Productivity?

[ontario guy]

Hi all,

How many gallons of syrup per number of taps did you make this year?

I did 25 gallons for my 105 taps.

Mark

[jtcinv]

I was a bit lower at 3.3 gal from 22 taps, or 0.15 gallons/tap.
No complaints here about yield or quality!!!

Jeff

[maple flats]

42 gal/300 taps BUT had to dump 450 gal sap when wife was in hospital. Otherwise would have been much better as I would have gotten another 14-15 gal based on my sugar%.

[Father & Son]

For the year: 125 buckets
collected 12 days for 1583 gallons of sap, 12.6 gal/tap
made 35.5 gallons of syrup, .284 gal/tap
44.6:1 ratio
All light and medium, no dark or B

Jim

[hangman]

6.5 gals. of syrup / 35 taps.
Factor in the 40 gals. of sap dumped (warm weather) and we should have made 7.5 gals = yeild of .21 per tap.
(note: some of these trees were poor performers that we will not proberly tap next year)

Lynnfield, MA

[mcgeec]

I am small time

14 taps and 2.5 gallons = 0.18 per tap

Pretty happy with that actually. Looking to expand evaporator next year.

[digman_41]

We put out 340 taps, made 130 gals of syrup. Much better than last year.

[brookledge]

236 gallons of syrup from 710 taps or .33 gal/tap
Keith

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

73 gallons out of 425 taps and 4100 gallon of sap.

[markcasper]

cooked from approximately 1200 taps, 800 on vacuum, 200 non-vacuum tubing and bags, 200 taps where I bought sap from 2 neighbors.

started tapping:3-4-06

last tapping:3-28-06

last day gathered and boiled:4-11-06

Gathered and boiled every single day except one between 3-18-06 and 4-11-06. (That day I didn't, I had to work in town.)

Largest gathering was on 4-10-06 with 2200 gallons total.

Highest sap tank average of year was 4.6% on 3-20-06.

Lowest sap tank average of year was 1.6% on 4-10-06.

Syrup quality was nearly a quadrupal split between the 4 grades.

Aprrox. 657 gallons syrup total/1200 taps.

An interesting note:: One of my sap producers tapped 125 bags on 3-18-06. He gathered 1580 gallons for the 23 day season of his. That 1580 gallons of sap made 73 1/4 gallons of finished syrup. Sap average for the year on his: 3.98%.

I gathered 19,695 gallons of my own sap from 1,000 taps with an average sugar % of almost 2.5% for the season.

Syrup lost due to using filled jug as a door stop: 5 gallons.

[Daren]

12 gallons on 63 taps. Tried not to waste a drop! For the nerdy types, I will be posting my "vital stats" on the vermont tapping section.

[LittleGuy]

21.8 Litres

23 taps.

With turkey fryer burner, amd very big pot. Finished on the stove. :D

Going to 75 taps next year, and build an arch for my 3X3 pan that I got for next to nothing.

[hookhill]

30 gallons from 325 taps.
30 gallons from sap purchased from neighbor
60 gallons total.

[Banjo]

I ended up with something like 16 litres of syrup from my 11 (and a half) taps.

This from four trees in the front yard, and one other tree in the back that was only tapped for a week (it's the half extra tap :lol: ).

Used roughly 5 "20lb" tanks of propane to boil it down in the pot.

Oh, and had lots of fun and seem to have made some very tasty syrup.

cheers, Andrew

[ennismaple]

0.15 gallons (0.59 litres) per tap

Not nearly the 1 litre/tap we want!

[small_operator]

I have a feeling I may be about the lowest yield per tap. I had 75 taps total(74 on tubing 4 on buckets)and I made 7 gallons.(why do I do it?). Thats less than 0.1 gallon per taphole. All I can say is, I can only improve from here. I have some sags to take out of the tubing, and more mainline and I might run vacuum next year. I boil on a 2x6, all sugars but one red tapped by mistake. I checked sugar content at the end, and it was a smidge over 2%, so I'm pretty sure the low yield is due to the volume of sap. 2% isn't high, but it's not bad for the end.
Gary
Monroe NH

[Lance]

Gary - We didn't do a heck of a lot better. 550 taps, ~65 gal. syrup (20 gal. of that was commercial. Good tasting but blacker'n molasses.) Works out to about .12 gal. per tap. And that's with all brand new tubing, new drops, new taps, tees, fittings, 3 new mainlines. The weather just didn't cooperate where we are. It's a cold location and I guess it just didn't warm up enough on enough days. We had maybe 5-6 boiling days and that's with a slow 2x6. We had one day when it was running about 75 gal./hr. but it was too short and only that one time. Kinda disappointing after all that time and money spent on all that new equipment. No question that we've gotta get on vacuum.

[Sugarmaker]

SO,
I have one area that we tap that I consider a cold spot and it sure did not perform as well as some of our other trees. I have tapped it for several years but ready to look for some trees in a new location to take the place of these next year (50-75 taps). We were around .3 gallons of syrup per tap and our sugar was above 2% all season. Like you, I would be a little disappointed but 7 gallons of syrup will top a lot of pancakes!. We tapped 300 taps on mostly soft maples one year and did not get nearly the volume of sap as our neighbor on 100 taps. Keep looking for good producing trees.
Regards,
Chris

[the old guy]

OUR TAPPING JOURNAL SHOWS:
NEARLY 1800 GALLONS OF SAP GATHERED.
28.5 GALLONS OF SYRUP FINISHED.
RATIO OF SAP TO SYRUP NEARLY 63:1
SALES NEARLY $1100
MARKETS: FLEA MARKET, SELECT ORGANIZATIONS, FRIENDS, RELATIVES
WE TAPPED 75 TREES 1/23, COLLECTED 400 GALLONS SAP.
MOVED TO ANOTHER LOCATION 2/12 TAPPED 120 TREES COLLECTED 1400 GALLONS SAP.
PEAK DAILY PERFORMANCE 243 GALLONS OF SAP 2/21.
SUGAR CONTENT AVERAGE 1.5%
PULLED TAPS 3/8-3/10

THE OLD GUYS

[Parker]

329 gallons from 2000 taps,,about 1500 on some form of vacuum,,better than the 103 I made last year but not the 600 I wanted,,will work towards 1000 gallons a year...

[SteveD]

We gathered 680 gals. of sap, boiled it 66 hours and got 16 gals. of syrup.
We had tapped 85 trees and had an average sugar content of approximately 2.3 Aproximately 0.18 gals. per tap.
And ....we had tons of fun!