Pull Spouts or Not???

[Russell Lampron]

Yeah I think anyone who intentionally does this has no respect whatsoever for the trees and sugarmaking in general. To the original poster, are you sure this actually happened? I cant believe anyone would do this intentionally. I could see if it happened one year maybe due to a tragedy or other issue in the sugarmaker's family and they had other things to worry about.

I've seen it before and it was done intentionally. My father was leasing his trees to a local producer. The guy didn't pull his taps and my father found it in the middle of the summer. He pulled the taps himself and told the guy to come get his tubing.

[johnallin]

I've seen it before and it was done intentionally. My father was leasing his trees to a local producer. The guy didn't pull his taps and my father found it in the middle of the summer. He pulled the taps himself and told the guy to come get his tubing.

If that were me, he'd find his tubing on the side of the road!

[Bucket Head]

I agree with John on that. I'd do the same thing. I'd make it very clear that he was all done...

[Russell Lampron]

I started tapping those woods a few years later and the tubing was still there. Needless to say, I removed it! When I stopped tapping those woods myself the only thing that I left behind were the ruts in the mud from driving my tractor through.

[steve J]

I see taps being left in trees on a property I hunt in southern Vermont and it really pisses me off but its not my property and the taps are leased by a sugar maker down their. On a side note your starting to slowly convince me that my washing my lines are a waste of time lol.

[Tmeeeh]

Our neighbors allowed someone to tap their trees back in the 1950s. A few years ago they asked us to mow down the brush coming up in their back fields. There is a row of big old sugar maples on the edge of the field. The old tin buckets are still on the trees. The buckets have mostly disappeared inside the trees as the trees have grown around them!

[Bruce L]

Still seeing taps and buckets on trees from spring 2018 !!! Maybe they no longer care,but another generation might

[Russell Lampron]

On a side note your starting to slowly convince me that my washing my lines are a waste of time lol.

I've been tapping the same number of trees for enough years to see that I'm getting consistent sap yields year after year without washing my tubing. I just use a new CV2 spout every year.

[wiam]

I've been tapping the same number of trees for enough years to see that I'm getting consistent sap yields year after year without washing my tubing. I just use a new CV2 spout every year.

Same here. Except I use CV1

[Mark B]

Drove past 1 today that still had their TAPS in the trees.