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Post by cocub2 on Feb 15, 2024 9:17:10 GMT -6
Boiling maple syrup here in the area, little or no snow in the area. Warm days. cold nights. Make the sap run very well. Might get our first snow in weeks here of up to 8" of snow going into Friday with 40mph winds?
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Post by rustyfarmall on Feb 15, 2024 10:05:37 GMT -6
We've got the wind and cold temps. Weatherman is trying his best to dump some snow on us beginning tonight.
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Post by sandbur on Feb 15, 2024 13:03:19 GMT -6
Boiling maple syrup here in the area, little or no snow in the area. Warm days. cold nights. Make the sap run very well. Might get our first snow in weeks here of up to 8" of snow going into Friday with 40mph winds? How is the sugar concentration there? My brother does some here. Don't know if he is started yet. |
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Post by Erstwhile on Feb 15, 2024 17:21:57 GMT -6
Well, dang me:
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Roses are red and violets are purple
Sugar is sweet and so is maple syrple
And I'm the seventh out of seven sons
My pappy's a pistol, I'm a son-of-a-gun " "
We are looking at a rain day tomorrow. I sure wish we could save some of it for August.
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Post by Butcher on Feb 15, 2024 18:15:30 GMT -6
Well, dang me: " " Roses are red and violets are purple Sugar is sweet and so is maple syrple And I'm the seventh out of seven sons My pappy's a pistol, I'm a son-of-a-gun " " We are looking at a rain day tomorrow. I sure wish we could save some of it for August. Got any buckets? |
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Post by Erstwhile on Feb 15, 2024 18:52:07 GMT -6
Yeahbut, like Hank,
"My bucket's got a hole in it ... .
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Post by billinohio on Feb 15, 2024 19:08:34 GMT -6
One of my better customers was talking about this the other day. He is using a gas fired Turkey fries and was looking for something a bit better.
50 years ago, my buddy Phil was tapping trees still using old galvanized buckets and lots of firewood. They made a lot. The old sugar shack has just about been reclaimed by Mother Nature now.
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Post by diydave on Feb 15, 2024 20:56:46 GMT -6
Well, dang me: " " Roses are red and violets are purple Sugar is sweet and so is maple syrple And I'm the seventh out of seven sons My pappy's a pistol, I'm a son-of-a-gun " " We are looking at a rain day tomorrow. I sure wish we could save some of it for August. Did I hear a request? |
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Post by haywood on Feb 16, 2024 19:42:55 GMT -6
Not much Bucket Harvesting happening in our Forest. But I do like Maple syrup on my Corn bread and Oatmeal, but it can raise my Blood sugars beyond Normal so I got to be sensible.
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Post by Erstwhile on Feb 16, 2024 21:06:41 GMT -6
Never had anything going with Maple syrup, but on the North side of Dad's place in AR was a good sized Cane operation. The feller grew it and had a decently large slapped together cooker. It was an isolated place, but it was actually syrup he cooked there. We'd get a complimentary quart every once in a while; he borrowed a tractor from Dad on a coupla occasions. That's where I had to go get the 300 out of a flood one time and almost stepped on a BIG Cottonmouth wrapped around the front tires. Might near ruined a good pair of Levis. I can Google over the area and still make out the cooker grown up in weeds.
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Post by sandbur on Feb 16, 2024 21:33:05 GMT -6
Never had anything going with Maple syrup, but on the North side of Dad's place in AR was a good sized Cane operation. The feller grew it and had a decently large slapped together cooker. It was an isolated place, but it was actually syrup he cooked there. We'd get a complimentary quart every once in a while; he borrowed a tractor from Dad on a coupla occasions. That's where I had to go get the 300 out of a flood one time and almost stepped on a BIG Cottonmouth wrapped around the front tires. Might near ruined a good pair of Levis. I can Google over the area and still make out the cooker grown up in weeds. Would that be sorghum? Cane molasses? |
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Post by Erstwhile on Feb 16, 2024 21:54:06 GMT -6
Yes, that was what is technically called a brain fart. It was sorghum. 😒😒
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