It all looks great. One thing that helped my preheater was wrapping another piece of stove pipe around the whole copper coil section. Seems to transfer more heat to the preheater pipe. I used the siphons for the first time during a real boil on Sunday and they saved a lot of hassle and the syrup came out great.
Have a great season.
Pete Nightingale
Lisbon, NH
3 Teenage sap haulers & Plenty of friends and family to restock the beer fridge
2012 1 tap and a pot
2013 10 taps, oil tank evap, 2 gallons of slightly too thin syrup
2014 48 taps improved oil tank evap 3.5 gallons, ouch??
2015 88 taps 78 5/16" and 10 3/16" nat vac 40"x 48" Homemade Arch 13.25 Gallons
2016 100 taps 65 on 3/16 & 35 buckets 17 gallons + unknown amount of maple / Jack Daniels testers