Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Howard, I'm a Southern boy, and have never actually tapped a tree, but I always thought the taps had to slope down so the sap wouldn't dam up the tap. Then you have a fin or a hook told the bucket's bail. Right? Of course now I think folks are using plastic tubing and setting barrels or igloo jugs out so they won't have to tend so often. We have sugar maples here in the Kisatchie National Forest, but I don't think anyone messes with it, as it takes a bunch of sap to make a gallon of syrup. (Besides, I think the coons might raid the buckets down here.) On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote: > The tap in the trunk of the tree is angled down and away from the tree, so > the bucket will slide off! > Stupid Yankees! > > Maple syrup from White Oak Farm? > Silly Yankees! > > (But maple syrup does come from red maples, as well as black and sugar.) > > ?howard > > > On Oct 31, 2013, at 10:54 AM, lrzeitlin at aol.com wrote: > > > Observed in a walk in my backyard. The Ents are migrating from Chris' > Indiana. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Tree+face.jpg.html > > > > What's wrong within sign? Canadians will know instantly. It may take > Europeans a while. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Maple+Syrup+sign.jpg.html > > > > Larry Z > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA