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Thank you for all the great feedback! 99 taps was combined with my brother. The 14x16 I’m building will be for just 50-60 taps. I do have a bucket RO and would like a small hood mostly to make hot...

I've got trees cleared for my sugarhouse build & sub-base built-up & compacted. Planning a 4" slab w/ 2" foamboard, 6mil poly, & 1/2" rebar grid.

I want to put in at least one floor drain & 1-2...

another pic of the hinged cupola roof ventilator

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Hinging the top of the cupola would be best to keep steam from condensing on the inside of the roof & dripping down. Side doors/windows would be best for rainy days.

Maybe they could be...

I had never considered a hinged roof opening until I saw it in the plans from VT Ag Extension. Pics below. The one night pic is awesome. I'm thinking of running a hood up into the cupola & hinging...

Not sure what category to put this question into. Many classic sugarhouses have a small low pitch shed roof off one side & a U-shaped stainless bulk sap storage tank. For those of you who have this...

Thanks for all the good ideas! Didn’t realize pictures are no longer allowed. I’ll go look in older posts for sugarhouse design for more ideas.

Planning stages for my sugarhouse build. Would like a hood for preheating sap & generating hot water for the house. I like the look of a cupola with windows for steam exhaust. Do any of you run...

Has anyone seen a hood made from a 55 gallon drum? Stainless drum split lengthwise? Thoughts?

I’m not sure where I found the 1 1/2” depth recommendation. One of the many lessons learned and will do differently next year.

The vises took me about 100 hours to machine. Gave one to my...

Sap ran like crazy Saturday and Sunday. Sunday averaged 1 gpt on my buckets, my brother got probably 2-3x that on tubing in Williston. His place used to be an old farm and they planted maples in...

It took a lot of blood, sweat, and beers, I mean tears to get our 2x6 pan sweetened. We've cleared 7 gallons and are now wondering what to do with the 15 or so gallons of sweet in the pans with a...

Ken, was looking for the smoke from your house boiling on Butternut yesterday. No deep meaning to the screen name, fishing is our #1 hobby. I tapped all holes with a bit for tapping, 5/16 dia, 1.5”...

Orlon cone and 2 prefilters. Got them wet. Ran through during draw off so sap was hot. Very quickly clogged
Seemed to be more the orlon filter than the pre filters but they weren’t working great...

Seaflo marine 4” inline marine bilge blower on Amazon. 4” flex aluminum metal ducting under fire. Ran without speed control after Chinese speed controller blew up in my hand on hook up. Ran off...

Well, 27 gallons on 49 taps today so getting better! Just over 1/2 gal per tap. Had two trees that filled the 2 gallon bucket. The only tap not dripping I’m realizing is an oak...

Trees finally all started producing yesterday.

This is our first year. Was prepared for 2 gpt sap storage but during the best run yesterday only averaging 1/3 GPT.

I tapped 49 trees with...

Any tips for removing this style of tap? I don’t want to break any off in the tree. The metal is pretty brittle, don’t ask how I know.

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Another attempt at better resolution photos from a desktop. I'm seeing similar issues to Ken in our 2 or so acres of tappable woods. Aspens have outgrown maples, oaks, and ash and...

Ken,
I’m right over the hill from you, on Wortheim Ln & boiling around the corner form you at my brothers on Butternut rd. Thanks for the info, we’re talking about the same thing. Agree they are...

I don’t really need the wood but wondering what to do with them after I cut them down. They are shading out some of the better maples.

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Is the tree shown in pics aspen? Looks similar to birch at top but bark much different at base. Very tall and shading out some maples.

How do they burn?

In house wood stove? Evaporator? ...

Bucket holes are around 3/8", for the wire hooks of a 7/16" tap. I'm using shark-fin 5/16" taps which need a 5/8" hole or bigger. The buckets have a metal grommet in the existing holes, to protect...

18+ DBH (53.4”+ circumference) can get 2 taps. I have a few trees that start from one trunk then split into 2 or 3 trunks. Since they all originate at the same root system does the max of 2 taps...