Money doesn't grow on trees, but..........

[Gobblerforge]

..........if you go about it right, you can get a little gold out of them.
Gobbler
From this,

to this.

[AJMD429]

Back when I had time to be home a few hours between work and bedtime, we'd tap using 5 gallon buckets, and each bucketful yielded about a pint of syrup.

One year I accidentally tapped a shellbark hickory tree ( ) along with four sugar maples, and the syrup resulting from the mixed and boiled sap was just fine.

We pre-boiled it on the wood furnace to concentrate it, then just finished it on the electric stove.

Sometimes we made the 'candy' version by boiling some to that point.

Good stuff.

[ollogger]

was just in Wisconsin last week lots of buckets hanging from trees
Went by a city park in a small town & some one was tapping them trees
we made it as kids for our own use, from popcorn to pancakes & cereal or what ever
do you make much of it?

ollogger

[Old Ironsights]

If it weren't for a certain ... discussion... and lack of support, I would be buying a Beehive with the new Flow Hive system.

At around $800 startup, if I got the average of 60lbs of honey per year it would totally pay for itself in just over a year...

[Gobblerforge]

was just in Wisconsin last week lots of buckets hanging from trees
Went by a city park in a small town & some one was tapping them trees
we made it as kids for our own use, from popcorn to pancakes & cereal or what ever
do you make much of it?

ollogger

How much is a point of view but my best year was at about three quarts. I render about 40-1. I only have 5 taps but that can give me up to 3-5 gallon a day when it's at it's best.
Gobbler

[Blaine]

If it weren't for a certain ... discussion... and lack of support, I would be buying a Beehive with the new Flow Hive system.

At around $800 startup, if I got the average of 60lbs of honey per year it would totally pay for itself in just over a year...

This.

[BenT]

Just talked to my brother and we will have about 600 gallons of sap to boil down this weekend. I've been tapping these trees on the family farm for 50 years. We tap about every 3 years. Last time we had a bumper year with 34 gallons of syrup. My favorite is on vanilla ice cream.

[M. M. Wright]

Around here money does grow on trees, pecan trees. I paid $5.00 per pound for cracked paper shells last year and was happy to get them. I only have native trees but they sure taste good. I planted 6 new Pawnee trees this year which my wife and kids can enjoy some day.

[piller]

My Aunt and Uncle in Topeka, KS, have a large maple tree in their yard. My Uncle used to get some of the sap to boil into syrup from it, and even though it wasn't a sugar maple, it still tasted good.

[Sixgun]

No Brad, it don't grow on trees .....but........if you play your cards right, money can come from necklaces. --------6



Oh! I love this baby....thanks bud! G.Cyclops

[ollogger]

Geez Six I know that isn't a trout hook so don't leave me dangling!!! info please!!

Guys for me money did grow on trees for over 2 decades


ollogger

[Gobblerforge]

[AmBraCol]

Geez Six I know that isn't a trout hook so don't leave me dangling!!! info please!!

Guys for me money did grow on trees for over 2 decades


ollogger

Here's the thread on that lil' bit o' fishin' tackle. That's what we used to use to catch bait, before rigging up for the big ones down in the Amazon River Valley...

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