Sap

[old tom]

What is the most amount of sap you have gotten from 1 tree in a SEASON?

[Mr Sugar Maple]

I have never kept a record like that but I think ten gallons on spouts with buckets more on tubing. about one quart of syrup per tap. I have a silver maple at home with a bucket just to keep track of sap flow. so far its at twelve and one half gal above what is normal wish they all ran like that one.

[Snappyssweets]

Have not kept track myself. But then I admit I am not a real stats person.
My gallons per year are not exact measurements I go off how much is in the buckets and give a close eye estimate. The same as we do when we drive around and do deer counts, duck counts and such with the DNR in Michigan. :D My finished though is just that how much I got for the season.

[Ed R]

If your on tubing there is no way to tell. We have several good running trees in our woods that run over 100 gallons in a season (3 bucket trees). They make up for those that might only run 2-4 gallons in a season. We have one tree that will continue to run sap without a freeze thaw cycle. We will gather sap from her and leave them by her in 5 gallon buckets so the buckets on her don't run over until we gather the rest of the woods. I can remember dumping 8 five gallon buckets before during one extended run. The sap tested 4 as well. Its hard to imagine the amount of syrup that tree has produced in its life time.

[old tom]

I once read that an average tree would produce about 20 gal of sap in a season. I just was wondering what you guts thought. I realize it would have to be on buckets to know. Another question what is the most buckets or taps you have put on a tree?
Thank you all for the input. We have about 100 taps with a Leader 2X4 WSB evaporator all on buckets 7/16 tap.