[AT] Sap is rising/good news and bad

[charliehill]

Henry you are on the money there.  A retired banker friend of mine decided a 
few years ago to start making syrup.  He spent a bunch of money haveing a 
stainless steel cooking pan built with all of the baffles and gas burners. 
I suspect he had 3 or 4 thousand dollars in it and he never could get it to 
cook right.  As I understand it the thing has to be hotter at one end than 
the other and the sap has to sort of filter down through the pan.  Although 
I'm pretty sure the rig my grandfather had during the depression was much 
simpler than that.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henry Miller" <hank at millerfarm.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Sap is rising/good news and bad


> If you haven't figguered out how/where you are going to boil the sap don't 
> bother starting.   I learned this the hard way when I was 14.   My 
> neighbor had the spouts, and buckets were easy to find.  Nobody had 
> anything useful for boiling sap.  We ended up with about 200 gallons of 
> sap, and were dumping some for lack of storage!  (I'm not sure how much we 
> dumped, I think we were collecting 10 gallons a day)
>
> What we tried was a hot water bath canner on a barrel wood stove.  Never 
> got hot enough to boil anything despite plenty of dry wood to work with. 
> I was told my friend's parents had tried boiling in the house a few years 
> before, but the house got all sticky.
>
> You don't need everything now, but if you don't have a plan and all the 
> equipment on order, you could be wasting time.
>
> Roy Morgan <k1lky at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>On Mar 13, 2009, at 11:04 PM, Paul Waugh wrote:
>>
>>> I will try the copper pipe and screw. Thanks
>>
>>Ask around the town. You may find someone who's got buckets full of
>>the made-to-purpose spigots that simply tap into the hole, and who is
>>not planning to use them now.
>>
>>You'll need some buckets, too.
>>
>>Note: about one barrel (50 gallons) of sap is needed for a gallon of
>>syrup.  You'll need a big pile of sawmill scraps to feed the fire.
>>
>>Roy
>>
>>
>>Roy Morgan
>>k1lky at earthlink.net
>>529 Cobb St.
>>Groton NY, 13073
>>
>>
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