You may know that hollow taps (spiles) were made from sumac wood by pioneers. For anyone else interested here is a link to an article that discusses this.
The easiest way to reduce your boiling time of the sap is to keep it outside at night and let the container freeze.
Then before it thaws pour off the more concentrated sap into another container and repeat the process. This is how the native Americans made syrup.
I would collect my sap in 5 gallon containers. It made it easier to pour into the boiling pan. Also, easier to load in and out of my pick up truck. I used to put out about 30+ taps at my former residence. I usually ended up with about 3-4 gallons of syrup. I tapped three trees that were over 200 years old. About 4’ in diameter each. Then there were another 15 trees that all had probably come from the original four. Those four had been planted in the front of a former late 1700s homestead. The only thing remaining was the field stone foundation. It burned to the ground in the mid 1800s.
How to concentrate maple sap into maple syrup! Excellent piece of information!
You may know that hollow taps (spiles) were made from sumac wood by pioneers. For anyone else interested here is a link to an article that discusses this.