It's been a good season after a terrible one last year. I have 30 taps and made a little under 7 gallons. I do not have a float box. I've been manually adjusting flow from my tank to feed pan to divided pan. A float box wood be a nice addition and increase efficiency.

PS: What are the dimensions of your cupola? Do you think its clearing steam well enough? Thanks!

Thanks for inquiring. I don't plan on expanding, happy with the small set up I have. I had 30 taps this year, all buckets, up from 18 in the past 3 years. Unfortunately in Vermont this was an off year. Most big producers only made about half their normal crop. If you didn't have pumps things were tough. The sugar content was very low. It took me about 70 gallons of sap to make a gallon. I gathered approx 300+ gallons of sap and made a little over 4 gallons of syrup. In the past I've made 6+ gallons on 18 taps. I'm hoping for a better, more productive year in 2022. The "Dauntless" worked great. Love it and I am pleased with how my set up worked. Now onto my summer vegetable garden. Might be a few weeks, it snowed yesterday. Thanks again!

I'm still gathering and boiling. I've been boiling about 10-12 gallons per hour. Sugar content is low this year so it's taking about 60-65 gallons of sap to make a gallon of syrup. Operating is easy, a slow trickle coming in to keep your level at 2" is easy. Just feed wood, keeping a good boil going. Shipping was prompt and assembly was kind of fun and gratifying you know how it's all put together. Just watch the video on assembly. Thank you to Smoky Lake for putting out these videos. Good Luck!

@@jdsvt4101 That's awesome. I'm glad you're enjoying and it makes me even more excited to use mine next season!