Once a day, the farmer empties the buckets into a large gathering tank pulled through the fields by a horse or tractor. The tank is pulled to the building where the sap is processed, called the sugar house, and emptied into a holding tank. While the sight of pails hung from maples ...
Referring now to FIG. 8, there is shown the connections between the washing sub-unit130and the membrane sub-system120′ of FIG. 2 to a tank sub-system140comprising a concentrate holding tank144, a maple sap holding tank142and a permeate holding tank146. It should be noted that the pumpin...
” said Russo. The sap flows in plastic tubing from the trees downhill into a holding tank, then runs by 16 ultraviolet light bulbs which purify it, killing bacteria. This contributes the quality and grade of his syrup. A reverse-osmosis machine draws water away from the sap and the ...
Maple sugar candy is a type of candy that is made by heating maple syrup and pouring it into candy molds. While most maple sugar...
Sap collection tank! Having 100% given up on my dream of “family maple day,” Mr. FW proceeded to situate the collection tank at the bottom of the tubing lines. He positioned the tubing line such that it terminates on the road to our pond, which means the collection tank has a wide...
where the sap is boiled. But there were still a number of buckets hanging off of maple trees where it wasn’t feasible to run lines. So our job on the cloudless, warm spring day was to walk through the woods collecting the sap from the buckets, empty them in a large tank in the ba...