UK Birch Sucker
Greetings all from the windy, wet and beautiful United Kingdom (Yeah, yeah, Brexit...)
Anyway. Brief intro before I bring up my RO issue:
I've been tapping Birch personally for around 20 years, last year (2019) I had bought lots of equipment but had my trees taken from under me 2 days before access, which delayed me until this year.
I have 1-200 trees capacity running on lines into 1000L tanks.
For my RO system I have a Pentair PRF-RO being fed by a cheap pump (More on that in my RO issues!)
For the boil I have 2 x 4'x3'x6" trays,
For finishing I have a 2'x2'x6" tray.
My trees (Downy Birch & Hybrids) started to run just-a-tiny-bit about 4 days ago, sap volume is doubling by the day.
The setup is in large heavy duty tents up a hill with no mains water supply, and no electricity (!)
The pump is running off a 12v battery, the burners under the pans are running off gas cans.
This is already a gnarly affair, and a few stages I hadn't envisaged are going to make it difficult to get decent syrup.
Glad I've joined here though as there is lots to read, and a few questions to ask!
Happy Tapping
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