Dennis- You might want to try a new start capacitor on the old motor. Thats what sounds like is wrong. Theyre probly 15 bucks. Very common to go bad. Theron
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Dennis- You might want to try a new start capacitor on the old motor. Thats what sounds like is wrong. Theyre probly 15 bucks. Very common to go bad. Theron
Glued up some fittings on the AOF system. I replaced some screws in the arch rails.
Darn work thing is really cutting in to the maple hobby.
Chris
Dennis the guy that told you it would be better to buy a new motor is correct. A single phase motor is more expensive to tear down and rewind in comparisson to a 3 phase motor. Rule of thumb single burns up replace it 3 phase burns up rewind it. Also a motor start capacitor is just that. It starts the motor turning in the right direction on a single phase. If its limping its the windings and or bearing freeze.
Played around with the new welder this morning and made a stand to hold my drawoff pan up close to the spigot. Sure was fun and got to mess around with something maple related. Need to get the argon tank filled and then I might just play around with some tig welding. I will say this welding is not as easy as it looks and gonna take some time to master this hobby.
Thats what I thought 3rdgen. I did at 1st think about the cap needing replaced but with the motors thatwe have at work when the cap goes we could turn them on and at the same time "kick" start them and they would run.
I mean this is a nice old motor but when I had to put a longer power cord on when I got it and the insulation on the motor leads were so brittle that I had to slide shrink tubing over them so that they wouldn't short to the motor housing.
You figure that 50-60 years ago they did not make rubber that would stand up to constant ozone that was being generated my the motor itself. So if the insulation on the leads are that bad I figured that the lacqure on the winds are probably breaking down also.
Are you burning coal in the arch and how does it perform??Quote:
Originally Posted by shane hickey
100% coal burns the hottest yet you'll spend most of the rest of the day cleaning the flus coal bakes on, I burn 2/3 barn boards and pallets, 1/3 coal.
coal has a lot of btus and hottest fire you'll ever see come out of an evaporator, Do not use a blower when using coal you'll have a melt done. Mix wood and coal together is a good combinantion. Just my opion.shane
Since I started making syrup I have always wanted to know if coal would work in the evap.
We have a coal stoaker boiler here at in the house and I can get stove coal very easily. Maybe next year I will have to give it a try.
well today I got all the rafters up so tommarow i can put the metal roofing on the wood shed if I dont finish tommarow it will be sunday
I was able to get all (3) of my new tanks upstairs in my sugar house. I hired a local lumber company to come with a boom truck. The tanks are 4' w 5' h and 16' L. I am now set I have 6-2100 gallon tanks upstairs waiting for sap, water and concentrate.
Man Thad thats awesome cant wait to see pictures. next time im up your way maybe i can stop in for some show and tell. Good luck this year, when are you tapping? I think im shooting for the second week in feb for meQuote:
Originally Posted by Thad Blaisdell
Maple rookie
I will update my photobucket pretty soon. I designed my sugarhouse for this purpose. I just couldnt afford it last year. I will start tapping on February 7th give or take the weather conditions.
Anytime you want to come and take a peek come on up. I love to show it off.
Shane,Quote:
Originally Posted by shane hickey
How long have you been burning coal?? Have heard it would damage the pans and wondered how long you had burned it under your pans. I know it burns hot, parents heated house with it for 25+ years.
This will be my fourth year making syrup, So I have burned coal for 3 years. I think it would burn cleaner if you could filter the coal like they do in nuclear plants but I have no way indoing that. So it burns a little black heres a picture shaneAttachment 2229
Wow, 12,600 gal of storage would take some really serious structual support to put in the second floor!Quote:
Originally Posted by Thad Blaisdell
yeah thats just under 100000 lbs or near 50 tons hopfully it made out of 20'' I beams.Quote:
Originally Posted by mapleack
I meant 50 thousand pounds 25 tons
shane
Shane, you were right the first ntime. More like 46 ton. wow.I just put an 8 inch pad with rebar to hold 2, 3200 gallon tanks which is 24 ton.
I don't know why, but when we throw some Elm wood in the arch, we get black smoke out the pipe. A good, hot fire is almost smokeless, but when we fire it with elm it resembles the coal fire smoke in Shanes photo. Not quite as much as above, but a lot for bone dry firewood. Any ideas as to why elm does that?
Steve
I've had a lot blacker smoke from my stack burning pallet scraps...my neighbor thought I was burning tires...
I consulted a structural engineer when building the sugarhouse. I have 3 beams carrying the load 7.5 feet apart these are 8x10 and I doubled the joists underneath I was told that one every 16" was fine.... what I did was I used an 8' on the ends and 2-16' in the middle, making a sandwich out of the end of the 8'. There is now 3 tanks on each end, the outside two each have one side that sits directly on top of one beam and the middle one is centered on the middle beam. Last year I only had two on one side and at the beginning of the season I had them both full-(running over full) and the bulding didnt even groan. no sag. no nothin. Very happy with it. My photobucket has a few pictures that show it somewhat. http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...se123-Copy.jpg
hey any of you guys useing CVs if you want to sell some of your old ones from last year let me know
Footers for the evap. are poured. Hopefully monday it will be ready to move the evap into its new home. After the concrete was do I ran some more laterals and added 25 taps to the mainline. Tomorrow Ill run more tubing and hopfully use up the last of the mainline. Can't do to much in the sugar shack till the concrete has hardend up. Lots going on and only a week left of break.
