You know you're addicted when there is a saucepan of something other than maple syrup finishing on the stove, and you wonder why it smells so weird and how long it's going to take to filter it off and get all those big chunks out...then you realize it's the beef stew you were warming up for supper that night :-)
Been tapping since 2008.
2018 - 17 taps/7 trees...819l sap, approx 28l syrup
2019 - 18 taps/8 trees...585l sap, 28l syrup...21:1 ratio
2020 - 18 taps/8 trees...890.04l sap...gave away about 170l, 30l snafu'd....23l total for me from approx 690l
2021 - 18 taps/8 trees...395l sap, 12 l syrup
2022 - 18 taps/8 trees....7 sugars 1 red due to #2 having surgery so had the season off....582l sap, 18.5l syrup
2023 - 18 taps/8 trees...all sugars again. 807l sap, so far approx 14l syrup
You know you're addicted when your signatures reads something like:
2011 ...6 taps with 3 coffee cans and 3 2liter soda bottles, made 1 liter syrup on a campfire
2012... 30 taps all buckets, 3 hotel pans on block arch made 4 gals syrup
2013...190 taps on gravity tubing, 600 gal bulk tank, Leader half pint, made 30 gals syrup
2014...780 taps on SuperSucker vac, New Flowmaster RO, made 100 gals syrup
2015....4000 taps, 6x20 Leader Welded Drop Flue Modified Inferno arch w/ Steamaway, New 12x20 filter/canner, New JD Diesel Tractor with bucket loader, New Ford SuperDuty 4x4 Dual Axle Truck, New 40x80 Sugar Shack!
That is a good one!Originally Posted by saphound
150 on 3/16 gravity 2018 and 120 sap sacks
14 x 20 sugar shack
2014 New custom 2x6 arch "The Firestorm" w/ preheater, AUF & AOF
Smokey Lake pans and water jacket bottler
2024 new 2x8 set of drop flue pans and hood from Smoky Lake. Lengthen our arch.
Just a hobby but seems like more work every
year
3 generations working together
Wife that guards our syrup
43.74° N
Yep, methinks saphound is just pretending to be a noob and that is his actual signature ;-)
Oh yeah you defiitely know you're a maple addict when you deliver some of your second batch to the peeps who are letting you tap their trees, and are astonished that they haven't finished the first batch of syrup you gave em...;-D
Been tapping since 2008.
2018 - 17 taps/7 trees...819l sap, approx 28l syrup
2019 - 18 taps/8 trees...585l sap, 28l syrup...21:1 ratio
2020 - 18 taps/8 trees...890.04l sap...gave away about 170l, 30l snafu'd....23l total for me from approx 690l
2021 - 18 taps/8 trees...395l sap, 12 l syrup
2022 - 18 taps/8 trees....7 sugars 1 red due to #2 having surgery so had the season off....582l sap, 18.5l syrup
2023 - 18 taps/8 trees...all sugars again. 807l sap, so far approx 14l syrup
You start a boil at 10 PM with the idea that you'll shut down at 1 AM, get a good night's sleep and start again at 9 AM. Then 1 AM becomes 2 AM, then 3 AM...
CE
44° 41′ 3″ N
2019 -- 44 Red Maples - My home and sugarbush are for sale.
2018 -- 48 Red Maples, 7 gallons
2017 -- 84 Red Maples, 1 Sugar Maple, and 1 Silver Maple , 13 gallons
2016 -- 55 Red Maples, 8 gallons
2015 -- 15 Red Maples, 6 Birches - 3+ gallons maple syrup
An awning over my deck is my sugar shack.
An electrified kitchen sink and an electrified steam table pan are my evaporators.
Ha! No, I'm still in the milk jug stage, honest! No idea what my 2016 will say yet...
When your worried you did not make enough this year,and you still have some from last year.
When you invite friends over to test-taste your latest batches of syrup, and they politely refuse. Maybe cause they've gained about 10lbs thanks to sampling? WTF?!
Been tapping since 2008.
2018 - 17 taps/7 trees...819l sap, approx 28l syrup
2019 - 18 taps/8 trees...585l sap, 28l syrup...21:1 ratio
2020 - 18 taps/8 trees...890.04l sap...gave away about 170l, 30l snafu'd....23l total for me from approx 690l
2021 - 18 taps/8 trees...395l sap, 12 l syrup
2022 - 18 taps/8 trees....7 sugars 1 red due to #2 having surgery so had the season off....582l sap, 18.5l syrup
2023 - 18 taps/8 trees...all sugars again. 807l sap, so far approx 14l syrup
When you figure out that the syrup you made this year cost you about $1,000 per gal due to all the new equipment, new shack, labor, etc......then you realize that it all will probably last for the rest of your life....unless you decide to go bigger next year....then just hit the repeat button.
Gary / Zena Crossroads / 42˚ 00' 24" N / Hobby in Early '70s, Addiction since 2014
175+ taps on 3/16 (60 of which are on two Lunchbox Vac/Releasers)
12x34 timber framed sap house w/attached 10x34 shed roof for storage
2 x 6 Smoky Lake hybrid pan on Corsair arch with AUF/steam hood/preheater/concentric exhaust
7.0 KW Sun Power PV System, Smokey Lake Filter Press/Steam Bottler, Modified NGMP RO - 2 4x40 posts 200 gph
People you don't even know save their empty maple syrup containers for you.
Gary / Zena Crossroads / 42˚ 00' 24" N / Hobby in Early '70s, Addiction since 2014
175+ taps on 3/16 (60 of which are on two Lunchbox Vac/Releasers)
12x34 timber framed sap house w/attached 10x34 shed roof for storage
2 x 6 Smoky Lake hybrid pan on Corsair arch with AUF/steam hood/preheater/concentric exhaust
7.0 KW Sun Power PV System, Smokey Lake Filter Press/Steam Bottler, Modified NGMP RO - 2 4x40 posts 200 gph
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