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    Here are pics of the progress so far. Now that season is over I'm getting a few hours a weekend to work on it. Me and my two boys are working on it together. My wife and daughter come by with beer, soda and food for moral support. Can't wait to be able to boil inside next year and it will be pretty nice to have all my tubing and buckets a little more organized and out of the way.

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    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

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    Looking good. You are going to have something to be proud of and enjoy for years to come.
    Sugaring for 45+ years
    New Sugarhouse 14'x32'
    New to Me Algier 2'x8' wood fired evaporator
    2022 added a used RB25 RO Bucket
    250 mostly Sugar Maples, 15% Soft Maples. Currently,(110on 3/16" and 125 on Shurflo 4008 vacuum, 15 gravity), (16,000 before being disabled)
    1947 Farmall H and Wagon with gathering tank
    2012 Kubota with forks to move wood around

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    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

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    Latest update. I was able to get a couple of 4 to 5 hour stretches these last couple weekends to get the roof done. Now to start siding and windows.

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    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

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    Nice looking sugar house.

    Spud

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    Looks nice so far. May I ask, and please feel free to decline, any estimate as to how much a shack of this size is going to cost you? I will be getting a new, "real" evaporator next year, and would like to boil undercover within a year or two after that. From some of the previous shack builds Ive seen on here it costs around $8-9 a sq ft for a more basic shack. I'd like something like 14x20, and that math tells me about $2500 total. That seems to be somewhat reasonable.

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    I would say that number is pretty accurate. I'm friends with a local saw mill owner and I believe he gives me a good deal. Lumber, siding and roofing were about $1,200. Concrete and rebar were about $600. I got a deal on windows about $150 for 4 and made my own trusses. I'm sure there's a few hundred in assorted stuff not accounted for. I already owned all of the tools and did pay someone to do the concrete since the few times I've poured it never comes out real smooth. I did most of the prep work so he only charged me $150.

    Good luck with your project.
    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

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    Latest update pics. I just may be done before 2016 starts. Once the roof is on, it's pretty tempting to do other projects. I keep thinking, at least I'll be dry next year... Still conflicted on the stack. I think I would prefer to elbow out the back wall and then up, any thoughts?

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    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

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    I think the stack straight up is the best and looks the best from inside and out.
    Jared

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    I agree, the stack should go straight up, no elbows. If you were to use 2 elbows, you would need a stack with double the area that is in the stack you show in the picture. Each elbow is a rather large loss in draft.
    Dave Klish, I recently ordered a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
    Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
    Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
    After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.

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