This reminds me of a remark from a fellow hobbyist.
"Sugaring is a fun hobby, except in February, March, and April. During that time its a little hectic and a lot of work"
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This reminds me of a remark from a fellow hobbyist.
"Sugaring is a fun hobby, except in February, March, and April. During that time its a little hectic and a lot of work"
Would a vented roof cap on a metal roof, that runs the length of the roof, act as quasi cupola? Would it allow at least a fair amount of steam out?
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0dfG...JlVNnqt_DEWQeg
My gable peak ends will be wide open and so will be the walls, except where it is lined with my fire wood.
Thanks
Gary
From the size of cupolas I have seen I don't think you would get the exhaust rate with those.
Gary, I tried that with mine and it didn't work. I now have a 2 x 4 cupola, works great. Open one side or the other depends on the wind, sometimes I drop them both.
Thanks.
The two guys that will be helping me with the roof, who have more experience, seem to be reluctant to build the cupola, but I guess I will have to insist.
I am still a few weeks from that. I am waiting for a backhoe to dig out two stumps that are in the way of my deck area, and it will dig out my four post holes. Then comes sono tubes and concrete, and then the build starts.
It will be dual purpose, a sort of gazebo, (pavilion) with a large deck in the summer and a “sugar pavilion” in the spring. The deck will surround the concrete pad I used last year, that the evaporator sat on.
It's tough to find "plans" for a cupola.
I made a box section that would just fit between the roof truss' and then secured the box to the truss'. I used louvered fence sections horizontally to create the openings.
https://i.ibb.co/j3NRnhL/20201223-161927.jpg
Thanks! Nice sugar shack! If I ever get a real evaporator, I will add walls to what I am building, but while I am using a cinderblock evaporator I want lots of open sides.
Can you open the lourvers or does the steam find it’s way through. (I know that could be a stupid question). Is your cupola about a foot high?
The picture is crude drawing of my truss spacing plan for a 12’ beam. I may still have a 16’ long beam and add two more trusses. The red line will be where my exhaust pipe will be. If I have a two foot long cupola it would go between 56” and 80” truss, but likely will make a four foot cupola going between the 56” and 104” trusses.
Also attached is a plan for a cupola. I would likely have the middle truss go all the way up like the others.
https://share.icloud.com/photos/09f6...VbKwpxGlvjXKPg
https://share.icloud.com/photos/03eU...Fk5l5zhJQdRKBw