Sizing wet line for remote section
I have an upper section of woods that I'm reworking my conductor lines this year to increase vac to the far end and remove the lower section that has manifolds directly into the wet line. The old wet line will just be its own mainline direct to the releaser. The section starts about 1000 feet from my releaser and then the farthest mainline branches off another 1500 feet from that point. All my mainlines branching off this section are 1" pipe. It will have approximately 2000 taps on it. I purchased 1000 feet of 1.5 inch line for the dryline to the first juction and then it will drop down to 1.25 inch for the dry the rest of the way. I wanted to know what everyone thought was the right size wet line to use for the 1000 feet coming from the first junction to the releaser. My instinct is to use 1.25 line but after reading a bunch of posts it seems like you want to try to get the smallest diameter you can to keep sap temps lower. Would 1" be a better choice for my wet line? It runs about a 5-6% slope through that area.
Millbrook Maple
Catskill Mountains
Saphouse - Somewhere in witness protection area.
2.5 X 8 Smoky Lake pans on grimm oil fired arch
RO - Ecochem with 2 codeline vessels and 2 MES vessels.
2000-3000 Taps depends on the season.
Always looking for more sap!