I tapped 9 holes with buckets today, mostly for experience, but 3 of the next 6 days are forecasted to be above zero, so you never know.
I tapped my first spile in, tap, tap, tap, thud. I smiled when I heard my first thud sound. The biggest lesson I learnt is I need to take a backpack, to hold the drill and hammer.
We are likely still 10 days away from when it will be time to really tap, but if I get some sap, I will get some experience boiling and finishing it, even though it might only be a litre.
It will also be a good experiment to see if tapping these 9 trees a little earlier, will affect how they finish compared to the remaining 26 buckets
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2022 - 5 pan block arch - 109 taps, 73 on 3/16 lines, 36 on drops into 5 gallon pails.
930 gallons boiled, 109 L (28.8 gals) of delicious syrup made.
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2023 - 170 taps, mostly on lines, 1153 gallons boiled, 130 L (34.34 gals) of delicious syrup made, on a 2x4 divided pan and base stack, 8” pipe, on a block arch that boiled at a rate of 13 gallons per hour.
2024 - made 48 L, December to March, primarily over two fire bowls.
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