Bigsap Warning 2009

Theron,
I have 1800 taps on tubing and I hope to put out 1200 buckets. It will probably be more like 1000 though. What ever the case may be I probably wont be with out sap at anytime though out the season.

You must have a whole crew to collect all them ? do you collect them all in one day Dave ?

Dave- I like your stategy. Id rather have to much to boil then nothing to boil. Can always tank it for a little bit. I cant imagine the sap off them on a good run day if they are the big trees like you usually tap. Theron

We ran 500 buckets one year and it sucked. I said to myself one night in the lights of the tractor I'm not going to do this ever again. Ayear later I met a guy who has been doing TEN THOUSAND BUCKETS for about 40 years he said he doesn't like tubing andthe bucket collecting gives everyone something to do.

10 000 must be nuts , the guy must have tons of help i had 300 out and i got off the bus at 315 and i didnt get back till around 430 and tons of work but i love buckets probably gunna a run and the rest is on tubing for this year, should be tapping in the next two weeks

Is it going to be in the 40's here? In Maine? Really?

It would be awesome if the weather broke right during my February vacation.

Crazy is the word for it. Could you imagine collecting 30,000 t0 50,000 gallons of sap out of buckets, boiling then starting over the next morning.I think that puts you in the "real go getter" catagory.

Most people who have large amounts of buckets also have road systems in their bushes and a good work force. I have a good work force, and the majority of the buckets are in a manageable distance from the road.

My parents used to put out 1300 buckets. It was no big deal. Dad and a couple of the farm hands would do the gathering while my mom and grandfather did the boiling. My grandmother made candy and cream and I was too young to much of anything.

Russ,
Taste testers are important!