Inside with lights and hot and cold running water.
The stars are my roof
Temporary structures
True sugar shack or some other permanent structure
Inside with lights and hot and cold running water.
2012 - First year striking out on our own
New (to us) 2x6 Oil Fired Small Bros Lightning
88 taps on buckets
118 taps on pipeline
Brand new 16x22 Saphouse for 2012
1986 Duetz Allis 5230
Polaris Sportsman 500 and 700 Ranger
85lb. Rescue Pup, Wife and myself
Raspberries, Blackberries and steamin hot Ghost peppers
Outside for me, on a trailer to avoid being shut down by the town.image.jpg
I use a tent frame with a tarp over top, when the boiling gets serious and the arch is rocking I need to remove the tarp so I can see what is going on !!
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Soon, I keep saying a permanent building.
Good luck everyone.
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 !
Boiled outside for years, than went through the process of making a large enough sugar shack to handle all of the trees on our property. That's about 5000, game on. We will be at 1000 this year, on vaccum.
We boiled outside from 1995 to 2008, then moved into our temporary shack with temporary arch from 2009 to 2011, then moved to our permanent shack with new evaporator from 2012 to the present. The outside wasn't done when we moved in. Sure is great being inside.
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150 on 3/16 gravity 2018 and 120 sap sacks
14 x 20 sugar shack
2014 New custom 2x6 arch "The Firestorm" w/ preheater, AUF & AOF
Smokey Lake pans and water jacket bottler
2024 new 2x8 set of drop flue pans and hood from Smoky Lake. Lengthen our arch.
Just a hobby but seems like more work every
year
3 generations working together
Wife that guards our syrup
43.74° N
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Backyard sapper
Mason 2X4 XL with blower
12x24 post and beam shack
30 taps on 5-Gallon buckets
134 taps on tubing into the shack
15-30 gallons a year for family and friends
Boiled outside last year on a small cement block arch with hotel pan. Moving into a neighbours sugarhouse this year. It hasn't been used in 60 years or so. Cleaned it up and had my brother make me a 2 x 3 flat pan to sit on the existing block arch. Going from 8 taps to 60. That is if spring will ever get here. Long term forecast is saying colder than usual into late March...
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I boil outside, I try to keep it simple right now. Have my neighbors stop by for a drink, and still play with my kids outside.
55 gal drum w/ custom made pan fueled by wood
homemade 24x36 electrical pull box w/ custom pan for standby evap
RB-5 RO-Bucket
Started 2011 with 17 taps
2018 72 taps Drop lines in 5 gal water Jugs
I am quite excited for my first season--so excited that I moved my cinder-block evaporator into the shed. Thank God I did--there's over two feet of snow on the ground in CT.
2015: 17 taps, 2 gallons
2016: 35 taps, 3.6 gallons
2017: 60 taps, 2.7 gallons
2018: 56 taps, 4.7 gallons
I have been able to make a 10x10 Ez-Up awning very comfortable for boiling. It has worked better than I would have guessed.
42° 7' 14 N
50-60 Taps
Homemade 2x4 Arch
I do it for fun with family and friends!