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This machine is part of the machine room. The machine room pulls the maple sap from the trees into an IBC which I use for main storage then runs it through an RO system to reduce the amount of water in the sap and to concentrate the sugar. When the sap comes out of the tree it is around 2 to 3 percent sugar. Maple syrup is 66% sugar. The sugar is increased byh boiling. Large producers use oil or gas fired boilers. We use a wood fired boiler. The RO raises the sugar level to around 10% sugar which means that 70% of the work of getting from 3 percent to 66% is already done.

I don’t hate AI. I hate that every company is trying to force me to use AI in products where I don’t want or need AI. I want an, “I don’t want AI” option that turns it off, removes it, and doesn’t reinstall it every time there is an update.

Well, I’m pleased to have you experience it vicariously through me. Please feel free to ask any questions that might come up.

I hope you’re not too disappointed. I created this community so that I could share all the things that I do and build to make maple syrup and so that other hobbyist and artisan maple syrup makers could share their stuff.

As built that one drove me crazy. The slot was not alligned with the center of the straight coupler. I cut it off and welded it in the correct position. I would really like the slot to be narrower so that it catches the small couplers like the flat hooks better andI would like them a few millimeters longer and with a bit more of a bend in it. It’s an easy fix but it’s one of those things that I just never seem to get around to.

It works really well as it is but it would be that much better with a bit of modification.

Yes. No tape means that the line is as put to bed with the taps capped and the lines full of isopropyl alcohol. Orange is the color my son puts on the loops once he has been through with the chainsaw if there is something that needs my attention. As I work my way through the system once I have the lines tightened and any repairs made I put green tape on the loop. I start at the far end of the system and work my way forward. When I go back out I start at the first line that doesn’t have green tape and continue to work my way in. When I start testing I will start at the far end and once I have each line free of leaks and rinsed with hydrogen peroxide I remove the green tape. Any fittings that need attention or and points where there is a leak in the line gets orange tape if I don’t repair it immediately or if someone other than me finds the problem. When everything is ready to run there will be no tape anywhere on the system.

Once the run is finished I go back out, pull the taps, and run in isopropyl alcohol. I put a green flag on the last line that I worked on, moving it forward as I go. When I hit the sugar shack the lines are free of flags and put to bed for the year.