When you’re a total newb and you have more taps than buckets and you frantically search for ANYTHING that will hold a gallon of sap
When you’re a total newb and you have more taps than buckets and you frantically search for ANYTHING that will hold a gallon of sap
2018 - 1st year, Total Newb, 25 taps, 170 gals of sap
Leader Half Pint
We got a late freeze so I went out in my bathrobe and slippers to turn off the vacuum pump at 3:00 this morning.
Russ
"Red Roof Maples" Where the term "boiling soda" was first introduced to the maple world!
1930 Ford Model AA Doodlebug tractor
A couple of Honda 4 wheelers
Four chainsaws and no chickens!
You have five weather websites bookmarked on your work computer and check them often enough to know when the forecast high temperature four days from now has changed.
173 on 3/16 natural vac for 2023
36 buckets
2 x 5 Smoky Lake Hybrid pan on a custom arch
RB25 from RO Bucket
12x24 salvaged sugarhouse built by wife's grandpa
1965 Massey Ferguson 165 tractor to haul sap.
When you nearly have a car crash because you are thinking about the trees and buckets you just drove by a mile back rather than watching the traffic merging onto the highway in front of you.
12 x 16 shack with 8 x 16 addition
2 x 6 D&G raised flue with hood
Homebuilt releasers
220 taps on vac
100 plus taps on buckets
Gast 1550 on gas engine
HF vac pump on generator
Try racing a mountain bike through a woods thick with beautiful maple trees. I have to force myself to focus on the trail.Originally Posted by MT Pockets Producer
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2015 - Small operation. 25 buckets. One excited 5 year old and one 35 year old that feels 5 again.
2016 - One year older. New Homemade 2x4 Arch, Smoky Lake Pan and looking at 52 maples, 17 box elders and 2 walnut trees.
2017 - Shurflo 4008 hooked to 42 stingy silver maples and a few Norways. A couple buckets on sugars and Norways. 10 box elders.
2018 - ...a few more taps.
2019 - ...more taps on 3/16 gravity. This spiral is heading downward in a hurry.
2020 - 4x400 RO - RB20 (uh-oh!)
When you get excited because your friend drops by with a new steel drum with the burn barrel kit already installed that he found on the side of the road with a 'free' sign on it. You instantly start planning on how to get rid of the drum you've re-lined twice before, and how you are going to budget for a 'real' pan with a valve next year to put on it since you get to cut a new hole.
JC
44° 55' 23" N
2x6 smoky lake divided pan custom arch ‘The fire truck’
When home schooling the kids has to be done in the sugarhouse to get orders filled!
Maple Man 85
Anthony & Rebecca Renken
2017=200 taps
2018=4000 taps (goal) 3000 taps (actual)
2019=7000 taps (goal)
30x45 Sugar House
4x16 Leader Vortex
www.northwoodsmaplefarm.com
When all you do is talk about Maple Syrup (or sap) during the season, or people ask how your season is going and you go on telling them the whole story, only to look at them and wonder if they are in left field cause they have no clue what we are going on about or what we do to maple syrup and how it's a love hate relationship with making syrup
2019 Upgraded to 2.5x12 Lapierre Force 5 & 600 RO (850 Taps + 400 Buckets)+ Buying sap
2017 & 2018 Still Running about 815 taps
2016 Added additional 75 Taps (800 total)
2015 Tubing installed 700+ taps
AirTech Vacuum Pump and CDL extractor
20x36 Sugarhouse built (and still not big enough)
250 CDL Hobby RO
2014 2x8 Cross flow
300 taps+
450 Honda ATV
2013 3x4 single pan
50 taps
40L Made last year off propane and one pan
When you have to follow leads on free wood stacked up on the side of the road.
CDL 2.5*8 Venturi with all the bells
Leader Clear 5 bank filter press
Memprotec 350H RO
600ish taps and looking for more.
When you can't go for a relaxing walk on your property without thinking about how you would run the lines or thin the trees....
31 Taps in 2011 with buckets, Barrel evap
45+ Taps for 2012 with buckets, 2x5 Dryer Arch with steel pans ! 8x11 Sugar Shack, Dump Stations,
60 Taps for 2013- Insulated Dryer arch, AUF,
2014 watched from sidelines...
70 Taps for 2015 - dryer arch, new 2x5 divided pan from Smokey Lake with a float box !
70 Taps for 2016 - added a preheater and new grates for the Dryerator.
80 Taps for 2018 - Dryer arch got new front and door
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