amount of syrup per tap.

[Brent]

Our record keeping is a bit sloppy. You get what you get. But we hauled in 17,000 litres averaging. All of it was just over 2% so
17000 / 4 = approx 4250 gallons / 30 = 140 gallons of Syrup at $ 50 gallon
= just over $ 7000 and that's what the wife says she had in the grocery money pot. That was from a mixed bag of bags, buckets and just over 150 on a vac line that did not get turned on every day. Furthermore we ran out of wood for the the last good week so it could have been higher. So I guess we hit about average 1 qt / tap. We were happy. What esle you gonna do that time of year anyway ?

[cncaboose]

We've only done this 3 years, all on buckets. '06: 180 taps, 0.35 gal/tap; '07: 200 taps, 0.31 gal/ tap; '09: 230 taps, 0.38 gal/tap. No more than 2 taps per tree regardless of size and most had one. We do tap young fast growers down to 8" and had several of those.

[Seguin Sugarbush]

2005- 6000 buckets=.4l per tap
2006-6400 buckets=.52l per tap
2007-6400 buckets=.46l per tap
2008-2200bukets 4200 on vac=.95l per tap,boiled for 7 days after buckets came down, ran out of firewood
2009-5200 on vac 19 hg=1.59l per tap
Last season was ideal temp. for sugaring.We should expect to return to more realistic yields of 1 liter per tap on vac. and .5 for buckets.

Dan Seguin

[red maples]

holy cow you really had 6400 buckets?? how long did it take to visit all of those buckets???

[The Birdman]

Last year was my first year. I had 87 taps that produced .3 gallon per tap. weather was not in my favor just boil 6 days.

[KenWP]

I know in my case I listened to people on here and figured I would have enough taps at 40 to supply my needs. Ended up with 150 at the end in order to get enough sap to make any amount of syrup. So it's hard to say how much a tap. 20 gallons was my total production but most of that was made in the last week of the sap run.

[darkmachine]

Last year was our fist year too, we made 20 gallons, on 112 7/16 wooden taps.

so that is .178 gal but we had major losses, our drawoff valve fell out and we lost almost a whole pan of sweet on the ground so not an exact count, this year we will try not to loose so much, lol. And we are going up to at least 500 taps.

[Russell Lampron]

I got .3 gals per tap last season with 77 buckets and 462 taps on vacuum. Most of the taps on vacuum were on red maples and alot of them were culls. It was my best year ever and could have been better. I noticed that the woods with old taps and tubing, about 250 taps stopped running about 1.5 weeks sooner than the new sections did. Reaming tap holes didn't help. This year all of the drops are going to be replaced in the old section before I add any new taps. The way that the syrup has been selling I need to make alot more! I would like to get up to the 1/2 gallon per tap number and feel that it is possible even with the red maples as my main crop tree.