I bought 5 maple tree taps on e bay and began to make maple syrup. I have one maple tree that produces 8 to 10 gallons of sap per day. I boil it on a camp stove hooked to my grill propane tank.
Ten gallons yields 1 quart of syrup. It is perhaps the best result for the least effort I know of.
I’ve seen pictures of tree taps with buckets hanging under them. Let the tree taps do all the work! I guess that allows the humans to spend that much more time hunting or other things.
It would upset the luddites who think you’ve just 5 munchkins out of jobs. lol.
Dang good isn’t it. We never had a syrup house, but my mom said she make in a big cast pot in the fire place. My friend. Built a new house a few years back, all stainless steel but he still uses wood. He has thousands of feet of pipe sap lines run to big 300 gal tanks, and he just drives his truck by and pumps it into the truck tank. When I was a kid we collected sap in an an old truck using buckets and milk cans. We would go to school and come home and collect sap until midnight. Cold and hard work but we were having fun I drove my old ford tractor down to his place.