Equipment For Sale Posted onApril 18, 2015bytlmfadmin After 12 seasons Turtle Lane Maple Farm is closing its doors. We are a small family farm and work a 500 tap operation. Our sugarbush consisted of distributed locations around town, using tubing, gravity feeding tanks, in which we would ...
“It’s a hell of a run and a great day,” Russo said Sunday afternoon as he stood next to a series of large pipelines running from the heights of the mountain behind his sugarhouse to two gathering tanks at its base. “I want to keep up with the flow. I don’t like the sap to...
I have three personal favorites from the book: the photos that show the end of the year sap pail washing and drying, the photos showing the important use of horses and even dogs for pulling sap gathering sleds and tanks, and the photos of the sugar on snow gatherings at the sugarhouses....
Traditionally, buckets were hung on the taps to catch the sap running out, but now, in larger operations, a tubing system is used to carry the sap to tanks. The sap will be collected from the trees from the first major thaw up until when the leaf buds open — after that, the sap h...
Too much time between collecting and cooking can sour the sap. And each batch must boil for three hours. At the height of the season, syrupers spend late nights in the sugar shack. They become sticky, red-eyed apparitions, constantly checking the sap level and watching the mesmerizing ...