# of trees per acre

[adk1]

Ok, so my calculations show that I have roughly 80 12"+ maple trees in the 3.5 acres that Iam considering my sugarbush to start out with. Thoughts?
Then I would guess that I ahve alot of smaller dia trees 10" or so for future tapping.

[TF Maple]

I'm not sure what your question is here. If you have maple trees, you tap them. The end! I don't think anyone worries about how many trees there are per acre.
My woods is about 8 acres with 75 tapable sized trees in it. My cousins bush that I tap is about the same size with 40 trees big enough to tap. Another cousin has 6 trees in his backyard and I plan on talking to him about tapping them next year if he will collect the sap and bring it to me. He drives close to my house a couple times a day to tend some livestock anyway, so why not bring the sap along and I will give him some syrup.

[ADKMAPLE]

No I agree, that is what I have and I will be tapping them for sure. Jsut curious how that density compares to others. I have 50 acres total so I know if I really wanted to I could tap alot of trees, they are jsut spread around and not so easy to get to when there is snow on the ground

[TF Maple]

Jsut curious how that density compares to others.

That is what I thought you were getting at, guess we are on the same page anyway. And that is why I put my tree count in the last post. My bush is weird because the west two thirds only has a dozen trees big enough to tap and the east one third has 60. I wonder if some storm many years ago took out the big maples coming from the west and then the beech trees took over. The maples are coming back, just have to start releasing them for someone to tap in the future.

[Revi]

We have about 300 taps on 20 acres, but there will probably be around 500 taps in the next ten years or so. There are areas that are too wet for sugars.
We are planting red maples on an area where we did a pre-commercial thinning. It looks like it may have been cut in the last 20-30 years. That will have to be tapped by somebody else, because we'll be dead by the time those trees get big enough.

We are going to tap maybe 60 or 70 more and then we'll have pretty much all the ones that are big enough to tap and are near enough to the lines to tube.

We have about 30 that are destined to be bucket trees near the sugarhouse.

They are about half reds and half sugars because it's wet at the bottom of the hill.

[ennismaple]

If they're 10"+ tap them! Your density isn't high but you work with what you've got.

For comparison, the bush we started tapping in 2008 has 900 taps (so far) and is less than 9 acres so we've got better than 100 taps per acre.

[mapleack]

I've figured that I'm at about 40 taps per acre.

[adk1]

Well, if I went down to tap the 10" trees too, I would be in the 120 tap range for the 3.5 acrea area