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    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

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    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
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    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.

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    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
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    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
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    Parker you can get the Sapsucker tubing at Bascom's.

    Russ
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    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

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    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

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    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

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