Hi,
I've been out of it for 5 years but I did tap my maples for a couple seasons. 2018 I finished 3.5 gallons and still have almost half left. I remember one jar looking ropey then it settled out....
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Hi,
I've been out of it for 5 years but I did tap my maples for a couple seasons. 2018 I finished 3.5 gallons and still have almost half left. I remember one jar looking ropey then it settled out....
Wow, been out of it for 5 years now. I hope you all don't mind a newbie question. I still have a bunch of this syrup. At least a gallon. Is it OK to use? I remember one bottle looking like it had...
Those bottles look great. I didn't do any sugaring this year as I've been too busy with extra work. I kinda miss the long boils and bottling though. I still have a bunch of last years syrup so I'm...
I’m not planning on doing anymore other that pulling my taps and trying to make some maple cream and some maple candied nuts.
We finished with 3.5 gallons of syrup this year. Way more than I...
You've got a nice setup and your syrup looks delicious!
So, 40 years ago I lived at the top of Joe English Rd in New Boston
Last year I boiled in a steam pan on my coleman camp stove out on the porch. This year I built a framework to fit on my Blackstone griddle (with the griddle removed). The framework holds 2 pans. ...
Ha ha, hopefully not.
I collected about 11 gallons today, some looked good, some smelled a little off, but not bad I guess starchy might be a good term. None of it was really cloudy. I tossed...
Sounds great!
I'm planning to make maple candied walnuts and cashews later this week.
Sbedilion, your labels are awesome. How do you filter? That’s the main thing I can’t do as well as I’d like.
So all last year we collected 16 gallons of sap, I collected 15 today. This year will...
Sounds interesting Howard. Do you have a picture?
This has actually been a nice break over the last few days. So far I've collected almost 60 gallons of sap and finished 1.3 gallons of syrup. I just need to get my filtering down.
Polishwizard,
Thanks for the heads up from me too. I'll keep Dealer Depot in mind. I think I have to build something for next year that fires with wood.
I have a barrel and am thinking of...
Nice!
I finished half a gallon of syrup tonight. Also had a very successful run through my filter setup with one oops.
I'll try and get some pictures of it. But basically it's two 2 gallon...
Picked up another 10 gallons today. I'm so small time I'm getting overloaded. Looking forward to a freeze, but having fun making it.
That's a great rig! Of course with my biggest yet haul of 12 gallons, I was almost overloaded myself!:lol:
The 12 is boiled down to about 1 now and I'm headed out to collect.
Boy I hope the season isn't over by next week. Had our best day today. Collected 12 gallons. Last year we got 16 total.
I made 6 jars of finished syrup last night. I need to come up with a...
Ha, awesome! I don't know if you remember ( about 4:30pm) but you slowed down to let someone out of Cranmoor (on Mcmurray) right before Donaldson's Crossroads. It was me in a maroon pickup truck...
Great sight! You weren't hauling sap in a silver pickup today were you? I'll keep an eye out near the golf course for you. I have taps on Center Church rd closer to rt 19.
My trees were dry,...
Sticknstring,
I barely have any experience but I will share how I started last year. Steve covered a lot.
My son and I tapped the sugar maple in our backyard. It's huge with multiple trunks...
Sbedilion,
That's great you're close. Do you boil here or in Lone Pine?
Helptheold,
I'll be on the lookout for them!
My trees are really slow but I went over to the other property this...
I haven't done much of this but I'll let you know what I did and how I'm expanding. Last year I boiled in a 4" steam pan on my coleman camp stove outside on a covered porch. It was helpful to...
My son and I tapped 3 monster sugar maples at a relatives house. They were dripping much more than mine. We have 3 taps in each so 9 taps over there for a total of 16 this year. I have a couple...
I collected today at noon, so that's 21 hours after tapping. With 6 taps I collected a little more than 1/4 gallon so what looked like good dripping apparently stopped pretty soon after.
10...
I wrote this in the Pennsylvania thread already but I put out 6 taps in the backyard today. Sap was dripping nicely. 10 more coming in the mail tomorrow supposedly. I have a relative with 3 huge...
I just put 6 taps in my backyard. The sap was flowing nicely. I have 3 more huge sugar maples on a relative's property that I'm going to tap hopefully tomorrow. I am also upgrading my boiling...