[AT] Sap is rising/good news and bad

charliehill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Sat Mar 14 12:18:36 PDT 2009


I'm about to decide I want to try it now!  grins.
I'd bet if you got is set up right you could promote cooking day, have a 
bluegrass band, some games for the kids and get people to pay to watch. 
Particularly if you maybe cooked a pig and had some syrup avaailable for 
tasting.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob McNitt" <nysports at frontiernet.net>
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> Charlie, I can only imagine how big & hot a fire is needed for pans that
> large.We have a Maple Festival nearby here, in Marathon NY, that has 
> gotten
> a lot of people interested in sugaring. A few of the big commercial
> operations that exhibit there are impressive ... at least the videos of
> their operations are.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
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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
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Bob McNitt" <nysports at frontiernet.net>
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>> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 1:31 PM
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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 ----- 
>>> From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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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
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Bob McNitt" <nysports at frontiernet.net>
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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>
>>>>> 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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