Post by seandicare on Mar 18, 2013 19:47:42 GMT -5
well my 6yo daughter came to me last week and said she wanted to make maple syrup.....i've been interrested for years, but never got into it. we have quite a few maples around our yard, so figured what the heck.
went out this morning looking locally for taps and could find absolutely nothing.....found out Tractor Supply did carry them, but they were out. last week we went up to the VIC Center in Paul Smith's and they had their trees tapped....i looked at their buckets and noticed their taps were actually small conduit with a notch cut along the top and a tab pulled up to hold the bucket.
so since i couldn't find any taps locally i decided to get creative. and try to make some.......the smallest conduit i could find was 1/2in. i decided to go with that. i am making them 6in long (probably alittle longer than needed, but i am using milk jugs, so figured rather be too long than too short.)
then took a coping saw with metal blade and cut 2 lines about 1/2in apartand a pliers and pulled the tab up. looks like it should work good.
here is the finished product.....
went out this morning looking locally for taps and could find absolutely nothing.....found out Tractor Supply did carry them, but they were out. last week we went up to the VIC Center in Paul Smith's and they had their trees tapped....i looked at their buckets and noticed their taps were actually small conduit with a notch cut along the top and a tab pulled up to hold the bucket.
so since i couldn't find any taps locally i decided to get creative. and try to make some.......the smallest conduit i could find was 1/2in. i decided to go with that. i am making them 6in long (probably alittle longer than needed, but i am using milk jugs, so figured rather be too long than too short.)
then took a coping saw with metal blade and cut 2 lines about 1/2in apartand a pliers and pulled the tab up. looks like it should work good.
here is the finished product.....
