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Does anyone out there have a cut off wind speed at which they wont go into the forest? What is it?

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I am curious about other sugarmakers experiences with honor system roadside sales. Our house is on a busy regional road and I am thinking of setting one up. If you have done so, at what...

We once had a VFD produce magic smoke... And even magic fire. We were lucky our pump house didnt burn down. We think it was a lose termination.

We buried about 3000' of pump line and a power cable this summer. We did it on a trencher attachment for a bobcat over the course of a very long weekend.

For every foot you tap below the lateral there would be about 1" of vacuum that you would lose. Conventions say that represents about 5% yield decrease. That's why its nearly as effective.

Thanks all for the input. I'm currently taking to a few electricians and the idea is achievable. Most motors can handle a 10% voltage drop and with a 600v transformer it may be achievable for under...

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I am looking to electrify my in-forest pump house. This will increase reliability and production as I currently run of a generator. Current draw in the pump house is 22 amps at 240V. (5hp...

Thanks for the ideas. I'm not concerned with freezing or releaser undercapacity as this would be an addition to an already fully functional mechanical releaser system. I am putting in this line in...

We are mostly north and west facing, same experience. We ran for 8 extra days after other guys in our area, Lows were above freezing at 0-4 and we still got flows. a really nice surprise.

We had it last season with a 7kW generator. Worked really well, no issues. We are setting up a second forest this year with the exact same set up. We had to get a 3 phase converter. The generator...

I had an idea to build a releaser / extractor which uses gravity to pull sap out of the tubing vacuum. It would be quite simple, just a 1" line with over 30ft vertical drop to overcome the 28"...

From what I have heard bar codes can be obtained for free. First you need a number generated, look it up, its quite easy to do it yourself and then there are websites that will print a jpg bar code....

Check the ground as it thaws under your storage tank supports, it could become unstable as you load in 500 gallons of sap and rip out your drain hose when your not looking.

We have a similar set up. There are 2500 taps draining down a ravine to the bottom. We built a pump house with a vacuum and transfer pump powered by a generator.There is 800 gallons of storage that...

I agree with maple flats.

Look up, Its really easy to tell by the bark pattern. Also red maples have large buds at the end of the twigs which are easily spotted from the ground. Sugar maples have...

I do mine at 18" too. On the 1 1/4" we go more. Calvert, like you, we are getting big too. What we have been doing is going every 3 ft. or so and I will fill it in during the season when I have more...

Thanks Dennis,

Just so I understand, you have a temperature thermometer in the final stage of boiling to indicate your sugar content? Then your controller talks to the valve to draw off syrup?
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Got 40 gallons of sap today :(

Still waiting for out first good run.

Thanks Ennismaple,

Good to know I wasnt the only one, alot of threads were saying that they had large runs all throughout the weekend and I was feeling left out!!! And you are right I am on...

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Just a question I was wondering if you have been experiencing the same thing. We had great flow out in Stouffville on Friday and Saturday (probably 60gal from the 50 taps in two days) but...

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Interesting stuff. I have just fabricated a similar heat exchanger. Can wait to try it out. I have installed a damper on the inner smoke stack. When I got a hot fire I close the damper...