Well got a grand total of 42l today, so very happy...don't think I've ever collected that much this early in the run, will be interesting to see what happens over the next week or so.

Oh and I now have a 4th pail on #9...I was collecting this morning and was just getting rained on, steadily, from 2-4 natural spiles of bark...so I got some baling twine and tied another pail onto the tree...and got about 2l from all this new natural spile setup, about 50% increase over what that tree normally produces now. Only drawback is I can't have a lid on it, so there were some bark bits floating around, but it's definitely sap and not water or squirrel piss as my best bud already suggested :-)