2009 New York St. maple producers winter conference

[Brian Ryther]

I also listened to Brad discuss wood fired evap techniques. I picked up a lot of tricks. But threw everything he said out the window after listening to the French men form Lapiere discuss there new arch Hurricane 5. It runs almost 1000 degrees hotter than traditional arches and only needs to be fired once every 40 min to 60 min. They claimed it needed to be turned down because it ran too hot. We will see.
Bottom line good show.
BR

[themapleking]

Just remember these are salesmen and they all make claims that their product is better than the other guys. Will tell you anything to get you hooked in.
At 2000 temp. Metal melts around 2200-2300. That's alot of stress on the pans. You're pans will likely be burned out after 3 seasons
A little old lady drove to church every sunday

[Brian Ryther]

With sap in the pan it does not matter how hot the fire is. It will not melt the metal. I do not think there is point where there is to much heat.

[nymapleguy607]

The point of too much heat is when there is that fire ball coming out your stack