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Yup they are very rugged. The new style we are using does a very good job of locking the air line and liquid line together. On one of our conductors we had the airline wire break at the anchor. Lost...

Exactly, tapping is probably the most important job you will do all year. Used to be, you'd hire a few high school kids to get it done. We only have our more experienced and more skilled guys...

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Here's some of the different styles we use. The big one is a custom thing bringing 4 mainlines into the top end of a conductor system. Just imagine how many tees and Y's it...

On Friday I hopped into a jet sled and wire tied a 1.5" air line and 1.25" liquid line through a culvert across a road. Yeah there was water running, hence the jet sled. Worked slick though, pull...

We contracted it out to a company that does line boring, I don't know about permits and such, they would have taken care of that. I don't remember the cost, but it was per foot and I do remember it...

We have a fair number of road crossings, with conductor systems and mainlines, and some minor trails with lateral line tubing. Are you talking just 5\16 tubing or bigger pipe?
We have done both...

A 2" line for 3000' and 2400 taps isn't enough? I don't get it... We can get the same vacuum at the releaser as we do at the top of a sub-conductor that is 15,000 feet from the vacuum pump, going...

I assume you're referring to pipe/mainline not lateral line tubing.
Yup that's what we do. We call them pipe grips and we use them for all sizes of pipe from 3\4" to 3". A 3" pipe grip is about 3...

Also a smaller pipe (3\4" mainline) will be easier to support. Either via posts, or tiebacks\side ties. If you're running at 1%, mark your grade with paint or flagging and support it very well. Very...

We also wash all our 3\16 tubing, with a peroxide\water cleaning solution, applied under vacuum.

The oldest 3\16 we've got is on it's 4th season, that's D&G semi ridgid, grips fittings very well, but hard to keep it tight, likes to sag and has a memory if a branch falls on it. Unfortunately that...

We have about 22,000 taps 3\16 hybrid vacuum system and a bunch more than that 5\16. I've put up alot of 3\16 tubing. I like to install it (800' rolls are awesome) and it's awesome the first year...

We use lags and the spring bail tensioners. Never seen a tensioner break. The wire we attach to the anchors, yes. The wire itself, yes. Sometimes it's at a splice in the wire coil where they weld two...

We started drilling trees today in Eden VT. And no, we aren't the earliest tappers in the area either, I know a few operations that have been tapping since a week before Christmas. Wish it'd warm up...

We use these as well, the brushless motor drills with 5 amp hour batteries, and one battery is good for an entire day. My dad has one with the small batteries and they don't last worth a darn, I...

Looks like I'm doing the demonstration part of the tubing seminar and probably some of the talking too.

I know how you feel. 2” in coils pulls mean. If you have a road or field, uncoil the whole roll first with an atv then take it into the woods. It helps.
I used to think 2” was the hardest pulling...

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Sorry for the sideways pics I’m on my cellphone and can’t for the life of me figure out how to rotate them.

We have around 650 rolls of tubing installed. Far enough ahead of the dropline crew we took today to start building a pile of stainless steel manifolds to tie our mainlines into the conductor\...

I would run both 3\16 lines all the way to your tank. Run them right together, wire tie them together if you want. Saves oddball fittings and another tubing size, 3\16 is cheaper too (get 800' rolls)...

Sure is lots of that. 2 monster vacuum pumps, a huge transfer pump to get 50,000 taps 7800ft, lots of big tanks, the evaporator is in the sugarhouse (yup, it's big too) lots of 4" fusion weld pipe...

Yep Brian nailed it. I'm Glenn's woods crew foreman for this project. 50,000ish a year for the next 3 years for hopefully around 200,000. That's just estimates from a timber cruise, hard to be exact...

Got about 100 miles of wire and pipe ran since mid May, including about 10,000' of 4" fusion,18,000' of 3" fusion, and 25,000' of 3\8" cable. Last week we started running tubing, got in 220 rolls,...

Hey everyone, I'm Chris, from Vermont (ha, the username, get it) Anyways, I'm a graduate of Paul Smiths college with a Forest tech degree. I work for Glenn Goodrich at Goodrich's maple farm. I head...

Be sure to check out the Husqvarna 562xp\555, or the Jonsered 2258\2260. I like the 2260 myself, it's fast, and feels lighter than the 562xp with the small mount bar and lower air filter.