Tree sap gathering and syrup making

[mowin]

Got the evaporator chugging along. Its just me today as my buddy had to work. I'm running the sap level rather high, as this size unit needs 2 people as we'll normally get a draw every 45min. With one person, its impossible to feed the fire, draw off, and filter, before getting another draw. So I run high and jut burn through the sap until I get some help. When doing it this way, our first draw will be 5+ gal.

 

[TJAnonymous]

You got a great price. I thought the arch alone would be $3,500.

How much syrup do you have to make to pay for a $3500 evaporator? That's gotta be a lot of syrup.

 

[duluthralphie]

How much syrup do you have to make to pay for a $3500 evaporator? That's gotta be a lot of syrup.

Around here wholesale price is around $55 a gallon in 55 gallon drums.

If you bottle and sell it yourself it’s 80-100 a gallon.

I bottle in 16 and 32 ounce sizes. Next year I am adding 12 ounce size. I sell for about a dollar an ounce.

So somewhere between 350-700 gallons. But remember it’s a multi-year depreciable investment.


I have a buddy that does 450 trees and he got a little over 1200 gallons this year, and birch season is just starting.

 

[TOR]

doing anything of size with maple syrup 3500 is just getting started

 

[mowin]

How much syrup do you have to make to pay for a $3500 evaporator? That's gotta be a lot of syrup.

Alot. Lol. Add in he built a 20x20 sap house, taps, fittings, filters, gas in the saws to cut the firewood, its gonna take a few yrs to recoup.

 

[aart]

doing anything of size with maple syrup 3500 is just getting started

Guessing they missed a zero.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Guessing they missed a zero.

I bet it smells incredible though....

 

[TJAnonymous]

Around here wholesale price is around $55 a gallon in 55 gallon drums.

If you bottle and sell it yourself it’s 80-100 a gallon.

I bottle in 16 and 32 ounce sizes. Next year I am adding 12 ounce size. I sell for about a dollar an ounce.

So somewhere between 350-700 gallons. But remember it’s a multi-year depreciable investment.


I have a buddy that does 450 trees and he got a little over 1200 gallons this year, and birch season is just starting.

Well count me in! I used to head up to Vermont & Maine a long time ago for work purposes. I haven't been there in a decade. Miss the good stuff..... I'd buy a 16 oz bottle from you.

 

[TOR]

Guessing they missed a zero.

from what I read getting into vermont and maine some of those operations need add couple more zeros

 

[mowin]

from what I read getting into vermont and maine some of those operations need add couple more zeros

At least a couple zeros.

Those operations have 20,000-40,000+ taps on vacuum and RO systems. They have wholesale connections worldwide to sell there products.