Does anyone out there use a 140 qt mixer for making sugar? If so how many gallons can you do at a time? How do you heat it? We have a 30 qt mixer and can do 2½ gallon at a time. Looking to go bigger. Much bigger.
Making a large volume of sugar
Does anyone out there use a 140 qt mixer for making sugar? If so how many gallons can you do at a time? How do you heat it? We have a 30 qt mixer and can do 2½ gallon at a time. Looking to go bigger. Much bigger.
9500 on vaccum with 3½ x 14 Lapierre Turbo 2
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4 little sugarmakers in training aging between 13 and 15 years old
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You could get the biggest mixer in the world but you would still have to figure out how to boil the syrup to a high enough temperature. High pressure steam is the only option and you would have to invest some serious $$$ and make a seriously large amount of sugar to make it worthwhile. Bascom's and Butternut have cracked that nut...
About 750 taps on High Vac.
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Springtech Elite 500 RO
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just using the math thats 12gal batches. bigger issue is space and climate control to sift and "cure" time.
Fred Ahrens
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A camp near you in Garrett County Maryland made over 3800 pound of Sugar last year, they must have some easy way too make that much. Doesn’t a gallon produce 8 pounds? That over 450 gallons of syrup turned into sugar?
Mark220maple
1100 taps on low vaccum, 900 on gravity.
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We only get 5.5# per gal sometimes 6#. gallon of sap is 8# and syrup is 11#Originally Posted by 220 maple
Fred Ahrens
330-206-1606
Richards Ohio Maple Equipment
Ohio CDL sales rep
LaPierre Dealer
H&M maple fabricator Dealer
Service Tech/repair for all brands and electronics
don't take life too serious, nobody gets out alive anyways!
This is how you do it, Matt. Spray drying... only $135,000 for a decent used system.
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