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I would imagine your old walnut tree has some kids scattered around somewhere as well. 100 years of dropped nuts should have produced something...

I wonder if you could use hydraulics and 1 way valves rather than electric, would be easier on the pump. I'm seeing two 1 way valves on either side of essentially a syringe made with a piston going into a tube. It draws back and sucks up sap from the bucket, then plunges and forces the sap into...

Pretty sure it's true sap. Any time you cut a branch they shoot water out and the sawdust is so wet you can wring liquid out of it when you use a chainsaw on them. Where it runs down the tree and dries it dries white and chunky. We have a huge amount of ground water, so the stupid things could...

Ahh, thanks for the explanation. I have tasted the liquid that they produce in the middle of the summer and it didn't seem bitter, but it very well might get that way once the water is boiled out.

Mine will certainly produce SOMETHING if tapped. One of the big ones got a wound on a horizontal branch and it actually killed the grass in an about 3 foot circle where it constantly drips all year long and keeps it too wet for the grass to be happy.

Anyone hear of making syrup from Elm? I have a bunch of them on my property and they are so wet that they bog down the chainsaw when you cut them down or limb them. Not unusual to have liquid shoot a foot or so from the tree if you remove a branch. Seems like if it's any good that they...