Oil fired barrel arch?

[Walleyed]

I'm going to be building a barrel arch over the summer, tired of the turkey fryer.

I'm curious if anyone has ever fitted a barrel with a oil burner.

Btw, first post. As a kid we tapped around 500 trees back home in Michigan. live in NJ now and just tapped the 2 sugars in the yard, 2 gallons of syrup this year. Got the bug back and gotta go bigger next year.

[mol1jb]

Ive seen one before. A 55 gallon drum with a 2x3 pan on it.

[plattmaple]

We put one on our 2x4 finish evaporator. Works great.

[raptorfan85]

I run an oil fired barrel arch. I use a .75gph nozzle and can boil about 4gph on 2 steam table pans. Would be much higher with a real pan.
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[Walleyed]

I run an oil fired barrel arch. I use a .75gph nozzle and can boil about 4gph on 2 steam table pans. Would be much higher with a real pan.


Any chance you have any pictures of the combustion chamber? Did you use firebrick or a ceramic blanket?

[raptorfan85]

Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of the combustion chamber... I looked up what size it needed to be for the gun and nozzle size. I filled the bottom 3rd with sand then some ceramic blanket and fire brick on top of that to get the chamber the right size. I did have to put a few bricks at the very back as well to act like a baffle and force the hot gases up to the pans. It boils pretty well.

[raptorfan85]

http://mapletrader.com/community/showthread.php?18433-55-Gallon-Oil-Fired-Arch&highlight=Oil+fired+barrel

This guy built one too