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[old tom]

What does .51 gal per tap mean I thought you got over 20 gal per tap a season Thanks

[Sugarmaker]

Tom,
Good question. I believe in this case it is referring to .51 gallons of finished syrup per tap. Or about 20 gallons of 2% sap per tap. This is achieved with vacuum systems. Gravity systems produce about .25 gal of syrup per tap.
Regards,
Chris

[MJPJ Sugars]

Small sample size, certainly (31 buckets), but we did .50 gallons of syrup per tap on 28.02 gallons of sap per tap/bucket. It was a good year; we usually do about .3 per tap finished syrup.

[maple flats]

I got .455 gal/tap and for health reasons I was not tapped until about 1/3 thru the season. Even with that, it was my best ever, my previous was .38 GPT.

[NhShaun]

Doing these calculations made me a little depressed haha.
6.6 gpt sap... 0.11 gpt finished syrup. Averaged a 60:1 ratio with 1855 gallons collected and 31 gallons finished. If Only my little maple trees would grow faster. At least I still doubled my previous records!

[Russell Lampron]

I got .27 gpt from my 725 taps about 90% of which are red maples on high vacuum. I have a few clusters of trees where there are many stems growing out of the same root ball and I tap every stem that is 5" or larger. I know that those trees aren't producing much sap which hurts my average. I'm making more syrup because I'm getting sap from them that I wouldn't get if I didn't tap them. If I was going for gpt numbers those trees would be cut down or not tapped but I'll take the more syrup made over the gpt bragging rights.

[blissville maples]

I am able to keep track of all 4 Sugarbush separately as I haul most of them. Like Russ at home here I have alot of cluster reds and small trees I should cut but tap instead, these I get about .28 out of. My other I get .44, .49, and my best which was 1000 taps produced 32,300 gallons of sap at an average of .53 gpt.

[Ultimatetreehugger]

I produced 378 gallons of syrup off of just under 1000 taps, what would the calculations look like?

[MJPJ Sugars]

I produced 378 gallons of syrup off of just under 1000 taps, what would the calculations look like?

378/1000= .378

or about .38 gallons of syrup per tap.

[Ultimatetreehugger]

That's what I thought but wanted to check. Would that be considered a good ratio?

[motowbrowne]

That's what I thought but wanted to check. Would that be considered a good ratio?

Not incredible, but not bad at all. On buckets you can figure .25 gallons per tap as an average. Vacuum should double that to .5, but that's just a rule of thumb number. Some tubing systems in some woods may never get to that amount, and some buckets on big old roadside trees may make more than half a gallon every year consistently. Lots of variables involved.

[markcasper]

Not incredible, but not bad at all. On buckets you can figure .25 gallons per tap as an average. Vacuum should double that to .5, but that's just a rule of thumb number. Some tubing systems in some woods may never get to that amount, and some buckets on big old roadside trees may make more than half a gallon every year consistently. Lots of variables involved.

If that was you that called Ryan....I'll get you called mid-week. You said it about the variables. One big variable is tree size and number of taps. When you have people putting 2 and 3 taps in 10" trees, as well as tapping 5 and 6" trees, they will be lucky to get a pint per tap.

My dads first cousin told of stories back in the 50's of getting 40 gallons from 40 taps over the season.......the trees were all big, large and in the cow pasture.

[buckeye gold]

I can tell you sugar content is a huge variable.....I had low sugar and made .18 gpt. I had plenty of sap just needed sugar

[motowbrowne]

If that was you that called Ryan....I'll get you called mid-week. You said it about the variables. One big variable is tree size and number of taps. When you have people putting 2 and 3 taps in 10" trees, as well as tapping 5 and 6" trees, they will be lucky to get a pint per tap.

My dads first cousin told of stories back in the 50's of getting 40 gallons from 40 taps over the season.......the trees were all big, large and in the cow pasture.

That was me Mark. No hurry. I'll talk to you soon.

[DrTimPerkins]

... I have alot of cluster reds and small trees I should cut but tap instead, these I get about .28 out of.

Thin them out. Within about 5-10 yrs you'll tap half as many (lower cost and less time) and get about double the yield.

[EBG18T]

Looks like we ended with 0.20 Finished gallon per tap. Hopefully do better next year.


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[maple flats]

I don't recall where, but I recently read the way a large producer does his expansions. He works to get 1/2 gal/tap on what he has before add more taps.

[markcasper]

I don't recall where, but I recently read the way a large producer does his expansions. He works to get 1/2 gal/tap on what he has before add more taps.

That is a good way of thinking.