340 tapped on Sunday and Monday morning with 4 shurflo pumps on batteries. Tonight collected 530 gallons of sap. Some still pulling sap. Not suppose to freeze till tomorrow night.
340 tapped on Sunday and Monday morning with 4 shurflo pumps on batteries. Tonight collected 530 gallons of sap. Some still pulling sap. Not suppose to freeze till tomorrow night.
First year 2012 34 taps 4 steam pans on blocks
2013 130 taps on homemade sap bag holders trying new fuel oil tank and 2 x 4 divided pan made 42 gallons of liquid gold
2014 Bought English tin drop flue 3 by 10 pans each 5 ft long Made arch for them. 83 taps on gravity 138 taps on sap bags
2015 268 taps on gravity short season oonly made 52 gallons
2016 328 tap on shurflo sold sap to help pay for stainless pans
200 on gravity lines and buckets tapped on Saturday, Monday collected 170 gallons. I'm realizing we made a mistake, we are really new at this and we bought our evaporator knowing that we are going to scale up fast but we probably wont even collect enough sap this year to sweeten our pans!!!
2016: 4 Buckets, 1 Gallon of syrup
2017: 70 on 3/16 Gravity, 180 on buckets, New Sugar Shack and Sunrise Metal 2x8 Maxiflame
2022: Boiling for 1200 taps, new Volcano 2000 coming next summer
Great Lakes Maple
Hey Middleville, I would love to come over and see your setup. I drive through town every day back and forth to Delton. I would like to add a shurflo.
Byron Center, I would like to see your outfit as you must be close to me. 100th and 131
Joel M , Your sap totals per tap seem really low for freshly tapped trees. Are these sugar maples or soft maples? We tapped on Saturday and pulled in approx. 2.5 gallons per tap over the 2 day run on buckets in mid Michigan. You are better off tapping latter this year than early. There is a lot of season left. BTW that is a sweet rig, you will get a lot of use out of it.
You can come look whenever you want. The weather is not looking good next week (no freeze). Should run Maybe Saturday for sure on Sunday and maybe Monday. Always a cold beer in the fridge or whiskey in freezer. Still no pan from Smokey Lake. For two weeks been saying working should ship next week but still no pan. I only went with them because of reviews on here and they told me I would have in four weeks (about Feb. 20). How hard is it to revise a 3x3 front pan for raised flues? I will never do business with them again. I asked for Jim to call and now a week later no call, very bad customer service.
First year 2012 34 taps 4 steam pans on blocks
2013 130 taps on homemade sap bag holders trying new fuel oil tank and 2 x 4 divided pan made 42 gallons of liquid gold
2014 Bought English tin drop flue 3 by 10 pans each 5 ft long Made arch for them. 83 taps on gravity 138 taps on sap bags
2015 268 taps on gravity short season oonly made 52 gallons
2016 328 tap on shurflo sold sap to help pay for stainless pans
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First year 2012 34 taps 4 steam pans on blocks
2013 130 taps on homemade sap bag holders trying new fuel oil tank and 2 x 4 divided pan made 42 gallons of liquid gold
2014 Bought English tin drop flue 3 by 10 pans each 5 ft long Made arch for them. 83 taps on gravity 138 taps on sap bags
2015 268 taps on gravity short season oonly made 52 gallons
2016 328 tap on shurflo sold sap to help pay for stainless pans
Ed, 90% of the taps are on Sugar Maples. We have about 60 taps on 3/16 which we put in too early about 2 weeks ago, the rest are on buckets which we tapped on Saturday. Thanks! We got bit by the sugar bug hard last year and are really enjoying it, just wish the weather was a little better...
2016: 4 Buckets, 1 Gallon of syrup
2017: 70 on 3/16 Gravity, 180 on buckets, New Sugar Shack and Sunrise Metal 2x8 Maxiflame
2022: Boiling for 1200 taps, new Volcano 2000 coming next summer
Great Lakes Maple
You didn't get that review from me..... Try sugarbush in mason they have a lot of used stuff, I bet they have the pan you need.Originally Posted by huntingken111
Huntingken, Are you able to boil without a front pan? or are you having someone else boil it for you. I agree with mapledave call sugarbush to see what they have. Sunrise might be able to fab one up quick too.
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