sap chart

[7810hunting]

I saw once a chart using drops of sap to visulize how many drops it would take to make a gallon of syrup ex. x amount in a tablespoon x amount in a cup and so on .Does anybody out there know where I can get ahold if this chart? I thought it would be interesting for our local farmers market.

[halfast tapper]

I was wondering how many drops it takes to fill a gallon so I looked it up online and found that 90840 drops makes a gallon. Thats something to think about.

[220 maple]

90840 times 42 gallons, my number is 3,815,280 drops to make one gallon of West Virginia Maple Syrup. I hope I remember to post that number at the next festival.

Mark 220 Maple

[moeh1]

I assumed that sap (with sugar) would have different properties than say distilled water so I did a little bit of looking. I saw the reference that halfast found at 90,xxx, but also found numerous other alleged numbers from 45k to about 60k.:confused: Most answers seemed to cluster in the 55 to 62k realm....your mileage may vary.
Marty

[Haynes Forest Products]

90840 drops of liquid make a gallon. 60 drops a minuet X 60 min = 3,600 drops per hr X 24 hr's = 86,400 drops in a 24 hr period so so how the heck is someone getting a gallon per day? it would take more than 2 drops per second in a 12 hr day:confused:

[collinsmapleman2012]

90840 drops of liquid make a gallon. 60 drops a minuet X 60 min = 3,600 drops per hr X 24 hr's = 86,400 drops in a 24 hr period so so how the heck is someone getting a gallon per day? it would take more than 2 drops per second in a 12 hr day:confused:

as soon as you walk away from the tree and noone is around the tree pours out what it feels like and stops, then drips when they come back:lol::D

[spud]

During the spring i tapped one of my birch trees just for fun. I wanted to give my kids something to do for a home school project. We started with an empty jug and recorded one drop every 5 seconds. That's 12 drops a minute or 720 drops an hour. It took 12 hours to get 1/2 a gallon of sap so thats 8640x2=17,280 drops to fill a gallon jug. As far as the 90,000+ drops theory goes it is either wrong or the drops in Alaska are much bigger:lol: I do know that one drop of pee on the toilet seat really pisses my wife off. But that was not a home school project.

Spud

[Haynes Forest Products]

Thats why you dont shake your hands dry in the bathroom at a friends dinner party:o

[Beweller]

That is some drop! I remember a chemistry class (semi-micro) where the first task was to make a dropper that would drop 20 drops per cc. Not easy. A standard eye dropper would give about 10 drops per cc.

90840 drops per gallon is 24 drops per cc. VERY small drops. I can't imagine a spile that yielded 24 drops per cc. 10, perhaps.

[Haynes Forest Products]

I believe drops from a open or non restrictive opening are based on surface tension of the liquid and gravity. All liquids differ depending on the content it containes......sugar, salt, acids, detergents....on and on we go

[Brent]

I did a search on Wolframalpha.com and it has equations on volume that are mind boggling. In any case they come up with 76,188 drops per US gallon.

To get a gallon in a day, about 8 hours, it would need to drip about 3 times a second. That seems pretty reasonable to me. I know if there isn't more than a drop a second it's not worth coming back out to collec the same day.