With the blower you should get 9 maybe 10 be sure to use arch board and fire brick and blower he provides does not come with a speed control you will need to install one so as to not melt your stack down.
With the blower you should get 9 maybe 10 be sure to use arch board and fire brick and blower he provides does not come with a speed control you will need to install one so as to not melt your stack down.
110 taps W.F Mason 2x3 and two turkey friers for finishing
2011 expanding to a Mason 2x4 with a blower increasing taps to about 200
2011 Hurricane Irene rips thru my small sugar bush cost me to lose 20% of taps
2014 I have reworked my lines for 2014
32 taps on 5/16 line with check valves
57 taps on 3/16 line with check valves
55 buckets with total tapped trees of 144
Is arch board the same thing as arch paper? If so then I am having him install that. How can I set up a speed control on that?
2011-8 Taps on a very crude block arch
2012- 38 taps 2 X 3 with blower.
2013- 70 taps total-50 on tubing, 20 on buckets
2014- 75 taps- Low vacuum, 2X4 drop flue
2015- 100 taps-2X6 Mason Drop Tube, low vac
2016-115 taps high vac, 60 taps buckets
14X20 post and beam shack with attached 10X14 wood shed
12 beehives and an avid waterfowl hunter.
Wishing I can quit my day job, keep bees, farm, and make syrup!
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The Mason 2x3 has an insulated door, the Half-Pint does not.
1000 taps on vac down to 100+ buckets 99% sugars
2x5 SL Hi-Output Raised Flue Corsair evaporator
SL Short bank press with CDL diaphragm pump
Leader Micro 1 RO for 2024
Constantly changing
2010:36 gal 2011:126 gal 2012:81 gal 2013:248 gal 2014: 329.5 gal 2015:305 gal 2016:316 gal 2017:258 gal 2018:147 gal 2019:91 gal 2020:30 gal 2021:30 gal 2023:50 gal Total since 2010: 2047.5 gal
Tapping the same trees my great, great and great grandfathers tapped.
So is arch paper not necessary on a Mason because the door is insurlated?
2011-8 Taps on a very crude block arch
2012- 38 taps 2 X 3 with blower.
2013- 70 taps total-50 on tubing, 20 on buckets
2014- 75 taps- Low vacuum, 2X4 drop flue
2015- 100 taps-2X6 Mason Drop Tube, low vac
2016-115 taps high vac, 60 taps buckets
14X20 post and beam shack with attached 10X14 wood shed
12 beehives and an avid waterfowl hunter.
Wishing I can quit my day job, keep bees, farm, and make syrup!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Moshe...40072296064422
No you want to insulate as much as possible. Get as much heat on the pan and not out the sides. So yes on arch board and firebrick.
30x40 Sugarhouse
975 taps here at home. Still have 3-400 to add in.
3x10 Cabin by the Creek evap with "steamaway"
CDL 600 RO
ebayed Sogevac S65
What do you mean melt the stack down. Like literally having the stack melt and warp?
2011-8 Taps on a very crude block arch
2012- 38 taps 2 X 3 with blower.
2013- 70 taps total-50 on tubing, 20 on buckets
2014- 75 taps- Low vacuum, 2X4 drop flue
2015- 100 taps-2X6 Mason Drop Tube, low vac
2016-115 taps high vac, 60 taps buckets
14X20 post and beam shack with attached 10X14 wood shed
12 beehives and an avid waterfowl hunter.
Wishing I can quit my day job, keep bees, farm, and make syrup!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Moshe...40072296064422
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 electronic anything (except a meter if you want to the see that effect.) Don't know why people overcomplicate this one.Originally Posted by steve J
Two turkey pans on cinderblocks in the 1970's
4x5 no-baffle stainless pan, built sugarhouse ~1980 - buckets and snowshoes. 17 gallons in best year. Went off to college, nothing for 25+ years.
Thinking about getting going again in new location, in a small way. Cats, Coffee, Chocolate...Vices to Live By.
Mason all the way. Better order now for next year though.
brand new Mason 2x3 for sale in Farmington Maine on Craigslist
Yes on my 2x4 with the blower on high the elbow on the stack turned cherry red to the pointit seem like I could almost see thru it had I not backed off the blower it would have melted down. I have no idea what arch paper is maybe somebody else here knows.Arch board is about 1" thick you can buy it from Bascoms in NH. Very easy to work with. Bill insulates the door which is great but you need arch board everywere else before you brick it.
110 taps W.F Mason 2x3 and two turkey friers for finishing
2011 expanding to a Mason 2x4 with a blower increasing taps to about 200
2011 Hurricane Irene rips thru my small sugar bush cost me to lose 20% of taps
2014 I have reworked my lines for 2014
32 taps on 5/16 line with check valves
57 taps on 3/16 line with check valves
55 buckets with total tapped trees of 144
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