How to run a small, EFFICIENT sugar house

[@chrisdaniel1339]

Years ago I check out Algier, Leader, CDL, Les Évaporateurs Dallaire, and Lapierre, Waterloo, Small Bros - Leader and Algier had exceptional quality pans, CDL and Lapierre were good too, however Dallaire was the only company that would bend me a 4' drop flue pan out of 101 oxygen free copper sheet to be TIG welded back in NH. I drove up through the border crossing at the tip of New Hampshire, through numerous small Canadian towns, to the Lapierre's manufacturing facility. The guys there were awesome and they were interested in my project, within an hour I had the bottom and sides of the flue pan and I was back on the road to the US.

[@housedeck1]

Nice set up

[@UtopiaForMore]

Good job! 👍🍁

[@terrybrown9206]

Nice size operation

[@HeeHawBill]

Is the slide in the syrup pan home made? I don't see it on the Leader website.

[@802louis]

Nice job 👍

[@guitars415]

You'd benefit from monitor stack temp on when to properly fire.

[@toobmes]

If you discover that you are making sugar in the middle compartment, what do you do then?

[@jbilly24]

Very nice setup. Wonder how long it takes to recoup your equipment cost with 300 trees?

[@chrisbragg5794]

never will

[@Jonathan-wo6kf]

What how many gallons is this evaporator?

[@ryanbrowne4374]

It probably only takes maybe 35-50 gallons of sap to fill it, and just guessing but this rig is probably in the range of 50-60 gallons per hour of evaporatation.

[@802louis]

Nice job 👍