markcasper
03-30-2014, 01:02 AM
I bought some new Lapierre hobbies for this year. I have a 225 tap woods and started it before I started tapping. The woods is split between 3 mainlines coming into the releaser. I got the first mainline tapped in while the other two were closed off via valves. The gauge read 27" after getting the first mainline tapped. Everything seemed fine. I opened the valve to begin tapping the 2nd main, looked down the hill to see sap being sucked up the vacuum line. (Keep in mind there were some hanging drops and holes sucking air consatntly) As I continued to tap away and make repairs the vacuum got greater and greater. Ditto on the 3rd mainline.
When I finished and went to shut the pump off for the night, here the 5 gallon or so air tank under the pump was almost full of sap. I drained it and the pump oil, even though there was no sap in the pump oil....YET. Is the fact that there was so much free air coming in while I was tapping in explain all of this. I am hoping so, I never actually watched the releaser dumping as I was in a hurry to get the woods tapped, BUT I could hear the releaser tripping every so often. I have a Trap but do not have it set up yet b/c I am going to be a running another releaser from the same air line on the opposite side of the hill. Regardless of the trap, the dang thing should not have sucked close to 5 gallons down the vacuum line in an afternoon. These releasers never came with any instructions either which they should have. I see there is a little set screw thing that can be turned to control splashing.....WHAT....? When I completed tapping the gauge read 26" plus with slush forming. HELP!!!
When I finished and went to shut the pump off for the night, here the 5 gallon or so air tank under the pump was almost full of sap. I drained it and the pump oil, even though there was no sap in the pump oil....YET. Is the fact that there was so much free air coming in while I was tapping in explain all of this. I am hoping so, I never actually watched the releaser dumping as I was in a hurry to get the woods tapped, BUT I could hear the releaser tripping every so often. I have a Trap but do not have it set up yet b/c I am going to be a running another releaser from the same air line on the opposite side of the hill. Regardless of the trap, the dang thing should not have sucked close to 5 gallons down the vacuum line in an afternoon. These releasers never came with any instructions either which they should have. I see there is a little set screw thing that can be turned to control splashing.....WHAT....? When I completed tapping the gauge read 26" plus with slush forming. HELP!!!