[AT] Sap is rising/good news and bad

[charliehill]

Bob the pan that my friend built was a big one.  More like 8' x 16'.   He 
didn't do to well making syrup.  He spent all that money on a pan and fixed 
up and old cane press.  Then he had a crop failure on his cane patch.  I 
don't know if he tried it again the next year or not.  His health turned bad 
about that time and he has since died after a long fight with cancer.

Charlie
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From: "Bob McNitt" <nysports at frontiernet.net>
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Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Sap is rising/good news and bad


> Henry's right ... w/o a sap pan, appropriate firebox and covered shelter
> bldg, you'll be wasting sap. As I recall, our pan was about 5x3. You might
> consider seeing if anyone nearby you is sugaring and review their 
> operation.
>
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> From: "Henry Miller" <hank at millerfarm.com>
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>> 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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