Hi i have 110 taps on gravity i have 3/4 mainline and all my lateral lines are full of sap but at my tank its just dribbling in i dont have anything vented why are the laterals not draining and why is it not running better? Thanks
Mainline Problems
Hi i have 110 taps on gravity i have 3/4 mainline and all my lateral lines are full of sap but at my tank its just dribbling in i dont have anything vented why are the laterals not draining and why is it not running better? Thanks
It was close to -20 here 2 nights last week. I don't think my trees will thaw any time soon.
William
950 taps
3 X 12 Thor pans on a Brian Arch
CDL 600 expandable
Tapit,dont worry,thats normal. The trees just arent ready yet. I have 500 taps on 1000 ft of 1 inch main and my 5/16 lats are full too and not doing anything.Dont vent them,they will start to flow when we get some warm days. If you vent them you will loose any natural vacume that cane be made.
2012- 200 buckets 2 by 8 woodfired leader evaporator with hood and pre-heater. 2013-400 taps with cheek valves and new tubing system. 2014-600 taps with cheek valves and wesfab short bank filterpress and a 16 by 16 canner from Leader and a Kubota L3200 sap hauler.2016- new 250 gas powered Ro from Deer Run Maple. New Airablow 1000 tap gas powered vacuum pump and 1000 tap duel releaser and 1800 ft of sap transfer line to sugar house and down to 540 taps.
I am no expert for sure, but I have 2 mainlines 1/2" with one 106 taps and one with 190 taps. Yesterday mine where doing the same thing. I only got 180 gal of sap and today I got 330 gal. I think it just took that long for the trees to thaw out. Hopefully tomorrow yours will run better.
I am in the same boat. I have 175 taps on 3/4" mainline gravity. Many of my lats have sap in them 4' up and the sap was like a steady half pencil stream that was it. I figured that with today being 50 and sunny it would be running really good but no dice. Even my bags on trees that get full sun weren't really running so that tells me for sure they aren't ready yet
FIRST GENERATION SUGARMAKER
First boil 2/22/2012! Went Pefect!
3,500' of laterals
1,000' of mainline
2012 - 105 taps on gravity, 12 sap sacks.
2013 - 175 taps on gravity, 25 on sacks = 200 taps for 2013! Second year.
2014 - 250 taps on gravity, 25 on sacks
Tapped on February 16, 2014
2015 - adding vac sap puller no more gravity for me!
275 gallon holding tank for 2014
20'x30' Sugarhouse
same issue here on high vac.
We were sub zero less than a week ago. Trees are very cold still.
Issue is that the sap sitting in the lines will start to turn.
Last night I vented lines to drain the system. They are predicting single digits here Thursday night and that will mess up the lines and fittings and cause leaks on my system. Also sap sitting that long will start to get cloudy so tonight before it freezes we will have to vent lines to drain them down well. It takes me about an hour but the leaks it will save me will take days to search out and fix.
Good Luck!
Ben
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