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    Quote Originally Posted by foxtail View Post
    Are you Spruce Creek Farm onYou Tube? That is what I found a video of there.
    No, that's not me, but I have seen that video. It's a good example.
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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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