Buckeye , The few drop lines that I did (pretty much two trees to a t to a bucket) out produced the others. You are correct. Once the flow peaked , the drops straight to buckets did produce but not what I expected. Im around 15 gallons collected at this point. I boiled down 12 gallons earlier in the week to two. Im gonna boil down the rest tomorrow. I had a friend at a brewery test my sap , its 2%. Im thinking its going to make about a quart and a pint total. Thanks for the advice again!
P.S. If anybody has any left over sap at the end , Id be willing to make a trip to come get enough to make a gallon or so. Our season is possibly over , gonna hit 60 Monday!!