Maple Syrup

[winebug]

AAA:


When I was in high school we used a team if horses and pulled a sled through the wood, and we got to tend the fire on week ends. We only had a flat pan 3' by 8'. The neighbor kids would come over and we had an all night party.


Now with the woods sloping. My brother uses small plastic pipe from tree to tree, and 1" pipe main lines runs about 200 trees into one 250 gal. tank. Took all the fun out of it!!!!

 

[AAASTINKIE]

winebug, took all the work out of it also though, I hauled 555 gallons
of sap today, that's 4800lbs of sap, no kiddo's to help anymore, just
one old man, doesn't matter how long you have been sappin' you never
know when it's going to run, I was going to cut firewood this morning
and I noticed the buckets were all full, so it was back to the house to
pick up the sap tank and off to work!!

 

[peterCooper]

555 gallons.
How much maple wine does that make?

 

[AAASTINKIE]

All I can tell ya is I get 7 gallons of syrup for that sap today. (the syrup maker and I spit 50/50)

 

[winebug]

Peter:


Sap is about 2 % sugar. A neighbor boil sap down to about 18 % sugar then use it to make wine. He would not let me have any.


My dad always said it takes 50 gallon of sap and 50 lb of woodto make a gallon of syrup. I think it took a lot more wood than that.

 

[AAASTINKIE]

I hauled 275 more gallons today and picked up 15 gallons of syrup, I
was at the bottle lady's today and she gave me a case of pint wiskey
bottles, I asked her to save me 5 more cases, I am going to save money
on bottles this year.

 

[AAASTINKIE]

Normally I make syrup till the 15th of April, today all my buckets were
taken down and cleaned, and put away, it is 68 degrees out, way too
warm for saping, but I'll be OK 27 1/2 gallons, only had 15 gallons
last year.I was going strong all day, then I stopped and took a shower
when I was all done, now I feel the muscles aching...lol

 

[Waldo]

Come on down and take a good long soak in my hot tub Smurf

 

[peterCooper]

My pool is getting ready to open. Took off the winter cover, threw $50 of
chemicals in it, started the pump and am clearing out the leaves. Roll on
mid April. It's too cold to swim until then.