How are you guys securing your hoses in the wash bucket. Don't ask why.
Hoses
How are you guys securing your hoses in the wash bucket. Don't ask why.
5th generation
2 1/2 Buckets
815 gravity
2 new flat pans. Back pan now has 16 V's
Rebuilt the block arch 3x12
Homemade pre-heater,steamhood
MES Dolly RO
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Just found a pretty good solution last weekend .
These are used in beer home brewing. they clipped on buckets or our plastic barrels.
2019 40 taps on buckets,20 on bags. RO bucket, 5 gallon so far
2018 41taps on buckets, 3.25 gallons syrup, Lots of learning
Leader half pint w/supreme pan
Backyard weekend newbies
I just use a hand spring clamp and clamp them to the side of the bucket. I always keep the intake hose a few inches higher than the outputs so it doesn't suck against the bottom.
Noel Good
1998 to 2009: 15 taps on buckets, scavenged fire pit and pans
2010: New 2x4 SS flat pan w/preheater
2015: New to me Lapierre 18x60 raised flue, new shack, new everything!! 59 taps 23.75 gallons
2016: 85 taps 19 gallons
2017: Purchased 2.5 acres and tubed half with 3/16. 145 taps total 49.25 gallons
2018: 200 taps (162 on 3/16ths 38 on buckets) New NextGen RO 63 gallons
2019: 210 taps 73.5 gallons
2023: 210 taps 89.75 gallons
www.wnybass.com
I know why, I us the hand spring clamps pick up at tractor supply. I have had them JUMP out and dump everthing on the floor before.
54 Acres bought in Sept 2010, hope for a lot of fun
Kabota 3400 w/ bucket
couple Husky chainsaws and a couple of Stihl
Big dream
2011 = 106 on gravity tubing, 100 bucket
2012 =700 vaccuum 100 gravity 80 bucket's
30" x 12' Vortex with Leader Revolution Max Raised pans
2013 = 1200 vac, 200 gravity, 5 buckets, buying from 300 buckets, 500 vac
Springtech RO 600 Deluxe
2015= 1800 all vac @ home, buying sap from 1200.
2017= 2200 all on vac. no longer buying sap
Better the wash bucket than the concentrate bucket while you're out of the room. +1 for spring clamps, though the clip Icefisher found is pretty slick.
Season TotalsCurrent Equipment
- 2019 - 24 Taps / 11.5 Gal. Syrup
- 2018 - 24 Taps / 20 Gal. Syrup
- 2017 - 18 Taps + 7 Taps added Mid-Season / 15 Gal. Syrup
- 2016 - 18 Taps added Mid-Season / 5.25 Gal. Syrup
- Off-grid solar/battery powered home-built RO and "Sugar House"
- Homebuilt 34x17 Propane Evaporator
Originally Posted by toquin
The season isn't really in full swing until you get doused with water from a hose, or sap from a line, or worse still, syrup squirting out of a filter press.
Dr. Tim Perkins
UVM Proctor Maple Research Ctr
http://www.uvm.edu/~pmrc
https://mapleresearch.org
Timothy.Perkins@uvm.edu
You should see the output line dance and flail (from my 20 gpm transfer pump) if I forget to put it in the barrel.
Maple Trader's algorithm limits me to 4 belly laughs.
Last edited by Daveg; 03-15-2019 at 08:37 AM.
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