I am 2nd year and Small scale, but it took me a good half hour to get my last 4 taps in today... making 20 total. Is my hose and pail method so much slower then a hanging pail? I could see how the drilling was quick, but cutting the line to length and fitting it to the tap in the cold was not a two second task.Originally Posted by markct
If I were to expand next year, where does the speed come?
2014 Year 1, 1 large front yard shade tree with 3 taps - 3 quarts of the best syrup I ever had.
2015 - Convince In-laws and Neighbors, bought F-150 and bricks. 20 taps, 4 gallons in pretty bottles.
2016 -- More friends and neighbors, should add another 20 +, built temporary shelter as sugar shack. F150 traded for Ram 2500. Big Blue new barrels for 116 gal storage. 8 gallons Syrup.
2017 - Mortared Brick Arch with serving pans, no make that an 18 x 48 CDL divided flat pan, 48 taps.
well mine are all on tubing most of which stays up year round, just a few sections across trails, pump lines over neighbors land etc that come down during the off season. Now that being said my taps are in yes, but once they are running the mainlines should be walked to find leaks and fix them. Usualy in the first week is when the most leaks are found but at times others will show up later. On bare ground or minimal snow I can do 4 or 5 hundred a day comftorably, could push for more but im no athlete either! With this snow its about half that on snowshoes. But it all gets done, got a hundred more in today and spent the rest of the day walking lines fixing leaks so the vac level is up pretty good now.
11x29 sugarhouse
2x8 airtight arch homemade with waterloo flue pan, welded syrup pan and parallel flow preheater hood
250gph cdl ro
1100+ taps for 2014, approx 1000 of them vac
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Ok, so if I keep the tap and lines set for each tree, then next year I won't be doing any assembly work, just drilling and tapping.
I won't be running big vaccuum lines in my Sister-in-law's back yard anyway.
Thanks for the insight.
2014 Year 1, 1 large front yard shade tree with 3 taps - 3 quarts of the best syrup I ever had.
2015 - Convince In-laws and Neighbors, bought F-150 and bricks. 20 taps, 4 gallons in pretty bottles.
2016 -- More friends and neighbors, should add another 20 +, built temporary shelter as sugar shack. F150 traded for Ram 2500. Big Blue new barrels for 116 gal storage. 8 gallons Syrup.
2017 - Mortared Brick Arch with serving pans, no make that an 18 x 48 CDL divided flat pan, 48 taps.
Are you running a 2 foot tube into a pail?..If so..I heated tube and connected spile before i got into the Bush. Drill hole, tap spile and connect to pail. I have 40 buckets and 20 tube/pails in this season.
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Yes, but since each was unique, I did it at the tree, then tapped, measured off the line, and cut to length. I hate wasting material to save time, knowing I could have set each line and tap with extra length.
I just used a lighter to heat it up a bit, big help.
2014 Year 1, 1 large front yard shade tree with 3 taps - 3 quarts of the best syrup I ever had.
2015 - Convince In-laws and Neighbors, bought F-150 and bricks. 20 taps, 4 gallons in pretty bottles.
2016 -- More friends and neighbors, should add another 20 +, built temporary shelter as sugar shack. F150 traded for Ram 2500. Big Blue new barrels for 116 gal storage. 8 gallons Syrup.
2017 - Mortared Brick Arch with serving pans, no make that an 18 x 48 CDL divided flat pan, 48 taps.
Your droplines all need plenty of extra length. Cant tap the same spot each year
11x29 sugarhouse
2x8 airtight arch homemade with waterloo flue pan, welded syrup pan and parallel flow preheater hood
250gph cdl ro
1100+ taps for 2014, approx 1000 of them vac
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Crowh...5582993?ref=hl
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Trees tapped with buckets...waiting for the first sap run.
4 gallons of sap from 8 taps. One and a half days worth.
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Collected another 4 gallons from 10 taps in 9 hours today. Starting to pick up!
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Burying Sap in snow on north side of barn and house, till ready to boil.
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Last edited by MichtonTree; 03-11-2015 at 09:16 PM. Reason: fix photos
No sap run today. Barely anything in any of the buckets. Although the sun was shining bright, it was just too cold. Temperature early this morning was 30 degrees and rose only to 34 degrees. Last night was too warm and today, not warm enough. Which is about in line, from everything I've read about sap runs. It going to get cold tonight 16 to 20 degrees and warm up to around 41 degrees, with some sun tomorrow. That may get sap running again.
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