One of the things I have to do in the late winter is look for animal damage to my lines. I suspect that this was done by a while tailed deer.
I had o cut out a section of the pipe and replace it. The roll of tube I’m working with this year is blue. I used a pair of flat hooks to make the splice.
Babe, wake up, there are new Maple Engineering posts!
Do you deliberately use different colors to identify when repairs happened?
Yes. No tape means that the line is as put to bed with the taps capped and the lines full of isopropyl alcohol. Orange is the color my son puts on the loops once he has been through with the chainsaw if there is something that needs my attention. As I work my way through the system once I have the lines tightened and any repairs made I put green tape on the loop. I start at the far end of the system and work my way forward. When I go back out I start at the first line that doesn’t have green tape and continue to work my way in. When I start testing I will start at the far end and once I have each line free of leaks and rinsed with hydrogen peroxide I remove the green tape. Any fittings that need attention or and points where there is a leak in the line gets orange tape if I don’t repair it immediately or if someone other than me finds the problem. When everything is ready to run there will be no tape anywhere on the system.
Once the run is finished I go back out, pull the taps, and run in isopropyl alcohol. I put a green flag on the last line that I worked on, moving it forward as I go. When I hit the sugar shack the lines are free of flags and put to bed for the year.
