You should have a feed pump for your RO anyway. It makes life a lot easier for your main pump.
The sap hasn't been flowing that good here. I have a cold woods with mostly red maples and only got 250 gallons from 700 taps today.
You should have a feed pump for your RO anyway. It makes life a lot easier for your main pump.
The sap hasn't been flowing that good here. I have a cold woods with mostly red maples and only got 250 gallons from 700 taps today.
Russ
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Sap has been flowing slowly here too. We have a decent amount of sugars, but the woods are very cold. Only retrieved 6.5 gallons of sap on Monday. Bumped that up to 20 gallons yesterday. As others have said, the woods take an extra day to warm up with all of the snow on the ground. Still learning our sugarbush by taking down as much data as possible. I think we have at least three legitimate microclimates just on our small parcel alone, as we have areas that run and don't run that are very specific to the day or day before weather.
Question for the group as we are a bit new at this, we are just on gravity right now, if we went to a vacuum style system, how much of a sap increase could we expect? Thx
2015- Didn't know my new property enough to tap anything. 4-feet of snow on the ground.
2016- 41 Taps with home made barrel evaporator. Made 1.5 gallons syrup.
2017- 79 Taps with home made block arch evaporator. Made 2.47 gallons syrup
2018- 91 Taps again with home made block arch. Homemade RO worked great. Made 6.96 gallons syrup.
2019- 84 Taps. Building another arch. RO in place. New Smoky Lake 2x4 Divided Pan. Everything switched to 3/16" tubing.
Thanks Russell, that really does seem to help. I was hearing some "chattering/vibration" from my pump as it worked unless I pushed the psi up to 220, that seems to be its sweet spot for running smoothly. Once I added the submersible pump it runs a lot faster and quieter at 200.
Originally Posted by Russell Lampron
2022 4x40" RO, Welch 1397 Vac Pump, 3 Guzzler Pumps, Lapierre Releaser, 1100 taps
2021 Twin Baby Boys, Close to 650 taps
2020 Upgraded RO to 2 post and 7GBS Pump. 265 taps
2019 Smoky Lake 2x6 raised flue, Autodraw system, Maple Jet Filter Press, a beautiful new bride to be my sugaring partner :-)
2017 Expanded Sugar Shack, new 2x6 with float box, NEXTgen Maple RO, 250+ taps, still on sap sacks
2016 Sugar Shack, 2x6 evaporator, 160 taps, all on Sap Sacks
2014 110 taps
2013 35 taps
So you gave it a "farmer added option" as we say back home. Did you note a change in the removal rate? If I recall, you were removing 30% of like 150 gph before (right?). Are you able to achieve a greater amount of water removal with the submersible in front of the RO?
im still doing 2 passes and with 2 passes im removing 50% of the water on average. It does go faster with the feed pump, that much I can say. I honestly can still say im very happy with the investment, just a learning curve for me still but im getting it all worked out.
2022 4x40" RO, Welch 1397 Vac Pump, 3 Guzzler Pumps, Lapierre Releaser, 1100 taps
2021 Twin Baby Boys, Close to 650 taps
2020 Upgraded RO to 2 post and 7GBS Pump. 265 taps
2019 Smoky Lake 2x6 raised flue, Autodraw system, Maple Jet Filter Press, a beautiful new bride to be my sugaring partner :-)
2017 Expanded Sugar Shack, new 2x6 with float box, NEXTgen Maple RO, 250+ taps, still on sap sacks
2016 Sugar Shack, 2x6 evaporator, 160 taps, all on Sap Sacks
2014 110 taps
2013 35 taps
Just finished collecting for my final time this season. Got another 250 gallons from my 250 taps. The trees seem as though they are done, my sugar content is way down. Also I'm getting sap out of trees that looks the color of ice tea. Overall it's been a very good season for me, my goal was 50 gallons and after I bottle everything I have I should hit that and then some. Wanted to show an example of the sap out of my trees, the taps are about 10 inches away from each other on the same tree and look at the difference in the color.
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2022 4x40" RO, Welch 1397 Vac Pump, 3 Guzzler Pumps, Lapierre Releaser, 1100 taps
2021 Twin Baby Boys, Close to 650 taps
2020 Upgraded RO to 2 post and 7GBS Pump. 265 taps
2019 Smoky Lake 2x6 raised flue, Autodraw system, Maple Jet Filter Press, a beautiful new bride to be my sugaring partner :-)
2017 Expanded Sugar Shack, new 2x6 with float box, NEXTgen Maple RO, 250+ taps, still on sap sacks
2016 Sugar Shack, 2x6 evaporator, 160 taps, all on Sap Sacks
2014 110 taps
2013 35 taps
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