2/ I bought the "pro" pan with "fins" down the bottom, to increase heat transfer. Only problem is that the fins are hollow and fill with sap... and the only way to drain them is to lift the entire 2' x 6' pan full of hot syrup and pour it out. This is not a problem if...
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3/ You're tapping 200 trees, bc the hassle of that final cleanup bit for 1% of your syrup is proportionally pretty small. But if you're tapping 50 trees (as we will be some day) or 8 trees (as we are this year, because reasons), it means that ~50+% of your syrup is down in fins
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4/ I also bought a "float box" which auto regulates sap level in the evaporating pan. What I just now learned is "you connect that to your head tank". My WHAT? OK, so for next year I need to mount a ~50+ gallon barrel to the wall and plumb it into the system.
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5/ For this year I'm just going to remove the float box and plug the hole with a 3/4" NPT stainless steel plug. So, anyway, ~$700 for a pan upgrade I kinda don't actually want, and ~$300 for a float box I'll not use until 2019. /shrug oh well.
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6/ I will definitely document this in my "how to hobo farm like a sir" self published book so that y'all don't make the same mistakes.
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Maple syrup is a heckuva lot easier to produce. Tap trees, tubes to buckets, evaporate, bottle. Cane requires cultivated farming, harvesting, cutting, crushing, melting, filtering, evaporating, "seeding", centrifuge separation, waste removal, drying, packaging.
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But that climate makes the work required to harvest the cane insanely hard and sweaty. Tapping trees >>>>> cutting cane.
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