Mt Washington Valley sap report

[n8hutch]

Got 250 gallons yesterday and made about 6 gallons of Amber . Got to Try out my Air tight Front. It works great. It has its own blower smaller one in the picture that forces air through the door and exits in a Dozen places around the inside of the door opening inside the arch. Adding that air to my forced draft created by my other gutted oil burner and I get stack Temps between 950 and 900 with I A freshly stoked fire box. When it drops to 800 I refire. Before I put the front on my stack Temps were about 700.

Only complaints I have is the Door is a little Small and It is blowing alot of embers out the stack.

But the increase in boil rate. I'm up to 80+ gallons an hour and it certainly looks like my flues are not sooting up due to the hot fire. Are a great bonus.