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    Default Sugar Shack Build ... all the details

    Hi all... hope everybody had or is having a good sugaring season. Ours ended a little early here in western NY, but since it was my first year with my new sugar shack and Mason 2x3 evaporator, I had fun just the same.

    Anywho... When I was building my shack I searched Maple Trader for all the tidbits of ideas I could find...and I found a lot of good info, but it took me quite a bit of time to piece it all together. I decided to put together a write up on my 16'x24' build on a hobby blog site I run with some of my relatives. Thought it might be handy for anybody that is thinking of building their own sugar shack.

    Here's part I: https://www.relativelyrandom.com/202...on-to-rafters/

    Here's part II: https://www.relativelyrandom.com/202...ding-to-syrup/

    Enjoy...

    -craig
    16x24 Old School Sugar House
    Mason 2x3 Evaporator
    Kubota BX sap hauler
    2018 - 8 taps on buckets
    2019 - building the shack...just 1 tap
    2020 - Today ... 25 taps on buckets

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    Beautiful shack. Very nice!
    CDL 2.5*8 Venturi with all the bells
    Leader Clear 5 bank filter press
    Memprotec 350H RO
    600ish taps and looking for more.

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    That is a dream shack. Very very well done!!
    2x3 Patrick Phaneuf Divided Pan
    Homemade arch
    RB20 RO Bucket
    121 taps total
    Sugar Shack in future
    Wife into it as much as me
    Also do homebrew

    http://s928.photobucket.com/albums/ad121/ZMANSYRUP/

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    Very, very nice! Thanks for sharing.
    16x24 Timber Frame Sugar House
    Mason 2x4 Evaporator
    90 trees on buckets

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    Very nice Sugar House and great write up. Thanks for sharing.
    Sugaring for 45+ years
    New Sugarhouse 14'x32'
    New to Me Algier 2'x8' wood fired evaporator
    2022 added a used RB25 RO Bucket
    250 mostly Sugar Maples, 15% Soft Maples. Currently,(110on 3/16" and 125 on Shurflo 4008 vacuum, 15 gravity), (16,000 before being disabled)
    1947 Farmall H and Wagon with gathering tank
    2012 Kubota with forks to move wood around

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    Fantastic work - and plenty of room to expand! That little closet you tucked in there will be your RO room. By the way, your dad's advice was right on.
    Woodville Maples
    www.woodvillemaples.com
    www.facebook.com/woodvillemaples
    Around 300 taps on tubing, 25+ on buckets if I put them out
    Mix of natural and mechanical vac, S3 Controller from Mountain Maple
    2x6 W.F. Mason with Phaneuf pans
    Deer Run 250 RO
    Ford F350
    6+ hives of bees (if they make it through the winters)
    Keeping the day job until I can start living the dream.

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    That's a beauty! Excellent write-up and photos along with it. Top quality all around.
    All my life I wanted to make my own syrup. Now I'm livin' the dream!

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    Very nice presentation and a great sugar house. Too nice to call it a shack! Well Done.
    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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    That shack is really quite the build! I'm inspired to start on my shack addition ASAP, all things considered. I already started excavation for the slab. I've been looking at the same VUM document, but since I'm extending my existing barn, the layout and style will vary. I hope to do half as good a job documenting the build as you did.
    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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    This is an astounding pair of write-ups! Thank you for taking the valuable time to do that. Saving this as I've wanted to build something similar and may be stuck with more time at home all year than expected
    42.82N
    2015 - Small operation. 25 buckets. One excited 5 year old and one 35 year old that feels 5 again.
    2016 - One year older. New Homemade 2x4 Arch, Smoky Lake Pan and looking at 52 maples, 17 box elders and 2 walnut trees.
    2017 - Shurflo 4008 hooked to 42 stingy silver maples and a few Norways. A couple buckets on sugars and Norways. 10 box elders.
    2018 - ...a few more taps.
    2019 - ...more taps on 3/16 gravity. This spiral is heading downward in a hurry.
    2020 - 4x400 RO - RB20 (uh-oh!)

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