Dumping buckets

[bairdswift]

How many buckets do you empty on your own? I will be collecting by my self and curious how many other people do on there own. I was thinking about collecting everyday but only doing half each day unless its 80 again like last year. What do you figure you can empty an hour for one person?

[jmayerl]

We had 800 last year at three bushes, it took 4-6 hours with 2 people. Should have 1200 this year and no help........might be real interesting.

[bowtie]

last year did 160ish, somedays i had help(one guy) the whole process by myself took around 2 hrs but my taps are mainly on side hill, some very steep. this year i will trying for 300-350 will probably take 4- 4 1/2 hrs at most hopefully. not sure how i will do this with work but unless i recruit my father-in-law i won't be paying for help. i could do the 160 in one trip most days,short of a big run, will have an additional trip with 300-350 tap. then i will have to transport home and transfer to holding tanks/tanks. i just might talk mself out of this if i think anymore about it. not sure how you would do 1000 by yourself in one day and have time to boil, or breath for that matter but that is my goal in 3-4 yrs.

[adk1]

so how do you guys spend all this time collecting then have to boil? You must do the collecting after work right>?

[mike z]

I can do about 100 buckets in an hour by myself. I usually have help and tap 200 trees.

[Flat47]

We do between 70 and 100 and I usually collect daily after work - that means in the dark with a headlamp. No big deal. Takes about a hour total. Boil every 4 or 5 days, sometimes after work. I prefer the Saturday or Sunday boils over the 6pm to 1am boils after work, but it's sugaring - sometimes it runs you and not the other way around.

[Big_Eddy]

With 3 helpers (me on the tractor with tank, them going tree to tree) we could collect 100 trees in about 30 minutes on a normal day, 45 on a big run.

Me alone - It takes an hour or so to do 100 trees - 5-10 trees per loop along a main trail. I find it faster to take 4-5 buckets and drop them along the trail when full then come along after with the tank. Repeat until done.

[whitetail farms]

i get 125 done in an hour,i do have a dumping station that takes half of my sap to the bottom of the hill before it reaches the sugar house...what a time saver that is....i like doing it by my self cause im afraid if otheres help some buckets will be missed and I dont know what trees are running good and witch ones arent. but it can get hard with school and baseball

[northwoods_forestry]

I do between 150 and 200 buckets by myself. By myself I can gather these and the 3 tubing tanks in 1.5 to 2 hours. With help from the neighbors it takes 2 hours +!!!

Early season I head out after work around 4 pm to gather then home for dinner. After dinner it's to the sugarhouse to boil starting at 7 or 8 pm.

[Tweegs]

I’m doing 100 buckets in about an hour and a half, almost always by myself.

I can get within about 10 yards of every bucket with the Gator, 15 gallon pail hanging off the back.

Dump the buckets in the pail, pump up to the tote, move on to the next.