Cool looking weldless three teir system

[yeast_slurry_speech]

Saw this weldless system online. Looks pretty easy to build.

[Thirsty Mallard]

Looks simple enough. Post pics of the build.

[polski]

yeah, seems pretty straight forward, but i'd wonder about how stable it would be?

[beer_bear]

Great. An I just finished building my hard to build wooden one. I so would have rather built this.

[TWC3]

Funny I ran across that site not to long ago and book marked. The http://www.boathousebrewery.com/ web site has pictures of him brewing with the kettles full of wort and I did not notice sag in the metal bars. The stand looks easy to assemble just from the diagram provided in his drawing.

TC

[yeast_slurry_speech]

Here's a pic of him brewing with it. Most of the metal is an angle so that probably adds to the stability. Looks like he's brewing fine on it.

I don't know how much it weighs, but I might add wheels to mine so I wouldn't have to pick it up.

Also I'll probably put the mash tun on the top instead of the HLT, that way all I have to pump is the sparge water into it. I won't have to worry about my pump areating the wort or cleaning the wort sugars out of it. I've never used a pump before (always used chairs and stools to make gravity do my dirty work), but it just seems like less work and better for the pump if all I put through it is water. Any of you guys have ideas on this?

I see the chair he used to look into the top tun. I'll take that into acoount when I put the mash tun up high. I might have to add a step or something to get the grain up there.

[Speyedr]

I have a 3-tier gravity system but I still use a pump. I recirculate the wort with it for 10 min before draining the mash tun. I also use it for whirlpool chilling, Jamil style. Wort sugars are not a problem for the March pumps most people sell/use for brewing. After circulating I just rinse with water. Then, before chilling, I hook it up and run the boiling hot wort through it for about 10 minutes before flame out. Once brew day is over I circulate PBW through it as part of my clean up, and put it away clean.

Based on his setup I'd just add a curved piece of copper tubing to the end of some silicone tubing on the pump output side. Hang it in the mash tun while clarifying and when it's done just move it over to the boil kettle. Just wear an oven mitt 'cause that copper will be hot.

[TWC3]

I see the chair he used to look into the top tun. I'll take that into acoount when I put the mash tun up high. I might have to add a step or something to get the grain up there.

The main problem I see with having the mash/lauter tun that high would simply be the weight with all that wet grain and trying to clean without incorporating a tip dump kinda B3 1550ish.

I am like the stand but mainly I am looking pump so I no longer am lifting quite as much.

TC