Just curious. The reason I ask is that several times a year we travel from NE Ohio to the Indianapolis (Noblesville) area. I always look for maple along the highway, but all I ever see are oaks, hickories, sycamores, beech, and ash.
Just curious. The reason I ask is that several times a year we travel from NE Ohio to the Indianapolis (Noblesville) area. I always look for maple along the highway, but all I ever see are oaks, hickories, sycamores, beech, and ash.
1000 taps on vac down to 100+ buckets 99% sugars
2x5 SL Hi-Output Raised Flue Corsair evaporator
SL Short bank press with CDL diaphragm pump
Leader Micro 1 RO for 2024
Constantly changing
2010:36 gal 2011:126 gal 2012:81 gal 2013:248 gal 2014: 329.5 gal 2015:305 gal 2016:316 gal 2017:258 gal 2018:147 gal 2019:91 gal 2020:30 gal 2021:30 gal 2023:50 gal Total since 2010: 2047.5 gal
Tapping the same trees my great, great and great grandfathers tapped.
They are alot of maple trees in Indiana at least where I'm at there are. Their around that area when you have time take a cruze through the rural area. Maple trees are common in alot of southren states. They don't have the right temp to produce enough sap.
Last edited by The Birdman; 01-18-2010 at 10:55 AM.
We live about 20 miles NW of Noblesville...lots of sugar maples out here. The old-timers say sugaring was huge back in the day. I tap the nine in our yard and my neighbor's four. I just finished 2 gallons yesterday. Have about about 60 gallons collected from the last two days. Looks as though I will get run over this next week...but am off F/S/S and two week off beginning next Wednesday!
So, just saying....