CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION

PLANNING AHEAD

TREES, TAPS AND SAPS

Selecting Your Trees

When, How and Where to Tap

Buckets and Pails

Dealing with Frozen Sap

Sap Storage

HOMEMADE EVAPORATORS

Engineering Principles of Backyard Evaporators

Evaporator Pans

Building a Homemade Evaporator

Cement Block Evaporators

Basic Block Sugarin’ Rig

Basic Block with Stack and Damper

High Capacity Block Evaporator with Multiple Pans

Semi-pro Cement Block Rig

Steel Drum and Tank Evaporators

25-Gallon Drum Evaporator in Stone Wall

50-Gallon Drum Evaporator, Wood Fired

50-Gallon Drum Evaporator, Oil Fired

Converted Oil Storage Tank, Oil Fired

Double Pan, Converted Water Pressure Tank Evaporator

Backyard Barbecue Conversion

Congressman’s Box Stove Conversion

THE BOILING DOWN PROCESS

Step by Step on the Author’s Rig

Canning and Storage

Making Maple Sugar (for Those Who Dare)

ANONYMOUS REVELATIONS FROM BACKYARDERS

MUSINGS OF A BACKYARD SUGARER

INDEX