New Stuff

This is our newly reinstalled smoke stack. The only really new part is the bright shiny elbow. But, it's back in place to work with the evaporator set up for wood.

















And this is our framework for holding our new sap filter. It's a bit hard to see with all the steam, but Michael said to make sure & point out that we didn't NEED to drill that many holes to get it right, that board was a leftover from another project that we recycled. Instead of using an old prefilter for filtering sap like we have in the past.

I picked up a real sap filter at the Indiana Maple Syrup Association meeting December. It should clean up a lot easier, and it will filter a lot more before clogging up. It's hanging down in the tank where you can't see it.

The straps hold the tank to a frame that elevates it to feed the evaporator and the bungee cords hold the rest of it to the tank so it doesn't fall off when we move the hose. That runs to a pump that is connected to our two open storage tanks.