For farmers who have a lot of palm trees, will leave early to tap water nira, because if late tapping the water will turn into vinegar and tuak. On a normal morning long before the sun shines & the afternoon before sunset.
Sugar palm sugar trees can begin in tapping at the age of 5 years and peak production between 10-20 years and fertile, can produce 15-20 liters of palm sugar every day.
Part of the palm tree in tapping is a male flower stalk. The running of this water in the container in the bumbung (bamboo stalk length between 1-1.5 meters).
Tapping palm trees requires skill, patience and persistence.
The peasants descended & climbed through a bamboo rod in the hole as a foothold. On the way up & down the big toe left & right that became a foothold in the bamboo-bamboo hole. Not the soles of the foot on the bamboo as if we were climbing coconut trees.