forester2
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If you read Kyles' post, that's exactly the position he's in.
Maple Syrup 'hobby' Production
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JB4310
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I put 3 pails on my one tree and the sap is flowing like crazy, I've tested this tree for sugar and it was high. I know it takes much less than the 40/1 ratio.
I have to import some snow, actually shaved ice from the local skating rink, just so I can store the sap a few days to allow me to collect enough to make it worth boiling.
JB
I have to import some snow, actually shaved ice from the local skating rink, just so I can store the sap a few days to allow me to collect enough to make it worth boiling.
JB
g0rd0
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the time of suguring off that I always liked was the last flows.
When you have all of the syrup you want keep the taps flowing and boiling BUT, only boil to 216 dec F not 221 dec F. Once you have a 5 gallon primary fermenter full of this cooled off to room temp. place a wine hydromiter in it. It should show a reading of around spaciffic gravity 1.86 give or take a dec or 2 . Now get a packet of wine yeast sprinkle it on top and air lock the primary fermenter. Once the fermenting has slowed significanty (about 2 weeks at 80 dec F), refloat the hydromiter and check the progress. If you are at 1.1 SG syphon the wort to a secondary (a glass carboy is best but not essencial) and keep it there air locked untill you get to a reading of 1.00SG, it is now time for bottleing. I use a fine filter, you can rent one, I make enough wine to own my own. This makes a verry nice white desert wine around 12% alcohol. Best served cold.:licking:
When you have all of the syrup you want keep the taps flowing and boiling BUT, only boil to 216 dec F not 221 dec F. Once you have a 5 gallon primary fermenter full of this cooled off to room temp. place a wine hydromiter in it. It should show a reading of around spaciffic gravity 1.86 give or take a dec or 2 . Now get a packet of wine yeast sprinkle it on top and air lock the primary fermenter. Once the fermenting has slowed significanty (about 2 weeks at 80 dec F), refloat the hydromiter and check the progress. If you are at 1.1 SG syphon the wort to a secondary (a glass carboy is best but not essencial) and keep it there air locked untill you get to a reading of 1.00SG, it is now time for bottleing. I use a fine filter, you can rent one, I make enough wine to own my own. This makes a verry nice white desert wine around 12% alcohol. Best served cold.:licking:
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Cleburne
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You folks that are making syrup. Do you send out samples of the syrup?
There is plenty of folks that sell syrup online. Here is a link to a few websites that sell it...
Anderson's Maple Syrup
Thompson's Maple Products
RMG Family Sugarbush, Quality Michigan Maple Products
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Somehow I hink he's hoping for free samples. :licking:
I'm still waiting to hear what he's offering in return.
Here's another link though, from my neck of the woods.
Chandler's Sugar Shack - Maine Maple Syrup
Swiftriver
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MapleTrader.com :thumbsup: It's the TBN of maple syrupin'
Maybe we need a MAPLE BY NET...
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How much syrup do I need to buy to ger the Willys pickup thrown in? NICE truck.
JB4310
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I love those, I had one when I was 18, Willys Overland, the thing being tall and narrow would go places other 4x4 couldn't dream of in the woods.
Mine was mongruled from several different year trucks, my buddies called it the Walton wagon :laughing:, was not a show piece but a daily off roader. It had the most insane low gear, I'd park at the base of the steepest incline and let the clutch out in low 1st and just let the truck idle up the hill.
Split windshield and vacuum wipers with the hand lever inside to supplement when the vacuum was low.
I have no known pictures of that truck unfortunately, but I still bump into people that remember a ride over a mountain trail in it.
Wouldn't mind restoring one someday, haven't seen any sitting around lately though.
JB
Split windshield, vacuum wipers... must have been a late '50s chassis? My father bought a new 62 that he ran until 75; had the 6 cylThunderbolt engine and a steering wheel as big as a trash can cover.
David P
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I'm out of my smallest bottles (6oz) right now but would be happy to sell you a 12oz bottle. If you're interested, shoot me a pm.
David P
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Great site! :thumbsup:
Swiftriver
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Thanks
Just getting started in this "hobby" so I won't be selling any. The wife thinks all of my hobbys are expensive, but she loves the maple syrup and she would never let me part with "her" truck.
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Just a brief memory . Growing up my father had a perchance for learning to live off the land. From making his own greenhouse , tripod pipe Smasher to drive pipe for a well for said greenhouse ( faucet was right there ) raising bees ,chickens ,all in a very tight suburban neighborhood. Later he bought 9 acres in NE mass had horses and firewood. Then came maple sugaring. Plenty of maples. All red. 300-400 gallons if sap for barely a pint it seemed. A little smoky but good.
Well, siound like she's got good taste, on the syrup AND the truck.
Swiftriver
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I buy all my supplies from the Bacons also. Very nice family, very knowledgable and will share it, and their prices are very reasonable. Just tapped our trees today. Awesome seeing that sap running in the tubing. Makes it worth all the effort. Hopefully we can get a few more laterals cleared out and run this weekend. Running out of time. We're up in the mountains so it hasn't really warmed up enough yet.
Tollster
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Looks like a great way to pass a slow day,wish ya'll luck, i would love to try it someday. I see pailsout here in NEPA already.
It hasn't started running here yet. I hope it at least holds off until next Thursday, just on principle.
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