Hey wvsugarshak thanks for the welcome.
We are down by lexington VA.
Ausable,
Thanks for the advice, so far we have boiled off about 45 gallons and made just about a gallon of syrup....We thought the season was over last Saturday but as of last night we got another 16 gallons of sap!
....and it looks like today should maybe be a good flow day(fingers crossed!).
I need to post pics of our homemade evaporator in the forum for that. We have been getting about 4 gallons an hour evap rate but I think we could pick up a gallon or two with a preheater pan.
Thanks you both this is a great web site!