Hello All,
I am posing the question because there is some controversy in my sugaring operation over where we should be devoting our resources over the coming weeks.

-We have around 225 trees right now
- these trees 5/16th lines were all put together without using a tubing tool, so they were chewed to put fittings together.

We have been told that chewing lines will hurt your natural vacuum and the controversy is if we should spend the 300 bucks (which would be a real squeeze for us) to fix the existing trees, or if we would be better off to run line we already own to get around 50 more trees taped without using the tool, bringing our tree count up to around 275(but all chewed).

Basicly is it the investment in the tool worth it for the sap yield increase it might provided? I understand it is a big time saver, but that isn't a real issue for us.

Just curious to hear what people think and to hear peoples personal experience. Has anyone made this switch and noticed a difference?

Thanks!