All the tapping is done. 400 total taps, give or take a few. We always seem to loose exact count. This afternoon we worked on getting the building ready. We had to get new piping as we changed the order of the pans on the evaporator. Now the  “V” bottom pan is in the back of the evaporator and the syrup pan in the front. Our hope is that we can increase the boiling capacity as the greater surface area of the V bottom is in the greatest heat of the wood fire. We had been getting about 20 gallons per hour, which takes about 10 hours to boil down 200 gallons of sap. Any increase in boiling efficiency will help. With the change in order of the pans we had to change the pipe that supplies sap. Tomorrow we will have to collect. We could have collected today. Some buckets are already half full.