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    Came across Lapierre Maple Farm when I was searching the web for Lapierre Equipment. Here's the website http://www.domorewithmaple.com/aboutlapierre.html

    Is this legitimate? Is this a single maple farm with 150,000 tapped trees? Is this typical over the border? That just seems mind boggling to me. I've got 300 taps and I thought I was doing pretty good. I also thought Bascom's was huge at 25-27,000 taps. They have a pretty impressive pic with the 4 large evaporators. Somewhere I came across one of their tubing pics and their mainline is a 6" or 8" pipe. That's a lot of sap.
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    Hey AG,
    If I remember right Bascom's was, I think, 63,000 or 67,000 taps this past year.
    Now that's some sap right there Mr.!!!

    Dave
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    i believe there are two others bigger than that.and last bruce told me they were at 45,000
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    so on the note of largest producer who is the largest pruducer using only buckets ... and then maybe largest pruducer not using a ro ...... and maybe third largest buckets without a ro

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    I seem to remember a forester from Landvest mentioning to me that they set up a lease on a huge operation up in northern Maine....something like 300,000 taps? might have been 30,000...but could of just been BS...
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    I know when I was a wipper snapper I worked on a 2500 tap BUCKET opperation,,we gatherd with horses to boot,,5x16 wood fired grimm, that was in Fairfield, V.T.,,,,,we went and visited the Horrigans (HARD CORE WORKERS) up the road,,,I bielive at the time they had 10,000 buckets,,,,and gathered with horses,,,2, 6X16 rigs,,they had some real nice teams,,and many hands, That was many moons ago,,82-84?
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    I don't have it in front of me, but in the last New England Farming Journal issue there was an article about Bascom's. In that article it said that they were the largest operation in New England. I think they had 57,000 taps like Maple Hill SH said. I saw their chart of taps when I was there in May. I wonder who is larger outside of New England? Bruce was quoted as saying he thought there was a lot of potential in New York.

    The article also said that producers in Quebec are planning on adding 1 million taps. That is an incredible capacity to be able to add that many taps. They have some huge operations up there....

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    2 years ago mereck was 16,000 there so lucky there its a gorgous place and they have a fella who likes to give them money for equipment ...but i wouidnt say thats super sappys backyard would u great foamy ?

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    I worked with a guy in saugerties ny one season who had 3000 on buckets. The bush was developed by his great grand father. He has since pasted away. said he did tubing one year but didn't like it.

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