BlueberryHill
01-07-2019, 10:17 AM
Right now I am hauling sap out of the woods with a UTV that has a small tank in the back. Lots of fussing with lines and a WX10 pump. Gets interesting when there is deep snow cause if I try to plow these trails, I just end up with a stuck plow. I would love to set something up to get the sap all pulled/pushed into my tank behind my sugar house. I am gonna attempt to include a drawing...
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19127
I have 3/16 lines on natural gravity across the street. I can't go over the road with anything, but there is a culvert under the road that I could probably get some tubing through. I do not have a good way to get any kind of power over there, and I really don't want to. I thought about putting a lunchpail over there, but 150 trees would probably overwhelm it and I also don't think it would have the power to get the sap all the way up to the sugar house.
Thought about doing some ladders to suck the sap from those 3/16 lines up the hill and into the mainline that is running on vac now. Then I could pump everything from there up to the sugar shack. But doing that would require me to have power out where the releaser is in order to run the pump and provide freeze protection. And getting power out there would not be cheap or easy. It's 200 ft away from the electric panel in my barn, across my yard.
Another thought was to put the vac pump and the releaser in the sugar shack and get crazy with ladders or some system to just suck all the sap up to the shack. But I have no idea how to make that work or if it's even a good idea to attempt.
Another thought I had was to leave everything set up like it is now, and put a guzzler in the sugar shack and run a 3/16 line from the guzzler to each woods tank. Then I can just slowly suck the sap from each woods tank up the hill to my shack.
Does anyone out there have any input or experience with what should work, or what won't work?
19127
19127
I have 3/16 lines on natural gravity across the street. I can't go over the road with anything, but there is a culvert under the road that I could probably get some tubing through. I do not have a good way to get any kind of power over there, and I really don't want to. I thought about putting a lunchpail over there, but 150 trees would probably overwhelm it and I also don't think it would have the power to get the sap all the way up to the sugar house.
Thought about doing some ladders to suck the sap from those 3/16 lines up the hill and into the mainline that is running on vac now. Then I could pump everything from there up to the sugar shack. But doing that would require me to have power out where the releaser is in order to run the pump and provide freeze protection. And getting power out there would not be cheap or easy. It's 200 ft away from the electric panel in my barn, across my yard.
Another thought was to put the vac pump and the releaser in the sugar shack and get crazy with ladders or some system to just suck all the sap up to the shack. But I have no idea how to make that work or if it's even a good idea to attempt.
Another thought I had was to leave everything set up like it is now, and put a guzzler in the sugar shack and run a 3/16 line from the guzzler to each woods tank. Then I can just slowly suck the sap from each woods tank up the hill to my shack.
Does anyone out there have any input or experience with what should work, or what won't work?