Gas powered vacuum pump

[ldick]

Interested in recommendations for best gas powered vacuum pump.

[corrowbasin]

How many taps are u looking at? I run two different Airablo setups: 60cfm 202 head with Honda GX290 and a 80cfm 302 head with Honda GX390. Need sufficient amount of taps and good woods to justify the gas/operating cost.

[ldick]

Will have about 2000 taps with very minimal slope

[maple flats]

Back when I had gas powered vacuum pumps I had 2 systems on them, each about 750 taps at times. I used Honda engines. The 6.5's did ok, but I then swapped one out to a 9 hp and it used less fuel on the same system. You will want to set up with a larger gas tank than they come with. I hooked 2 @4.5 gal tanks together. You will likely need a 20 gal minimum. How will it be hauling fuel in? One of mine was just 40' off the road, the other was 950', up about 15', then go thru a boggy swamp for the last 350 feet. No way to haul it in when the snow got deep, I carried 2@ 2.5 gal each for a balanced load. No snowmobile at that time, when I got one later on, it often couldn't handle the deep snow, on snow up to about 1' no problem., deeper with big drifts no way.