Originally Posted by
Lespetras
Hi guys..
This propane business is getting pricy! Gonna have to build an arch next year! On our 6th batch ... collected 110 litres last evening and today.... I'm starting to realize that our trees aren't doing too bad as I read other posts.. if the season keeps going like this we may be swimming in the stuff.. we're already surpassing our 10 litre syrup goal
Lesley,
If you've got some level ground to spare, and you can find some concrete blocks free on freecycle or kijiji, you could potentially build yourself a 2-3 pan arch this season. Did this 2 years ago, after realizing that my woodstove just wasn't going to keep up with the amount of sap we were getting. Hastily put together an arch (paid 50 cents a piece for cinder blocks a guy had leftover from a shed build). So glad we did because that was a bumper crop year. 
Homeschooling mama to 8
2010-30 taps, steam pans on a fisher grandma bear woodstove outdoors. Bottled 18.5L
2012- 70 taps - 20L
2013 - 70 taps, 3 steam pans on concrete block arch. 50L
2015- 70 taps, 50.5L, 3.3lbs accidental sugar
2021 - 120 taps, new-to-me 2x5 flat pan with a cast iron arch atop a brick firebox.
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