JRR Posted April 30, 2013 Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 Following the Beekeeping AV recently posted on Beechbrook...Another re-working of a 35mm dual projector show from 13-14 years ago.Started out as a 14 minute AV and when digitized 9 years ago (at 800x600) three versions were produced: 14 min, 10 min and this 5 minute version.This is a 1440x1080 version with some updated images for changing technology.click here to download.Also available on You Tube here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yachtsman1 Posted April 30, 2013 Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 Watched the Youtube version, very informative piece about a subject I knew nothing about. Tried it on my pancakes on my trips across the pond, but daren't even look at it now,as my arteries start to throb. Still holds up after all this time. Brought to mind a very comical show I saw some time ago, I think at the NE AV group meeting called I think "Cholesterol", that also had a similar effect on my arteries. Brightened my afternoon.Regards EricYachtsman1. :D/> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRR Posted April 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 Watched the Youtube version, very informative piece about a subject I knew nothing about. Tried it on my pancakes on my trips across the pond, but daren't even look at it now,as my arteries start to throb. Still holds up after all this time. Brought to mind a very comical show I saw some time ago, I think at the NE AV group meeting called I think "Cholesterol", that also had a similar effect on my arteries. Brightened my afternoon.Regards EricYachtsman1. :D/>/>Eric: It is liquid sugar, but some research has a lot of good things to say about itread here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted April 30, 2013 Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 ERICsome background on maple syruphttps://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADFA_enCA470CA470&q=MAPLE+SYRUP+THEFTafter the big ww2 war my Dad would buy a gallon of syrup which would be made buy farmers that owned sugar bushes - their set up was nothing like the one that Jim has shown us - that is a real beautythe ones that i have seen were a shack in the bush with access by horse and sleigh -- sap was collected manually from pails and dumped in a tank on the sleigh - sap was evaporated in trays till the specific gravity was correct then packaged and soldit was a treat we looked forward to every spring -- thanks for the memory JimT'WAS GREAT )KEN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRR Posted April 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 ERICsome background on maple syruphttps://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADFA_enCA470CA470&q=MAPLE+SYRUP+THEFTafter the big ww2 war my Dad would buy a gallon of syrup which would be made buy farmers that owned sugar bushes - their set up was nothing like the one that Jim has shown us - that is a real beautythe ones that i have seen were a shack in the bush with access by horse and sleigh -- sap was collected manually from pails and dumped in a tank on the sleigh - sap was evaporated in trays till the specific gravity was correct then packaged and soldit was a treat we looked forward to every spring -- thanks for the memory JimT'WAS GREAT )KENKen there are still a number of sugar bushes that still collect by bucket and sleigh. And still a good number of wood burning evaporators around as well.I have a friend (the person who is the beekeeper in the last AV) who has buckets on 12 of his maple trees around his house. He boils the sap down on his kitchen stove. Glad it brought back memoriesJim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lin Evans Posted April 30, 2013 Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 Good one Jim!! Thanks!!!It's great to see how the big commercial operations work. I have friends in Vermont who still do it the old ways. When I was visiting them in 2010 I cut a cord of wood for their "sugar shack" to help with the process. They usually produce about 25 gallons of great tasting maple syrup each year and tap their trees by hand and collect in buckets. It's all boiled down in their wood fired evaporator and their 10 acres of maple trees have been producing for about 30 years now...Best regards,Lin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRR Posted April 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 Good one Jim!! Thanks!!!It's great to see how the big commercial operations work. I have friends in Vermont who still do it the old ways. When I was visiting them in 2010 I cut a cord of wood for their "sugar shack" to help with the process. They usually produce about 25 gallons of great tasting maple syrup each year and tap their trees by hand and collect in buckets. It's all boiled down in their wood fired evaporator and their 10 acres of maple trees have been producing for about 30 years now...Best regards,LinYou're welcome Lin.Up here syrup producers use a production of one litre of finished syrup per tap as an estimate for a "normal" year.The featured sugar bush has been in production for over 40 years. In 1998 a very bad 3 day freezing rain storm hit this bush, and many others in the area. A lot of trees had extensive damage but came back in a few years. As a result of the storm, and so much damage caused by downed limbs, all new collection lines and pipelines had to be installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin hill Posted April 30, 2013 Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 Jim,Very informative presentation and good commentary. I now know what goes into making maple syrup.Thank you for sharing.Colin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRR Posted April 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 Jim,Very informative presentation and good commentary. I now know what goes into making maple syrup.Thank you for sharing.ColinGlad it was helpful.I should look at my shows and see if there is something I can put up from South Africa, in addition to "the Dance" and "African Flowers" that are already on Beechbrook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin hill Posted April 30, 2013 Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 Jim,Have seen your "African Flowers",it was a superb show.Colin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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