New member from Vermont
Hello, my name is Steven. I live in Vermont and I have a small sugaring operation with a friend of mine from church. It will be my first year boiling on a 2x4 arch and pans. I have spent the last couple years using a turkey fryer. We will go from 13 taps to some where between 60-75 taps.
I remember sugaring as a boy with my grandfather in the 1980's. I loved it then and now my kids enjoy it to.
Here us a few night time photos of my sugar house.
Welcome to the maple sugaring addicts club Steven. Hope you built your sugarhouse large enough. A few years from now you'll be moving the 2x4 out and putting in a 3x10.Originally Posted by Steven W.
Best wishes for a great 2014 season.
Dr. Tim Perkins
UVM Proctor Maple Research Ctr
http://www.uvm.edu/~pmrc
https://mapleresearch.org
Timothy.Perkins@uvm.edu
Welcome! It is great to hear stories of tappers passing on the tradition.
They say sugar is addicting; but I would rather see our kids addicted to making a great product and learning to respect the land than spending countless hours on the electronic boxes. That being said I have three sons that spend at least 4-6 hrs weekly on the WII game set but they still help every day on the farm.
Treasure and share the stories of your youth with your kids; so they can have an understanding of their ancestors and their heritage.
Best Wishes for your future in the Maple Industry.
Ben
Sugar house looks great. Welcome to the site.
Pete Nightingale
Lisbon, NH
3 Teenage sap haulers & Plenty of friends and family to restock the beer fridge
2012 1 tap and a pot
2013 10 taps, oil tank evap, 2 gallons of slightly too thin syrup
2014 48 taps improved oil tank evap 3.5 gallons, ouch??
2015 88 taps 78 5/16" and 10 3/16" nat vac 40"x 48" Homemade Arch 13.25 Gallons
2016 100 taps 65 on 3/16 & 35 buckets 17 gallons + unknown amount of maple / Jack Daniels testers
Thank you for the warm welcome. Man oh man I can't wait to start sugaring!
Steve
2x4 D&G single pan evaporator
80 taps
Steven - Welcome. Hey! Great looking Sugar Shack. You are off to a wonderful start. Best of luck making Maple and have fun. ----Mike----
Welcome, Super site, lot of information and the folks are friendly and give good advise. Dr, Tim is super on information as are all the other members, your hooked enjoy
10x21 sugar house
400 taps
227 gravity pipeline
Rest Buckets
Welcome Steven, Theres a lot of knowledgeable people here, enjoy the site
Business Name
Flat Lander Sugaring (who would think a guy from Az be making syrup)
125 on Sap Suckers
Close to 475 High Vac
400 gravity adding more
leader 2x6
home made preheater
hoods
1 7D749 for AOF
New FLS Tsunami Arch
4 membrane TR Industries RO 2HP 3 phase 601GPH 250 PSI
PID Display for Arch Temp.
Chumlee of the trader
Welcome fellow Vermonter. Hope you have a good year and a fun time with your new set up.
Last edited by farmall h; 01-27-2014 at 06:43 PM.
Bob- 4 x 12 Small Bros. Lightning w/raised flues-open pans
20 x 40 sugarhouse, all tubing-main line to sugarhouse
1400+- for 2011 & 100% vacuum
Polaris 500 HO w/Tatou 4s Tracks
1 Chocolate Lab from TEXAS
Welcome Steve good looking sugar house Good luck to you this season.
110 taps W.F Mason 2x3 and two turkey friers for finishing
2011 expanding to a Mason 2x4 with a blower increasing taps to about 200
2011 Hurricane Irene rips thru my small sugar bush cost me to lose 20% of taps
2014 I have reworked my lines for 2014
32 taps on 5/16 line with check valves
57 taps on 3/16 line with check valves
55 buckets with total tapped trees of 144
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