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We just bought labels from syruplabels.com, the fees were reasonable and service was fast.
Our local equipment supplier has his glass shipped on pallets, so shipping is a lot less than having small lots shipped directly to us. We work with him to make sure he knows how much we expect to...
Sorry if this is not quite the right place for this, but I wanted to limit it to the Indiana producers.
The Indiana Maple Syrup Association (IMSA) is looking to purchase Indiana-made syrup to sell...
Well, I haven't had to do pressure flow calculations in a long time, and I don't know the actual line pressure but an online calculator I found says a 5/16" line 100' long @ 60psi will flow 243...
Vtmbz,
Good point, we use our pumps to flush the lines as well, and on our hilly woods we have (elevation change of around 40' in 550') the pump has no problem flushing the lines.
I forgot to include that the pump manufacturer recommended that we use inline moisture traps on the air lines near the pumps.
DMF, we have two homebuilt lunchbox pumps at about 1,200' and 1,500' from our air compressor. They both run off the same 5/16" air line, and have separate 5/16" "homerun" sap lines back to the tanks...
If you can find it, see the March 6, 2021 edition of the Maple News. The is an article about a demonstration trial of a scenario similar to yours on page 6.
Stainless is definitely the way to go if you can afford it. We used IBC tanks for several years (& still do for transport) but the last couple of years we have been buying milk tanks when we can...
brewershardware.com has decent prices on stainless fittings but they're in CA so shipping can take a bit
Harris Sugarbush is still around, just not selling the Indiana Vacuum products. Easiest thing might be to call & ask who they sold to: (765) 653-5108
Chris, we use a label maker & wrap the label around the tube, then go over the top of that with clear tape. It's lasted us pretty well and it's way more readable than our handwriting in that small of...
I've only made the hard candy lollipops. You might try this: https://mapleresearch.org/pub/confection-notebook5th-edition-2-2
We put ours on large cable spools.21194
We have a tag on the very end identifying the order 21196
We were planning to leave ours up in one woods this year, but we've had so much damage from...
Same here, this weekend looks like that's probably the end. Our trees were still running last night at around 9:30, but its really cold & windy today. Tomorrow should be a really good day after it...
We have 3 lunchboxes with 112, 82, and 93 on them, all 5/16" tubing. We usually have around 22" at the pump & 15 or so at the far ends of our lines, probably 400-500' away from the pump.
Well, yesterday was a day of contrasts...I'm not even sure how much sap we got all together, but when we started our 545 gallon tank was almost full of concentrate. When we tested it during the day...
We started the RO last night. We had 825 in the tanks at 7:45PM, and another 180 came in overnight.
We're starting to think maybe with switching more taps to vacuum we went too small with the RO....
We finished up the rest of our vacuum taps yesterday, we’re finally catching up. Right at 300 total & I think we’ll have another 20-30 on bags.
Our trees were running like faucets around 3 yesterday...
2020 would be great, thanks. If there's no easy way to post it you can send it to me at eskimoin@gmail.com
Thanks!
Nice, any way you could attach the .dwg file? :)
We finished up our offsite woods yesterday, 112 taps total. Everything we tapped was running like crazy. Most of that is on east-facing slopes. I'll be glad to get back to our flat property, we'll...
We put in 33 on Wednesday and they were running pretty well. We're hoping to finish up with that location on Saturday, we should have around 80 taps there when it's done. That only leaves 170 more to...
I have no affiliation with RO Bucket except that we just bought one, hopefully we'll be using it later this week. Ours didn't come with one (we're adding it in) but he sells a low-pressure switch...
We have to take ours down as well (5/16"). We use 3 lunchboxes in two woods, about 400', 1,000' & 1,200' from the tanks. We got some wire spools from our local electric utility & wrap our tubing on...