Sap is on the move

[Danavan]

Walnut 17/2/12. Oxford. One was pouring out & another 10m away was dry as still.

[Danavan]

How do people go about making Birch sap wine & what are your tapping methods?

 

I tend to go with a sharp knife incision with a tap whittled from a small piece of birch about small finger diameter that allows the run to fall into the container below. Then I push the bark back into place. Not the quickest form of retrieval though.

[Paulfreebury]

I auger a small hole the size of a pencil, cut a sycamore or hazel twig and split into two, scrape a groove in the twig then push it into the hole in the tree, when I've collected a cupful I then fashion another twig to plug the hole.

[Fungus]

A photo of sap on the move down the remaining stump of an old, but healthy birch that has been cut two weeks ago without any good reason at all.

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[treedom]

I was working on a field maple today and it was dripping with sap from the get go

[corylus]

8th Jan cut through small syc roots making a track with digger and next morning small puddles. Presume the sap was rising?

 

(200m up int' Yorkshire Dales FYI)

Edited February 20, 2012 by corylus
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[WoodED]

i crown lifted a feild maple (acer campestre) last monday and walking past it today (im still on the same site) it was still dripping out of the wounds,, badly as well,