What is the right size evaporator for you for making maple syrup?
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- Опубліковано 14 лис 2022
- Taking you through your options when it comes to the different entry size evaporators or maybe the turkey cooker is still the right size for you.
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Excellent job explaining all the options! Clear and concise. Thank you for letting us know the prices also. Great job!
It’s all about real facts
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.
The pre heater has a pain under it that collects the condensate and has a drain. But your are right. I now have sap entering the rig at 210 sometimes. I gained 10 GPH
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.
Don't forget about the time. The turkey cooker takes forever where the wood fired rigs have higher GPH
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!
The RO defiantly has a quicker ROI
Only issue I have found is RO syrup doesn't taste as good but it makes it faster this is all my opinion
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
Sugaring brings friends and family together
This sugaring thing ,sure is addicting. Boy do we love it. Good informative video .
It sure is
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 The only time I do an exchange is if I have a outdated tank that my local hardware store can’t by law refill.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.
You are right that getting propane refilled is cheaper but it is still expensive and with gas going up so is propane.
Good video with plenty of information
Hope it helps a little
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!
It’s hard to get the volume right every time when switching camera angles
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).
1/2 pt supreme with a blower would get you there for sure
Nice!
Thanks!
Great video.
Thanks!
Was that what you were looking for for a beginners guide? or do you still have other questions?
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
If you would like to talk n equipment after the season I'd love to give you a price
@@dunnfamilymaple7642 Sounds like a pan 😊☑️
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.
I would think 3x10-12 ish if your gonna have 5000
I'd like to order a set of 2x6 pans with Max Flu. :)
Apparently I've caught the maple bug.
Yep
2x6 with a small ro will keep you happy for quite a while
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 .
For leader it is either a 7” or 11”. With the 11” you will gain gallons per hour of evaporation due to increased surface area
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?
So the reason for only a few inches is you only have so many inches that the fire contacts your pan. Outside of that it is just storing the sap in the pan. If you fill the pot up it takes more to keep it hot, so running a lower level makes it more efficient. You might be able to get a small metal shop to make your a custom pan but generally most equipment manufacturers have set sizes. There are a lot of options that are available for pan sizes though.
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. ?
from what I have heard the temps are the same but I have never really dug into it.
Walnut makes awesome syrup. It can be hit or miss if they flow or not from year to year, usually when they flow they flow really well.
@@Tonnsfabrication That is good to hear. I have never hit a flow off a walnut. A few drops and it quits.
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
Do you have a way to check the brix of the sap, if so what is it? Sounds like the trees are flowing, average is a gallon a day using buckets, if you get some tube and a little grade it will help increase gpd.
24 hours and 1.5 ish gallons per tap that's not bad this time of year
you need a sap hydrometer to check the sap and that will tell you a lot about what your trees are doing
@@Tonnsfabrication I have plenty grade.lol. it's on a hillside. I'd forgotten how heavy 5 gallon buckets can get.
@@dunnfamilymaple7642 I'll order one
Curious how many taps you are running with that 2x6 and what you are getting your concentrate up to
Just over 1600 taps last night I was in a hurry so I took 1% sap up to 5 when we started and ended about 8%. I like 8%+ but I don't have a minimum that I start with.
@@dunnfamilymaple7642 ok thank you season here in Wisconsin is still going here… me and my brother have a 700 tap operation and will eventually get to around 1500… we were planning on purchasing a evaporator this summer so we can cook everything our selves… we were thinking a 30x8 paired with a econox 600 or something to that extent curious what your thoughts were on what would be a good option
What size is your evaporater?
2x6 with. 4 ft max flu 2ft syrup
Ok thanks for taking the time to let me know about the evaporater
How much is a 3ft by 10 ft unit?
there are a few different options that make it hard to just spit ball a price. If you want to call me I can get more of an idea of what you are looking for
So 10,000 plus a small R/o 3,000 or more
not quite sure what you are referring to
2×6?
Yes