Cupola or Hinged Roof?

[m2salmon]

another pic of the hinged cupola roof ventilator

Goulds Sugarhouse Northfield.jpg

[TapTapTap]

another pic of the hinged cupola roof ventilator

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I like that system. It seems like you could set it up with a scissor type of mechanism for opening and closing. Like a casement window.
Ken

[johnallin]

Doors on my cupola are hinged on a pipe going into pillow blocks, 1/3 down from top making them bottom-heavy.
They open by pulling a line fastened to the top of the door.
Never an issue with rain or snow coming in or building up on them.

[johnallin]

Doors on my cupola are hinged on a pipe going into pillow blocks, 1/3 down from top making them bottom-heavy.
They open by pulling a line fastened to the top of the door.
Never an issue with rain or snow coming in or building up on them.

I was able to find and load some pics of my cupola doors..

[DMF]

My sugar shack has a cupola with doors on the side. We just switched the doors from being hinged on the bottom to having the hinges on the top. This will be our first year with this set up. Last year we had several snow/sleet/rain storms during our boils and had a lot of it coming in through the doors. The worst was the snow piling up on the doors throughout the day, then when we'd close the doors when we were done, the doors would dump their snow load right into the shack.

[johnallin]

I was able to find and load some pics of my cupola doors..

Second time's a charm I guess....didn't work this morning.
That's a black 1" pipe going across door about 1/4 of the way down from top and extending into pillow blocks mounted on cupola frame work.
Creates the hinge and due to placement on door, they always want to swing back down to close.
No Rain or snow comes in while boiling...<grin>