What's everyone have planned for this year?

[USMCLtcol]

Major upgrade for us this second year. Going to have 45 taps and built an oil tank evaporator with 2x4 pans. Going to test sap sacks to see how they work. Last year was 15 taps and a turkey fryer
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This was our test boil last weekend. Sap should start flowing around Jan 26 with a cycle of 40-20 degree days in Lynchburg VA

[WVKeith]

Nice looking evaporator. Stack looks like Frankenstein, but evaporator is nice.

[Tweegs]

Added a bunch of electronics in the shack to help keep an eye on things.
Blasting all that info to a data logger up at the house.
Hope is that we can do a post season analysis and find more ways to improve.

Putting 500’ of Rapi-tube up on the neighbor’s property. We’ll call that a ground-rule double.
75 more taps up on vacuum means 75 less buckets to deal with. Win-win.
Has to be a takedown system, though, thus the rapi-tube.

Got a transit for Christmas. Real eye opener there.
Couple of stretches of mainline originally set up with a hand held site level for 2% actually measured only 1.3%.
Explains why I was having so much trouble with what looked like sags. In reality, I just didn’t have much slope there to work with.
1.3% isn’t very forgiving.
All better now.

[USMCLtcol]

Nice looking evaporator. Stack looks like Frankenstein, but evaporator is nice.

Had to get the stack away from the from the side of my shop which is directly above. Too much wood working equipment up there!