There is always maples to be cut when thinning and maintaining your sugar lot. Sometimes you have to cut some because they are too close together, or they are no longer healthy. No reason not to burn the wood to make syrup.
There is always maples to be cut when thinning and maintaining your sugar lot. Sometimes you have to cut some because they are too close together, or they are no longer healthy. No reason not to burn the wood to make syrup.
Sugaring for 45+ years
New Sugarhouse 14'x32'
New to Me Algier 2'x8' wood fired evaporator
2022 added a used RB25 RO Bucket
250 mostly Sugar Maples, 15% Soft Maples. Currently,(110on 3/16" and 125 on Shurflo 4008 vacuum, 15 gravity), (16,000 before being disabled)
1947 Farmall H and Wagon with gathering tank
2012 Kubota with forks to move wood around
Uhm, I personally doubt that anyone else has that strong a moral qualm about burning maple in their arch. Part of responsible forestry is pruning trees, clearing out deadfall, and removing trees that are clearly not doing well or are standing dead. I bet many of those with maple woodlots that they tend bring home and buck up maple that has been felled for a legitimate reason. Why let good wood go to waste? And strictly fwiw, I tell my sugars at the start of the season that they have a choice: Give me sap, or give me firewood. Usually I get sap :-)
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
Is it wrong to put cheese (a dairy product from cows) on a hamburger? Or make an omelet with shredded chicken in it?
Thanks for all the input. "give me sap or give me fire wood" just about had my mind changed. But then I read about cheese on a burger...Who doesn't put cheese on a burger? So I guess I go home split it up and burn it. I will give my Dad a bottle that it helped make!
Last edited by 5 Oaks; 03-24-2017 at 06:59 AM.
10 buckets,20 bags,steamer pan,cement block arch,4 tarp - sugar shack - Low budget 2010-2015
35 bags, Leader Supreme 2x4, 1 stall garage shack - What budget? 2016-
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
Dr. Tim Perkins
UVM Proctor Maple Research Ctr
http://www.uvm.edu/~pmrc
https://mapleresearch.org
Timothy.Perkins@uvm.edu
Your not the only person that feels that way. Im a logger and i wont cut hard maple if its healthy. Moral objections.......
Salisbury Sugarworks,,Parker Rowe, and friends
Salisbury, N.H.
1988 taps in 09
over 2500 on vac in 2010
no buckets in 2010
2815 taps in 2011
shooting for 3000 in 2012
4000 taps? In 2014
5x16 wood fired "Mighty Marvin"
50 cords in the shed
Old, old R.O.
Charter member Andover/Salisbury Mapleholics
http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/4...s009bx4.th.jpg
Good point. I was watching Youtube the other day and saw your smiling face. We were in the shack. My buddy jumped when i yelled "hey its the Doctor!!" and I cranked the volume so i could hear you.
"Hehe, think that'll be my sideproject this year...get some 'Give me sap or give me firewood' T-shirts done up...problem is trees can't read ;-) And definitely make the most of that great maple you have on hand now to burn."
I will send you money for one.
10 buckets,20 bags,steamer pan,cement block arch,4 tarp - sugar shack - Low budget 2010-2015
35 bags, Leader Supreme 2x4, 1 stall garage shack - What budget? 2016-
Galena If you make them I want a link to it. I WANT one of them. LOL
No one would really understand when I wear it, unless they are as twisted as the rest of us here on these forums. I love doing things that make people question me and my sanity anyhow.
I wore one for the longest time that said, "Please to not interrupt me while I am trying to ignore you."
I used to get some odd looks and it made it more enjoyable to me.
as to if its morally wrong?
If its laying next to my woodpile and split. Its going in the fire. Its a warning to trees no matter what its best not to die or tick me off.
43.6728° N Sanford MI.
2015 100 3/16 taps/buckets. 540 gallons of sap = 12 gallons finished. grill side burner (propane)
2016 100 3/16 taps/buckets 315 gallons of sap = 11 gallons finished Turkey Fryer/ grill side burner (propane)
2017 100 3/16 taps /buckets 797 gallons of sap = 8 3/4 gallons finished. Home made brick arch (wood)
Burn it its free wood! I gotta believe it's a fitting end for maple to make syrup or fine carpentry. I don't shy away from burning it in the house or the evaporator, it never occurred it could be bad luck!
2018 Same shed/sugar shack. Same barrel stove , with an upgraded 18”x 24”x 6” pan, a preheater and blower
22 (very productive) taps on buckets
2017 Home made barrel stove set up with 2 SS serving trays, in a 12x16 shed/ sugar shack, 14 buckets and 2 gals made. We’re Hooked!
A 32hp Yanmar Cub Cadet EX 3200, Back Saver
2016 Turkey Fryer and wood stove outside, 6 buckets, 0 gals and a story!