Originally Posted by
johnpma
I think in general people are pretty receptive to farming, and sugaring for the most part. I do know of a buddy whom has a bunch of sugar maples on his property in Belchertown MA. One day a guy stopped and knocked on his door and asked to tap them. My buddy said yes go right ahead. He made it look nice with modern buckets, and came every couple days to check them. At the season's end he came back to take the buckets and gave them a quart of syrup. My point is that if you make your presentation presentable with buckets I think it will go over much better than if you string tubing all over their property.
Good luck!!
Amazes me how syrup makers don't want to pay much for tapping others trees. Amazing how someone makes a 1/2 gallon syrup per tap and and then complains about paying .50 cents or .75 per tap, or only gives them a quart of syrup. Sugarmakers should be paying $3-$5 per tap to rent trees based on current prices. In crop farming, fully 1/4 - 1/3 of the gross profit goes for taxes, rent, right to farm the land. Great for the sugarmaker being cheap, not so good for the landowner.
Last edited by markcasper; 01-31-2017 at 10:30 PM.
Mark
Where we made syrup long before the trendies made it popular, now its just another commodity.
John Deere 4000, 830, and 420 crawler
1400 taps, 600 gph CDL RO, 4x12 wood-fired Leader, forced air and preheater. 400 gallon Sap-O-Matic vacuum gathering tank, PTO powered. 2500 gallon X truck tank, 17 bulk tanks.
No cage tanks allowed on this farm!