I'll add the complete story later, but here is the short version.

We have been sugaring since 2000. We started with a homemeade wood-fired block evaporator with flat pans from my grandfather, then purchased and rehabbed an abandoned 30"x10' wood-fired rig.
Our current rig is a 30"x8' gas-fired unit we purchased on eBay.
Last year we took the season off to allow Michael & Lori time to adust to being parents, but this season we'll be back to the usual