Raised Flue

[PARKER MAPLE]

Dose Anybody Have Any Pictures Of There Raised Flue Pan?? Im Looking For Some Guide Lines On A Raised Flue Pan To Make Myself. I Was Thinking That The Flues Would Be Some Where Around 4in High Or So. The Total Demension Im Looking For Would Be Around 2x4 For The Flue Pan..

[KenWP]

I would like to see on also.

[Haynes Forest Products]

If you know what a drop flue looks like then just amagine a drop flue with sides that hold it up off the arch rails with a drain port on the side at the bottom. Dang its hard to explain if you took a drop pan and added skirting around the front back and sides to enclose the flues and that would hold it up so the bottom of the flues would be at the hight of the arch rails. If you see pictures of a raised flue arch you will notice that the thichness of the arch is very thin top to bottom............A little help here guys

[RileySugarbush]

How about this for a descirption...

Take a drop flue pan, cut out the bottom around the edges and flip it. Weld it back in.

[twobears1224]

my dads old small brothers raised flue is stored not far from here.in a little bit i,ll run over and take a couple pic,s of it and post them sometime today.

delbert

[Roads End]

Look at Big Eddys post and then add gutters at the front and rear so sap can move thru and you can drain down the pan

[twobears1224]

guys,i have the pic's and i,ll post them here tomorrow..it,s been a long day.i also have some pic,s of a very old arch/pan you guys will find intresting.i,ll be putting that in another post.
the old arch is on state owned land that got blasted in a bad storm.i haven,t been to the arch in 20 plus years and that was before the storm leveled most of the trees in that area.i still can,t believe i found that old arch today.i just walked a old skidder trail untill i got a feeling and i walked off the trail right to the arch.the woods looks nothing like it used to and your lucky to see 50 yards ahead of you....i got it thur. .. :D ..pic;s tomorrow.

delbert

[twobears1224]

heres pic's of a small brothers raised flue pan...inside view

http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medium/IM001119.JPG

another one of the bottom

http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medium/IM001117.JPG

hope this helps

delbert

[Jim Brown]

twobears1224-You should drag that rig out of there and clean it up. kinda looks like welded SS. Or does it now belong to someone else?

Jim

[twobears1224]

JIM:it,s my dads old pan and it,s english tin.it sat around for 15 years and got pin holes in it.

delbert

[JFH51]

Hey guys I have a quick question. Are both ends of the raised flue closed? That would mean that the flue gases would be trapped, correct?
Thanks,
John

[twobears1224]

yes,both ends are closed.the draft in the arch draws the flames into the flues tho.
likes been said in this post the sides have a buildin gutter/trough to allow drainage.if you look at the bottom pic you can see the wide flat bend.that also closes off the ends of the flues.

delbert

[KenWP]

Man can you imangine cleaning that thing if you burnt the pan. How do you get down in the crevices to clean it.

[twobears1224]

lol,,if you burn a flue pan you must have fallin asleep on the job and need your butt kicked..:lol:

delbert

[KenWP]

Well every other day all season somebody was talking about burning his pans. I want to build a sort of flue pan but the clean up sounds like work.

[twobears1224]

front pans get burned everyday,that can happen in a second but i,ve very seldom heard of flue pans burning.
the flue pan i posted pic,s of was used for over 20 years and never even came close to getting burned.now the front pan on the other hand was born to be burned..lol

delbert

[Haynes Forest Products]

Its like making Bacon is just right then its dust. Rileysugarbush had the short answer but there is one important part you need to shorten the flue section. In a 7' long pan the raised flue section is about 6'4" so sap can travel from channel to channel at the ends. There is a flat section with a divider so the sap can flow back and forth............DANG I JUST MADE IT CONFUSING AGAIN.

[KenWP]

I know that when I am just started boiling a batch I don't have to worry about it burning as its colored water but after boiling off 40 or so gallons I have to watch it like a hawk. You get to 218 degrees and it dosn't take much to get to 219 or 20 when you turn your back to set up the filters and such.