4 taps in that huge one...average 35 gal of sap,, makes one of syrup...even read,,maybe on here,,one dude tapped a walnut tree!!! never give that a thought!!!!!
May not work well here ,temp ranges 45-50 in day ,to not much lower at night ,maybe that's why no one does it .
You have to have cold nights, down near freezing and warm days in the mid 40's works, the bigger the temp swing the better they flow. Sugar maple gives the sweetest sap but I believe they might tap some other maples too but not many. I'll have to ask my neighbor. The sap flows like warter and the big guys hook all the lines together and run them downhill to a tank and then draw a vacuum on the tank. My neighbor then uses a couple of large poly tanks for storage and knocks the bulk of the water out of the sap using reverse osmosis, toss the pure water removed and keep the sugar. He'll run a good size tank through that a few times before he takes it to the boiler. More energy efficient that way.
