So far I've got 5 boils in. Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday and Thursday last week and another yesterday. The vacuum is working great except our sugar content is horrible... Yesterday was 118 gal to 1 gal of syrup! So far all I've got bottled up is just over 5 gallons, also so far, I've gone through a sh*t load of wood!

Is anyone else seeing the same? Man, I don't mind working hard or long, I just like to see something out of it. Going to pick up a CDL Hobby RO tomorrow to ease the pain.

The Air Injectionfrom H20 is pretty neat. Been playing with the settings between the flue and syrup pans and think I've got it just about right, we've made nothing but light syrup so far. There is still nitre in the pans, but as has been said before, it's much lighter in color.

Cleaning up Saturday, I did notice some nitre sticking to the pans. Russ Lampron at Red Roof Maples (one of the gurus on injection -with his Bubble Master), says he keeps his blower going until the pans have cooled off. That makes lots of sense to me and is something I had failed to consider - hence the nitre issue. I have since kept it going until everything is cool enough to touch. Will see next weekend how it works.

Hope everyone is doing better than we are.