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As of last Sunday, I had collected 25 gal of sap, averaged 2.2%. I boiled it down and got just over 1/2 gal of syrup. Sap has stopped running for the last few days.

I tapped yesterday - 4 trees, 7 taps.

This is my first year and I have 7 taps in 5 trees. So far, I've collected 55gal of sap and made 1.25gal of syrup. That works out to 0.21gal per tap - so far so good! My sap/syrup ratio is almost...

I did my first boil yesterday! Over the past couple weeks I collected about 19 gallons of SAP from seven taps. I used a 20" diameter aluminum pan that is 5" deep (from a commercial kitchen). I...

Bill - I'm a newbie this year and I have a setup similar to yours from last year. What was your evaporation rate per hour with that setup?