Pink sap?!

[John c]

I've been a woodsman all my life and I know a maple tree when I see one! This year I tapped the maple trees surrounding my house, but one of the trees is filling my bucket with a dark pink/almost red sap. What in the world is this all about?
Thanks,

John c.

[500592]

Good be residue from your bucket so you should try to clean your bucket

[John c]

Good be residue from your bucket so you should try to clean your bucket

I even went the next step and switched buckets completely and it did the same thing! This sap almost looks like transmission fluid! Very strange. Needless to say I am not using the sap, but it has my curiosity!

[adk1]

I even went the next step and switched buckets completely and it did the same thing! This sap almost looks like transmission fluid! Very strange. Needless to say I am not using the sap, but it has my curiosity!

it is stained wood inside. the inside of the tree has rot in it.

[John c]

it is stained wood inside. the inside of the tree has rot in it.
Sounds like a good reason to me. I will pull the tap and clean it well! Thank you!

[Mac_Muz]

it is stained wood inside. the inside of the tree has rot in it.

I agree. I haven't seen red, but I have seen coffee brown, and it is always a dying tree, hollow with rot. I tapped one this season and pulled the tap as soon as I saw the sap run brown.

[C.Wilcox]

Probably tapped a mouse inside the tree.

[500592]

Probably tapped a mouse inside the tree.

Hahaha:lol::lol::lol:

[CBOYER]

or maybee a fish...1 april:lol: