The first line is 36” here where I am so we tried to get at least that deep with each hole

Getting close to some eaters in the small pond!

I believe they were from the small trailers they sell. They get shipped without the wheels on them, stacked up several high. These were the spacers inbetween the stacked trailers

If I am understanding your question correctly, then yes, that is how we did ours

@@ChanyataFarm Fantastic. I have never actually done this and don't know anyone else who does. Basically, I want the mainline to be a 3/16" line and tee off some laterals. (All the other guys on KZfaq have these skookum electro-fusion setups but I'm small time).

Our entire setup is 3/16 lines. We have 15-25 taps tied in to each lateral/mainline run. So it's 3/16 drop tubes t'd into 3/16 "mainlines". They way our sugar Bush is situated it was easier for us to run 5 separate home runs than to tie everything together into a traditional larger mainline.

So yes, the deep bedding is just pine shavings. In the run itself, I use bare wood mulch. Sometimes I’m able to get the chips from a tree service, sometimes I have to buy bags of mulch from the hardware store. This has worked pretty well for us I try to keep at least a few inches of chips in the run I only add chips to the run 1-2 times a year

Thank you! Our coop is 6x8 with 24x8 runs on either side

It’s the DCN680 18 gauge Brad nailer. And it is awesome.

Mainly just wood shavings. I might add some straw/hay every so often, but that is only if we happen to have an abundance that needs to get used up. The wood chips do fine on their own

Every so often we have aerial predator issues. We usually just put them on lock down for a few days after and that works. As for the solar charger…. I loved the solar charger. Only a handful of times I had to charge it, usually cloudy, snowy weeks over the winter. The entire energizer stopped working about 2 months after it was outside of the warranty. I would have suggested it before then, but o was very unhappy with the lifespan of the unit.

You can buy something similar. When I was a student in high school, in sculpture class we would use foam board and had a handheld version to easily cut the foam.

Condensation yes. Syrup in VERY small amounts. I clean the inside of the vacuum every so often because of this. I’m not sure if small amount of sugar trap in the water vapor/steam? But the inside of the vacuum does become sticky after several uses.

We have a LOT of terrain here

They charged $19.99 a lbs for mature largemouth!

I’ve observed otters in my lake chasing fish to exhaustion and finally capture and consumption.

@@Alianderfarm my neighbor had 2 otters on trail camera, luckily still pretty far from my pond. They would clean it out in a heartbeat!

That’s pretty cool. We don’t have them here in Ohio. Maybe the occasional weasel

@@ChanyataFarm do you do any morel hunting?

If you need 15-20 lbs of crusty dusty nails for something, I’m your guy

www.premier1supplies.com/p/intellishock-100-solar-fence-energizer

www.premier1supplies.com/p/poultrynet-12-48-3-electric-netting

These are links to both the energizer and the netting from the video. Prices have gone up over the past couple years…

@@ChanyataFarm thank you so so much!!

Full disclosure, the energizer did go bad on me over the winter and it was out of warranty, so not in love with the lifespan I got out of it. Loved it while it worked, but expected more than 3 years out of it for the price.

We have not, but that’d be fun to experiment with

Thanks for the kind words!

Yes it was just a generic action cam cheat mount I for for cheap from Amazon. I was pretty happy with it

Ventilation is huge!

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There is a 90 degree elbow that turns down toward the bottom of the pot. You DEFINITELY have to be conscious of how much syrup you are putting through the filter, you can over fill and send it in to your vacuum. The capacity for this size pot is just over 3 gallons. With the size of our operation, our draw offs are seldom over two gallons at a time. Hope that helps!

That would be weather dependent. If it is a good sunny week and you have the solar charging unit for you energizer, that would be no issue. If you have 3 cloudy days in a row, chances are your battery would deplete and you would lose a good amount of voltage across your fence.

Thanks Joe. 20-25 taps on this hill in the past couple season. Basically only tapped about the top third because it’s a pretty steep incline to be carrying full buckets up and down.

Bottle up everything that has made it through the filter, dump out the stuff that didn’t filter, reheat that, start over with new filter material

I would wash them. The way I understand it, the temperature change makes the pores on the shell expand and contract, so if there is bacteria on the shell, and can be drawn through to the inside of the egg.