Making syrup is fun. It is time consuming but spending time with my dad I find it brings us closer. We tapped around 50 or 60 trees last year, our first year. We made over 10 gallons of syrup and it was delicious. We even made maple sugar. To collect the sap we drilled 3/8 inch holes about 1 inch into the tree and put the taps I have pictured. We didn't buy commercial taps just used some harder plastic with a hose clamp. It might not be the best but it worked. To filter the sap we used a mesh bag or an old pillow case that was sterilized. Again it worked for our purposes. The holes all grew shut from last year when we looked yesterday. We tapped 13 trees yesterday and already my dad collected 10 gallons of sap from them. We haven't bought a thing to make syrup, using only what we had laying around. Having the plastic tubing is a big help. This year we put bigger buckets on the ground. Last year we had one gallon buckets hanging from the hose clamp on the plastic tube.
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