Hello every one. Some of you may remember me from a few years ago. My physical abilities have now deteriorated to the point that I can no longer walk around in the woods, so I am no longer making...
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Hello every one. Some of you may remember me from a few years ago. My physical abilities have now deteriorated to the point that I can no longer walk around in the woods, so I am no longer making...
Hello everyone It has been a long time since I have been on here. The last several years have been very hard for me and I have not been able to tap trees. I have more metal in me than my automobile....
it doesnt need to be crush proof. When the sap fills the cantainer the ball floats up till it is sucked in to the vacuume hole, thereby shuting off the vacuume. It won't crush it at all. I also use...
The best way I have found to protect your pump from sap going to it is to use a inline household water filter. The kind that takes a cartridge. most have an inlet in the middle of the lid and an...
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On my zero tanks I run my vaccume line into the hole that contains the dip stick. On my 300 gallon tanks a 1" line fits perfectly on it. I then have a manifold made of 4 or 6" PVC and...
For Myself I am hoping (kind of) for a bad year. :) Since I won't be making this year. I have surgery for a new hip schedualed for 1/25 and I won't be able to make because of that. I am still not...
3rdgen: I don't have to worry about the farmer, it wasn't his marijuana. I am not sure who it was but Iam sure that it wasn't the farmers. He was called out after they found it but he lives several...
My father and I checked the woods over the other day. The farmer that owns it had taken off the field of corn in front of the woods so we could get in. While walking we found several bundles of weeds...
I have a couple hundred of them. they work great most of the time. they are a little prone to splitting along the seams and they are a little hard to clean. but storage is easy and they are also easy...
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the most important things you need to know or have is: What size hole to drill in the tree and what how you are collecting the sap, Where you will store the sap till you boil it, what...
A couple years ago I was going in to have my second knee replacement. the first one went well and I had decide that after syrup season I would have the other one done. Before they would do it though...
I used to work at a grocery store. The backery used icing from a 2 gallon pail as well as from 4 and 5 gallon pails. the first couple years that I made syrup I used the 2 gallon size to hang from the...
You should plan to stop and check out the sugar houses on the circles in both Chardon and Burton. Also if you have time while in Chardon stop and see Richards Maple Syrup
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Maple flats,
Do you see any where on the tank a label that says T20 if so You should be safe to vacuum it to 20 lbs. Most Zero's that are not vacuum tanks are marked "DO NOT VACUUM" if you don't...
you can pump from the valve and I have done so but if you want to pump against the vacuum, you can't beat a deep well pump. I even have a float on mine to empty the tank automatically if it gets too...
That is what I figure. It is only narrowed down for a small distance and a 1" pipe fits nice and snug over it. Also I failed to tell you that since both of my lids have holes at the top, the one...
Maple Flats
I have never used a tank this size but on my 300 gallon tanks I have always put them on skids made of 2x6 and drill a hole an 1 1/2" deep that the legs go into to keep it stable. Also...
Most of these tanks arn't very heavy, although I am not sure of the exact weight. Also if it doesn't say that it isn't vaccume able then it probably is, since those that arn't ussually are mark DO...
I have done this in my woods as well. When I took mine down, I left the saddels on, so when I put it back up I was able to reuse as many of the saddles as possible then just used the plugs for the...
We get enough snow each year to snowmobile for maybe two or three days. sometimes for longer but not very often. Now if you go more North toward the Lake then they get alot more snow and they can...
I have done a simmular thing in the past. I did find it easier on the pump and much faster pump time if I pumped upwards first then sloped back down. We used a standard pacer pump when we did it and...
Also keep in mind just because they leak under pressure doesn't mean they won't seal under vacuume.
http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rwehr/maple%20syrup/raccoonrunhome.htm
http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rwehr/Wehr%20final%20web%20design/index.htm
here are a couple links to web sites that I have...
Couple years ago my dad and I decided to put an addition on my house. The problem was I had planted a high yield sugar maple tree in the area we decided to build. The tree at that time was about 3"...
I have vacuum and still it gets worse. next year I am replacing all drops and spiles. I haven't done that in many years on the whole woods, so I will give it a try. And also will cross my fingers and...