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plummaple
11-13-2007, 12:01 PM
Hey everyone,

Just built my first cinderblock evaporator and boiled some water yesterday!!! Man, was that FUN !!!! I have a cinderblock turned on its side, in the back of the evaporator so that the smoke has somewhere to go. The question that I have is there a huge adavantage to using a stovepipe chimney? Does it make the fire burn hotter? Thanks for your thoughts.

royalmaple
11-13-2007, 12:08 PM
That is how you get your draft.

Sugarmaker
11-13-2007, 07:36 PM
Also a stack may keep some ashes out of the pans.

Ahnohta
11-13-2007, 07:49 PM
it will increase the draft which increases the heat which will reduce the time to boil (the goal each year) and reduce the ash by quite a bit.

We ran pan on blocks for last 2 years and used an approx 8" x 10' stack. It helped. Does not hurt to add soil at a slope to back of arch to push heat up to bottom of pan


this coming year we are moving off of blocks and onto a 265 gallon converted oil drum for arch, add astck and will add small fan

VA maple guy
11-13-2007, 09:51 PM
You can wrap copper tubing arround the stove pipe and make real good preheater. Gerry