Milk tank up and running
The refrigeration guys were here yesterday and finished hooking up and charging my tank. I now have 650 gallons of cold storage! Installed a 1.5hp compressor unit to replace the 3hp R12 unit it came with. This will have to work less hard cooling sap than it did cooling 100-degree milk and I only have 30amps run over to the sugar shack. Should be just fine. All seems to be working properly and it was making ice by the time they left! Can't wait until next season and not having to panic on the warm days.
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1980 - 6 taps, stone fire pit, drain pan evaporator, 1 pint of syrup
2016 - 55 taps on 3/16 and gravity, new sugar shack, 2x3 Mason XL, 16 gallons of syrup
2017 - 170 taps on 3/16, 2x4 Mason XL, NextGen RO. 50 gallons of syrup
2018 - 250+ taps on gravity and buckets, 2x5 Smokey Lake arch and Beaverland pan.
2019 - 250+ taps on gravity. A few buckets. 35 gallons of syrup.
2020 - 300+ taps on gravity. 50 gallons of syrup.
2021 - 280 taps on gravity and 40 buckets. 35 gallons of syrup.
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