Add hickory to our list of non-maples we've tapped! Also found another basswood that had been tapped for a few years.
I'd blame someone for this screwup but I'd have to look in the mirror!
Add hickory to our list of non-maples we've tapped! Also found another basswood that had been tapped for a few years.
I'd blame someone for this screwup but I'd have to look in the mirror!
5,000 Taps on vacuum
9,400 gallons storage
3 tower CDL RO
3.5'x14' Lapierre Force 5
10" CDL Wesfab Filter Press
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I tapped one oak last year. This year I went around in the fall and put a wee spray of orange paints on every maple.
Homemade 46 by 26 wood boiler with two polished stainless pans
Home made sugar shack with Caputo Rooftop
15 gallon pre-heater tank with a circulating copper pipe stack heater.
two 45 gallon storage tanks with transfer pumps
150 taps (buckets)
Arctic Cat Prowler
Two big reds with bucket holders to collect the sap
Good wife to assist me
Getting sweeter one drop at a time.
One of the best 'tree ID' phrases I ever heard was to remember "MAD HORSE".
Maple
Ash
Dogwood
Horse Chestnut
Those are the only 4 trees in this part of the world with opposing branches.
Wassail!
-Rick
Tapping an oak tree will give your syrup a "nutty" flavor....but only if you can get it to offer up some nutty sap..
John Allin
14x18 Hemlock Timber Frame Sugar House 2009
Leader 2x6 w/Patriot Raised Flue Pan 2009
Leader Steam Hood 2014 - Clear Filter Press 2015
Leader Revolution Pan and SS Pre-Heater 2016
CDL Hobby 250 RO & Air Tech L25 Hi Vac Pump 2019
06' Gator HPX to collect wood & sap
14' Ski-Doo Tundra for winter work in the woods
Great Family 3 grown kids+spouses and 7 grand kids who like the woods
7th Gen Born in Canada - Raised in Chardon Ohio - Maple Capital of the World..<grin>.
I posted an image on the outdoor gallery section of a rock maple growing with a yellow birch (split personality). Tapped the rock maple and had to make a double take when the other side was a yellow birch.
3x10 Leader Inferno Arch
14,200 Taps
2 - 14 HP Indiana Vacuum pump
1800gph Lapierre RO
10" Lapierre filter press
2 - 25,000 tap Lapierre releasers
3 - SS 1500 gallon tanks
1 - SS 8,400 gallon tank
8x8 Argo ATV
50k John Deere generator
24'x32' sugarhouse
Tapped my first oak yesterday. I looked up to admire her and saw oak leaves.
Two tall trees, a birch and a beech, are growing in the woods. A small tree begins to grow between them, and the beech says to the birch, "Is that a son of a beech or a son of a birch?" The birch says he cannot tell.
Just then a woodpecker lands on the sapling. The birch says, "Woodpecker, you are a tree expert. Can you tell if that is a son of a beech or a son of a birch?"
The woodpecker takes a taste of the small tree. He replies, "It is neither a son of a beech nor a son of a birch. It is, however, the best piece of ash I have ever put my pecker in.
No that is real funny.Originally Posted by Yeserday
Two tall trees, a birch and a beech, are growing in the woods. A small tree begins to grow between them, and the beech says to the birch, "Is that a son of a beech or a son of a birch?" The birch says he cannot tell.
Just then a woodpecker lands on the sapling. The birch says, "Woodpecker, you are a tree expert. Can you tell if that is a son of a beech or a son of a birch?"
The woodpecker takes a taste of the small tree. He replies, "It is neither a son of a beech nor a son of a birch. It is, however, the best piece of ash I have ever put my pecker in.
Spud
haven't laughed like that in a while....
Chris
2010: 8 taps, got the bug and had to build a barrel arch to boil on with a borrowed 2x2 flat pan
2011: 13 taps, made changes to my arch, doubled my boil rate
2012: 31 taps, and a new homemade 275 oil tank arch
for my new ( to me) 2x4 divided pan
That is funny, quite surprised that this will " fly " here.
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