Posted by Donald Lehman on February 27, 2020 at 09:34:43 from (74.78.242.235):
In Reply to: Re: Maple syrup posted by caterpillar guy on February 27, 2020 at 05:35:44:
If you use tubing, you only have to use a minimum of collection points and quality of the woods roads in not so much a factor. We find that the deer don't have any problems negotiating woods areas criss-crossed with tubing. We have found that deer who were smart enough to push bucket covers off and drink sap will eventually figure out that if they chew through the tubing they can still get to drink sap. This has not been a real problem, but occasionally you will encounter a smart alecky deer who has figured it out. We have had that happen twice in four or five years. We had one last year who kept chewing the tubing in the same spot for several days. I finally had enough connectors put in that he couldn't chew through them any more and left the line alone. Why it didn't just move down the line two feet an chew it through again, I don't know. Maybe he just decided to go across the fence line and pester the nieghbor instead. I am paying between $37 and $45 dollars per 500 ft roll of 3/16 tubing. I am assuming you won't use a vacuum pump on the tubing. Keep your tubing small enough that it runs full of sap thus creating it's own vaccum. We are running as many as 300 to 400 taps on 3/16 line and getting enough vacuum to get 10% to 15% more sap compared to when those trees were on buckets. We have as few as 27 taps on on line and we are still getting enough vacuum to yield more sap than we did when they were on buckets. We only have about 5-6 feet of drop on that 27 taps. The biggest headache with tubing is making sure you have blowdowns cleared off the tubing before the snow packs down the deadfall and then the tubing is underneath a foot of snow with a stinking branch over the top of the tubing. That's a real pain.
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