[AT] Sap is rising/good news and bad

[Paul Waugh]

I will try the copper pipe and screw. Thanks

Paul-IN
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From: "Larry Mason" <lcmason at uslink.net>
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> 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
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> 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
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>> From: "Bruce Moden" <brucemoden at yahoo.com>
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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
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>> Date: Friday, March 13, 2009, 2:33 PM
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>> 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
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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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