Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: chigger on February 08, 2013, 06:33:04 pm
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Time moves right along and Maple syruping time is back,I do this more as a hobby but it sure makes a pancake come alive,Made 14 quarts...Another hobby is hunting odd shaped sticks to make walking canes with,here is just a few I've fixed.
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Yes Sir!
Looks like some Tasty Syrup from here...
Really like your Stick Work!
What kind of wood are you working there?
And I see one that grew Vine Wrapped for sure, did they all grow spiral wrapped?
I've been into Stick Carving for many Moons :)
-gus
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Your syrup post last year inspired me to tap my maple for the first time and I had great results!! Just started tapping again for this year! Thanks
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sweeet! ;D
now im thinking pancakes for dinner....
love me some real maple syrup
we only have silver maples in this part of the country(naturally anyways, there are hard maples planted for landscaping)
hear ya can tap silvers too but less sweet and less output
another of my "one of these days...."
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sweeet! ;D
now im thinking pancakes for dinner....
love me some real maple syrup
we only have silver maples in this part of the country(naturally anyways, there are hard maples planted for landscaping)
hear ya can tap silvers too but less sweet and less output
another of my "one of these days...."
My maple is a silver and I had great results. You may have to boil more down but my wife could not tell the difference from mine to high quality store bought organic syrup. That made my day!
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Oh yeah! That is some fine looking amber. Really need to find time to tap my reds and sugar maples before spring gets here.
Tracy
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Those are very nice sticks! I have a few dozen of those sticks only a couple have as many twists as yours. Back here (WA. STATE) honeysuckle chokes the cascara trees, and you have to look at the top of the trees to find them.
VMB
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Those are some treasures there, the syrup and the sticks. Nice post to see on here. :)
Greg
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Syrup looks tasty and the sticks are very nice also. :)
Pappy
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What's a good way to id some maples without leaves? The only way I know a maple is by the leaves.
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Its hard to tell you how, but the Sugar Maple, a lot of times will be jet black on trunk where something has broke the bark and the sap has run down and soaked it over the years ,I can't think of another tree that does that .Probably sapsucker damage resulting in sap leaking down the trunk and a black fungus growing on the sap. If you see rows of holes in the trunk above the blackened area, that is probably what's going on. Here is a tree leaking sap. Maybe this will help.And when I'm tapping if I run up on a Silver Maple I tap it . We're lucky we probably have five hundred trees but I'm too old to start a Sugar operation,just do it as a hobby and get enough syrup for our use.
Here is another Pic of frequent visitor thats close to the house,He's eating a deer .
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wha cha wanna trade????
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wha cha wanna trade????
No disrespect to you Ben, but I got took on the last trade I made on here.....got nothing and lost about $35 in shipping...
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Sorry you got took Chig. I am not a cheat - would be willing to send you something first. No qualms - no questions. Only if I got something you want of course. I would even be more than willing to cover the shipping.
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Cool sticks, I like making them, too. But I'll have to stick to my Cane syrup, never could acquire a taste for maple.
Can you PM me with who ripped you off?
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Probably not Mullet,if they can live with it I can .
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I just try to keep other people from getting screwed if I see the same person trading again. ::)
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SWEETTTTT
I use to make maple syrup every couple years. I showed a friend how to make it ,now for the last 8 or 10 years he makes it and I just trade him for it.
I also use to make hickory syrup also. You ever make any hickory syrup. It's more labor intense than makeing maple. It's boiled from the bark,shag barks the easyest and best I think. Give it a try it has a totally different taste than maple.
My graddad also use to make sassafras and white acorn syrup. Ive never did it but have used both a few times. SASSAFRAS is differently a aquired taste. Totally I mean totally different taste. It's made from the bark like hickory.
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I tried to make the Hickory syrup one time but what I got I didn't like it .There is a restaurant here in Ky that makes it and people go wild for it but their recipe is a big secret.How do you make it? I've made a lot of Sassafras tea but I never heard of the syrup.
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It's been Too Long since my last glass of Sassafras Tea.
My Grandma used to take me out into the woods digging Sassafras roots.
The tea was Wonderful.
I couldn't have been more than Six the last time...
Now I have the urge to drive up to Sam Raburn and hunt Sassafras and a Sweet Spring on the
way out from Zavalla, TX.
:)
-gus
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Sassafras, the barks boiled just like hickory. I can't tell you my granddads secrets or I'd have to kill you. But I will tell you this it's takes 6 or 7 hours of boiling and simmering the bark to make it.
My grandady grew up in the mountains of western VA. Untill he move here to WV in 1940 he was 40 at the time.
He said they did'nt have any money for coffee so he grew up on white oak acorn coffee. He said they add a peice of sassafras bark to each pot of coffee. He still made white oak coffee when I was a kid in the 70's. He died in 99 he still collected acorns in the fall to make a few pots.
He's also add sassafras bark to real coffee. Not to much bark sassafras his strong amd over powering. I lived his whole life beside him and drank a cup of coffee just about every morning. I liked the sassafras added to the coffee.
I never equired a taste for just plain acorn coffee.
He said as a kid they'd geather wtie oak acorns by the 100 # feed sack full in the fall. He aid his mom would send him and his brother with 100 $ sack on each side of the mule. They'd walk the 8 miles to the store and trade it for salt,flour or what they needed.
His dad and him also made shine those 40 years. He said theyed add sassafras to there corn mash a few times also. I drinked my share of shine ( I LOVE CORN SHINE) but never sassafras shine. After his 3 time being caught they were told either leave VA. or go to jail. They moved here to WV.
HERE'S A UNREAL STORY
The second time he was caught,he was running shine into WV from VA. in 1931 and was sent to MOUNDSVILLE prison for 2 year. His lawyer came to him and said WILL can you come up with $100.00. He told him to see my grandmother. The lawyer took 25, the judge got 25 the warden 50 and he walked home. He only spent 9 days in prison.