gravity lines

[tanner pike]

Hey everybody just wonderin what you have for gravity setups and how well they work? could you post pics of your setups? i don't have any of mine but it is 26 taps coming down into a collection barrel, which i'm pretty impressed with. thanks tanner.

[mike first timer]

If you are ever in the area of jay me you could take a look at my set up.

[lastwoodsman]

I ran my first gravity line this spring and considering what a year it was it proved to me it works well.
Woodsman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNFOC4iYt-A&feature=plcp

[western mainer]

Drop me a line I'm only 30 minutes from you your uncle knows where I'm at. And look at my set up.
Brian

[Quabbin Hill Farms]

I have about 175 taps all on gravity going ot 4 collection points around the bush it works well, and saves time , I just bought a Sap puller from Goderich Maple in Vermont, and hope to put 400 taps on it.

[tanner pike]

thanks for all the good feed back everybody

[tanner pike]

Do any of you have pics of your setups?

[SevenCreeksSap]

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Here's a few of ours. We have a nice steep hill which makes it fun to string up, especially when you forgot the tool at the bottom. Trying to run the mainline parallel to the slope and the laterals up and down. Our sugarhouse is at the end of the property so when I get more mainline it will be about 1000 ft from one end to the other, and it all flows into our tank on the back of the sugarhouse. Its worked well so far, I'm anxious to start adding on this year.

[vtwoody]

Last year was my first - had around 100 taps+/- running on laterals to a 3/4 main line that drained into a 275 gal. cage tank next to the sugar shack. Not a great year and I learned that to many taps on a lateral DOES limit flow...lol...burnt finger learns the lesson. Despite lacking vacuum, I am expecting better flows this year from limiting # of taps per lateral and having much better weather (snicker).

If you aren't doing anything else thattime of year, buckets might be cool...for me, I start sugaring after getting home from work, eating dinner with family, putting kids to bed and chatting with wife. Nothing more relaxing then firing up the evaporator, drinking a few pops and watching sap turn magically delicious....we do have a few buckets for aesthetics and to catch a few nice trees to far removed from the lines....kids love checking on the buckets too but, for me, 100 buckets just wouldn't work-more power to those who do it. I will add, I have fond memories of helping out an uncle collect buckets in the northeast kingdom of VT 30 years ago with a team of horse pulling a tank on a sledge through knee deep snow ....now that's work!