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Started building a new 500 tap system over at Bobs yeaterday,,gonna try a diffrent style booster (make it all out of pipe) than what we used behind his sugarhouse (PVC),,,see how the are to build-maintain,,,What a great time of year to be hanging tubing!
Parrr( so much syrup going to flood the market)keeer- Thats how Ive been doing it too. I just run the lateral mainline into the wet and then jumper the lateral mainline up into the dry. Quick and easy and seems to work good. Guys- There was a ten inch filter press in our classifieds and I sent the guy a message but never heard back. Anyone know how I can get a hold of the person to see if its sold? Thanks Theron
After not spending any time in the woosd all summer I have been finaly able to get back at it. I have been able to put up another 75 new taps. I am relocating a pick up station. This will allow me to have only 150 on one sap ladder instead of 250 on two ladders. I am also splitting up laterials. I am going to do my best to strive for five per lat. I picked up a huge vac compensation tank. I was a used 50gall pvc tank form a milk system. I run three single releasers off my one pump. The compensation tank should help buffer the dump cycles. At the sugar house I am building a heat exchanger for the vac pump. I am using base board fin tube and a fan that came from one of my bulk tank coolers. I keep telling myself that all of these small impovements along with check valves It is going to be a huge year.
BR
Tubing Seminar
Just recieved Info on a tubing seminar which will be held near Henry Brennemans Sugar Camp on Friday October the 30th starting at 9 am. The seminar is under the direction of a Leader Evaporator Rep. Bradley Gillian.
Henry's Camp is located at 572 Oak Dale Road near West Salisbury Pa.. Henry's Number is (814) 941-8974. Leave him a message he will call you back.
Mark 220 Maple
Mark,
Wish I could make the seminar as it would be a lot of fun meeting some of you guys. I was up at Henrys about 2 weeks ago and picked up a load of stuff. It is close to a 4 hour drive for me each way and I will be on the road to Illinois that morning as my brother and I are heading out to bowhunt for 9 or 10 days if all goes as planned.
One thing is for sure, Brad Gillian sure knows his stuff and if anyone has questions or just getting started, he is the right person to help them get started correctly.
BIGSAP UPDATE-from northeastern pa. A lot of maple stuff going on down here at Pierce and Sons. Booy bush is really starting to come together now. Should be done this weekend and looks like going to get around 400 taps on it which is a bit more than I thought. Really neat looking with a lot of hedgerows. Once thats done Im heading up the hill for another 4 or 500 Id say. Thats going to run into the shed releaser so that will be real nice. Tap counts going up pretty quick now that Im getting the boys trained. They dont look like they have much potential but theyre really starting to act like they might amount to something after all. Once thats done I think I may even do a dairy bush up the road have to see how the time goes. Still a ton of other stuff to do hooking up ro's, vac pumps, etc. Hopin for a big year. Want to fill lots of barrell. Going to be neat to see the releasers. Be the horizontal in the shed, the double across the road, the single down the road and a glass bowl with a sp-11 up the road. Ill get some pics once its all done. Theron
Well we got a big enough pump($600 later) to pump sap up an 800ft 1 inch line with 95 feet of lift! Hooked it up yesterday and moved 250 gallon of water up the hill in less that 15 minutes. When we found that the pump was going to work we added another 75 taps only have 150 more to go and we will be at the number we wanted to be at for next season.About 900 will be the tap count in the main bush and 350 in the small bush for next season.Now we have 4 new vac pumps to get hooked up and we will be almost ready to go.(well not really) Sales have been strong reguardless of the economy.Beautiful weather for putting in taps!!
Jim
Has anyone heard from Haynes lately? I'm becoming worried....:cry:
He should show up soon. He might actually be doing something .
Nice weather here again. I have maples that haven't lot their leaves yet. Hard to rake them up when they won't fall. We have had several good freezes already.
Almost done with my pallets I drag home from the lumber yard. Would like more hard wood ones but they don't show up much. Need to find a place that get's heavy steel rolls in and those are allwasy a good hard wood.
Finally got all the bricks laid in the evaporator all ready to "glue " them in but the firechief needs to look at this thing first to inspect it so I can get my permit for it, but I filled out the paperwork paid my money $20 bucks for the permit called him and left a message to come out and check it out and still he hasn't called me back or contacted me about it:mad: I wanna get this thing done before it gets too cold!!!
Anyway tightened up my first mainline and all tied tight pulled tight good pitch. Wanted to run a gallon of water through it to make sure all was working good. went to the other end nothing was coming out!!!! So I did it again nothing!!! OK wenthough t check maybe I missed somthing???? sure enough I put in a "Y" where I am going to add in another 500' contection and forgot to plug it water was pouring out! Let it finish capped it off put in 1 gallon got back just about 1 gallon in th ebucket and it was still dripping out a little :)
Hopefully I can start that other 500' tomorrow!