I was wondering with the current weather if I might find sap in a bucket someday
I was wondering with the current weather if I might find sap in a bucket someday
30x8 Leader revolution, wood fired blower, steamaway/hood. 903 taps all but 54 on pipeline and 3 vacuum systems. Hauling sap this year with a 99 F350 7.3 diesel dump and of course back up is the Honda 450 and trailer.
Hey Maniac, now THAT was funny! Ted
In the bucket? What about on the dog?
I have had the regulars in our buckets as well, but the ticks have been on my dog like never before. Every night we come in and I have to check her over good because three in a row there was a tick on her. She got a new dose of Front Line, hate it cause it makes her itch.
Reminds me of the joke about what the difference between is between a New York sugar maker and a Vermont sugar maker. When a New York sugar maker finds a squirrel in his bucket he looks around to make sure no one is watching and he tosses the squirrel and dumps the sap in his gathering tank. When a Vermont sugar maker finds a squirrel in a bucket he looks around to be sure no one is looking and puts the sap in his gathering tank and then squeezes all the sap out of the squirrel fur into the tank as well!
Steward's Dairy Farm
3x10 Leader Vortex Maxflue Revolution pans and steamaway
Leader Extreme 2 RO
2000 vac
45 gravity
A male bluebird, soaked but still alive, kept him overnight in a shoebox. In the morning he flew up in a pine tree and sang his heart out.
3,100 taps
60 cfm flood
HC2
5 by 14 oil
Brian
Brian, thanks for that great story. Glad he made it. We have bluebirds here like never before. Beautiful things.
Central Ohio
Leader WSE 2x6
Old metal corn crib converted to "The Shack"
Smoky Lake 6 gallon water jacket canner
Daryl 5" filter press with air pump
Deer Run 125 RO
2023: 140 taps, buckets, 32 gallons
2019: 100 taps, buckets, 45 gallons
2018: 100 taps, buckets, 31 gallons
2017: 100 taps, buckets, 15 gallons
2015: 100 taps, buckets, 34 gallons
2014: 100 taps, buckets, 30 gallons
2013: 100 taps, buckets, 52 gallons
Thanks, they are beautiful, and its the kind of beauty that leads me to ask "if I was creating a world would I think of bluebirds?" Or maple trees for that matter --- simply an amazing creation that we llive in......Originally Posted by maple marc
3,100 taps
60 cfm flood
HC2
5 by 14 oil
Brian
Better the Front Line Itch than debilitating arthritis.
......and then he eats the squirrel?
Same joke, but a bit longer....
CT sugarmaker finds a squirrel in the bucket, dumps sap on ground, brings bucket home, washes it with Clorox before bringing it back to woods,
MA sugarmaker finds a squirrel in the bucket, dumps sap on ground and rehangs bucket,
NY sugarmaker finds a squirrel in the bucket, keeps sap and rehangs bucket,
VT sugarmaker finds a squirrel in the bucket, wrings out squirrel into bucket, keeps sap and rehangs bucket,
WV sugarmaker finds a squirrel in the bucket, cooks and eats squirrel, ferments sap to make whiskey.
Dr. Tim Perkins
UVM Proctor Maple Research Ctr
http://www.uvm.edu/~pmrc
https://mapleresearch.org
Timothy.Perkins@uvm.edu
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