[AT] Sap is rising/good news and bad

[Larry Mason]

Depends on what you want to spend. We used plastic spigots that you drove in 
the hole. To this was attached a short length of plastic tubing which ran 
into a 5 gallon jug. Before this, we used to use a 3" long copper tube with 
a screw in it which would hold the handle of the pail. There are also 
special metal spigots with a hook cast in to hold the pail.
Larry Mason
Hackensack, MN
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Waugh" <pwaugh at embarqmail.com>
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>I have a couple of maples and wondered. What do you put in the drilled
> hole?? A hollow tube??
>
> Paul - IN
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bruce Moden" <brucemoden at yahoo.com>
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> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 3:33 PM
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>
> 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" 
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> 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
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 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
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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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