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Tapping maples for sap?
TRACY:
Chigger, I have the pancakes and sausage ;D Sounds like you've done this once or twice ;)
Tracy
chigger:
--- Quote from: TRACY F on February 23, 2009, 10:05:54 am ---Chigger, I have the pancakes and sausage ;D Sounds like you've done this once or twice ;)
Tracy
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Tracy ,I finished out a little over a gallon yesterday and collected about seventy five gallon of sap today ,I boiled down about thirty gallon of it ,will finish it off tomorrow, I've got two and a half gallon, tomorrow I'll have about four ,quitting till next year...How's your operation???
Cut an Osage Orange tree today while I was boiling and took it to the mill to have it quartered,sending a guy on here a piece to make a bow...I don't stand an watch the boiling ,I stop by every little bit and keep the fire going ..It's a lot of work but you forget the work when you set down to a big stack of pancakes or waffles..
Harv.
TRACY:
That's great Harv! I found that I can use the heat from the arch for boiling sap down to straighten cane and recurve limbs :D. I also set up my makeshift arch close to my targets so I could throw a few arrows between loading wood.
My arch is primitive to say the least, but managed to get the job done. 1st batch I let it go just past the syrup mark and got some crystals in it. Tasted great! The second small batch turned out better with a golden color and no crystals.
Tracy
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chigger:
--- Quote from: TRACY F on March 02, 2009, 10:30:41 am ---That's great Harv! I found that I can use the heat from the arch for boiling sap down to straighten cane and recurve limbs :D. I also set up my makeshift arch close to my targets so I could throw a few arrows between loading wood.
My arch is primitive to say the least, but managed to get the job done. 1st batch I let it go just past the syrup mark and got some crystals in it. Tasted great! The second small batch turned out better with a golden color and no crystals.
Tracy;
I'm new at this ..how do you post a picture on here? I have a folder of pictures ,can I post the folder???
Harv.
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Marc St Louis:
It's a lot of work but the end result is worth it. To boil use a a pan that has as much surface area as possible and not too deep. Don't boil too hard or you will burn some of the sugar. Sugar Maple will give you about 30 gallons of sap for 1 gallon of syrup while Red Maple gives you about 40 gallons to 1. To collect use a small mouthed jug, this is so that if it rains you don't get any rain water in the jug
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