Correct I have both of The books that Hale has out.
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Correct I have both of The books that Hale has out.
Brian- It's a shame the historical society wouldn't take the arch front. But I'm glad you got it back and are displaying it! I enjoy showing folks the antique equipment. I have about thirty old wooden and tin sap pails, over twenty old syrup tins and bottles and a wooden gathering tank on a horse drawn sled on display in the sugarhouse. I also have incorporated a bucket, some of the duplicate tins and some spiles into my retail show display. They often are a great conversation starter and it eventually leads to a sale!
And both of Hale's book are great. I've learned a lot about some of the artifacts I have through those books.
Steve
The antique pan I have is a 3x5 english tin pan, I looks like it was made for maybe 1.5-2" deep, the overall depth is only about 6". I got it when I bought a whole batch of old equipment from a producer who had quit making syrup after just 1 season. He would only sell it as a whole lot. I got a few SS pans, a bunch of metal taps, some new tubing in 5/16" and a bunch of new jugs. Also 2 hydrometers for syrup and one for sap, I still use the sap one and both syrup hydrometers, at least I did until I got a Murphy Cup and SL's top of the line hydrometer (it has a red line in the glass tube which is to remain lined up with a red line on the insert paper scale to verify the paper has not moved. On the whole lot, I paid $200 and in 2006 I felt it was a good deal. That evaporator pan has only been a display piece, but it sure draws lots of attention. The V groove flues are maybe 2" deep, it's a drop flue pan.
Slightly ancillary question just out of curiosity... is anything known about how gradient/ continuous flow boiling came to be and when?
We take it for granted now but it does still kind of explode my brain if I try to think about how and why it works, and even more so that someone long ago figured it out.
In answer to the question when the first continuous flow pans were introduced, I would say the earliest we have evidence for is the late 1850s with the introduction of Cooks Patent Evaporator.
Heree are links to a couple of articles I have written about the history of the Cooks patent evaporator -
https://maplesyruphistory.com/2019/0...nt-evaporator/
https://maplesyruphistory.com/wp-con...o-1-p27-31.pdf
Matt Thomas
www.maplesyruphistory.com
Someplace in the above maple time line there should be a note. Sometime around the founding of the United States it was promoted and somehow partially financed as farmers were paid to plant maples along the side of the roads, I think that's why in many places along country roads you see very mature sugar maples spaced about 20-25' apart. I have no idea how much they were paid, but the plan added a lot of maple trees where they were easy to get to , tap and collect the sap from. I suspect where you now see rows of very large maples roadside is from back then.
Along the road where I had a lease for several years there were 4 or 5 of those maples still standing back in 2008-2012, they have now been removed because they were in very poor condition and I suspect the county thought they would fall across the road at some point. They were about 4-5' or more in diameter.