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    Default Trying to beat the snow

    New sugar shack in progress

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    100-110 buckets
    Leader 7.5" 3 Bank filter press (2023)
    RO Bucket RB10 (2017) upgraded to RB20 (2020)
    Homemade oil tank arch
    Homemade stainless pans
    12x16 Sugar Shack (new 2020)

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    Looking at our forecast you might only have thru this Wednesday, good luck.
    Dave Klish, I recently ordered a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
    Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
    Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
    After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.

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    It's looking like snow on Friday here.
    Russ

    "Red Roof Maples" Where the term "boiling soda" was first introduced to the maple world!

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    Four chainsaws and no chickens!

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    With 2-3" due over here in NE Ohio early next week...bring it on!

    Congrats, that's going to be a nice looking sugar house by the way.
    John Allin

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    14' Ski-Doo Tundra for winter work in the woods
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    Can't change whats coming! Hope you have a open winter like when I built mine. Started the 20th of October and made syrup in it in the spring. Keep hitting at it you will be very happy when your making syrup! Looking real good!
    Regards,
    Chris
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    Back when I built mine I didn't know that ag needed no permit. I applied for a permit in May. After jumping thru all of their nonsence hoops I finally got approval the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. I then started the day before Thanksgiving. I boiled in it, partially finished the next spring. You have a better start.
    2 years after I went thru all of that, I learned I hadn't needed a permit. I asked the codes guy, he said he thought I just wanted to make sure it was built right (I didn't believe that for a moment, he just wanted to make sure it got assessed for taxes!) They assessed it for $39,000 for a pole barn type, 16x24', board and batten, 3 small windows, running off a generator the first 4 years. I finally went ag assessment to get the taxes down to about 30%.
    Dave Klish, I recently ordered a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
    Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
    Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
    After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.

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    If nothing else I will be off the ground out of the mud with at least a roof over my head!
    100-110 buckets
    Leader 7.5" 3 Bank filter press (2023)
    RO Bucket RB10 (2017) upgraded to RB20 (2020)
    Homemade oil tank arch
    Homemade stainless pans
    12x16 Sugar Shack (new 2020)

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    Just got to get shingles on and a cupola built.
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    100-110 buckets
    Leader 7.5" 3 Bank filter press (2023)
    RO Bucket RB10 (2017) upgraded to RB20 (2020)
    Homemade oil tank arch
    Homemade stainless pans
    12x16 Sugar Shack (new 2020)

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    Looking good! Keep pushing.
    Dr. Tim Perkins
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    What do you plan for siding? You look to be in good shape, far better than when I built mine. That year I got a group of family and friends together on 12/31. We worked most of the day just to get the homemade trusses up. They were heavy, rough cut hemlock 2x6 top cord, 2x4 bottom cord plus the webbing. I had to make a lift rig, the help I had could not lift them high enough for me and the rest of the crew on the scaffolds on each side to reach. So I made a hoist that attached to the 3 point hitch on my 20 HP tractor. That was not ideal but we managed.
    I was able to boil in the sugarhouse that spring, had walls, a roof but only a partial (wooden 12x16) floor in a 16x24 area.
    Dave Klish, I recently ordered a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
    Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
    Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
    After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.

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