From Tree to Sugar House

The sap in the buckets hanging on the trees take quite a trip to get to the holding tank in the sugar house.  First they have to be dumped into a collecting bucket.

Those buckets are then emptied into a 50 gallon tank strapped to the fork lift of the tractor.

It's then transported up the hill to the back of the barn

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where the tank of sap is attached to a hose and its contents  gravity fed into the holding tank in the sugar house.

And in that one large 50 gallon tank of sap....sits just a little over 1 gallon of maple syrup!

We've Got Sap!

The buckets are full and the vacuum pump can hardly keep up with the sap flow!