Originally Posted by
doop
Finished with 78 gallons, would've been pushing 100, but I was teaching a buddy how to run the evaporator. I thought he had it down pretty well as he'd boiled by himself a couple times, then we thought we would switch and draw off the other side due to nitre build up. Fittings didn't work on other side so he started putting it back on original side and I went out to collect sap. I came back to green smoke and him shaking his head. He forgot to move the plug back to other side and so he was making syrup on opposite side of thermometer and didn't know it. Needless to say I need new pans. I was talking about getting new ones anyway, but would've been nice to still have those for back up. Had to dump around 500 gallons and lost all my sweet on the pans. Now I know why I never let anyone else run the evaporator.
Yikes! That sounds similar to an incident I had years ago when my brother was still helping. Nothing worse than losing a batch
2.5 x 6.5 custom built wood fired arch.
2018- 300 on 3/16, 100 in pails on the flat.
35 years experience still haven't mastered the fire
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