Stainless Steel Taps - Maple Sap Pail Spout & Hook - Spiles for making Maple Syrup (5)

Drill the hole.. insert the tap.. collect the juice.. how easy can it be

Have not used them yet but they seem to be very sturdy and should get a lot of years wear with them.

Worked well. First time tapping trees.

Very sturdy and well made. However, the crazy warm winter ruined sap season in our area this year. Hopefully will get more use next year.

Did what it was supposed to. Design makes removal for repositioning or season end easy and simple.

perfect! buy as many as you can afford. well made and smooth; thick so it wont bend wile tapping it in and all you have to do to remove it it just give it a 1/4 turn and pull it out. sealed up tight in the tree and to the tubes. this is the perfect tap for maple trees.

The style I was sent in 2021 has a bell or fluted shape to the end of the tap where 5/16 tubing would be attacked. Since the tip flares out, 5/16 tubing will not fit. I was a able to split the end of the tubing with a razor and shimmy it on,but def not ideal and almost caused a major issue for me as I was set up to install with a tube to 5gal. bucket system. Otherwise these are some seriously heavy duty beautiful taps. I noticed one review said he was worried about bending the tip when tapping into tree...You should NEVER be hitting any tap (metal or plastic) hard enough to bend it. These taps go in with 4 or 5 light taps super easy. If you are hitting any tap hard enough to worry about bending, you are driving your tap past the sap wood and potentially causing serious damage to the tree. Please do your research before you start drilling holes in live trees.

I’ve tried several different taps and this one was the best. The plastic ones I tried didn’t work at all for me. I tried a bigger metal tap that easily bent when I tried to tap it into the tree. But this one went in easily when I tapped it with my hammer, it didn’t bend and it came out easily when I pulled it out with my hand. And it worked great. I just attended a plastic tube to it and put the tube in a bucket. Worked great.

make sure you have the drill bit . this one came with the kit . I used a hand drill but a cordless would have helped. Also mark the bit with a marker or tape for depth. The sap was dripping out as soon as I thumped it in so make sure the cleaned buckets are ready. If you use a plastic bucket bungie it to the tree or its self strong winds might blow it away before it fills with sap. Once sap flows strong make sure you check every day I was getting more than 2 gallons out of the big trees. They came out easy enough with using plyers turn back and forth then pull. Tree show little sign of damage now in August. Wash everything in bleach and dry fully before storing it in one of the top buckets youll do alright. Always make sure you sugar down the sap to syrup outside until you reach the 1/4 point. The darker it is the sweeter its going to be. Easer than putting up jam.

Just starting to tap maple trees. These are perfect if you are using a small hanging bucket.