In the woods
Three calculators for what a bush makes, and what your tanks and lines hold.
What a bush should make#
A season's sap and syrup for a whole woods. Type the taps, the sap per tap for a season, and the Brix.
Sap per tap is a season, not a day: roughly 10 gallons on gravity and 20 or more on good vacuum. Below the season, type an average day per tap to see what a run brings in.
What a tank holds#
How much a tank or a trough holds, square or round. Pick the shape and measure the inside.
Use the depth you fill to, not the height of the wall: the last two inches of a tank are freeboard, not sap.
What a line is holding#
The sap standing in a full pipe, such as a sap pump-out line, that has not reached the tank yet. Pick the line size and type the length of the run.
The size on the coil is the bore the sap runs in. It is what you lose at a freeze, or what an air purge pushes out.
FAQs
The Area tool in Map My Woods asks the same question: 50 is conservative, 70 a good stand, 100 optimistic. Count the trees in a circle if you are not sure.
Have a question this doesn't answer? Email info@sapspy.com or call 920-809-4811 — we're producers too.
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