Dual Evaporators

[Overmyhead]

This past weekend i decided to run both evaporators. I had an older one not being used to set it up to act as a preheater and then dump into the main evaporator. Worked out pretty well.16393

[maple maniac65]

Back in the day a 15000 tap operation here in NH had a 4x12, 5x16, and a 6x16 all hooked together as one big unit. I believe oil was less back then because he had oil burners mounted on the rear of the rigs in addition to the front.

[lew]

Back in the day we used to run 2 5x16 units drawing syrup from both at the same time. Learned to get 1 unit up and drawing well before you fired up the other one. Having syrup in the middle of both pans at the same time can give you some gray hairs.

[Overmyhead]

I used both evaoporators again this weekend and it is kind of fun. Busy, but fun

[Buddy 58]

At one time I ran two at once - 3x10 raised up 1&1/2 feet , gravity fed into a 30x8 . lots of wood , but its one way to make syrup faster . And people that stop in learned quick to stay out of the way !!! Now that I have gotten older , only run one 3x10 .