Facebook
Dennis H. - No he decided to wait on the cream machine, maybe next time! He really wants a candy machine but they didn't have any in yet.
Scott
2017
7,000 high vac taps
6x16 leader evap
2200 GPH Lapierre Turbo RO
2400 GPH Springtech RO
To many tanks to count
www.waysidemaplefarms.com
http://s1116.photobucket.com/albums/k578/waysidemaple/
Well, didnt get a single section of mainline wire run or ever cleaned out! 3rdgen is gonna scold me for that. Ended up having to help the parents move out old furnature, go pick up new furniture and bring into the house. then go and grab more pallets from a local feed supply store and bring back to layout and finish stacking sapwood, which is done now!
FIRST GENERATION SUGARMAKER
First boil 2/22/2012! Went Pefect!
3,500' of laterals
1,000' of mainline
2012 - 105 taps on gravity, 12 sap sacks.
2013 - 175 taps on gravity, 25 on sacks = 200 taps for 2013! Second year.
2014 - 250 taps on gravity, 25 on sacks
Tapped on February 16, 2014
2015 - adding vac sap puller no more gravity for me!
275 gallon holding tank for 2014
20'x30' Sugarhouse
Ken if your not worried about a stray spark coming out of the muffler take the screen out and leave it out. It make the muffler less restrictive and let's it run cooler.
02 F350 powerstroke and 89 Toyota 4X4 5 speed sap haulers
16X16 sugar shack
30"X8' raised flue GH Grimm evaporator Smoky Lake Maple front pan!
Sthil MS 460, 026 (2), 009, husky 61, 365, 272, and a 42
2009 41 taps, 2010 72 taps on a barrel evapotator all buckets, 2011 151 taps 34 buckets 117 taps on tubing.
Got all the slabs laying around cut and stacked in the shed..gonna start splitting stacking the 25 cords of pine thats cut up this week...
Salisbury Sugarworks,,Parker Rowe, and friends
Salisbury, N.H.
1988 taps in 09
over 2500 on vac in 2010
no buckets in 2010
2815 taps in 2011
shooting for 3000 in 2012
4000 taps? In 2014
5x16 wood fired "Mighty Marvin"
50 cords in the shed
Old, old R.O.
Charter member Andover/Salisbury Mapleholics
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Sap WOOD Sap WOOD Sap WOOD...bees...Sap WOOD Sap WOOD Sap WOOD
Hunting season starts Thursday for Bow, Antlered only (new last year) until Octobler 1st. Haven't seen a single buck in velvet this year!!! So it might just be does for me need meat in the freezer!!! but need to save room for 1/2 cow and 16 chickens...uh might need bigger freezer!!!
Dropped off Syrup and honey at the Rochester Fair yesterday. So we'll see how that does thats the warm for the deerfield fair. Met a a nice guy and got a few pointers on bees he's been doing it for years had 25 hives at one point but that was before all the disease and mites started destroying hives!!!
may your sap be at 3%
Brad
www.willowcreeksugarhouse.com
585 or so on Vacuum, about 35 on buckets/sap sacs
Atlas Copco GVS 25A Rotary Vane vacuum pump
MES horizontal electric releaser
2x6 ss phaneuf Drop flue, Leader woodsaver blower, homemade hood
300gph H2O RO
husquvarna 562 XP
Its Here!!! 2024 season is here get busy!!!
CDL Pa Super Store
I would like to thank everyone who helped made our Grand Opening wonderful! And to my friends new and old on Maple Trader. Dennis, thanks for putting on some pics for us, you know about me and computers LOL, Scott big surprise for you good luck and dont forget to keep in touch with all you do. nymapleguy607 always great to meet new maple friends and see what they look like after talking to them on the phone or the trader. Telephone number for the new store is 814-628-2082 with Pam Swimley manning the desk. Her hours for right now is Tues and Sat 8 am to 4:30 pm. But you can always call here if needed. Thanks again!
I am a 3rd generation maple producer, with 80,000 taps & 28 sugar bushes.
2 evaportors, 6x16 & 5x16 Water/Loo Small Turbos
2 ROs, 1 2400 gph & 1 1800 gph
2 10" filter press full banks
Sap Tanks rangeing from 600 to 6000 g
(Hired Boys says "All numbers subject to change" Ha Ha)
Got a great start on my 14x21 ft addition to the sugarhouse after its completed sugarhouse overall will be 16'x34' with a 8'x14' room off from it for canning and eatting. Added two tanks to my operation yesterday a 550gal and a 425gal tanks cant wait for the season to get here all thats left to get is a filter press and vacuum pump. cpmaple
100 buckets for 09
180 buckets for 2010
300 on gravity and 300 buckets for 2011
1000 total for 2012
250 taps on shurflow pumps
G.H.Grimm 3x10 raise flue auf
snowmobile and grizzly 660 four wheeler
8 beagles an 1 aussie shepherd for company
and last a wonderful companion that lets me do all the stuff i love (maple sugaring) and doesnt ask questions!!!!!!!!!!!
http://s1208.photobucket.com/albums/cc375/cpmaple/
is that CDL'S pellet fired arch i see in that pic??
Yes it is...the front evap is the wood pellet arch...the one to the rear is the Intens-O-Fire.
Scott
2017
7,000 high vac taps
6x16 leader evap
2200 GPH Lapierre Turbo RO
2400 GPH Springtech RO
To many tanks to count
www.waysidemaplefarms.com
http://s1116.photobucket.com/albums/k578/waysidemaple/
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