I don’t have experience with it - just something I read. I also read that if you dump extra sap into the pan at the end of the day as a safety for...
Today’s fun, after a foot of heavy, wet snow. That’s my 3/4” pipeline on high tensile wire under the tree in the first picture. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Some people bring their pans up to a boil every 3 days during a long wait, to kill bacteria periodically.
This week looks pretty good… [ATTACH]
As a kid my first buckets were gallon milk jugs, hung upside down, with a hole in the side for the spout, and another for the hook. Then I moved...
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[ATTACH] Had not used the winch yet this year, decided to go grab a Black Cherry blowdown. Good thing I wasn’t on anyone’s time clock, as I was...
Yes, the pan is a modern-day SS welded flat pan with no dividers on the old arch I’m using now. I’ll try to get some decent pictures of my newer...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Quickly! My arch (an arch is the heating part of an evaporator) was built over 100 years ago, but the design endured into the...
I had about 10 gallons that ran today. I left it in the woods, and will finish off two small batches in the house tonight. Good weather ahead,...
Reading material (free PDF) for those already dreaming of next year: North American Maple Syrup Producers Manual, 3rd Ed. – Maple Research
Grampa installed a Tarm in our house when I was a kid (mid 70’s). Wood/coal style, connected to the oil boiler for one set of circulation pumps...
It is just the Leader Half Pint pan, sits on top of the main pan, has tabs tacked on the bottom to keep it from shimming off. It was a bit of an...
[ATTACH] I added a preheater, and am pleasantly surprised- it gets the sap from 35 degrees up to 90 degrees. Leaving it running at a trickle,...
10-12” of heavy new snow. I’m collecting sap from the barrel using the ATV, carrying the sap in milk buckets. Had 8 buckets worth of sap the past...
[ATTACH] Samples of my two finish batches. Cold weather a few more days, and then another chance.
I agree, although not everything is coming out of the air - some of it comes out of the syrup, too.
Good advice all around, yooperdave , above. In software development we say a job has a development timeframe, cost, and quality, but you can...
Just 29 taps - enough to have fun with family. Borrowed a friend’s post and beam shed. It has seen much better days. Using a 2x3 flat pan, and old...
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