hmaple
01-30-2025, 11:47 PM
Been sugaring for 4 years now, so far with buckets; around 130 taps last year. Giving tubing a try this year for around 1/3 of what we had on buckets last year, 3/16 gravity vacuum.
Curious how you guys would route this section. Collection point is at the top of the picture; red box with arrow pointing to it. Blue dashed line is the path of the trees I need to catch. It's all clear in my mind except for a half dozen taps in the loop to the right. Topography of that part is such that the far side of the loop is a slightly higher elevation than the main route at that point, and similar elevation to my end tree. I think it's going to be a bad idea to try to bring all the sap from upstream around that loop. Can I run a separate line from the trees in the loop and T into the "main" line, or is that going to mess up my natural vacuum somehow? In other words, is it ever ok to T one 3/16 lateral into another, or should I only be connecting individual drops to 3/16? It's going to be around 650 ft to the collection point without that loop, and I have no taps the last 150 ft. It seems a waste to run a second line 500 ft for 6 taps. If I can catch everything on that route with one line it will be around 25 taps total.
https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipN-uVgoTktyyOq4WvGkGR0RDULduF6zbM6TjqS7
Curious how you guys would route this section. Collection point is at the top of the picture; red box with arrow pointing to it. Blue dashed line is the path of the trees I need to catch. It's all clear in my mind except for a half dozen taps in the loop to the right. Topography of that part is such that the far side of the loop is a slightly higher elevation than the main route at that point, and similar elevation to my end tree. I think it's going to be a bad idea to try to bring all the sap from upstream around that loop. Can I run a separate line from the trees in the loop and T into the "main" line, or is that going to mess up my natural vacuum somehow? In other words, is it ever ok to T one 3/16 lateral into another, or should I only be connecting individual drops to 3/16? It's going to be around 650 ft to the collection point without that loop, and I have no taps the last 150 ft. It seems a waste to run a second line 500 ft for 6 taps. If I can catch everything on that route with one line it will be around 25 taps total.
https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipN-uVgoTktyyOq4WvGkGR0RDULduF6zbM6TjqS7