I have been clear hemlocks, beach, and ash out of maple woods for the last 3 years. Mostly hemlocks through. We have been leaving some hemlocks for Wind breaks. Depending on your location and the...
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I have been clear hemlocks, beach, and ash out of maple woods for the last 3 years. Mostly hemlocks through. We have been leaving some hemlocks for Wind breaks. Depending on your location and the...
I was thinking of running 10x10’s down the center of the sugar house for support columns. Leaving 12ft on each side. The weight would be in the center. Support columns I was thinking every 12 feet.
Well today I shutdown the vacuums had 1,600 of sap overnight it was buddy. Short season for us only made 2/3rds of our crop. Sugar percentages were low all season the highest was 1.6%and the lowest...
Does anyone have sap tanks in a loft? I’m building a new sugar house it will be 24x36.
I need a 500 gallon concentrate tank, probably store line and empty barrels in the loft. What centers on the...
In my area they want us to run conduit. The inspector won’t allow a sand bed anymore. For 4/0 wire he wants schedule 80, 4”. And that in my area is $58 for 10ft conduit. And for crossings the want...
I have a 2x6 with a 4ft max flue combo pan. It’s pretty close to a 2x8. My sweet spot is 16 brix. I have ran 22 brix but it gets hectic. Definitely have some extra eyes on it when running the rest...
So one transformer in the beginning to step up the voltage then one at the sugar house to step down? Maybe 1/0-1/0,1/0 aluminum wire? Not very good with electricity. I can melt 2 pipes together with...
Is that copper or aluminum wire you used? And did you encase it in sand?
Has anyone ran underground electric 3,000 or so feet to there sugar house? I need 200 amps probably going with 480 volts. Just would like to know if is worth doing or building a new sugar house at...
Anyone else still plugging away? Haven’t had a freeze in 5 days. Still got 800 gallons of sap today on 901 taps on vacuum. It’s cloudy but doesn’t taste or smell funny.
Seems like I’m in the same situation as you I’ve been 28.5” of vacuum and I’m lucky to get 1 gallons of sap per tap per day. I still have snow in the woods. I’m just hoping that the frozen under the...
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I have made a auto start and stop for my gas Honda gas engine. Doesn’t work very good. But I walked into my local well drilling store and found out the Amish have perfected the auto on...
I’ve have my max flue combo freeze up I never had an issue. I just made sure my floats were working and started a small fire so the flames don’t touch the pans. Once I seen some liquid between the...
Just finished getting the tanks situated. Got about an hour worth of tapping in today. Snow is extremely deep this year, anywhere from knee to belly high. Should have a little over 1200 taps this...
It is sap lifter. I went down and chatted with my dealer. Either way I will be buying a few of them because of my situation. He thinks it could possibly be a releaser if there was a check valve into...
Lowest 1810
Highest 1920
Sugar house 1880
I will keep you posted. I don’t know the sizes yet but I will be buying at least 2 this spring.
New game changer for me but has anyone seen the new 12v electric releaser from cdl? This is going to help me out tremendously.
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Get yourself a diaphragm pump to push sap. I push sap 700ft with the elevation of 60ft. I use a gas powered diaphragm to pump my sap. It pumps the sap and it pumps air so it flushes the sap out of...
I have both a a Kioti mechron and a new Holland 1920. I use the Kioti mechron 5 times as much than the tractor. I had a Kubota rtv I like it but the ground clearance wasn’t good and got stuck often....
I was thinking a barrel out side. And running 3/8 screwed pipe right to the arch. I could run gravity with it but I would like a mist. My arch is air tight I think it will be pretty clean burning and...
Years ago I seen an oil injection in a wood fired evaporator, but can’t remember who had one. I have 70 gallons of used motor oil. And would like to use it. Anyone had done this? If so what pump did...
I’ve gave up on bags myself. But this year I am looking at smoky lake maple sap bags. They are supposed to be thicker.
I’m cleaning organic sunflower oil out of my totes. I’m trying Dawn dish soap. They claim it will take oil off a duck. We used it when we milked cows so figured it be safe for maple. I used 1/2...
That I don’t know.