You will be better off with 3/16 laterals. Put 20-25 taps on each lateral and then run it downhill without a mainline. With what you describe you will get high vacuum without a pump. Now you need a bigger evaporator to keep up. You may need to sell some sap to another producer and save that money for a bigger evaporator. 40 taps on high vac. can give you 20+ gallons of syrup and if your sap is at 2% sugar that can be over 860 gal of sap to boil. Are you ready?
Dave Klish, I recently bought a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.
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