[AT] Sap is rising/good news and bad

[Bruce Moden]

Just A Note;
the "sap rising" can't help remind me of the 1940's when we would go (end of Feb.)"with brace & bit along route 39 in the Village of Forestville, NY, drill holes in the maple trees, hang buckets with make-shift covers & as long as the temp was below 32 at night & above 40 in the daytime we could empty 2 or 3 (10 quart) pails several times a day.  Pour the sap on to an open evaporation pan (about 4' square) on a wood fire watch it boil down to the proper consistancy, pull the plug in the end of the pan, draw off several galons of fine syrup!  I see the "Sugar Shaks" now, drilling thier holes, installing the plastic tubes to a central collection point, slowly letting it into the top level of the gas fired evaporator & it drains down & comes out as syrup- much more efficient I suppose, but if you have any hard maples on your land try the old fashion way sometime, it's a great early spring/late winter diversion.
Pharmr Bruce
PS: in those days the farmers with a horse would mount a tank on a skid & pull it along to dump the pails into, we just used "flyer sleds".

--- On Fri, 3/13/09, charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com> wrote:

From: charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] Sap is rising/good news and bad
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Date: Friday, March 13, 2009, 2:33 PM

There is some sort of a "beech" tree that grows in the lowlands around
here 
along stream banks.  You can cut a small branch not even the size of a 
pencil off of it in the spring and water will run out in a steady stream 
like that.

I think I'll leave the poison ivy vine alone thank you.

Charlie
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From: "Larry Goss" <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
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Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 2:21 PM
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> What's fun at this time of year is to hack through a poison ivy vine
the 
> size of your arm and then have it run a solid stream of sap back out of 
> the cut vine.  It's downright scary, really.
>
> Larry
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> Date: Friday, March 13, 2009 11:34
> Subject: [AT] Sap is rising/good news and bad
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
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>
>> I trimed some low limbs off of a dogwood tree in my yard about a
>> month ago.
>> I must have waited to late in the winter to do it.  The sap
>> has started to
>> rise and the whole trunk of the tree is soaking wet with sap
>> that is
>> bleeding out of the cuts.
>>
>> Oh well, maybe it won't kill the tree.
>>
>> Charlie
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