How the Big boys tap

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Question?
How do farms that have 80,000 taps, tap all their trees??
Do they hire 500 guys for a week to go drilling trees?
If you cannot drill a frozen tree, and have to wait for the tree to warm, how do they tap that many trees at once?
I'm having a heck of a time just tapping 130 alone !!

Thanks;

I was able to tap my whole woods in a week. I think the lack of snow allowed me to get this done that fast. I have talked to others that tap 800-1000 a day but for me 700 was plenty. The biggest problem the big boy's have is finding people to do a quality job in tapping their trees. Most every large operation I have talked to have all said this. I think it is very safe to say that MOST large operations also make less syrup per tap. There are guy's on Trader making half gallon per tap or more and I will bet you MOST large operations don't even come close to that.

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