Eastern Township Quebec 2023
Good evening,
Tapping completed. 15 days later then last year and 1month later then 4years ago.
2days of good windows this week, that will clean the line and check the vacuum.
I guess Punxsutawney Phil was right!!!!!!!
Have a nice season and have fun.
Cheers
Finally,
Good start today 100g of sap .. the next 2days should be good. My new Small RO will run hard tomorrow. Saturday will be a good boiling day.
Sap is barely 2brix…but i tried a small quantity with my new toy and i was able to get 8brix…very anxious to see how my boiling day will be Saturday with that sap on “steroids “..
Have Fun!
Cheers
Erick
Good evening,
Good boiling day… my new RO is fantastic. The intake is installed directly in my incoming box of the evaporator. After 1hr i was able to fire the evaporator.
The concentrate was directly returned on the other side of the incoming box. I adjusted the flow to run directly in the evaporator will running.
Now i’m able to boil and skip a day and boil from 8 to 4 . Not bad for an amateur who have fun.
Cheers
Erick
Can you pls post more pictures of your RO assembly.
Looks great and portable>
How do you rinse the filters ?
Cheers
2010 40 buckets- 4 gals finished
2011 80 buckets- 14 gals finished
2012 105 buckets- 8 gals finished
2013 maxed at 130 buckets- 24 gals finished
2014 new max at 240 buckets- 18 gals finished
2015 newest max 240 buckets-+48 taps on 3/16 gravity- 22.5 gals finished
2016 150 taps on 3/16 gravity- 23 gals finished
2020 250 taps on 3/16 gravity- 22 gals finished
2021 385 taps on 3/16 gravity 25 gals finished
2022 385 taps on 3/16 gravity- 26 gals finished
Good evening,
I’ll make a small video tomorrow
Cheers
Erick
Ps. For cleaning i use the same process explained with the RoBucket. That is the most simplified way to rinse it.
Goos evening,
Another great day of boiling… , SAP is running normal at just 2brix. But with the RO i run between 7,8 brix to start.
But the really good part is running in warm SAP the flow is amazing compare to cold SAP.
Need to work on the 3/16 tomorrow Vacuum is down.
Have fun!
Looks good on the Japa 365, pre-seasoned wood, great idea.
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.
Good morning
Well no boiling for few days again….
-8c this morning.. i finished last night and empty everything , the next 48hrs are frozen..
We are 2 weeks behind with that weather.. it will be a quiet weekend.
Cheers
Good day!
Freezing rain since yesterday. But no damage yet only small piece all over the place.
Forecast today mid afternoon is 10c. Starting Monday over 12c everyday and no minus for the next 10 days.
May be the end. We are in high altitude at 10km of the Maine border.
Strange weather most of everyone in the area have not reach their normal volume.
The next 2 days will be probably the last boiling.
Have a great day
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