Do the Shurflow pums run continuously when they are powered without heating up or damage if they are dry? How long do they last before a rebuild?
Do the Shurflow pums run continuously when they are powered without heating up or damage if they are dry? How long do they last before a rebuild?
2015 - 40 buckets w/ drop lines
275 oil tank evaporator
2x4 flat pan
made 5 gallons!
2016 - 90 buckets
same evaporator and pan
hoping to make 12 gallons
2017 - 85 taps on vacuum w/lunchbox
50 buckets
Smoky Lake 2X4 drop flue pan
lunchbox all the way. we had 22 taps and got 1000 gallons of sap. and used $4.08 in electricity all season.
www.themaplehut.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36680916@N06/
22x16 Hut
290 Taps
2x6 Leader Patriot Raised Flue
WesFab Filter Press
Reverse Osmosis
WF Mason bottlers
Cotton Candy Machine
The diaphragm pump is a good option for your amount of taps. The only real drawback is ice being drawn into the pump and destroying the diaphragm. They say its best to keep extras on hand should you go that route.
Sean
2013-1st year...94 taps, 12x24 sugarhouse, home built evap. Gast 2065 pump with bender
releaser.
2014-30x36 sugarhouse, 2.5x10 "Jutras" evaporator, 1200+ taps on vacuum, sap brothers RO. 2 sihi 2 stage pumps, 440 gal.
2015- 1000gph memtek RO, 3250 Taps, 1200 gallons
2016- Modified grimm 4'x12' evaporator with auf and aof with air preheater. Home built airtight arch front. 4250 taps?
2017- 2400gph. Lapierre RO, 10" filter press, 5000 taps
Hi softmaple. What is a "lunchbox"?
2015 - 40 buckets w/ drop lines
275 oil tank evaporator
2x4 flat pan
made 5 gallons!
2016 - 90 buckets
same evaporator and pan
hoping to make 12 gallons
2017 - 85 taps on vacuum w/lunchbox
50 buckets
Smoky Lake 2X4 drop flue pan
These can be run dry and below freezing. I choose to shut mine down using a temp switch when it hits well below freezing. There's a screen to block ice. My pump (4048 model) and original diapham just finished their third year (I started half-way in the first year, so 2.5 years). It is able to put 26" of vac on 115 taps which doubles my syrup. There's a good thread called '1st Day - Sap Puller' on this subject.Originally Posted by bagpiper
Jamie Jones
2017 - 120 taps, 68G syrup - automated pumping from collection to head tank
2016 - 118 taps (about half on 3/16"), 60G syrup
2015 - 115 taps, 58G syrup - new wireless blower switch and remote pump switch from tank to shack
2014 - 120 taps, 53G syrup - hobby vac
2013 - 120 taps, 40G syrup - Sunrise Metal 2x6, 12x14 sugarhouse
2012 - 44 taps, 6G syrup -gravity tube, 4 steam pans on block arch, plastic greenhouse shack - (I'm hooked!)
Check signature link to learn about the Lunchbox
Dean
Northwood Sugarworks LLC
http://www.northwoodsugarworks.com/about.html
I am also a fan of the shurflo pump ! First year for us. We are less than 50 taps and I just uploaded a video of our pump in action on my blog post today about the last boil for our season. My pump was outside
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2016-2018, 50 taps on hobby vacuum, boiling outdoors on the Mason 2x3.
49 taps 2015, mix of hobby vacuum and gravity, boiling outdoors on the Mason 2x3.
42+4 taps 2014, still on a WF Mason 2x3 Hobby Evaporator
43 taps 2013 on a WF Mason 2x3 Hobby Evaporator
10 taps 2012
Follow along on our sugaring adventures at our website:
http://littlecreekmaplefarm.com
45 gallons per tap is exceptional. That's coming from having vacuum, yes, but other factors (weather? Very large trees that really needed to get rid of sap? Tapping a water main?) were in play here than just having vacuum.
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2015 - 110 taps on hybrid pump + 3/16 natural vac
- releaser posts every release event on twitter: https://twitter.com/ryebryesreleasr
2014 - 30 taps on 3/16 gravity
Don't want to hijack the tread but do any of you Sureflo people have two 3/4 mains. If so how did you handle that.
20 plus years of 2 by 2 flat pan
2014 new Phaneuf 2 by 6 drop flue
350 taps on gravity 20 on bucket
I would suggest a manifold at the pump out of pvc pipe with each 3/4" leg coming off it. I am thinking about this for next year where I want to have 2 main lines
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2016-2018, 50 taps on hobby vacuum, boiling outdoors on the Mason 2x3.
49 taps 2015, mix of hobby vacuum and gravity, boiling outdoors on the Mason 2x3.
42+4 taps 2014, still on a WF Mason 2x3 Hobby Evaporator
43 taps 2013 on a WF Mason 2x3 Hobby Evaporator
10 taps 2012
Follow along on our sugaring adventures at our website:
http://littlecreekmaplefarm.com
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