Gas Power Vacuum Pump

[gmack]

Looking for recommendation on a gas power vacuum pump and releasor .

400 or 450 Taps on 800 ft of 1 inch main line with 3/16 laterals on very little slope .

Thank you

[rhwells2003]

Your set-up sounds very similar to mine. I actually have probably closer to 2000' of 1" main, and have about 440 taps. I run a 6.5hp predator gas motor (which I'm in the process of switching over to a 2hp elec. motor), and a gast 1550 vac pump. I have a benard double barrel releaser that I picked up used. Its bigger then I need, think its rated for around 2000-3000 taps. Eventhough its rated for more then I have on a good run it'll still dump once every 60-90sec. This set-up for me is pulling around 25" of vac.

[mountainvan]

I run 4 alamos with Honda engines. Work great.

[highlandcattle]

We had an old Alamo dairy pump and an Indiana gas powered. Drew the sap from our far back sugarbush across pur pasture to the sap house. No problem