Wet Dry Laterials

[Brian Ryther]

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Started to put up the dry system over the old wet lines.

[Thad Blaisdell]

Wow..... you are going to have double the lat lines in the woods. Twice as many lines to fix and twice as many leaks.. You had better make close to a gallon per tap. Because if you would have put that tubing in another woods you could have made .5 gpt in that woods too.

Good Luck

[rchase]

i guess i dont understand whats happening in that pic. running dry lateral line?

[jasonl6]

Using one of the old vented lamb 7/16" fittings and running a wet/dry line to the taps. This allows complete vac transfer to the tap instead of the slug. If anyone is looking for some of these fittings i have hundreds avail, they are used but would be fine to use with the leader check valves.

Jason

[Brian Ryther]

Thad,
The woods I am doing this experement in is some of my oldest tubing. Most of the lines are 100' long with "Y's" and 10+ taps per laterial. I typically get 20+ gallons of sap per tap from these lines but I want 30+ gallos of sap per tap. Because the orignal installation was done so poorly I feel that I will gain more than the 18% Dr perkins gained from his treatments. I also see a lot problems with this type of instalation and do not feel that it will be the industry standard in the future, but it will be fun to see it work.

[Thad Blaisdell]

This does sound like a very neat experiment. Just way too much work involved.