Ibby
I AM IN THE PROCESS OF BUILDING MY OWN RELEASER, USING SCHEDULE 40 PVC. I AM SETTING MY VACUUM UP FOR 200 TAPS, MY WOODS IS ON CLAY GROUND AND WHEN THE FROST IS ABOUT OUT IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO GATHER. SO I GOING WITH VAC.
RICH
Ibby
I AM IN THE PROCESS OF BUILDING MY OWN RELEASER, USING SCHEDULE 40 PVC. I AM SETTING MY VACUUM UP FOR 200 TAPS, MY WOODS IS ON CLAY GROUND AND WHEN THE FROST IS ABOUT OUT IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO GATHER. SO I GOING WITH VAC.
RICH
Ibby,
I too only have 200 taps on vacuum. I got a Delaval 73 vacuum pump for free and only had to buy the releaser. Those 200 taps on vacuum and 50 buckets out produce the 200 I have on gravity and 100 buckets at my parents house by 1/2 again as much. It comes out at about 20 gallons more syrup per season because of the vacuum. That will pay for the releaser in one season and you have 300 taps which should pay for the vacuum pump too.
I was going to run the 200 taps at my house on tubing anyways so that wasn't an additional expense to add the vacuum. I was already going to spend the money on tubing without it.
Russ
Russ
"Red Roof Maples" Where the term "boiling soda" was first introduced to the maple world!
1930 Ford Model AA Doodlebug tractor
A couple of Honda 4 wheelers
Four chainsaws and no chickens!
TuckerMt,
The pump you described sounds like a peristaltic pump. There is a company in Texas called Randolph Austin Co. that makes them. A neighbor of ours uses them and loves them.
http://www.randolphaustin.com/
Jim
3x8 Algier Evaporator. 600 gph Lapierre RO. 10" Filter press. We buy sap.
How much vacuum does he pull on how many taps? how many sections in his pump,,I have 2 more of them and might set one up on a small run if I can find new tubes for them?? Thanks
Salisbury Sugarworks,,Parker Rowe, and friends
Salisbury, N.H.
1988 taps in 09
over 2500 on vac in 2010
no buckets in 2010
2815 taps in 2011
shooting for 3000 in 2012
4000 taps? In 2014
5x16 wood fired "Mighty Marvin"
50 cords in the shed
Old, old R.O.
Charter member Andover/Salisbury Mapleholics
http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/4...s009bx4.th.jpg
Yes- my sapsucker is a peristalic pump...similar to the one on the link, but mine is a Cole-Parmer and it uses three rollers.
We will spend some more time tweaking it this year, but I also have a releaser on order and an old surge from Parker in waiting till I get back...
Parker- I pm'ed you- I have tubing...
-tuckermtn
Eric Johnson
Tucker Mountain Maple Co-op
1400 taps in 2013
2.5 x 8 CDL pellet arch and Smokey Lake pans
Lapierre 600 RO
Member of Andover/Salisbury Maplehaulics anonymous
www.tuckermtn.com
pALS
Parker you can get the Sapsucker tubing at Bascom's.
Russ
Russ
"Red Roof Maples" Where the term "boiling soda" was first introduced to the maple world!
1930 Ford Model AA Doodlebug tractor
A couple of Honda 4 wheelers
Four chainsaws and no chickens!
I still haven't decided on what I'm going to do, but If I put in a tubing system, I think I'll go vacuum with a dairy pump and releaser. I've located 2 of each; the farmers are deciding what they want for them.
These releasers are all glass. What has to be done to protect them from freezing and breaking?
Tons of trees. No taps, No evaporator
No wife, No Kids. Nothing left but Dreams
I used a bender style releaser for years until I out grew it. It is made of pyrex glass and I never had any problems of it freezing. When I would shut it off it might have a small amount of surface ice on it but never left with a full jar of sap. I would think that if it was left with a full jar and it was real cold it would cause problems just as it would if it was a blue plastic (gilles-bernard) style.
Keith
Will they self-empty when the vacuum stops? One location I was going to use it on is 7 miles from here, and I was hoping to just gas up the pump in the morning while I picked up yesterday's sap, and let it run out of gas in the evening to shut it off.
Tons of trees. No taps, No evaporator
No wife, No Kids. Nothing left but Dreams