How to use ALL of a cone filter

[rayjavu]

I used one of these for the first time this year and it is everything it's advertised to be. What a difference it makes!

[barnbc76]

Hope to use the optimizer this season

[tbear]

You are going to LOVE it! Ted

[pobryan]

Hi everyone,
We are happy to announce that Devon Lane Farm Supply, 357 DAniel Shays Highway, Belchertown, MA 01007 ph 413-323-6336 is now a stocking retailer of the Optimizer. They also carry a selection of other equipment for the Maple Sugar Maker. So if you live in the Central Massachusetts area you can get an Optimizer direct from them and save shipping costs.
As always if you are not near one of our stocking dealers we are happy to ship directly to you including into Canada.
You can contact me directly at pobryan@verizon.net
Thanks
Pat

[pobryan]

Just want to reach out and let everyone know we are still around, and the Optimizer is making a positive impact on small producer filtering. We just added a website that has lots of info with videos, etc.
Check it out at: www.conefilteroptimizer.com

Hope you all have a great holiday season.
Pat

[jjohns2vt]

This will be my first year making maple syrup and filtering was one of the last hurdles, not being completely satisfied with cone filter options out there until I came across this. With as many online searches I have done for something like this, it never showed up in the search results, unfortunately. Thanks!!!

[Andy VT]

Cool! The economizer sounds like a cool way to use a cone filter. I will say I haven't felt the need, but it did give me a good idea. You can hand-shape the cone filter into the economizer shape for small quantities and it will more or less keep that shape. For large batches, like 1.5 gallons or more, you probably wouldn't be able to maintain that shape without the economizer, but also might not really need to.
Just my two cents on it.
It is a nifty little idea. Just wanted to mention the same thing, to some extent, can be done without it.
Andy

[82cabby]

I used the optimizer last season for the first time. It’s a significant improvement over just the cone filter.

[SeanD]

Ditto on the Optimizer. There are some things in this industry you pay a lot for and get a little back. Or you pay a lot for and you make it obsolete with upgrades the next season.
This is the opposite. For a little money you will dramatically DRAMATICALLY improve your filtering time and efficiency. I used two in tandem filtering right off the rig with about 300 taps and an RO. These little guys can keep up. Of course there can be tough moments, with some heavy niter or accidentally pulling off the rig too heavy (user error), but that happens with any gravity filter. If anything, the Optimizer saved my butt more often than not.

I have since upgraded to a small filter press, but spending short money on one then a second for a few seasons allowed me to save and invest in other parts of the operation until I was able to make the jump to a filter press.

If you are a smaller timer looking to improve your gravity filtering before making the jump to mechanical filtering, you can not do any better than this.

[Andy VT]

I may be sold! For 2025 at least. Gotta cool it for 2024. :-)