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I elevated my burner so I could drain into my fermenter. Works great.
I brew in the dock area of my shop. When the weather is nice the big door gets opened, if the weather is nasty the big door stays closed. I put in shelves, pegs, rings, etc., to hold my stuff, along with an overhead point for lifting the bag. On a pretty day I will sit outside, because I'm blessed with a beautiful location with a great view.
There's no water on that end of the building, so I re-purposed and re-built a rusty old garden hose reel cart into a brewing cart. That way I don't have to carry heavy vessels of water/wort. To get started I put the empty kettle on the cart, and fill it with a short garden hose attached to the sink faucet. I roll it back to the dock area. When I'm finished brewing I put the fermenter in the cart and drain directly into it, then roll it back to my fermentation fridge.
I chill by recirculating, first from a 5gal bucket of water, then from a cooler filled with ice water. The first 5gal becomes the hot water I use for cleanup, and the water in the cooler is used for rinsing. I do my cleanup right outside the big door, on the dock.
All in all it's very efficient. It's cost efficient, all the wood pieces were made from scrap, and the old hose reel cart was given to me. It's labor efficient to use, with minimal lifting/carrying of water. My conversion efficiency is good too, last brew I hit 82.9%.