My bucket operation, mainly tapped on 2/27, now stands at 4.3 gallons sap per tap from mid-morning collection. Spot checking a few buckets just now I'm guessing I'm at or near 5 with what's in the buckets now not yet collected. It's going to be a good freeze tonight and a warm day tomorrow and some good sugaring weather in the 10-day forecast, fingers crossed! My elevation is about 300' I think! You guys have me wondering about my sugar content... I need to break down and get a sap hydrometer anyway to enter the RO world... maybe I'll pick one up.
2024: 28 taps, 7 gallons. RB5 purchased but not opened :-(
2023: 30 taps, 17 trees, 11 properties, Sugar Maple & Norway. 2x3 flat over propane & kitchen finish. ~11(!) gallons.
2022: 9 taps, 5 trees, 4 properties. 3 hotel pans on 3 Coleman 2-burner stoves burning gasoline; kitchen finish. ~3 gallons.
2021: 2 taps, 1 sugar maple. Propane grill then kitchen finish. ~Pint.
All years: mainly 5/16" drops into free supermarket frosting buckets. Some plastic sap buckets hanging on 5/16 sap-meister.