My single greatest comfort improvement when I boiled outside was bungee cording a tarp between two trees on the prevailing wind side of me. That was HUGE!!
My single greatest comfort improvement when I boiled outside was bungee cording a tarp between two trees on the prevailing wind side of me. That was HUGE!!
Noel Good
1998 to 2009: 15 taps on buckets, scavenged fire pit and pans
2010: New 2x4 SS flat pan w/preheater
2015: New to me Lapierre 18x60 raised flue, new shack, new everything!! 59 taps 23.75 gallons
2016: 85 taps 19 gallons
2017: Purchased 2.5 acres and tubed half with 3/16. 145 taps total 49.25 gallons
2018: 200 taps (162 on 3/16ths 38 on buckets) New NextGen RO 63 gallons
2019: 210 taps 73.5 gallons
2023: 210 taps 89.75 gallons
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I'm so glad I'm inside now. I had no siding the first year after my frame went up, but I had a roof. I did the plywood wind break, and got some siding up between boils. Last year the siding was 95%. This year 99.8%. Those early years had some very cold nights tending the boil, and it seemed there was always wind (not like now - lol).
Gary / Zena Crossroads / 42˚ 00' 24" N / Hobby in Early '70s, Addiction since 2014
175+ taps on 3/16 (60 of which are on two Lunchbox Vac/Releasers)
12x34 timber framed sap house w/attached 10x34 shed roof for storage
2 x 6 Smoky Lake hybrid pan on Corsair arch with AUF/steam hood/preheater/concentric exhaust
7.0 KW Sun Power PV System, Smokey Lake Filter Press/Steam Bottler, Modified NGMP RO - 2 4x40 posts 200 gph
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