Excellent job explaining all the options! Clear and concise. Thank you for letting us know the prices also. Great job!

Great video! I wonder how many people do the math? At $75/gallon for propane cost x 2 gallons $150.00 pers season it would take someone 11 years to break even on that 1/2 pint investment w/flat pan. The you need to add the cost of wood. Even if you have trees on property factor all that labor to falling trees, cutting, splitting allowing to season. Just my 2 cents.

Great video on the subject of evaporators and what you need . I’m a hobbyist myself with 50 taps and a 2by4 arch lots of fun times with friends and family

Nice innovation on the fluted pan bottom. I think God intended that maple syrup HAS to be done with wood fuel. Look into the thermodynamics of of the preheater configuration. Perched inside the evaporator means that it is dripping condensed water back into the boil. The air intake under the fire door is called a draft. The damper is the restrictor plate in the exhaust flue.

This sugaring thing ,sure is addicting. Boy do we love it. Good informative video .

One more point to my recent post. Buy a hobby RO for $350 and then boil half the sap and cut your propane cost in half. That’s the best bang for your buck for a Turkey fryer setup!

Good video with plenty of information

I enjoyed your latest video. Very informative. I did have to adjust my sound level several times as your voice got lower in some segments. Thanks!

Never do the propane exchange if possible. Instead find a fill station in your area & have the tanks refilled. The exchange tanks often aren’t filled to the full 20 lbs. I can get 3 20lb tanks fully filled for about the cost of 1 tank exchange. The only time I do an exchange is if I have a outdated tank that my local hardware store can’t by law refill. My 2X4 finisher runs on propane. Great introductory video for new small producers! I’ll be sure to recommend.

Great comparison 👍 i boil on a 20x30 divided with preheater and push about 6 gal boil rate per hr. Would love to be at 10 gph. (Ohio).

Great video.

Nice!

Great Video. I need to gear up this year. My sugar bush is about 50 acres with 2500 to 5000 taps. Plan is to get to 2500 taps. I will go to RO but that is a year or two out. First major outlay will be my evaporator. How big an evaporator would you recommend.

Looking to upgrade next year hopefully if budget allows for it. I have a 3 x 10 small brothers. Now I live in Fairfield Vermont

Have a 2x6 lappier was wondering the 2x4 sap pan at the back what is a 5inch raised flue if your 11 inch would work .

Why only a couple of inches in the bottom of the turkey pot? Ive had 30 tps on buckets and got only about 100-150 gals of sap for the last several years and spend about 3 days boiling with the lobster pot on the wood fire outside to get only about 1.5-2 gals of syrup. I am expanding this year adding some tubing and doubling my taps I plan to build a small RO unit to reduce the amount of sap that i need to boil back to the 100-150 gallon range to make twice as much syrup. I will run this year and try to find the bottleneck but probably look to get a more effecient pan with more surface area for next year. Does anyone make custom size pans?

I'd like to order a set of 2x6 pans with Max Flu. :) Apparently I've caught the maple bug.

Curious how many taps you are running with that 2x6 and what you are getting your concentrate up to

I don't have any maples but 50 or more walnut trees on my farm would this work the same or are there major differences in cooking and temps. ?

I made mine out of a file cabinet. This is my first year. Put in 16 taps yesterday and got 25 or so gallons today. I have no idea if that's good or not

What size is your evaporater?

How much is a 3ft by 10 ft unit?

2×6?

So 10,000 plus a small R/o 3,000 or more