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mountainvan
12-08-2005, 07:04 AM
How many years experience do maple traders have together? I have 16 years making syrup. If we added it all up over 500 years?

mapleman3
12-08-2005, 07:24 AM
I think this will be my 7th season coming up....

Maple Hill Sugarhouse
12-08-2005, 07:28 AM
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Maple Flats
12-08-2005, 07:42 PM
about 7 years for own use and 3 years trying to sell some, almost know enough to be called a newcomer, but not quite.

ontario guy
12-09-2005, 06:26 AM
well it will be 6 years on my own, but if you count helping you can add newborn to 16 years.. :D Yes my parents had me out at the shack when i was only 8 months old... hell why not.

Mark

ennismaple
03-16-2006, 02:04 PM
My family's been making maple syrup for as long as we can remember - likely 75 years or more. I know my great-grandfather was making syrup before my grandfather went away to WWII and then my grandfather took over and expanded when he came back. We've been using tubing for over 25 years.

lew
03-17-2006, 06:39 AM
We've been at it for 20 years selling.

Russell Lampron
03-17-2006, 11:52 AM
I've been making syrup since 2001, the first year on a gas grille, with an evaporator since.

Russ

OneLegJohn
03-26-2006, 07:56 PM
Just found a Sugar Camp photo from 1911. Shows a sugarhouse and some buckets on the trees. So I can definitely confirm 5 generations - probably goes back farther. I am still digging for more photos. I am willing to bet - my family goes back before the 1900 mark. I would like to find photos of the evaporator...

Revi
03-28-2006, 08:16 AM
We are in our fifth season as a sugarhouse. I did some as a kid and in college, but not like we're doing now.