[AT] Sap is rising/good news and bad

charliehill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Sat Mar 14 11:23:04 PDT 2009


Here's another method using gas and a kettle.  The pans the guys use around 
here have baffles.  I guess there's is kind of a continuous batch process 
where the finished syrup runs off the end kind.  This seems much easier.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu4H3zW-Xgc&feature=related

Charlie
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> yeah he had the thing built on a trailer.  The main problem he had was 
> they
> couldn't get burners under it that would get it hot enough.
>
> Every year at the NC State Fair they have a cane syrup display up and
> running for the entire week.  It's wood fired of course.  That pan is
> probably as big or bigger than the one my friend built.
>
> Charlie
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>> Charlie,Wow! 8x16? No wonder he had trouble.
>>
>> Paul, don't feel bad. I know several people who tried their hand at 
>> making
>> syrup at home with less-than-expected results. I blame it on some of 
>> those
>> "farmette" on-line how-to web sites that post articles w/o ever trying 
>> the
>> operations involved.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
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>>> 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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>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> 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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