This will be my fifth season. I have inventoried at least 30 maples on my property. They are mostly reds with modest production. Last season I tapped 22 of them with antique taps and buckets. That’s all I have. This season I plan to tap more. Several of my trees are grouped together. I have one set of four big trees that all touch at the base and one set of three like that too. Rather than buy more antique equipment, I bought some 5/16 tubing, plastic taps, tees, and food grade 5gal buckets. My plan is to tap a few of the clustered trees with plastic rather than metal hanging buckets and move the hanging buckets to the more remote single trees. I don’t plan to run a main line, or even laterals. My plan is to tap the grouped trees with plastic, tee them together and drop right down to a 5gal. bucket. On a few of the very large single more remote trees, I may put a plastic tap above the metal tap/bucket as a second tap, with a drop right into the metal bucket as a way to get two taps in the same tree. Does this all sound reasonable? Any tips, warnings, or suggestions for my plan?