Everything you say your doing sounds good,keep us posted how things go!if your trees are out in the open you may have great sugar content like 2-3% where my trees are shaded by 90-110' tulip n oaks in the woods so I have to collect 3 times more to equal a tree like a open one.My sugar content is around 1% so volume isn't everything!
2021 95 taps all on 3/16' natural gravity 2018 home built 4x40 RO 2017 1000 sap 15gal syrup 4 runs of 3/16 natural vac 1 of 5/16 2016 775gal of sap made 12gal syrup 2015 18.5 gal about 55 taps. Have the best wife! cub cadet volunteer 4x4 sap hauler