A 2 foot by 6 foot pan can boil off around 80 gallons of sap in a full 10 hour day. That's 12 square feet of surface area. 6 1/2 gallons per day, per square foot. It will be about the same for anything else you want to use, if you manage to keep it at a full boil.
20-25 well placed taps will get you around 40 gallons of sap on a good day.
Sometimes young trees, and roadside or front-yard trees produce better then large deep-woods trees. But, much depends on how they've been maintained. Trees with big tops often run the sweetest.
A few years ago, the "maple experts" in my area were pushing tapping young trees with small taps - 1/4" instead of the usually 7/16". Seems that idea didn't last very long.
There are many good Websites and cheap books on the subject. Like antique tractors people, some maple people also get invovled because they love doing it - and not for the money. Making syrup can be hard, miserable work without a lot of tangible pay back (again, like fixing old tractors). But, it gets you into the woods, and doing something that is very old. I've known old geezers in their 90s that could barely walk, but still loved sugar-season.
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