don't forget about Dirty Jobs!!!!

Out of all the camp's in the Maple belt they had to do the show there. There was no real numbers or explaination for what he was doing.

Sonofagun!!!! I knew we couldn't beat up this guy from PA with out mentioning the oil can from Vt.!!!! HEHEHEHE! 802 and I cured one guy from PA of handling his syrup 4 times before it hit the drum, maybe we could help Wagners! I wonder if they cut the handle off the flue brush intentionally? The only other guy I've ever seen crawl into a rig like that was Theron!! All kidding aside, It wouldn't have mattered where they did the show, we would have seen something we wouldn't do ourselves...

Smith's,

Sorry you had problems with Henry. Guess I always know what the list price is, so I tell him and there is never been any problem and I have been dealing with him for 8 years.

First complaint I have heard on him. He is almost 4 hours from me. This year I bought 4 rolls of 1/2" 30p mainline in 400' rolls and I called him during early order and told him I wanted that price to get me 4. He said he already had a bunch in stock so when I went up in October, I told him what the early order price was and that was what I got just like always. If I tell him I want it in the early order period, then he gives me that price regardless of when I get it.

I recorded Dirty Jobs and just watched it tonight. There didn't seem to be any concern for cleanliness (might be why it is called dirty jobs). Clean firebox and make a big cloud of dust to get in everything, eat the maple peanut candy off his glove with it still being over the main kettle, spill sap way too much, etc. If my operation looked like that I would be asamed to have a film crew or the general public see it. And just consider, Wagners likely contacted the show for the publicity. I think it was negative publicity that will backfire on them. By the way, the syrup in the "finish pan" looked like it had not been filtered at all and they showed it being filtered. My guess is they didn't mix enough filter aid or at least one of the papers broke. I like to see maple operations but this did the industry no favors.

Thanks maple flats for seeing it the way I did. How did he light the fire? With stuff the the EPA would be all over any company for in a heart beat. Was it just me or did everything he did look slow and humbug? And how about the teeth part, isn't that a great depiction of all of us. I can go on but I do realize that we all do things different but this was weird. All I can say if it was my company being portrayed I would put my best foot forward not my worst.

making real syrup was on how it made a few year back

The episode is on at 10:00. That is when the sugaring part starts. I'm watching it again and seeing if it's better or worse the second time. I'm guessing it will be worse.

Edit: Sorry it's not false info.

Hey I'm Back.
As I said I was going to pick up more tubing, I showed up at Henry's about 7 pm on New Years Eve. Just like the weird Al Yankovic video living in a Amish Paradise. We had a party like 1899. Just Kidding!!!!!. Forgot to mention to Henry about doing a Buggy Drive By (KenWP). I visited with Henry And Rhoda for about an hour then got more supplies and headed home. However I noticed the lights was on at the Wagner Sugar Camp. I stopped to visit. Guess What. Sue and Jerry was filling orders that had just been recieved on her web site. She has requests for Hats and Tee Shirts also. So nitpick away fellow traders. The bottom line is and has always been the bottom Line. Everyone of us makes the "Best" syrup, just ask yourself who does it better?
As for how much syrup Henry makes I believe he makes over 1000 gallon a year. Yes he buys syrup every year. He told me one of the distributors that buys from him delivers to 32 states. This past year he bought 7 trailer loads of syrup. Do any of you traders have any idea how much it costs for tractor-trailer load of syrup. I should not repeat myself but the Bottom Line is the Bottom Line. My goal is to make more syrup so Henry does not have to go to Maine, up state Pa. and Ohio to buy syrup. I want to sell him a tractor Trailer load. Because that number is very large.

Mark 220 Maple

Guys the show was on dirty jobs. Not how it was made. Dirty jobs shows the dirty side of people's business. The only dirty thing I seen was cleaning the flues and if that is all they can come up with compared to the hundreds of other shows, heck it is pretty darn clean compared to them. As far as what he used to start a fire it looked pretty much like a flamable liquid, gas, fuel oil,kerosene something along those lines. Heck how many people use oil fired arches, how many times have you guys put charcoal lighter fluid on your charcoal to get them lit? Give the guy a break. I am sure we all do something that we could nitpick the heck out of.

My problem with how he cleaned the flues is that a huge cloud of ash was created with no effort to keep it out of the pans. They were wide open.