[AT] Sap is rising/good news and bad

[Larry Goss]

Google "sugar" and look at the Wikipedia entry.  You'll read more about sugar than you really want to know.  I have a cousin who is the sugar cook for GW.  From November to February-March the process is pretty much non-stop.

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Waugh <pwaugh at embarqmail.com>
Date: Saturday, March 14, 2009 11:14
Subject: Re: [AT] Sap is rising/good news and bad
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> 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>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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> 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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