Hello hope everyone's having a "sweet" day! Just wondering what everybody's using for cleaning/sanitizing you sap sap storage tanks, pvc lines and hoses? Thanks in advance. Jon
Cleaning/sanitizing practices
Hello hope everyone's having a "sweet" day! Just wondering what everybody's using for cleaning/sanitizing you sap sap storage tanks, pvc lines and hoses? Thanks in advance. Jon
I use a lot of white vinegar for cleaning, plain water for flushing tubing which I then air dry with vacuum, and starsan or heat for sanitizing.
CE
44° 41′ 3″ N
2019 -- 44 Red Maples - My home and sugarbush are for sale.
2018 -- 48 Red Maples, 7 gallons
2017 -- 84 Red Maples, 1 Sugar Maple, and 1 Silver Maple , 13 gallons
2016 -- 55 Red Maples, 8 gallons
2015 -- 15 Red Maples, 6 Birches - 3+ gallons maple syrup
An awning over my deck is my sugar shack.
An electrified kitchen sink and an electrified steam table pan are my evaporators.
On the same topic, through the season, for those running gravity tanks into continuous flow rigs.
How often do you clean the tank?
Thanks!
2022 - 21 taps: 470 litres of sap / 15.75 litres of syrup (stopped season short)
2021 - took the season off
2020 - 20 taps: 524 litres of sap / 18.75 litres of syrup
2019 - 14 taps: 416 litres of sap / 15.25 litres of syrup
2018 - 9 taps (309 litres) + a generous neighbour (114 litres): 423 litres of sap / 14.5 litres of syrup
2017 - 4 taps: 55 litres of sap / 1.5 litres of syrup (just enough to get us hooked)
www.fort-wisers.ca
Anytime a tank is emptied it is cleaned with preferably hot water off the breakaway. Nothing cleans better than permeate or condensate water
30x8 Leader revolution, wood fired blower, steamaway/hood. 903 taps all but 54 on pipeline and 3 vacuum systems. Hauling sap this year with a 99 F350 7.3 diesel dump and of course back up is the Honda 450 and trailer.
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