Last week I put an anchor into a tree and the chips were definitely wet, not running out of the hole but wet. We have been working to replace about 1500' of mainline this year and are almost done. Some was just a remove the old and replace (going from black poly to CDL Blue) and in one are we re-routed the run.
We Just need to finish tying the pipe to the support wire. Then fix a few areas from tree damage and add taps. I hope to be tapped in at the end of January this year.
Tapping since 1985 (four generations back to early to mid 1900s). 200-250 taps on buckets and then tubing in the mid 90s. 2013- 275 taps w/sap puller 25 gal. 2014-295 taps w/sap puller 55 ga. (re-tapped to vacuum theory) 2015-330 taps full vac. 65 gal, 2016-400 taps 105 gal, 2017-400 taps 95 gal. 2018-additional 800' mainline and maybe 400 new taps for a total near 800 taps. 2x6 Leader WSE (last year on it) supported by a 250 gph RO.