Just bringing this thread back to life a year later. Lets see some of your original equipment, My, the heat I lost and the wood I used during the first years.
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Just bringing this thread back to life a year later. Lets see some of your original equipment, My, the heat I lost and the wood I used during the first years.
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1960 - 1970s 70 taps on galvanized buckets with Dad and Grandpa.
1970s - 1985 Acted crazy!
1986 - 2005 20-30 buckets.
2006- 2017 70 buckets and bags
2017-2019 100 bags and buckets
2020 Finally retired!!! 75 buckets, 50-75 on tubing. RO Bucket, New 12 X 16 Shack and a 42X42 flat pan.
2021-Adding another 125 taps along with a second RO bucket.
2022- Shooting for 350 taps, with 100 on lines.
Lots of Family and Friends and dogs named Skyy and Nessy!
Thanks again for all the input this past year, I'm continually learning. After roughly 50 years of cooking without a shelter, I finally have a 14 X 18 to cook inside. I also will be doing my first year with a RO.
I did 17 gallons last year and I hope to double that this year. I am now retired so I'm not planning on anymore 72 hour boils as we had in the past. No more boiling on the weekends only as my sugar woods is 80 miles from home. Thanks Trapper
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1960 - 1970s 70 taps on galvanized buckets with Dad and Grandpa.
1970s - 1985 Acted crazy!
1986 - 2005 20-30 buckets.
2006- 2017 70 buckets and bags
2017-2019 100 bags and buckets
2020 Finally retired!!! 75 buckets, 50-75 on tubing. RO Bucket, New 12 X 16 Shack and a 42X42 flat pan.
2021-Adding another 125 taps along with a second RO bucket.
2022- Shooting for 350 taps, with 100 on lines.
Lots of Family and Friends and dogs named Skyy and Nessy!
Trapper, that's quite a drive to enjoy making syrup. I hope you don't sell syrup with the label identifying it as "scary syrup"
Dave Klish, I recently ordered a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.
Thus the reason for me having trail cameras on my bags and tanks letting me know when its time to go. Actually the Maple woods is at my hunting Cabin so it isn't so bad especially now that I'm retired.
Sell mostly to Family and Friends and they think humorous that I joined mine and Scotts name together to make it Scary. I only sell 60- 80 pints or so to strangers. I sell out of 15-20 gallons each year.
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1960 - 1970s 70 taps on galvanized buckets with Dad and Grandpa.
1970s - 1985 Acted crazy!
1986 - 2005 20-30 buckets.
2006- 2017 70 buckets and bags
2017-2019 100 bags and buckets
2020 Finally retired!!! 75 buckets, 50-75 on tubing. RO Bucket, New 12 X 16 Shack and a 42X42 flat pan.
2021-Adding another 125 taps along with a second RO bucket.
2022- Shooting for 350 taps, with 100 on lines.
Lots of Family and Friends and dogs named Skyy and Nessy!