Our first year was 2015 -- a dozen buckets hung around the yard of our new home. Old 20-gallon soup pot over a King Kooker on the front porch boiled down to 2.5 gallons or so. Built a beautiful 12x8 sugar shack last year to house our new 1985 Leader 1/2 pint and expanded to 25 buckets and just under 8 gallons of the good stuff. Still figuring out how to get just a little more next year
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4 taps on buckets large stock pot on Coleman stove now have 200 with 2x5 smokylake hybrid
Started with 6 buckets our first year, then went to 12. I just bought a piece of land with approximately 125-150 taps and am looking for an evaporator. At this point, the 12 buckets with taps we had last year produced 6L of syrup. We are excited to see how we can do with new place. I can see how so many on here call it an addition... it truly is.
Like 400? On gravity,,trucking it to a bud to boil,,,,,,,,your evaporation rate is the big limiting factor
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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12 taps into 5 gallon buckets. Boiled on my neighbor's two 20"x30" flat pans on barrel stoves. Took us 10-12 hours to boil approximately 90 gallons of sap down in a batch and finished it on a turkey cooker.
Chad
2014: 12 taps, 5 gal buckets
2015: 15 taps on bags
2016: 150 taps: 100 on bags, 50 on 3/16" natural vac, 2x8 AUF/AOF Homebuilt Arch, 2x8 SL Drop Flu & Auto Draw, SL Propane Canner/Bottler
2017: 225 taps: Built Lean to, Added SL hood, preheater, concentric exhaust, SL SS 7" SB Filter Press
2018: 180 taps: Added Shurflo to 50 - 3/16", Auto fill sensor to head tank
2019: No tapping
2020: 175 taps
2021: 300 taps, homemade RO and releaser
2022: 600+ taps
Can't remember exactly how many taps Spring of 1998, 100 to 150 on gravity tubing, cooking like the ancestors in three iron kettles, on run we had over 200 gallons of sap that took us 26 hours to process, had plenty of family members working in shifts. Oh the good old days, did make 45 gallons of syrup in kettles.
Mark 220 Maple
1100 taps on low vaccum, 900 on gravity.
900 plus taps leased and on high vacuum
35 cfm Indiana Liquid Ring Vacuum Pump
80% Sugar, 20% Red MAPLES
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2013 18 home made taps. 3/16 tubing to 5 qt ice cream buckets. Boiled on wood stove in shop,also a shop heater Granite canners.
made 1 gal of syrup. Tapped 1st week in march . No run after.
2016 360 taps on 5/16 tubing vacum & 3/16 tubing gravity 22 1/2 gal syrup.
Dwight
Started 4 years ago using a turkey fryer with 10 taps and milk jugs
2nd year we got our hands on some buckets and did 10 buckets on a used barrel unit somebody gave us
3rd year we went to 10 buckets and a 5/16" tubing system on the used barrel unit
this past year we did 50 taps on multiple tubing lines and built our new bricked barrel unit
(all boiling done outside)
Just purchased a used Mason unit from a member here. We are moving inside to a stall in our poll barn and I'm going to add 25 more taps, and maybe tinker with the 3/16" tubing
Did syrup as a kid with my cousins, great uncles, and great grandfather we had 150 wooden buckets on his farm and we collected using a sleigh and a draft horse.........boy I miss those days later in life
This was my first year, 7 taps boiled in Turkey cooker over wood fire,will definitely be tapping more next year using multiple turkey cookers. Hopefully with some type of shelter.
last season was my first year. ended up with 60 taps on 3/16. used 2x4 mason evaporator.
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