Eastern Ontario 2022

[Fort Wisers]

Same to you Galena! I hope all goes well on your end....

Glad you had such a crazy busy season, Wisers! Don't blame you for pulling spiles, the runs this year in our area have been slightly insane. Have a great rest of your year! :-)

[4Walls]

I leave my pans on "low" all the time. Have to run to town to get a kid. Maybe it will be very cold overnight and I don't want to risk freezing and cracking a weld. Or Im tired and want to take a break for an hour and cook supper for the fam.
I am running a 2x8 D&G with flat bottoms. 2007 vintage. I've converted the wood arch to burn used veggie oil. Another story all together. It burns hot, at full throttle I'm pulling 40 GPH. The best I could get with small, split, dry wood was 22. Big wood goes slower.
But If I need to leave for a while, I turn off the compressed oil air mixture and toss some big house wood into the stove. It fires right up from the heat on the glow plate. I will loose about 3 inches from the cool down with wood so I just make sure that I have enough in the pans or leave the sap running. I never leave the sap running overnight.

[Galena]

...I've converted the wood arch to burn used veggie oil.....

OMG I know someone who also has converted everything he runs to veggie oil...a car, van, tractor....it works!

[paulslund]

[QUOTE=4Walls;403428 I've converted the wood arch to burn used veggie oil[/QUOTE]

I saw your post on that and your youtube video.. it's got to be the coolest thing I've seen when it comes to evaporators.. I might try to incorporate that if I finally build my new arch this summer..

[4Walls]

Everything I design is put up for open source. Anybody can copy it and I will help with some Ideas for the setup. Hit me up with a message and I will give you my cell so I can help with a build.
I took it over to a buddies place last year. He has the D&G 18x48 hobby evaporator. We got it going with wood and then turned on the oil. It ran for a solid 4 hours on oil without adding another stick to it. Much smaller evaporator than what I have so the oil was turned down a lot. The rig burned about 14 litres of the used oil in 4 hours. It burned hotter, clean and consistent for the whole run. The tank and fuel control/mixture and ejector port are very transportable.

You should see my 8 gallon SS vacuum filter that I just built. I will have to post a complete write up with plans. The whole thing cost less than 200$ and will run 5 gallons of syrup through clear in 2 minutes without a single drop spilled or wasted.

[Galena]

4Walls, think you could build an RO?

[Someclown]

OMG I know someone who also has converted everything he runs to veggie oil...a car, van, tractor....it works!

That must be one of the vehicle I follow on the road that make me want to go for french fries every time.
BAHAHAAA

[Lanark]

I'd like to see the photos of your vacuum filter. Did you use DE in the 5 gallons?

[Bruce L]

With a separate syrup pan and a divided sap pan, you can also extend the boil
on the front pan to the color you prefer for any particular batch.
There are 100 ways to make this stuff. A very experienced friend has a 24" x 12' evaporator. He routinely
fills his pans to 10",fills the fire box with wood up to 8 ft. long and goes home for the night.
Comes back the next morning to a few inches of liquid and carries on!
Lots of stops and starts this year in my area.

Some day we’ll all read about a sugar house burning down,I’m nervous to step outside to check the sap tanks even. I literally take the 1 minute run there and back to see how much has come in from the bush

[paulslund]

Everything I design is put up for open source. Anybody can copy it and I will help with some Ideas for the setup. Hit me up with a message and I will give you my cell so I can help with a build.
I took it over to a buddies place last year. He has the D&G 18x48 hobby evaporator. We got it going with wood and then turned on the oil. It ran for a solid 4 hours on oil without adding another stick to it. Much smaller evaporator than what I have so the oil was turned down a lot. The rig burned about 14 litres of the used oil in 4 hours. It burned hotter, clean and consistent for the whole run. The tank and fuel control/mixture and ejector port are very transportable.

You should see my 8 gallon SS vacuum filter that I just built. I will have to post a complete write up with plans. The whole thing cost less than 200$ and will run 5 gallons of syrup through clear in 2 minutes without a single drop spilled or wasted.

I have some pots I've been wanting to convert to a vacuum filter so I"m always looking for more ideas before I take the plunge and drill into my pots.. LOL

The arch I'm planning will be 18x48 (just a bit wider actually.. I have 2 double full hotel pans that I boil on.

Paul.