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Tree tapping season officially underway
WNDU.com (South Bend, IN) ^
| 02/25/2015
| Kate Chappell
Posted on 02/25/2015 4:42:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Oh...that’s what they mean here by ‘tree tapping’. Whew!
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posted on
02/25/2015 4:45:14 PM PST
by
lee martell
(The sa)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Man: Do you mind if I tap your-
Interrupting liberal woman: Pervert!
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posted on
02/25/2015 4:46:24 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
02/25/2015 4:47:36 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Maple sap is colorless water with a faint sweet characteristic taste if you drink it undistilled, which you can, and it is refreshing. But to make syrup it has to be boiled down on the order of 40 gallons of sap to one gallon of syrup.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
02/25/2015 4:57:39 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
AH! Remember well the tapping of maple trees in upstate NY in the 40’s and 50’s AND who could forget the gathering of the pails off the trees, dumping them in milk cans in a wagon drawn by the work horses? It was bitter cold gathering the sap and it had to be done before the school bus came. We (kids) thought our mother delighted in hollering up the stairs to wake us up to get dressed to get outside to gather the sap because it was a “beautiful run”. I think she had a sadistic streak in her...LOL
I wasn’t old enough to tend the fire and boiling the sap in the sap house but found it an amazing process. That was left to my father and brother and sometimes my mother. If I recall correctly, it had to be attended 24 hours or it might burn. Long, long separated vats over wood fire so I guess the sap was poured in the vats according to how long it had been on the fire and new sap went in different sections.
Loved the maple sugar candy that my mother made and of course, the REAL maple syrup..
To: hinckley buzzard
40 gallons of sap to one gallon of syrup. That's for the sugar maple.
I have a couple of Red Maples in my front yard.
It still works, but the ratio is about 60:1.
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02/25/2015 4:59:48 PM PST
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Izzy Dunne
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To: smokingfrog
Loved Roger Miller.....I still play his songs!!!!!!
To: smokingfrog
The trouble is, I have about three feet of global warming on the ground.
Makes it hard to get TO the trees.
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02/25/2015 5:00:59 PM PST
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Izzy Dunne
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To: Thank You Rush
Thanks for that descriptive memory! I grew up in TX, so we never had the fun of tapping maple trees for that delectable REAL maple syrup.
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02/25/2015 5:02:37 PM PST
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Jane Long
("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
To: Paladin2
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02/25/2015 5:33:56 PM PST
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Paladin2
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posted on
02/25/2015 5:34:51 PM PST
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Paladin2
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I love tree trapping season...laying out the tree bait....setting the traps, concealing oneself behind boulders, just waiting for that unsuspecting tree to come sauntering by...then...SNAP! The trap closes shut and you got yourself a big, juicy tree!
Yessiree...nothing more fun than tree trapping! I love it!
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posted on
02/25/2015 5:49:32 PM PST
by
Milton Miteybad
(I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Tree tapping? Wait a minute. Where is Bill Clinton?
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posted on
02/25/2015 6:13:18 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: E. Pluribus Unum; Las Vegas Dave; Pontiac; traditional1; sauropod; Whenifhow; RaceBannon; ...
Checked one off the bucket list yesterday, paid my respects to the soldiers, sailors, and marines who died in and around Pearl Harbor. Sitting in the gate at Honolulu waiting for the flight back to the States as I write this, understand we may run into winter in our connection in Houston.
This weekend we will set the taps and buckets out, but it is still so cold in Western Pa that I don't expect much for a while. Reds and silvers on our property, we are about 55 to one for yield. Time for spring.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Tree tapping? Is that what you young people are calling it these days? (giggle, giggle)
To: lee martell
I thought it said tree trapping and I thought, that sounds pretty easy!
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posted on
02/25/2015 6:20:43 PM PST
by
jocon307
(Tell it like it is.)
To: hinckley buzzard
And I can smell the wood smoke and maple syrup from my childhood helping the gathering and boiling down, just by talking about it. Good days.
One of the folks I helped also continued the process on the stove until it was such sugar, that when cooled it would be solid. They filled small molds to make maple candy. It was incredible.
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posted on
02/25/2015 6:30:42 PM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: North Coast Conservative
A friend of mines son has a small commercial Maple syrup operation that has gone the high tech route with a plastic tubing network instead of the traditional bucket method
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posted on
02/26/2015 6:55:43 AM PST
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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