Our family (wifes cousin) has rights to our maples. We have Red, Silver and Sugar Maples and all are currently tapped (and thanks to the rapidly fluctuating weather the last few weeks are flowing well). In the four parcels we own we have about 100 trees, he taps hundreds of trees in the area besides ours. His primary business is maple syrup and honey. He's paying to drop boxes near the swail on my 28 acres.
I will tell you that he uses early and late draws combined. He taps multiple trees into 55 gallon plastic drums. I know that he is pulling lines from all three of our tree types into single barrels.
As far as process his system is bulk industrial grade. All combined it takes up a 40x60 pole barn. I can not begin to guess the process after he pulls the barrels.
