Boil Off Maple Rama

[Flat Lander Sugaring]

Of course a flat pan won't boil with a flue pan, but I will put a 7 inch against any of the deeper flues anyday with the right arch under them, given equal circumstances, meaning wood or oil and equal depth over the flues. If you are happy with 10 inch flues then I say that is what you need. If you have a evaporator that won't produce the btu's then a deeper flue most likely will out produce shallower ones. My first oil fired evaporator was a hard boiling GH Grimm, 5x14 with a 10 foot flue pans and 5 inch flues, with 3 oil burners, which used a total 27 gallons per hour. After boiling on that a few years I decided that I was going to go to 7 inch and boil faster and it didn't do a bit more evaporation.

heyyy Jerry, need to hop in you truck come on down to P town and watch the FlatLander Tsunami boil soon!

[802maple]

Yeah< I need to see that Force 5.5 work. When the sap starts running in about 4 weeks I will be down to see the 3 amigos, the Poultney Storm,The Hubbardton tornado and of course The Orwell lightning Bolt

[Flat Lander Sugaring]

yeah< i need to see that force 5.5 work. When the sap starts running in about 4 weeks i will be down to see the 3 amigos, the poultney storm,the hubbardton tornado and of course the orwell lightning bolt

hahahahahahahahahaha

[twobigflanders]

Hi Are you happy with your intensofire?

[dshansen]

I am very satisfied with the Intensofire, We boiled an average of 160 gallons per hour on a 3x10 with pre-heater, very smooth running, cleaned pans after every 10 hours of boil. A few issues, spark arrester plugged with ash when we used pine or when we closed the dampers to burn less wood, more efficiency. We had no problems with oak. Draft cables still a problem, as fire box gets hot enough to melt them, needs more insulation on the side containing the cables. Temperature sensor in the stack is helpful to get max efficiency . In general.. I love it...

2000 taps-all buckets
50 Lutheran Youth to collect
4 old guys with F-350 Crew Cabs/325 gallon collection tanks
3x10 Intensofire with pre-heater

[Randy Brutkoski]

I just bought another post for that force 5 so now I will be able to crank up that ro alittle more. 2 membraines just wasn't enough to keep up with the incinerator.