The releaser is covered. We were fortunet we only had small branches come down at the house and in the woods. We pulled in another three hundred gallons yesterday. So far were keeping up with it. We've made 7.5 gallons so far. sugar count went down hard. Last batch it was 61 to 1. Not so good. 8:50 am here just heading out to see if its running again and start to boil off yesterdays sap. Ordered a new vac this morning atlantic fluids. So if you now of any body looking for a pump i'll be selling this one when the other comes in.