Jeff sounds like you have your work cut out for you,,,what do you mean by syrup "gelling" in syrup pan?
After about 18 deg. yesterday AM warmed up a littel here yesterday around 1pm,,started the pumps,,got about 200 gal on hoit road (south face) 150 gal on rte.11 and 100 (cold) in Hill,,,
Had only 16" on rte.11,,,isolated the leak on the releaser valves to the uphill conductor line,,,went up that line turning off lateral main lines,,found leaking main,,,walked out it and found a lateral line off a saddel,,,took about 5 mins.,,,,without those valves could have been hours and hours,,,,,was walking right on top of 3-4 feet of hardfrozen snow,,,good trucking out in the woods when it is this cold,,,,looks like the snow is starting to melt away from the trees a littel
Young Ray got the 2 ton pretty well set up,,will put finishing touches on it monday,,looking forward to haulung 1400 gal per trip,,
Got the fitting welded on the finisher yesterday,,amazing what a good welder and a tig machine can do,,will now clean out Marvin befor we boil agine,,my grade is down to darkA,,,