Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper (Post 8897169)

Between fixing the fuel crossover switch on the 85 and finishing up the console on the 72 I found time to boil sap . Second is after 20 gallons down starting to amber up

Originally Posted by Ol Blue K20 (Post 8897183)

I would love to understand this process...

Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper (Post 8897325)

Pretty simple maple sap is between 2 and 4% sugar. When you boil it down (evaporation) you concentrate the sugar. Takes on average 30 to 40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup. Your also concentrating the maple taste. Going to try birch and black walnut next year

Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper (Post 8897390)

Would be nice if it came out of the tree all done

Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper (Post 8897513)

And I’m smoking a chicken too on my Weber charcoal grill

Originally Posted by 67C10Step (Post 8897612)

Daughters boyfriend came over with a problem. His security lug nuts were stuck and he had broken the “key” tool in nine of them. His tires are super bad and getting new ones tomorrow but no tire shop wants to tackle getting the security lugs off.

Welded nuts to the end of each of them and spun them off. One other lug nut was messed up by another tire shop so I drove a deep well impact socket on that one and spun it off. He had a new set of all lug nuts so we installed those before he left.

Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper (Post 8897169)

Between fixing the fuel crossover switch on the 85 and finishing up the console on the 72 I found time to boil sap . Second is after 20 gallons down starting to amber up

Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper (Post 8897325)

Going to try birch and black walnut next year

Originally Posted by LT7A (Post 8897679)

And I wondered about that, if you could use the sap from other trees.

Originally Posted by Stocker (Post 8897704)

If I tried that, I would probably tap a tree with poison sap..... :barf:

Originally Posted by Ol Blue K20 (Post 8897721)

No poison oak sap! :lol:

Originally Posted by LT7A (Post 8897678)

This is got to smell amazing. I'd probably eat a dozen pancakes and four or five waffles per day while that process was going on.

Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper (Post 8897956)

Yes it smells great when it gets to the amber color . Up and till then it's just steam

Originally Posted by 1976gmc20 (Post 8897996)

Roses are red and violets are purple
Sugar is sweet and so is maple syrple

Originally Posted by Redneck Rydes (Post 8897910)

Well we finally go some nice weather up here today,went for a walk to the pond and saw some Canadian geese,they were laughing at me,probally spent the winter on my pond in SC,damn Covid,then went into the driving shed and saw a Jackalope run out of there,havn't seen one in years,then heard a squeeking sound in there,and there are 3 babys there,cute little things, before they they get their antlers,so it was a good day after a cold Canadian winter,lol.