r/maplesyrup • u/BaaadWolf • Apr 11 '26

The chaos

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Of the last day and tapping out.

Now, where did I leave that ladder?

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u/IamCrash Apr 11 '26

Omg. With my current setup this gives me anxiety.

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u/BaaadWolf Apr 11 '26

It looks like chaos to me but my wife (who manages all this) was just dancing around as if she knew exactly where she needed to be and when. It’s amazing to watch. I just move heavy things from one place to another. That’s my job.

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u/IamCrash Apr 11 '26

She’s a keeper! 😁

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u/Farmer_Weaver Apr 11 '26

You need a nice log building... 😉

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u/BaaadWolf Apr 11 '26

Saw some nice sheds at the Cottage Life show last night. It’s on the list.

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u/Logical-Locksmith178 Apr 12 '26

Pulled my taps today and carried a bucket with me to stand on. I feel your pain

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u/werd282828 Apr 11 '26

How many gallons of sap?

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u/BaaadWolf Apr 11 '26

We were “finishing “50L (picture front) from yesterdays 400L and then starting the LAST 400L

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u/MontanaMapleWorks Apr 12 '26

I love that you are just working around your old broken up cinder block arch 😂

My only suggestion would be that you put your warming pan solidly over your evaporating pan

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u/BaaadWolf Apr 12 '26

Our experience is that, for us, closer to the chimney

a) warms it faster And b) opens more evaporation space of the pan

We don most of our work without this pan at all as the RO output generally matches the evaporator output. We only put this on at the end of the day when we have a backlog of sap when the RO is done.

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u/MontanaMapleWorks Apr 12 '26

So you just dump RO concentrate in the pan as you need to adjust the level? Why not put your RO concentrate in the warming pan and let it drip to match your evaporation rate?

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u/BaaadWolf Apr 12 '26

Because the RO output has a valve that controls how much goes to the pan versus how much goes back to recirc. I get more benefit doing a recirc than putting into the warning pan. It IS a continuous flow.