Have the same setup and never had any bother mine yet *knock on wood*
Wonder if you could distract them with like an easier to get at pail or bucket of open water near where they are causing...
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Have the same setup and never had any bother mine yet *knock on wood*
Wonder if you could distract them with like an easier to get at pail or bucket of open water near where they are causing...
Thanks buckeye, I can't wait to fire it up and get going. What do you think of that Smokey Lake pan so far? I haven't dug around to check yet but supposedly it came with some ceramic blanket as well...
Was going to build a new evaporator this year and finally retire the poor old rotted out barrel stove I was using, but after wandering over to the local dealer I ended up picking up a Stainless...
In the same boat at the moment, what would anyone think regarding what to use for insulation? Normal fiberglass, rockwool, foam board, bubble roll, or spray foam?
I'm leaning towards spray foam,...
Its the Central Machinery 3 speed floor blower. Attached it by duct taping a cardboard reducer from the blower to a pipe which ran into the barrel bung. Was a huge improvement, much faster starts...
If your just getting started, a pan is a pan. The ebay ones likely will be just fine, I boil on a 55 gallon drum that had rusty holes in it when I converted it to begin with and use a 2x2 flat pan...
I'm a bit of a nut job, but if that listing was closer I'd prolly jump on the deal. Would be fun to put it back together and get it back in use.
Those old catalogs are something else as well....
That's a great looking sugarhouse! Did you get the concrete floor poured, and if so how did that turn out?