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Brent I have had the same problem with those connector's the odd one seems to be smaller than the others thank god for tape. well one more day of work then off to tap the 350 on gravity and get them going finish the pluming to the evaporator and maybe test fire the evaporator. try and take some of the fun out of any problems that may come up with the new pan!
Finished tapping yesterday and have a total of around 550 buckets, could have done more but ran out of lids. Thanks to all the traders for the helpful information on this site, have a great season. Ian
Friday (skipped work) Warm day. About 150 taps on the pipeline yeilded about 120 US gallons of sap. Freeze here tonight is forecast. Should be good tomorrow. Putting off hanging the buckets and bags ... to muddy to get to them if they were hung. Gotta get the rig together with new air injectors above the fire and then get it lit. 2.4%
I'm still building my arch Brent and was thinking of air injection. Are you putting them above and below the fire or just above.
I'm going to put them above only. The Univ of Vermont Proctor Maple Research Center suggests most additional air is needed above.
Last year I was able to get stack temps up near 1300. That's a lot of heat going clear past the flue pans. And I did not use a blower last year.
One thing Proctor says is that with a good blend of draft from below and above you should be able to go from 6 minute firing interval to 12 to 15 min firing intervals, by mixing fresh air above. I don't need hotter, I just want more efficiency.
what's your boil rate with the phaneuf Brent. You must be boiling like crazy to keep up to 410 taps.
Ithink it was near 45 - 50 GPH (US) but that was only a wild guess because we were playing with a little RO system that chnaged the numbers all the time.
But last year our total was only about 225 bags and buckets. The tubing is all extra this year. going to try the RO again this year.
I finally Got my 18 taps in today (Saturday) due to work and all my drops had mud dabber mud in them boy that's hard to get out.
Anything flowing over your way yet. I have one tree with a slow drip. Some of the trees feel wet when I drill but nothing yet. It was 55 degrees here earlyier.
tapped 33 holes into pails, first pail had a litre in it by the time my helper (4 year old daughter) and I had finished last pail had 1 litre (4 taps)