Sure felt like a sugaring day today and I did boil, but only water and baking soda!. The new rig did fine, though I'm going to have to put another section of pipe up, 18 feet of chimney wasn't pulling enough draft for the 3x10. A few of fittings to retape and tighten, but all in all not a bad shakedown firing. I'm going to do another boil and rinse tonight and then back into the woods tomorrow. As soon as I finish up the last few tubing repairs I'll start tapping. Should be good to go by next weekend.
300 on vaccum
300 gravity tubing
200 buckets
100 hilltop acres
16x20 timberframe sugarhouse built in 2010
3x10 Leader max flue & revolution pans w/ Inferno arch - 2013
1998 Kubota M5400
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