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Thanks for the replies guys. I put down a couple of rows of half brick, because i had them on hand, and got the gap down to about 1 1/2". That'll have to be good for this year because i really dont...

So with my 6 inch stack, i should have about 3/4 o f space between the pan and the sand? Seems like that would cause me to lose even more heat then before. Whats the reason for using sand? Could i...

I built my 2x4 evaporator last year, bought a phaneuf continuous flow pan and got great results. This year im trying to fix some "issues" i ran into last year. I was loosing a whole lot of heat right...

Firebox is just about 24x24. Theres about 4 inches below the grate for ashes/auf blower

a little too close for confort! The stack is 1/8 in thick.

The reason i put the plate in front of the pan is that i heard that with these small evaporators sometime the front of the pan was hard to get boiling really good. So i figured if i move it 8 inches...

Way too small!! Its 8x10. It gets crowded in there but its fine for now.
We boiled down about 90 gallons of sap today and with sundays sirop we bottled 5 gallons of it tonight. It sure gets hot in...

thanks guys! alot of work but its finally paying off. we've only had a few good days of running sap so far but the weathers looking good for the next 2 weeks. hopefully we get to run a bunch of sap...

a few more pictures of the evaporator and the new sugar shack too
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so last year, i started with 28 taps and a very basic cinder block and steam pan setup. this year i wanted to taps a few more trees but my steam pans couldn't handle it, so i decided to go all out...