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I have been in a sweat lodge that was heated by rocks which were put in a campfire.
I was always amazed that just a half-dozen 20 pound rocks would heat up the sweat lodge way hotter than any sauna I have ever been in.
And yes. Watch out for exploding rocks.
this is going to be tougher than you think
Ya gotta find a local beaver to know where to get food grade logs too !:D
I really think that Hardmaple bumped his head a a hollow log to come up with something like this. For one piece of history it wasn't a hollow log that my ancestors used it was a hollowed out gourd.
Get the myth busters to do it! Take your fire pit and set the heating stones on the grate that you use to cook stuff on then they wont get dirty. Youll have the fire under them heating them up and theyll stay nice and food grade. Then set them in the log full of sap and have the next ones warming up. Should work good. Just keep alternating them so you can fire your log evaperator real steady and quality product in no time. Let us know the gph figures. Theee( thats not a bad idea at all)rooon
I have seen stew made with a bison stomach and rocks. Course I am from the west and these were plains Aboringinals. Hardly had trees let alone maples.
I'm thinking this would be fun for next year.
Where do you send your rocks to get tested for lead.
Hardermaple,
I was on the Pa Maple tour a couple of years ago. We stopped at Folk festival in Springs Pa. If I a am not mistaken they had an exhibiter makeing sugar using the method you want to try. Check with emerricksmaple he is from that neck of the woods. he may have more info on it.
I'm pretty sure i could send the rocks to N.A.S.A. to get them checked for lead. Then with the "lead free" certificate they give me, it's on to the food and drug administration to get the rocks labeled "food grade". Hard Maple told me that there was a couple maple museums in vermont and new hampshire that he thinks has a few hollowed logs. I'll have to make it a point this summer/fall to get to some of them and see what they look like. Theeeeeron asked me to keep people informed about GPH. Any guesses anyone. i'm thinking maybe .000000000139467 G/H:o I would like to keep this first try as authentic as possible. So I can't put the rocks on a metal grate over the fire on this try, because i don't think the indians would have had metal grates, yet. This is an experiment. And yes, it will be tough. One thing I learned in the Marines, Never give up! thank you. Jacob
You could really charge a premium for this stuff. Indian style or Great spirit syrup. There is some bozo on VT clist selling "unfiltered organic, "hand" gathered with buckets" syrup for 25 a qt.
I'm guessing this stuff could be 50/qt. But I don't think its possible or it would take forever.
You've got a tiger by the tail here.
"Gitche Manitou" Syrup.
(correct spelling according to Wiki, from the Anishinaabe tribe, and here I thought he was the Huron tribe God )