thad i dont think these guys relize what ur little shack is. last year when we came up to get syrup my jaw dropped. can only imagine this year:D
My little shack was built specifically to be run by one person. I now have 6 tanks upstairs, and new pans coming in 12 days.....
ill have to come up and visit again ,, maybe bring my dad up this time,. hopefully i dont need to call u for ro advice . just bought a new cdl 600 expandable. hope they run as easy as i was told:D oh well god hates a coward
I found them to be bullet proof to operate. The directions are printed right on the front and they are exactly what you do.
we will c. remember im just a flatlanda;)
Finished installing stainless steel counter top, and platform for head tank today. need to run pipe from tank to evaporater, it can wait until it's a little warmer out. Finally have a picture of the front of my sugarshack
Paddy,
Very nice looking sugarhouse and setup!!!
Thanks WV, It's been a real treat building my new sugarshack, I bought the SS
countertop for $30. from a neighbor!! I can't wait to start boiling this year, after 2 yrs of working under an open leanto, it's going to be great. We'll
even be able to filter and bottle there. Better than dragging the mess up to the kitchen.
Paddy very nice work enjoy that building... Picked up mainline today and wire to start hanging the mainline tomarrow. should have tubing and all fittings tuesday. Skipped the verona show this year, been working alot and decided it was alot more important to me to see the boys play hockey and my daughters dance class. On another note seems I have to cut more wood for the sugarhouse. What I had cut and the neighbors cut suddenly is disappearing seems my dad decided to come over and take some for his house. Said his wood is wet and not heating the house good so he decided he would use some of my sugarwood to mix in with his wet crap. Not happy but I guess I understand. Cutting more wood at this point was not in the plans and now the season is knocking on the door I got to lay back on work and get stuff done on the maple side of things.
Got the metal roof on the wood shed today not much more to do until that project is done then all I have to do is fix the arch and make the ash pit and the new sugar house will be all set to go.It will be nice using my own house this year.Time is ticking until Tapping
the weather has been kinda crappy and i,ve been really busy so,i,ve been sitting in the house mostly ordering supplys aand doing some planning.yesterday,i desided to go to a auction.i got a bunch of new hose clamps..around 100 for $10.00.i also got a hand cart that will work great for bringing firewood to the arch.i have a wooden floor in my sugarhouse so i don,t wanta be throwing wood around.
i have my head tank all in place and i got my whole house filters a couple days ago.i got a package deal on ebay...three filters for $40.00 i,ll use one to filter sap coming into the head tank.one as a moisture trap and the other one ?? for now.
i need to go buy some fittings,pipe ect and get my head tank plumbed up this week.i have some 5/16's fittings coming from the maple guys and once i get thoses i,ll start putting up tubing..weather permitting.
delbert
Not maple related except that I am always looking at maples as I walk by them.
Just a brief update on the status of the deer hunting in NWPA.
Chris (the ugly one with no gun)
Gerry
Brent
Phil
Notice the only thing they are dragging is their butts:)
We have a lot of fun getting them up (deer) and clicking at them with the smoke poles.
It was snowing so hard I was making snow angels standing up!:)
Jim Bortles: You should have been there!
One more week! Then its time to get serious about maple!
Chris
I was going to hang some laterals today but discovered lapiere had shipped me the wrong size saddels. I called the local dealer who I bought them from and there going to talk to lapiere tomorrow and have the right ones shipped and let me give the old ones back at the state meeting in a few weeks. Its nice dealing with local people when you buy things.
boy today just sucked ........ evap is de bricked .... and no where to go ....
I got the wood shed done today only thing left to do is some trim but not that important.Next I will tackle the arch and smoke pipe then its just tidying things up and I will be good to go.
Tried to move the head tank into its spot today but we have just enough snow to make it to slick to get up the hill, plus im only working with a loader on an old to-20 we rebuilt a few years ago. Tomorrow is the day the evaporator gets moved into its new home. It will be nice to finally see the king in the castle.
peacemaker, I take it you are going through a divorce. I hope you will find a place to put your evap.
After going to the Winter Maple Conference Friday evening and all day Saturday I returned to the sugarbush today. I finished stringing a new branch line, that will have my first ever sap ladder. I ran about 52 taps on laterals off this branch. Then I started adding laterals to a second new branch, also designed to get a sap ladder but dark ended the day with just 3 laterals and about 17 drops in. The next time I get up there I will resume putting laterals onto this branch. After I finish this branch I will build the 2 sap ladders. From there I need to run 2 more branches, deviding 2 hills into upper and lower branches. The new upper branch will get some new drops as well, in a section previously not feasable to tap because of lateral length. This new branch will run right past them and flow directly to my vacuum tank.
At the maple conference I learned how and got a diagram for pumping out of my vacuum tank without ever shutting the vacuum down. Things are starting to take shape. Still shooting for a ready to tap date in mid Feb. or as soon as the forcast is right after that. Next year I might shoot to be ready to tap Feb 1st.