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Thank You, Mike, I will look into further.
Maple season is over, here.
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On the note of the filter press. Another thing I like about the wine press set up is that the filter plates already have the diatomaceous earth on them so i don't have to mix filter aid into the syrup.
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Here is a photo of the syrup going through the filter. Sorry it wasn't the clearest. Its hard to filter and bottle at the same time by myself.
I stopped collecting sap on Wednesday. It was starting to become bud sap.
I stopped collecting sap on Wednesday. It was starting to become bud sap.
OP
Avondale
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Mike. How does this work? Looks like a tube in and out but beyond that ...
The system works by pressurizing the tank with the syrup in it. The line runs from the tank to the top and bottom plates that have inlets above the filters. Above the bottom inlet and below the top inlet there is a filter that the syrup is forced through. Between the two plates is where the filtered syrup comes out and is forced out the outlet through a line.
Huh. I've seen my neighbors use theirs, but it's beyond the budget of this back yard boiler.
It was just starting to run here when the hot weather hit last year...we'll be having the cold nights warm days again all this week but I don't know what that will do to the sap.
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Avondale
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Mike; I am wondering how fast this can filter your tank and how big is the tank? Does it require electrics to run (I see your's is indoors but we do ours in the shack out back). Could your say if it is faster than the old fashioned paper/wool type filters?
We are expecting a return to syrup making temps but we packed our shack up because the buds are out and opened. The sap gets cloudy, yellowish and then stops. Not sure what the heat wave then return of winter will do to the enviroment (bugs, birds, plants, etc). We have flowers up and green things all over.
We are expecting a return to syrup making temps but we packed our shack up because the buds are out and opened. The sap gets cloudy, yellowish and then stops. Not sure what the heat wave then return of winter will do to the enviroment (bugs, birds, plants, etc). We have flowers up and green things all over.
The tank is a 7 liter. It doesn't require any electronics to run, you just pressurize the tank with the hand pump and the syrup is forced though the filters. I find it faster than running the syrup through a bunch of prefilters and coffee filters. It takes about a minuet to fill up a Liter mason jar. The only down fall I find with it is it leaks a little bit if pressurized to high, but the big cast aluminum ones also leak. That is why they have catch pans below them. It also waists a bit more syrup because some gets left in the filters. On the old style orlon filters you would end up wasting about the same unless you washed them back into the evaporator. I would never go back after using a filter press, even this cheap one, because of the clarity of the syrup it puts out. No Niter (sugar sand) in the bottom of the glass jars and the diatomaceous earth on the filters also takes any bacteria out of the syrup.
