Yea, watch who you hire! This year I had a guy I trained. I tapped, explained and gave every bit of info for about 45 minutes while he watched, (I was actually training 2). Then I watched while they tapped for about 30 minutes and pointed out things to improve as they did. I stated that proper tapping is far more important than speed. The next day I discovered one of them started drilling angled down as soon as left alone, on some 2 stem trees with 1 drop he drilled the 4-5" stem rather than the 14-18" stem. On one 3 stem cluster, with 2 drops he drilled both into a 4" stem and none into the 12" nor 14" stems. Needless to say, he was history.
I just wonder if someone from Vermont sent him to screw up my bush, HA!
Over the years I have had several help tap, he was by far the worst. Most were good, 2 were exceptionally good.
Dave Klish, I recently bought a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.