Today turned out to be a nice day, so after moving around some wood for the evaporator, I decided to shovel out around the evaporator. The day was still nice at the completion of that, so I started to assemble my shelter around the evaporator.
It all pieced together properly, but two things made me worry about the steam coming out. In the summer when I built it, my wife did not, like how big it looked. I shortened the legs of the walls, but still felt it would be tall enough. After removing it and later in the summer, I started to fill in around the evaporator so that I would have level ground to walk on. Between shortening the legs and adding material, the one wall was now quite short. If the wind pushes the steam that direction it will challenging to find it’s way out.
I will figure out a way around it, but that right way has not come to me quite yet.
In the pictures after I shoveled it out, I did not remove all the snow, because the roof wasn’t going on today and fresh snow will fall tonight and tomorrow and most days this week.
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2022 - 5 pan block arch - 109 taps, 73 on 3/16 lines, 36 on drops into 5 gallon pails.
930 gallons boiled, 109 L (28.8 gals) of delicious syrup made.
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2023 - 170 taps, mostly on lines, 1153 gallons boiled, 130 L (34.34 gals) of delicious syrup made, on a 2x4 divided pan and base stack, 8” pipe, on a block arch that boiled at a rate of 13 gallons per hour.
2024 - made 48 L, December to March, primarily over two fire bowls.
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