Note, you can manually request a picture at anytime, you don't have to wait for a deer to walk by to trigger it.
Note, you can manually request a picture at anytime, you don't have to wait for a deer to walk by to trigger it.
1960 - 1970s 70 taps on galvanized buckets with Dad and Grandpa.
1970s - 1985 Acted crazy!
1986 - 2005 20-30 buckets.
2006- 2017 70 buckets and bags
2017-2019 100 bags and buckets
2020 Finally retired!!! 75 buckets, 50-75 on tubing. RO Bucket, New 12 X 16 Shack and a 42X42 flat pan.
2021-Adding another 125 taps along with a second RO bucket.
2022- Shooting for 350 taps, with 100 on lines.
Lots of Family and Friends and dogs named Skyy and Nessy!
We have a battery trail cam facing our tanks. We actually hung a bird feeder next to the tanks which is enough movement to send a picture when a bird comes to eat.
West Sumner Sugar House
West Sumner, ME
800 +/- Taps - 2 x 8 CDL Venturi Converted To Forced Draft AUF
6 Shurflo Solar Systems - MES Dolly 300
https://www.facebook.com/WestSumnerSugarHouse
I use a game cam. Runs on 12 AA batteries. Lasts all season. Connected to cell service. Works great.
Steve
2017
2x8 Mason drop tube evaporator
420 Taps
3 surflo pumps on 5/16
79 gallons of syrup made
2016
New kitchen addition to sap house
400 taps
52 gallons syrup made
My new Remote Vacuum Sense (RVS) unit is another way of remote monitoring. You read vacuum using text messages.
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Mountain Maple farm
2022 NAMSC award winning dark amber syrup
2023: 320 taps, 70% red maples. Mountain Maple S4 diaphragm pump controller with automated sap transfer and text messaging
Website:
https://www.mountainmaplefarm.com
https://www.facebook.com/MountainMapleFarm/
Dave, any chance that it will ever work with US Cellular? That’s the only service we have around that’s any good. Verizon is spotty but not at the bush locations.
305 taps on 2 Shurflo's, 31 taps on 3/16" and 229 taps on gravity. 565 in all
Mountain Maple S3 controller for 145 of the vacuum taps
2x6 Darveau Mystique Oil Fired Evaporator w/ Smoky Lake Simplicity Auto Draw
Wesfab 7” filter press
I have tested The RVS and S4 controllers with T-Mobile and AT&T. Have a Canadian customer using a variation of Telus, and Rogers is also supported. So if US Cellular is compatible with any of those, which it probably is, it should work. Verizon is a slightly different technology and not yet supported. Maybe next year.
Dave
Mountain Maple farm
2022 NAMSC award winning dark amber syrup
2023: 320 taps, 70% red maples. Mountain Maple S4 diaphragm pump controller with automated sap transfer and text messaging
Website:
https://www.mountainmaplefarm.com
https://www.facebook.com/MountainMapleFarm/
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