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Mar 11, 2017 08:10:49   #
Pixelmaster Loc: New England
 
Sugaring is the term used by those who tap the trees for maple sap this time of year. As with all things change has come to the way the trees are tapped.
Anyone who has gathered sap in buckets knows how hard a job that can be. Depending on the sugar content of the sap it can take about forty gallons of
sap to make one gallon of maple syrup. So plastic lines connected to a holding tank is now the preferred way to collect maple sap. But even then it installing
the lines and making sure they are clean is not light work. The sugar house runs on the heat to boil down the sap which means you need to decide to use
oil or wood to fire up the flash pans that evaporate the water in the sap. The price of that is debated by those who make the choice. Maple syrup comes in
various grades of taste and color but one thing is for sure it is not table syrup. For about sixty dollars a gallon it is costly but not like computer printer ink
which is in the cost stratosphere. There is no state law about serving table syrup instead of the real thing in Vermont restaurants. If you don't order the stuff
from the trees you are labeled a "Flatlander". So the bottom line if you wish to photograph the gathering of maple sap in buckets you had better start now before they are all gone.



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Mar 11, 2017 08:23:14   #
roxiemarty Loc: Florida
 
Pixelmaster wrote:
Sugaring is the term used by those who tap the trees for maple sap this time of year. As with all things change has come to the way the trees are tapped.
Anyone who has gathered sap in buckets knows how hard a job that can be. Depending on the sugar content of the sap it can take about forty gallons of
sap to make one gallon of maple syrup. So plastic lines connected to a holding tank is now the preferred way to collect maple sap. But even then it installing
the lines and making sure they are clean is not light work. The sugar house runs on the heat to boil down the sap which means you need to decide to use
oil or wood to fire up the flash pans that evaporate the water in the sap. The price of that is debated by those who make the choice. Maple syrup comes in
various grades of taste and color but one thing is for sure it is not table syrup. For about sixty dollars a gallon it is costly but not like computer printer ink
which is in the cost stratosphere. There is no state law about serving table syrup instead of the real thing in Vermont restaurants. If you don't order the stuff
from the trees you are labeled a "Flatlander". So the bottom line if you wish to photograph the gathering of maple sap in buckets you had better start now before they are all gone.
Sugaring is the term used by those who tap the tre... (show quote)


Thanks for the informative stuff with your photo. My niece in Wisconsin sent me some of her wood-fired maple syrup a couple of years ago. Deliciousness! Are those your maple buckets? That is so cool. Thanks for sharing.

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Mar 11, 2017 08:25:57   #
Architect1776 Loc: In my mind
 
Pixelmaster wrote:
Sugaring is the term used by those who tap the trees for maple sap this time of year. As with all things change has come to the way the trees are tapped.
Anyone who has gathered sap in buckets knows how hard a job that can be. Depending on the sugar content of the sap it can take about forty gallons of
sap to make one gallon of maple syrup. So plastic lines connected to a holding tank is now the preferred way to collect maple sap. But even then it installing
the lines and making sure they are clean is not light work. The sugar house runs on the heat to boil down the sap which means you need to decide to use
oil or wood to fire up the flash pans that evaporate the water in the sap. The price of that is debated by those who make the choice. Maple syrup comes in
various grades of taste and color but one thing is for sure it is not table syrup. For about sixty dollars a gallon it is costly but not like computer printer ink
which is in the cost stratosphere. There is no state law about serving table syrup instead of the real thing in Vermont restaurants. If you don't order the stuff
from the trees you are labeled a "Flatlander". So the bottom line if you wish to photograph the gathering of maple sap in buckets you had better start now before they are all gone.
Sugaring is the term used by those who tap the tre... (show quote)


Nice photo and story.
Have friends here in Williamsport, PA who collect sap and yes it is a lot of work and squirrels are not at all helpful.

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Mar 11, 2017 08:46:27   #
MattPhox Loc: Rhode Island
 
Pure maple syrup is worth the extra price.

