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Yep, common hazard. Toss the squirrel and the sap, wash the bucket out, move on.
also, add a reason to prefer tubing (so long as you squirrel-proof whatever the tubing drains into - otherwise you...

We used filters that were very similar to the cone filters (possibly the same, hard to be sure) but they were sold as "jelly bags" for filtering hot jelly, and they had a ring supported by three legs...

Probably very few of the folks that throw in the towel are hanging around here to post about it. But folks do throw in the towel. Local paper did a piece a few years ago, and something like 1 out of...

You have to get the smell out. Otherwise you'll have a nasty off-flavor.

Soak in bleach/water solution, then soak in hot water and dishwasher detergent "with enzymes" (seemed to work better for me...

Kinda depends on you, and your ambitions. You have a 2x3 foot pan, so you could upgrade to 2 feet wide by as long as you like, or 3 feet wide and as long as you like, without changing that pan, using...

If you want to go cheeeep on blowers, head down to the goodwill/salvation army/junk shop/tag sale and pick up a hair dryer. It's a small version of a squirrel cage, and will blow against resistance...

You can either sell the 2x3 complete, or buy/build a flue/flat pan 2 feet or 3 feet wide and use the 2x3 pan you have as a syrup pan on the front of your new pan in the back, on a new (or extended)...

Sounds similar to some of the pellet burners (which probably stole technology from the coal stokers, as they were around first.) I've never seen a coal stoker - closest would be a coal furnace...

I think you'd do better selling it (at least the big chunks) to woodcarvers and getting wood with more heat value. Should be no problem to burn, just might not be the most economically sensible use...

For a squirrel-cage blower, all you need is a simple damper/flap over the intake - no "speed control" required. The motor will even draw less power when you close the flap, without you having...

Plastic items often have a pictogram like a wine glass and fork molded into them. International-plastic-speak for food-grade.

With used containers, you can also look for labeling and leftover...

By rough calculation, each 144,000 BTU/hr stoker should be providing enough heat to boil 17+ gallons per hour. That ignores inefficiencies, and involves some rounding to not ignore them quite that...

Ag extension agent might be another good source of info to check in with.

You can solder with lead-free solder - the problem with fixing a hole in an ugly weld is going to be getting the area you need to solder clean enough to solder. You'll probably need to grind out...

Add add water and heat to dissolve - check gravity. Adjust to proper gravity, bingo, it's syrup.

Or (for home use) strain out the sugar, use the syrup, use the sugar. That's assuming it's liquid...

If the same thing happened last year, it's presumably either the evaporator (or perhaps the arch under it) or how you are building/stoking the fire. I'll leave making detailed guesses about solutions...

You can get lightweight rated higher than that, perhaps not from where you are looking. 2300, 2600 and 2800 are offered at my supplier, but the price goes up each time, so over-buying is inadvisable....

Hang it up as an antique curiosity, and grab something stainless (such as restaurant steam-table pans) to boil in.

Why not make one? You're planning to make pans, making one of these tools seems to be no big deal - many people have. Grab a few crummy vise grips at Marden's and have at it...

Keeps a long time, years and years, especially if you gave it the full canning regime of preheating the jars and lids, etc. Lacking niter knowledge, I'm pretty sure we even did the boiling water bath...

But if the issue is not skipping the tree, and also not spending too much to tie it in, it should run at least as well as a gravity tap, shouldn't it?

Preheating on propane == crazy. $$ out the wazoo.

Run some stovepipe out horizontal, then elbow it up vertical, and set a pan on the horizontal part - or do the copper coil around the stovepipe...

Spencer reported that he had actually tried it both ways and found the deeper boiled faster - why - more heat transfer area - ie, more square feet of liquid exposed to fire. Can't beat actual results...

Can you, sure. Should you - if you are happy with what you get, no need to change.

You might burn a lot less wood with a different setup, but you can also spend far too much money on a different...

Valleyman's picture (go to the gallery and type "block" in the search box)

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Basically make a spot you can cram a pipe...