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.
You two have helped a lot. I have a start point and new ideas as to where to research and where to begin. I think I will start to collect the equipment for the small lines and forget the main lines. Maybe I will have to buy a new ladder and do like the video I mentioned. I don't think I will ever have to go very far up. Plus, the higher I go, the less chance of the idiot on the sled blowing through my lines.
Here's a youtube of some of the experimental things I've done with 3/16" tubing and a really cheap diaphragm pump on difficult terrain. It's not quite a river bank situation, but it is a hill next to a cedar swamp. It's only one of my runs, but it's been working for me this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0pBNPdkTYU&t=21s
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.
This is another thread that may be interesting. Maple Flats explains his setups a little better.
https://mapletrader.com/community/sh...-scale-tubbing
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.