I've heard of people using these but never seen the setup. Very cool! I'm in the heart of syrup country and I'm surprised that more people haven't switched to something similar. It is awfully fun standing around a boiler for a week straight feeding a fire though so can't blame them entirely. Well done!

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I've got 116 taps this year and can go up to 250 next year. I think once I scale up next year I'll have to build some sort of wood fired boiler. It's been interesting learning about where the biggest efficiency gains can be found as I scale up. Last year I totally redesigned my strategy around which trees to tap and how I went about collecting. It ended up saving me tons of time. When I only had 30 taps, the collection process didn't seem that important.