Splitting wet/dry conducter lines

[Farmer Jim]

Hello, I am setting up from scratch. The tubing and vacuum books are not as thorough as I need for my feeble brain. The limited photos show branching off from the 2 lines through a U manifold and then into a single line. The area I'm setting up is a bowl with little slope at the bottom and steep as you go up. The bush is narrow, 110 yds, at the beginning and goes about 275 yds and then widens into about 110 acres of the bowl. I won't be able to keep the single mainlines under 1000 ft if I can't split the wet/dry and don't want to have to run extra mainlines through the narrow area as it's a long way from the sugar house already, 343 yds just to get to the beginning of the bush. The mainlines will enter the bush at the bottom in the narrow area. Is it possible to split both the wet and dry and continue the branches, each with wet/dry, before branching into single mains? This would allow for some economy in the amount of tubing. Could this be done with a manifold similar to the one on a horizontal releaser? Thank you.

[steam maker]

Mine comes in woods from vaccum shed to a booster tank and splits two ways to go up hill . Then off of that it branches off single mainline as needed !!!!! Wet dry all the way to the top

[maple flats]

That should be no problem, but be sure you use the right size tubing. Many who set up vacuum and even wet/dry systems skimp on tubing size. Even a large pump can't get good vacuum thru undersized tubing. Your first thing to consider might be to purchase the Cornell Maple Tubing Notebook, by Cornel Maple Specialist Steve Childs. He has loads of info and all sorts of system designs in there. Another idea might be to ask Leader, CDL, Lapierre or who ever you will be ordering the tubing from to visit your sugar bush. They will many times see different system designs that may even save you in the long run.
In my case they did just that. I asked my dealer to come help. He and his wife came, walked the bush, measured and designed the system. Then before finalizing it they worked with Leader's designer. He came up with a better plan (better vac transfer and lower cost). That is what I now have in that bush. Their help was free of charge but the understanding was that I'd order from them, and that I did.

[Farmer Jim]

I have the Cornell book and it is lacking as far as the actual options for branching, or I'm missing pages. I am using the book and its worksheets to aid in sizing everything. Currently I'm establishing mainline locations and load per line.