Last year was my first year tapping, 13 black walnut taps. I didn't know what I was doing and only filtered the hot finished walnut syrup thru 1 cone prefilter and 1 cone orlon filter; it was SLOW. I ended-up sqeezing the filters just to get as much syrup thru as possible. Had I known more, I would have already built a shop-vac vacuum filter which I now have for this year. Not sure how it will work, but it will be now filtering a combo of maple and walnut syrup with DE to help the process. I would definitely avoid trying to filter walnut syrup using gravity alone. This year I also plan on prefiltering the nearup before putting it into the finishing pot.
Last edited by Openwater; 02-04-2021 at 10:01 AM.
2020 - 1st year - 13 black walnut taps - 4 bottles syrup
2021 - 50 taps, 22 black walnuts/28 red maples - 4 gallons syrup
2022 - 54 taps, 11 black walnuts/41 red maples, 20 on solar shurflo vacuum - 8.5 gallons syrup
2023 - 47 taps on 45 red maples, 43 on solar shurflo vacuum