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Mar 11, 2017 08:48:07   #
brobill Loc: Fort Worth, Texas ( Haslet)
 
We visited Smuggler's Notch, Vt. a couple years back. My wife asked a local where to go to buy the real stuff. He gave directions which took us up a dirt road to a sugar house. No one was there so we were hesitant to poke around too much. Another car arrived looking for syrup as well. Together we went into the sugar house. There it was in several sizes and grades. It was self service... leave payment in box and take what you need! The owner's son came up and gave us a tour. We went to a UPS shipper to send it home as we did not want to wrestle with it flying. Great experience.

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Mar 11, 2017 09:04:52   #
Pixelmaster Loc: New England
 
The maple sap buckets belong to one of our neighbors who also runs a dairy farm. That is another subject because Vermont has lost so many of its
dairy farms due to the price of milk and the cost and maintenance of the equipment in order to farm. For the farmer too many people in the legislature
and industry have made their deals at the expense of the farmer. Change can be for the good but sometimes it just goes too far. Next time you
sit down to dinner remember it was the farmer who took the risk to farm and made it possible for you and your family to eat.

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Mar 11, 2017 09:45:44   #
PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago
 
Pixelmaster wrote:
Sugaring is the term used by those who tap the trees for maple sap this time of year. As with all things change has come to the way the trees are tapped.
Anyone who has gathered sap in buckets knows how hard a job that can be. Depending on the sugar content of the sap it can take about forty gallons of
sap to make one gallon of maple syrup. So plastic lines connected to a holding tank is now the preferred way to collect maple sap. But even then it installing
the lines and making sure they are clean is not light work. The sugar house runs on the heat to boil down the sap which means you need to decide to use
oil or wood to fire up the flash pans that evaporate the water in the sap. The price of that is debated by those who make the choice. Maple syrup comes in
various grades of taste and color but one thing is for sure it is not table syrup. For about sixty dollars a gallon it is costly but not like computer printer ink
which is in the cost stratosphere. There is no state law about serving table syrup instead of the real thing in Vermont restaurants. If you don't order the stuff
from the trees you are labeled a "Flatlander". So the bottom line if you wish to photograph the gathering of maple sap in buckets you had better start now before they are all gone.
Sugaring is the term used by those who tap the tre... (show quote)


At Shelburne Farms where I volunteered they started with buckets and eventually went from the taps in the trees to a pipeline to a central collecting point. My favorite memory was going out with a farmer that collected the sap from the trees by horse and wagon.

Great Image.

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Mar 11, 2017 09:54:25   #
photophile Loc: Lakewood, Ohio, USA
 
Pixelmaster wrote:
Sugaring is the term used by those who tap the trees for maple sap this time of year. As with all things change has come to the way the trees are tapped.
Anyone who has gathered sap in buckets knows how hard a job that can be. Depending on the sugar content of the sap it can take about forty gallons of
sap to make one gallon of maple syrup. So plastic lines connected to a holding tank is now the preferred way to collect maple sap. But even then it installing
the lines and making sure they are clean is not light work. The sugar house runs on the heat to boil down the sap which means you need to decide to use
oil or wood to fire up the flash pans that evaporate the water in the sap. The price of that is debated by those who make the choice. Maple syrup comes in
various grades of taste and color but one thing is for sure it is not table syrup. For about sixty dollars a gallon it is costly but not like computer printer ink
which is in the cost stratosphere. There is no state law about serving table syrup instead of the real thing in Vermont restaurants. If you don't order the stuff
from the trees you are labeled a "Flatlander". So the bottom line if you wish to photograph the gathering of maple sap in buckets you had better start now before they are all gone.
Sugaring is the term used by those who tap the tre... (show quote)


We are going to a pancake breakfast in a small town of Montrose, Ohio where a family makes the real thing and sells it every year. I don't buy the fake stuff!

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Mar 11, 2017 10:11:29   #
Pixelmaster Loc: New England
 
Many parts of Vermont have an annual Maple Fest which includes sugar on snow, maple cream, maple cakes and cookies, pancakes and
how maple syrup use to be boiled down in a huge cast iron wood fired cauldron. Worth the time if you have never been to one.

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Mar 11, 2017 10:18:07   #
Cwilson341 Loc: Central Florida
 
A very nice shot and an excellent narrative!

