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11-02-2009, 10:48 PM
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The hot water from the preheater is used for cleaning purposes, mainly. Coffee, tea, hot chocolate, instant oatmeal, etc.- whatever needs hot water would be secondary usages.
Steve
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Son & Father backyard operation 185 taps- half on tubing (gravity), half on buckets 2.5'x6' homemade evaporator- raised flue, welded stainless pans, woodfired w/blower, homemade hood w/ pre-heater Ford one ton 4x4 sap gatherer No chickens A few puzzled neighbors... http://s606.photobucket.com/albums/t...uckethead1920/ 
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11-03-2009, 10:43 AM
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Have buddy with a 4x16 intenso fire that has a pipe that runs out side from the preheater and he put his extra finish pan under it and it melts away the niter. never neds to clean the pan with acid.
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1100 on vacuum 3X10 Waterloo Small oil fired with pre heater. 24X36" gas fired finishing pans 10X16 Evaporator room 16X24 kitchen+bottling room. vacuum pump called the BEAST new Gast vac pump 2 Bernard double extractors HOLLY GRAIL of bottlers 20 gallon coffee maker 7" filter press Allis Chalmers B Alot of family and friends to help Old yellow lab called Maple
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11-03-2009, 06:28 PM
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My wife brought me a tasse of coffee when I boiling and then informs me she forgot sweetner and was going to go get some. I just told her it was handled and ladled some syrup into the cup and drank it.
I could see trying to store some of the water off the evaporator as the water here is bad for house plants.
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150 taps instead of the 30 planned for. Hmmmmm Plans to expand to a few more if possible. I just might be crazy.( make that I know I am) Time to start working on Maple. Last edited by KenWP : 11-10-2009 at 06:42 PM.
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#16
11-10-2009, 10:55 AM
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It's distilled water if you got a market for it and a buyer, you could run it into a bulk tank and the buyer could pump it out and pay you for it. Old time sugarmaker down here had a 4x14 and a 3x8 running side by and he collected the distilled water off the hoods and bottled and sold it.
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Brandon 2x8 Leader Welded Drop Flue Inferno arch with custom stainless hood and preheater Kubota L3400 DT 4x4 Tractor w/ Loader 625 treesaver taps 610 on gravity pipeline & 15 on buckets Lapierre 7" 4 bank filter press 24x48 sugarhouse WEBSITE: http://s203.photobucket.com/albums/aa160/wvmapler
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11-10-2009, 07:07 PM
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I know that when sap is good quality the condensate is ok to use for drinking like making coffee or hot chocolate etc. but once the sap starts to get nasty the condensate from the preheater doesn't taste as good.
Keith
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