[AT] Sap is rising/good news and bad

[Bob McNitt]

Farmer -

I think you're correct. I recall my dad telling me about my grandparents 
making birch beer. Since we just tapped for maple syrup, I never knew if it 
was derived from birch sap. Back then, sugaring was a pretty basic task, 
using spiles and hanging the lidded sap buckets. My job as a kid was 
fetching the buckets and hanging them on the spiles as dad & my brother 
tapped the trees.

Bob in CNY.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 4:44 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Sap is rising/good news and bad


> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Paul Waugh <pwaugh at embarqmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> I will try the copper pipe and screw. Thanks
>>
>> Paul-IN
> ===========================================
>
>
>
> Just as a general learning process I was on a syrup making list on
> Yahoo a couple of years ago (I can't recall the name right now). I was
> a little surprised to learn the large number of different kinds of
> trees that could be used for syrup making (you probably wouldn't want
> to use poison ivy). A lot of the guys were blending all sorts of stuff
> together.
> If you go to Yahoo, then "groups", they have a group locator search there.
> BTW, the "tap" thingy is called a "spile". I have a couple that look
> like this one:
> http://site.tapmytrees.com/images/spile.jpg
> Of course these days collecting should be done with an antique tractor. 
> :-)
> I finally got curious enough to go searching and I believe the group
> was "Maple sugaring hobbyist". I think this link will work OK:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maplesugaringhobbyists/?v=1&t=search&ch=web&pub=groups&sec=group&slk=7
> It was a nice bunch of guys.
>
>
> -- 
> "farmer"
>
> "Good clean muck never hurt nobody!!!"
> Morris Moulterd
>
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>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana USA
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