Thanks so much! I'll be honest, everything was built and on the property when we bought it 5 years ago. Thankfully the original owners are still close by and taught us everything we needed to know. Never in a million years did I think I'd be making maple syrup, but it sure is fun!
Nice eye! Yes, we have a "sap house" that holds two 65 gallon tanks, and that gauge on the wall will give us an idea of how much is left in whatever tank we are pulling sap from when we are boiling. This is a photo of the sap house. If you notice the two tanks are tilting forward - they are spring loaded so when they get down to roughly 10 gallons of sap they will tilt forward to keep the remaining sap toward the front and flowing into the pan. We store all of our buckets, lids and collection tank here in the off-season.
Thank you! We typically put out about 95 taps. Trees are a combination of sugar and maple. The one photo of the tree with the buckets and the can of beer is out best sugar maple, we call it the "money tree"
