"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

Jakeywax31 said:
Not sure if this is the place for this but here we go. Maybe it’s because I’m coming off of a 15 hour shift at work and I’m loopy🤷. Had a slowish day at work and had plenty of time to watch YouTube knife videos. Since when did people start calling patina “the tiners” pronounced teeners? I have no earthly idea why this bothers me so much but I’m ready to die on this anthill. That is all 😂😂😂. Skip this rant by all means.

Paul
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btb01 said:
I haven’t heard anyone say that, but I hate it already. 🤣 That might even be worse than “slippies.”
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It is worse!! How ugly!!!:mad:🫨🤮👿
 
Another good Saturday at the malls.
Something from Czechoslovakia, Erik Anton Berg of Eskilstuna, Buck, and Victorinox.
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($3, $30, $10, & $10.)
 
A little update for our maple syrup season. Yesterday was rainy and cold, but we went out and gathered sap from all the buckets. I was fortunate to have some family and friends available to help out, and many hands make light work. We did the entire woods in about 4 hours.

One of our giant maple trees blew over during the night, and fell across the trail. We had to cut it into chunks, and drag it away with the tractor.


Here are some photos of us dumping sap into the sap wagon. It's nice having another generation coming along who enjoy getting out into the woods and getting dirty.



When it rains all night, it doesn't matter where you go, it's muddy!

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Back at the Sugar House on Sunday, my wife, my dad, and myself lit the fire and boiled the sap until it was gone. I grab wood from the big pile outside and throw it in close to the evaporator. My wife loads the evaporator, approximately every 5 minutes non-stop until the sap is gone.



You can see how thick the steam is looking across the flue pan.



Here is a shot of my wife checking the syrup hydrometer to see if the syrup is getting close.



About once per hour, we need to rake all the coals out because they build up and block the draft. We pull them out, and then shovel them out to our ash pile outside.

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Rookie82 said:
Back at the Sugar House on Sunday, my wife, my dad, and myself lit the fire and boiled the sap until it was gone. I grab wood from the big pile outside and throw it in close to the evaporator. My wife loads the evaporator, approximately every 5 minutes non-stop until the sap is gone.

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You can see how thick the steam is looking across the flue pan.

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Here is a shot of my wife checking the syrup hydrometer to see if the syrup is getting close.

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About once per hour, we need to rake all the coals out because they build up and block the draft. We pull them out, and then shovel them out to our ash pile outside.

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Thanks for sharing the process. I find very interesting 👍👍
 
Whetstone39 said:
Carl your pictures make me want to try the syrup! :thumbsup:
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Once we get through making it, I'll get some photos of the filtering process, and then after that the jugging process. So far this year isn't look great for quantity, as the weather is showing a big warm-up. I hope the up and down temperatures hold for a few more weeks so we can make more syrup.
 
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