View Poll Results: Where do you small producers (<150 taps) boil?

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  • The stars are my roof

    79 40.72%
  • Temporary structures

    35 18.04%
  • True sugar shack or some other permanent structure

    80 41.24%
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Thread: How many boil outside vs in some sort of structure

  1. #21
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    Jan 2011
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    Stamford, NY
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    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

  2. #22
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    Mar 2013
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    N'ville ny winter/ seldovia,AK summer
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    Outside for me, on a trailer to avoid being shut down by the town.image.jpg

  3. #23
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    Sault Ontario
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    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 !!
    20140409_175120.jpg20140415_102755.jpgfire, 8' stack.jpg

    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 !

  4. #24
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    Nov 2011
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    Petoskey Michigan
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    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.

  5. #25
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    Apr 2008
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    Plymouth, WI
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    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

  6. #26
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    Feb 2011
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    Manchester Maine
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    Sugar shack 2014 099.jpgSugar shack 2014 163.jpgOut side for three years here on inside and what a diffrence
    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

  7. #27
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    Loretto, Ontario, Canada
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    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...
    Last edited by watsey; 02-05-2015 at 11:18 AM.

  8. #28
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    Apr 2013
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    Delaware Co New York
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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

  9. #29
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    Oct 2014
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    Mansfield, Connecticut
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    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

  10. #30
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    Mar 2011
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    Michigan
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    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!

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