Pics from the Maple sugar house

Adirondack case guy

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I went up to the sugar bush this afternoon. Temp here approaching 70F this afternoon. Most of the snow is gone. Last Sunday it was knee to hip deep. The cousins have mad about 120 gal. of nice light syrup this week. they hung 2700 buckets.
The remodeled sap house is much nicer and the newer evaporator that replaced two old 50s era Grimm evaporators is working very well., and is making more syrup per hr. than the other two could produce.
The first pic was last Sunday when there was still snow. If we don't get back to normal temps., this will be a very early and short year. Sap run has slowed down a lot in last two days of high 60s temp and no freeze up at night.
Loren
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Don't let the fire tender get too confortable on that couch and let the fire go out!
 
This evaporator is using a lot less wood, and the worry is to keep an eye on the thermometer. Mike is pulling off a batch of syrup about every 20min.
Loren
 
The evaporator is a 6x14' We built a steel frame work to support a 1550gal poly nurse tank in the rafters. We pump up from the storage tanks to it with 1-1/2" pvc, and it flows to the preheater with same. From there it is all 1-1/4" stainless tubing in the preheater, down to the float box. It is also pretty handy having continuous hot distilled water from the pre heater hood to do house keeping.
The sap isn't real sweet. Tests about 1.5%
Loren
 
Our local large operation (18,000 gal syrup/yr) has found a place to sell their water. Not sure what it is used for. They do RO so I assume it has minerals ECT.
 
seriously,,getting closer,,old maggie is the last of our pets,,she gets special care right now,,then we arent getting any more pets at our age...we will take a few road trips then
 
Last year we heard about some maple operation that was bottling sap for retail sales. I guess if you put an "Organic" sticker on it, and market it well, you can sell anything.
Loren
 
Thanks for showing us how maple syrup is made. We have one sugar maple in our yard and it"s running sap right now out of some cracks from frost. I think male syrup is mostly made east of the Mississippi and I"ve never seen how it is produced. Simple process, lots of work. Thanks for sharing these pictures.

Jerry
 
Sure seems like it nowdays, doesn't it?


This organic food thing is the second biggest scam ever perpetrated on the American public. But hey, if the public is silly enough to buy into it, why not?
 

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