Re: Maple Syrup producers: Saw this at TSC.
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03/24/18 07:25 PM
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make a good finishing pan
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Re: Maple Syrup producers: Saw this at TSC.
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03/26/18 11:26 PM
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The Beav
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We pulled today. Enough Is enough. Now we have 300 some gallons to boil off. We are going to break the 50 gallon mark. Now comes the clean up of all the gear.
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Re: Maple Syrup producers: Saw this at TSC.
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03/27/18 10:13 AM
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I shut my little operation down Sunday evening, got the last sap finishing down right now. I had couple trees run a bucket full Sunday others that still hadn't run?? can only think frost in ground? I burned a lot of wood cooking a guestemated 70 some gallons sap Sunday. I don't keep real close track but think I'm at around 3 gallons finished syrup so far? Hoping what is in the pan now finished at 2 maybe close to 3 gallons?? I agree the rig listed at the top would probably be best as finish pan. I'm small scale and cooking out side with LP is tough. I'm cooking this morning because I got rained out yesterday. Wind seemed to help stoke fire cooking over wood Sunday. Wind steals tons of heat when I finish with LP makes it slow going.
Mac
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Re: Maple Syrup producers: Saw this at TSC.
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03/27/18 11:30 AM
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Propane will eat you alive unless your running your sap through a reverse osmosis set up.
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Re: Maple Syrup producers: Saw this at TSC.
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03/27/18 11:49 AM
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Ya, a friend of mine does a few hundred liters of syrup a year. More some years and he burns up 20-30 cord of wood a year. And he always ends up dumping sap. He has a 16x4 foot evaporating chamber. I have fed the fire with him and when you calculate the BTUs needed to make a gallon of syrup, holy moly. The propane used would remove any profit you make. Even for a home system, it seems like money would be better spent on a better/larger evaporating pan, set it on some blocks, make a basic chimney system and go for it.
My buddy told me about a friend of his who wanted to make some syrup. He got all set up and started with the propane. Three propane tanks later he was blaming my buddy for not giving him good info, despite telling him not to use propane!
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Re: Maple Syrup producers: Saw this at TSC.
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03/27/18 12:28 PM
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You better have a well insulated fire box or your just wasting heat.
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Re: Maple Syrup producers: Saw this at TSC.
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03/27/18 05:42 PM
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Well I don't measure things to close with my sap collecting and cooking time all that. I'm pretty sure what I make cost me more than I could buy from someone else that is big operator? My hopes were dashed today when my last batch finished out just under the 2 gallon mark. I got to quit licking the spoon, drinking it like tea and spilling so much..I now having done an official count on my jars? Calculator say I'm at 5.25 gallons of finished syrup? I been using some as I made it too. I don't keep a log book or anything but think last year I was just over 4 gallons.. Don't really matter I start when I want, cook what I get, quit when I feel like it, don't do it as a competition. Probably could have left my taps out this week yet. But I'm going fishing instead.
Beav I think you nailed it with the well insulated wood heater box. I'm using a 55 gallon steel drum for my fire box on my wood cooker. I know I'm pushing plenty heat out the stack with the small fan I have as a blower. Can't stand for long along side it pouring sap or my legs about catch fire. Lot of heat going places other than into the sap pan.. Pretty sure I'd shorten my run time and wood use if I had fire brick box under that pan. But then I'd just want to run more taps.. vicious cycle I don't want to ride..LMAO!
Mac
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Re: Maple Syrup producers: Saw this at TSC.
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03/27/18 11:27 PM
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Your tapping 400 trees and your only collecting 350 gallons?
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