Translations:Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Nature/Maple Sugar - Advanced/2/en

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2. Make at least five taps and boil down at least two quarts of syrup.

  • Boring the tap hole with a brace and bit.

  • A homemade, traditional tap.

  • A tap designed to hold a bucket

  • A tap designed to attach to tubing

  • Inserting a plastic tap.

  • Bucket hanging on a tap.

  • Taps connected with tubing.

  • An evaporator for boiling the sap down into syrup.

The first step will be finding a suitable maple tree. The tree should be at least 10 inches in diameter. For every extra foot of diameter, you can drill another tap. A brace and bit is the traditional tool for tapping the tree, but you could also use a cordless drill, or if you can reach the tree with an extension cord, a power drill. Whichever tool you choose for boring the tap hole, be sure to use either a 7/16" or a 1/2" bit. The hole should be about 2.5" deep, and angled such that the sap can run downhill out of the tap.

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