Maple Syrup Evaporator for $200, boils 8 gallons per hour. Sugarbush boiler.
Channel: Roachven
Date: 23/05/2013

Me attempting to explain our boiler set up for our first year making maple syrup out here at Long Haul.  We've made maple syrup with other friends for the past 5 years, but this is our first year making it at our own place with our own set up so we are pretty excited about it.  The whole set up cost us about $200 and took me about 2 or 3 days to set up (including cutting the barrels).  The total liquid capacity for the boiler was about 25-30 gallons and we averaged boiling away something like 8 gallons per hour.  We tapped a total of 150 trees this season and this was a very adequate set up for that many trees at least for this year.  There were 5 or 6 days that we had to boil all day, but no overnights.  At the end of the season I removed one of the barrels and just boiled three pans for lack of sap.  This season we made just over 19 gallons of syrup.