I too am building a bubbler. What are you planning to use for to push the air?Originally Posted by tcross
I too am building a bubbler. What are you planning to use for to push the air?
2016- 32 taps, 3 1/2 gallons
2017- 150 taps, 13 gallons after building an evaporator
2018- goal is 240+ taps. 20+ gallons.
2018 Reality- 235 taps, 5 gallons of syrup. Average 50 birch taps and 3 gallons of syrup.
2019- 180 maple taps, 20 gallons of finished syrup.
~ 160 birch taps, 13 finished gallons of syrup.
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i think i'm going to use a small shop vac. i can't remember who, but someone used the smallest one they could find and it worked well for them. seems like an easy way to go about it?! my thinking is, if it works... awesome... and if it doesn't, I get a new vac for my workbench.
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Root cellar/ sugar shack.
sugar shack floor joists.jpg
2016- 32 taps, 3 1/2 gallons
2017- 150 taps, 13 gallons after building an evaporator
2018- goal is 240+ taps. 20+ gallons.
2018 Reality- 235 taps, 5 gallons of syrup. Average 50 birch taps and 3 gallons of syrup.
2019- 180 maple taps, 20 gallons of finished syrup.
~ 160 birch taps, 13 finished gallons of syrup.
Latitude 47.278150
www.facebook.com/livingoffmyland2015
That's pretty neat. Keep us updated on your progress.
1000 taps on vac down to 100+ buckets 99% sugars
2x5 SL Hi-Output Raised Flue Corsair evaporator
SL Short bank press with CDL diaphragm pump
Leader Micro 1 RO for 2024
Constantly changing
2010:36 gal 2011:126 gal 2012:81 gal 2013:248 gal 2014: 329.5 gal 2015:305 gal 2016:316 gal 2017:258 gal 2018:147 gal 2019:91 gal 2020:30 gal 2021:30 gal 2023:50 gal Total since 2010: 2047.5 gal
Tapping the same trees my great, great and great grandfathers tapped.
The electric lines are in and the air line beside it, from the sugarhouse to the shop. The trench is backfilled. I have the wires into the box at the shop but only into the sugarhouse, not yet tied to the panel. I've been working on sawing lumber and putting in a loft in the shop. All of the joists are in and most of the floorboards have been milled and are laying on the joists. Only about 40% are nailed down, hope to get the rest nailed today. Then I can calculate how many more boards I need to saw. It looks like it will be about 24-28" in width worth, the whole length of the loft (14'). Once the floor is finished I'll be loading a lot of the lighter, bulkier things in the loft. Then I'll be bringing a woodstove that has been stored for 3 years in my garage to heat the shop. When the weather is not good enough to enjoy working outdoors I'll finish the wiring. Right now I'm just using a single extension cord from the sugarhouse to run lights, a saw or a compressor. Soon it will all be far better, with no extensions cords needed.
Setting this all up will also give me more room in the sugarhouse, the compressor and lots of storage will no longer be there, they will be in the shop with the lighter stuff in the loft.
Last edited by maple flats; 10-21-2018 at 07:31 PM.
Dave Klish, I recently ordered a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.
New sap hauler, here. Got rid of the Ram 1500 and got a Ford F-350 Super Duty. Built a 16'x10' lean-to onto the side of the sugar house. No excuse not to add more vac and taps, now.
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Around 300 taps on tubing, 25+ on buckets if I put them out
Mix of natural and mechanical vac, S3 Controller from Mountain Maple
2x6 W.F. Mason with Phaneuf pans
Deer Run 250 RO
Ford F350
6+ hives of bees (if they make it through the winters)
Keeping the day job until I can start living the dream.
Oh, yeah. I'm also paving an area for the new truck so it's not parked on dirt. Well, I'm not paving it, but I'm paying for someone else to do it. Asphalt is expensive!
Woodville Maples
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Around 300 taps on tubing, 25+ on buckets if I put them out
Mix of natural and mechanical vac, S3 Controller from Mountain Maple
2x6 W.F. Mason with Phaneuf pans
Deer Run 250 RO
Ford F350
6+ hives of bees (if they make it through the winters)
Keeping the day job until I can start living the dream.
Today I attached the rest of the floor boards, I still need to mill 5 more to finish. I have the rest of a log on the mill that will only get me 3, thus I need to buck another 14'6" log just to mill 2 more boards. Maybe tomorrow. If the weather doesn't play right I may do either more wiring or finish the air line, I just need to convert to an insert X thread elbow and enter the building at each end. Then add the appropriate air fittings to attach an air line to them.
Dave Klish, I recently ordered a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.
Just fixing wind damage...IMG_0002.jpgIMG_0005.jpg
Maple Man 85
Anthony & Rebecca Renken
2017=200 taps
2018=4000 taps (goal) 3000 taps (actual)
2019=7000 taps (goal)
30x45 Sugar House
4x16 Leader Vortex
www.northwoodsmaplefarm.com
We tore down part of an old barn and rebuilt it for our ro room, kitchen and boiler room. We took out all the old concrete and put in new. Shortly after the concrete was put in our brand new Smoky Lake fuel oil 2x8 evaporator showed up. Installed three bay sink in kitchen with a industrial mixer and alot of stainless. Then last week we picked up our 300 gallon and 800 gallon stainless round bottom tanks from H&M in Burton Ohio. We will be replacing all our drops and doing away with the CV and going with all new zap-bac taps. Roughly around 620 of them.
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