[AT] Sap is rising/good news and bad

Bob McNitt nysports at frontiernet.net
Sat Mar 14 11:34:22 PDT 2009


Yes, there were a couple of cases where they managed to produce a couple 
pints, but they did the boiling outside under an overhang on their patio. 
One had the fire dept show up when someone passing by thought the steam 
clouds were smoke.

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From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
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>I suspect you could do a very small batch in the house in a double boiler.
>
> Charlie
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> From: "Paul Waugh" <pwaugh at embarqmail.com>
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>
>> Umm, This is more in depth than I figured. I was going to boil on stove 
>> in
>> the house. Sounds like I had better start researching.  This is very
>> interesting. I have one tree, 4 ft across, it literally rain sap, I have
>> another 3 about 2-3 ft across. I was just going to collect 5 gallons and
>> see
>> what happened. Like I say, I will research.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Paul-IN
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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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