02 F350 powerstroke and 89 Toyota 4X4 5 speed sap haulers
16X16 sugar shack
30"X8' raised flue GH Grimm evaporator Smoky Lake Maple front pan!
Sthil MS 460, 026 (2), 009, husky 61, 365, 272, and a 42
2009 41 taps, 2010 72 taps on a barrel evapotator all buckets, 2011 151 taps 34 buckets 117 taps on tubing.
It sure is but it is a good thing for me. You gotta remember I am in a fisherman's tourist trap. Alot of Fish camps or atleast that is what they call them I call most of them a fisherman's mansion. Alot of well to do people have bought land here at a ridiculous price. Power company sold the land on both sides of me a few years ago. 3 plots undeveloped, each one was 10 acres and they got 140,000 for each one. I am glad the fisherman bought them and put fishing mansions up cause they are only here 2 months a year. Plus all three of them are super nice people and It gives my daughter a summer job of mowing camp lawns. They pay her 25 bucks each a week to mow the grass. I went into the wrong business. I made a deal to plow there driveways and keep an eye on them, kick trespasser out etc.... and in return I can cut wood off there land and tap there trees. Well I don't really need the trees for wood or sap but Being able to hunt exclusivley on it makes it worth while.
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2X6 deluxe Phanuef
Adding 200 more every year
27 years left of building a Hobby into a retirement time burner.
Going price around here seems to be anywhere from $10 to $13 bucks a quart. Seems a lot more reasonable than $38.
Homemade 2X4 w/Flat Pan
50 taps....but always looking to expand
Mostly box elders with a scattering of red, silver, & sugar maples
Allis Chalmers C & Homemade Sap Sled
$38 a quart seems a lot more reasonable to me if I am the one selling. I would even sleep good at night at those prices, well I would after the money settled into place in the matress so it was not lumpy.
I would say anywhere between $15 to $20 would be the right price for a quart, you dont want 4 quarts to add up to the same price as if you were buying a gallon jug, makes no sense, more work, more money for the jug.
The price at Costco around here for 1 L (basically the same as a quart) is $15. I don't want to be nearly as cheap as Costco so I guess my prices need to go up!
5,000 Taps on vacuum
9,400 gallons storage
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Ennis
I have been getting $20.00 a liter, no questions ask, down here in the southern part of Ontario.
The bigger fellas are getting $60.00 to $75.00 for a 4 liter jug.
Whitetail24
I'm close to that but slightly under for my 1L and 4L jugs. Looks like it's time for an increase!
5,000 Taps on vacuum
9,400 gallons storage
3 tower CDL RO
3.5'x14' Lapierre Force 5
10" CDL Wesfab Filter Press
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I sold my first 4 liter jug of dark dark syrup for $40 bucks. If you go to the right place they will sell you 8x540ml cans for $54 that is in the one store. I have not priced out some of the farmers with signs out around here since I wouldn't be buying I would hate to bother them.
maybe 50 taps for 2011
Finally ready to boil when I get enough sap
I just might be crazy.( make that I know I am)
Trees all tapped except the ones with 5 feet of snow.
Enough rabbits to keep Elmer busy..
we put our prices on our web site and use that printout to sell off the front porch and at a local market.
In the plainest bottle we can find it goes for $ 20 a liter and a 4 liter bottle at $ 58.
Sold 80% of last years crop in 3 weeks at the market. Had many return customers to the front porch.
I think if your pricing is in the ballpark your OK. If you're to high you'll find out. Lots of one time customers and few repeats
PS: we sell all grades at the same price and after giving folks at market little spoonfuls to sample, almost everyone wanted the darkest stuff we had, which was medium, and it sold out first.
Last edited by Brent; 09-05-2009 at 09:40 PM.