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Finally got back in the woods yesterday to work on tubing!!! :)
Wind sucked though. I was OK until the snow blew in my face. Going out for a few hours today wanna try to have it all finished this week!!!! I hope anyway gotta get things replumbed at the sugar house!!!
Excavator coming tomorrow. I called the dealer to get one delivered today, but their delivery trucks big enough to haul the 12,000 # were all out at other stores (they have 3 or 4 locations). They will have have the truck tomorrow. After setting the tank I start my dry line above the existing wet line. Then I have a section to move a branch line. After that I add about 150 taps with sap ladders and plumb it all to the zero tank. I'll need a new sap pump, bigger to pump faster, and about 40' of hose. I'm thinking of getting a 1.25" but might go 1.5". Got to check the specs. Will be pumping about 300 gal/trip and don't want to wait for the 1" pumps to do it, since I'll be shutting off the vac while pumping.
Went out to the woods this afternoon and put up 200' of mainline. I tightened it but I need to go back and tighten it again and side tie it tommorow.
Ran 600 feet of laterals today and got all the droplines cut in. Picking up mainline and saddles tomorrow from Russells. Hopefully ill have that section done by the 1st. Roofing for the new sugar house will come tomorrow sometime. Hoping to have that mostly on by the end of the day thursday.
Dave- What are you using for a vac pump on your setup? Wayside- Are you going to have all your taps hooked together so you can use vac on them? Theron
I have an Alamo, rotary vane pump. Because I'm using the Zero as a vac tank at least this season, I will be using a vac regulator to keep vac at 18-19". In a year or 2 if I decide I need more vac I will get a liquid ring pump and a releaser.
Theron - eventually yes, but not for this year...its just not in the budget. My plan has been to start at the collection tank and slowly every year run a new section farther and farther away from my starting point until I have the whole thing running to one spot. By this time if all goes as planned I will be out of college and it will be time to change the drops out. Ill put all new check valves in and hook it up to vac. I'm shooting for the strive for 5 from the start so that when I do hook up vac I wont have to rework any mains or lats.
Thats what I was wondering about using it on a zero tank. Should work good. Wonder how bascom uses all vac tanks, Im pretty sure he is all ring pumps. Must be those big tanks of his will take high vac. Im going to stick with releasers but someday Im going to have all of them with the tanks in little buildings so they dont freeze up. Big pain in the butt. I think thats going to be next years project making that little chore go away somehow. Theron
Wayside- How many do you have that are hooked together now going downhill to one location? Theron
and do you have electric there?