sugar / bee shack

[maplefarmer]

I have a 20x30 concrete slab which we took an old barn off of years ago and would like to put a bee/ sugar shack on. I am thinking 10 ft across the end would be the honey part of it, which would be 10x20, am currently doing my extracting in a temp. jobsite trailer that I have honey equipment in. And the rest of the building would be the 20x20 for maple sugaring. Have 550 taps now and probably won't increase that much, with a 2x6 evap. and a 250 gph ro. would like a heated ro room, and bottling area in this shed, currently doing maple in a 12x16 shed, it works but kinda tight. Does anyone have any blueprints of such a building they have built containing both honey and maple setups, please share any ideas or insights that I need to consider.

[jmayerl]

Opposite times of the year. Why not just have a nice size bottling/kitchen room and use it to extract also

[Sugarmaker]

We have the building primarily as a sugarhouse but use the kitchen area for honey work also.
Evaporator room is 16 x 24. added a wood shed 10 x 24. Kitchen 12 x 26 on back and loft for tanks.
Regards,
Chris

[adk1]

Good idea sugar maker.

[afretired]

We have a honey house that is 12X26 and it was too crowded, so this fall I added another 16x26 on the side. Here in this youtube vide you can see how it was before we added on. One thing to keep in mind is where you are going to stack the supers as you work them, both full and empties.

David


http://m.youtube.com/index?&desktop_...?v=1MzzeG4VZVo