I'm paranoid about overflowing buckets!
I find I've got a couple trees/taps that are good measuring sticks for what's going on in all our buckets. If the telltale ones are getting full I know it's time to go out and do a collection from all of them. It's been pretty reliable! I think tomorrow morning may be my next collection. After that, the weather is looking scary. Warm days, but nights above freezing, too. I hope it doesn't end the season??
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5' x 9' sugaring room
37 taps (cast iron spiles), 3 gallon metal buckets
Boiling with a 21" x 24" divided pan, 3 troughs, w/warming tank on top
250K BTU propane burner inside cement block arch, 4 x 100lb. propane tanks in parallel
Sap storage in 44 gallon Brute barrels w/food-safe plastic bag barrel liners
2021: ~8 gallons of syrup
2022: ~11 gallons of syrup (but I lost a 3 gallon batch because I fell asleep and burned it!!)
2023: ~15 gallons of syrup