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Mar 11, 2017 10:28:35   #
boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander
 
Pixelmaster wrote:
Sugaring is the term used by those who tap the trees for maple sap this time of year. As with all things change has come to the way the trees are tapped.
Anyone who has gathered sap in buckets knows how hard a job that can be. Depending on the sugar content of the sap it can take about forty gallons of
sap to make one gallon of maple syrup. So plastic lines connected to a holding tank is now the preferred way to collect maple sap. But even then it installing
the lines and making sure they are clean is not light work. The sugar house runs on the heat to boil down the sap which means you need to decide to use
oil or wood to fire up the flash pans that evaporate the water in the sap. The price of that is debated by those who make the choice. Maple syrup comes in
various grades of taste and color but one thing is for sure it is not table syrup. For about sixty dollars a gallon it is costly but not like computer printer ink
which is in the cost stratosphere. There is no state law about serving table syrup instead of the real thing in Vermont restaurants. If you don't order the stuff
from the trees you are labeled a "Flatlander". So the bottom line if you wish to photograph the gathering of maple sap in buckets you had better start now before they are all gone.
Sugaring is the term used by those who tap the tre... (show quote)

I always take maple syrup with us when we go out for breakfast. I hate "breakfast syrup". Why anyone tolerates that $hit is beyond me.

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Mar 11, 2017 15:36:23   #
G Brown Loc: Sunny Bognor Regis West Sussex UK
 
My father used to tap Birch Trees for their sap. It makes a beautiful white wine !

Thanks for the memory

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Mar 12, 2017 05:53:12   #
J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio
 
Pixelmaster wrote:
Sugaring is the term used by those who tap the trees for maple sap this time of year. As with all things change has come to the way the trees are tapped.
Anyone who has gathered sap in buckets knows how hard a job that can be. Depending on the sugar content of the sap it can take about forty gallons of
sap to make one gallon of maple syrup. So plastic lines connected to a holding tank is now the preferred way to collect maple sap. But even then it installing
the lines and making sure they are clean is not light work. The sugar house runs on the heat to boil down the sap which means you need to decide to use
oil or wood to fire up the flash pans that evaporate the water in the sap. The price of that is debated by those who make the choice. Maple syrup comes in
various grades of taste and color but one thing is for sure it is not table syrup. For about sixty dollars a gallon it is costly but not like computer printer ink
which is in the cost stratosphere. There is no state law about serving table syrup instead of the real thing in Vermont restaurants. If you don't order the stuff
from the trees you are labeled a "Flatlander". So the bottom line if you wish to photograph the gathering of maple sap in buckets you had better start now before they are all gone.
Sugaring is the term used by those who tap the tre... (show quote)



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Mar 12, 2017 06:37:43   #
Mary Kate Loc: NYC
 
Pixelmaster wrote:
Sugaring is the term used by those who tap the trees for maple sap this time of year. As with all things change has come to the way the trees are tapped.
Anyone who has gathered sap in buckets knows how hard a job that can be. Depending on the sugar content of the sap it can take about forty gallons of
sap to make one gallon of maple syrup. So plastic lines connected to a holding tank is now the preferred way to collect maple sap. But even then it installing
the lines and making sure they are clean is not light work. The sugar house runs on the heat to boil down the sap which means you need to decide to use
oil or wood to fire up the flash pans that evaporate the water in the sap. The price of that is debated by those who make the choice. Maple syrup comes in
various grades of taste and color but one thing is for sure it is not table syrup. For about sixty dollars a gallon it is costly but not like computer printer ink
which is in the cost stratosphere. There is no state law about serving table syrup instead of the real thing in Vermont restaurants. If you don't order the stuff
from the trees you are labeled a "Flatlander". So the bottom line if you wish to photograph the gathering of maple sap in buckets you had better start now before they are all gone.
Sugaring is the term used by those who tap the tre... (show quote)


The "sap buckets" are becoming a thing of the past. Now plastic tubing from tree to tree then to collection point are most cost and labor efficient.

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Mar 12, 2017 07:00:00   #
cwhi1444 Loc: Orland Park, IL
 
Thanks for the photo. Haven't seen that for over 50 years when I lived in New Hampshire.

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