sap ladder on a wet/dry system-

[tuckermtn]

just started adding a dry line to my bush over in Salisbury. Will have 350 taps over there and figuring its time to add the dry line. My question is that there is a two pipe sap ladder near the end of the run. With the dry line do I put in an identical two pipe sap ladder, but just a little bit higher?

Another question- from the top of the sap ladder, it is a 300 ft run straight in to the releaser- do I need to run the dry line above the wet line, or can they be run on the same high tensile wire (two 3/4"pipes on same wire)

thanks-

-Eric

[Thompson's Tree Farm]

Just run the dry line as far as the ladder. My understanding is if you go past the ladder, you may have higher vacuum behind the ladder and diminish the efficiency of the lift,

[Thad Blaisdell]

Is the sap ladder its own mainline.... if so how long is it. If that is the only thing on that line from the releaser, you are looking at 300 ft + the length of the sap ladder mainline. You may not need a dry line. How many taps on that line?

[tuckermtn]

the sap ladder is lifting all the taps on that bush- last year it was 250, so I just ran it with 3/4 mainline. This year I will be adding 100 taps at the far end of the mainline and figured I would put a second 3/4" mainline to act as a dry line.

[maple flats]

I have no experience like you describe. I have 2 sap ladders feeding my wet dry conductors but no sap ladders in my wet/dry. My ladders are in mains before they hit the wet dry, in fact they both have no taps between the sap ladders and the wet dry manifold.