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    Default New sugar shack

    Finished my new sugar shack. All free wood and materials. It is small but will be better than boiling at home in the back yard and in the open weather.

    Going for 200 taps this year!

    This was planed to be just a roof over the evaporator and ended up with this!
    sugar3.jpgsugar2.jpgsugar1.jpg
    2011 35 taps
    2012 50 taps
    2013 80 taps maybe to 100
    2014 80 taps
    2015 New sugar shack, 50 taps on buckets and 100 on 3-16 gravity tubing.
    A tolerating wife and a 14 years old not so helper.
    2016 New evaporator and 150 taps all on 3/16 high vacuum gravity.

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    That will certainly be better than outside in the rain and wind. I'm making the leap this year as well, seems like all of my boil days have some weather issue to fight. Good luck
    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 decided to build where there was a old shack 40 years ago. You can see the cement stove they made and some left over buckets on the pictures. It was like an archeological site! lol
    2011 35 taps
    2012 50 taps
    2013 80 taps maybe to 100
    2014 80 taps
    2015 New sugar shack, 50 taps on buckets and 100 on 3-16 gravity tubing.
    A tolerating wife and a 14 years old not so helper.
    2016 New evaporator and 150 taps all on 3/16 high vacuum gravity.

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    Great improvement. You'll like boiling inside far better.
    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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    Hey its whatever works for you,I am sure you will be much more comfortable in there than outside.Looks good!!
    Greg Halladay
    Modified D&G 18" x 7' oil fired arch
    with 18"x 4' 5" drop flue back pan, and 18"x3' front pan, new 20' x 32' sugar house built in 2013, 375 taps in 2016 using a Sap Puller.

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    Love it, I predict open door and windows open fully, once you get the boil going.
    Way better to have a roof and walls instead of out in the weather.
    Nice job.

    Good luck.

    Terry
    2011- 35 taps, ,,,milk juggs and buckets-propane turkey fryer !!
    2012 -75 taps,,,,, 40 on tubing into buckets, and 35 buckets - 3nd hand Homemade arch, brutal.
    2013- Just over 115 taps and still adding more.
    2014, new SS flat pan and new arch built, guessing 75-100 taps this year.
    2015, 50 taps on Shurflo pump.
    2016- Getting a line across my creek this year.
    2017-took a year off, Jamaica was fun !
    2018- 45 trees tapped, keeping it fun !

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    Nice Dave. I envy you! My wife says I can't build a sugar shack until I build her a log cabin. Hmm maybe a log cabin with an evaporator in the middle.lol

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    Sounds like a good plan. Kill 2 birds with one stone! LOL>

    Dave
    2011 35 taps
    2012 50 taps
    2013 80 taps maybe to 100
    2014 80 taps
    2015 New sugar shack, 50 taps on buckets and 100 on 3-16 gravity tubing.
    A tolerating wife and a 14 years old not so helper.
    2016 New evaporator and 150 taps all on 3/16 high vacuum gravity.

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    What Do You Think?

    I have a 10 x 14 garden shed on a concrete base. I was going to put evaporator along one side with an 8" chimney up through the roof. Was thinking of getting 2 used range hoods and putting them above pans and exhausting them outside.
    My arch is an old oil tank that I have cut into an arch and welded all open areas. I cut off the top and welded on a piece of angle iron that will accommodate a 2x4 pan. A blower will force air in the bottom, under the great for the wood. Any ideas would be appreciated

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