We bought one of Daryl’s hand pump presses many years ago. It was a real game changer over our previous cone filters. It’s a well built press and Daryl answered all my questions when I called. As our production increased, the hand pump got to be a limitation. It a way faster than gravity filtering, but still a bit of work. To speed things up we replaced the hand pump with a pneumatic diaphragm pump. That’s a great upgrade. Very fast and easy to get clear syrup.

We just had a record year and the 5” press is a little small for over 100 gallons so we may need to get something bigger in the future.