This are a few quick shots of a small family that got into tapping maple this year with plastic lines. Looks like he taps about anything but I looked in the tank and it had a lot in it so he is doing fine. He started at the top of a big hill and tapped everything he got close to.
These shots should show you how its done. Sure don't have the look and feel of the old time ways. I prefer the old way for myself but I guess if I were selling it I'd do what ever collects the most..... While I was walking some of it, I found and old bottle dump and whats left of a fireplace. Might be a good detecting spot if I can get permission. They start on a hill and run the lines out to the road where they can pull up to the tank. Here are 2 different sites....
#1 is the old fireplace and some lines coming down off the hill....Blue one is mine line, the rest feet to it....The pull them really tight with a small comealong like ratchet that is left in place.
#2 you can see 2 taps feeding a smaller blue that then feeds the big line....
#3 you see a bunch of small feeders meeting the large feed line to the tank....
#4 is the tank it all feeds to down by the road. You can see the ratchet and the finger grips on the main feed lines.
#5 Main feed line next to my hand to show size.... See how nice and clean your hands get with gloves on all winter. No callous.
#6 this looks to be the top surface of and old bottle dump. Again, If I can get permission.
A lot of the old maples are along the edges of the stone walls. They never got cut down like everything else inside the walls....This place is about 3 miles down the road from me on a back road that once was a big farm. A lot of it is like what you see here, but a lot of it is still good pasture and someone keeps it cut all the time. The local cow farms usually lease them....
Nice here today for a change so great to be out doors wandering the woods.
George-CT
These shots should show you how its done. Sure don't have the look and feel of the old time ways. I prefer the old way for myself but I guess if I were selling it I'd do what ever collects the most..... While I was walking some of it, I found and old bottle dump and whats left of a fireplace. Might be a good detecting spot if I can get permission. They start on a hill and run the lines out to the road where they can pull up to the tank. Here are 2 different sites....
#1 is the old fireplace and some lines coming down off the hill....Blue one is mine line, the rest feet to it....The pull them really tight with a small comealong like ratchet that is left in place.
#2 you can see 2 taps feeding a smaller blue that then feeds the big line....
#3 you see a bunch of small feeders meeting the large feed line to the tank....
#4 is the tank it all feeds to down by the road. You can see the ratchet and the finger grips on the main feed lines.
#5 Main feed line next to my hand to show size.... See how nice and clean your hands get with gloves on all winter. No callous.
#6 this looks to be the top surface of and old bottle dump. Again, If I can get permission.
A lot of the old maples are along the edges of the stone walls. They never got cut down like everything else inside the walls....This place is about 3 miles down the road from me on a back road that once was a big farm. A lot of it is like what you see here, but a lot of it is still good pasture and someone keeps it cut all the time. The local cow farms usually lease them....
Nice here today for a change so great to be out doors wandering the woods.
George-CT
