Loudon, NH

[powerdub]

royal, I had thought of that but with my machine it has to be dialed in every day and the flow rates adjusted.

Brandon, when the rig gets going good we are 90 plus gallons an hour. We can boil 80 gallons per hour consistently.

Russ, my seprotech will only do to 8% on one pass.

[Russell Lampron]

Matt ditto on Scott, a timer wouldn't work, someone has to be there to push the buttons to start the pumps and then to monitor and adjust the flow rates.

Scott, how does the machine know the sap is at 8%? I can change my consentrate flow rate to make the percentage higher or lower. Just playing with it to see what it would do I had 16% sap coming out of it and could have made it even higher if I wanted to.

Russ

[royalmaple]

Guess that just shows I don't know what the hell I am talking about.
ops: ops:

Oh well, at least my mind is working.

Actually the tubing tool is just right out of the box. I didn't modifiy it at all. The unit is definately "home made" by the looks, they are using a piece of pipe that is threaded on the inside to grip the tubing, and the tension screw is set to grab the 5/16 tubing and not too hard. THey have a sleeve over the adjustment screw so you can't adjust the tension or mistakenly hit the adjustment screw and throw off the amount of tension on the tool.

Only thing I modified with the tubing tool, is my finger.. 8O 8O

[powerdub]

Russ, I have to also adjust the concentrate flow but in order to get more than 8% the concentrate would have to be less than a half gallon a minute.

[Russell Lampron]

Tapped the trees on vacuum today at my house. The smaller ones in the sun were running good. The large trees still need to thaw out. Still have 300 more to tap. Planning to do that next weekend.

Russ