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<blockquote data-quote="3Roosters" data-source="post: 484883" data-attributes="member: 1351">We used to own a summer lake cabin north of Bemidji on about 3 acres, which consisted of mostly maple and basswood trees. Them Maple Trees show beautiful colors in the fall, that's for sure!!! Our neighbors to the west of us were year rounders. He would ask if....besides tapping his trees, if he could tap some of ours....with the gift of some finished syrup of course. lol...He always surmised....that it took about 40 gallons of tapped sap to boil down to produce a gallon of syrup. They are retired folks and he likes to tinker and stay occupied so they enjoyed doing it. I THINK this was his set up also. So we built a POS wood-fired evaporator out of a barrel and some hotel steamer pans and we burn cull firewood.&nbsp; I THINK he and the wife took turns babysitting it at nites. They offered a gallon to us each season but we declined that amount. There is only 2 of us and we do NOT use a gallon a yr. Smaller amount is fine.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="3Roosters, post: 484883, member: 1351"] We used to own a summer lake cabin north of Bemidji on about 3 acres, which consisted of mostly maple and basswood trees. Them Maple Trees show beautiful colors in the fall, that's for sure!!! Our neighbors to the west of us were year rounders. He would ask if....besides tapping his trees, if he could tap some of ours....with the gift of some finished syrup of course. lol...He always surmised....that it took about 40 gallons of tapped sap to boil down to produce a gallon of syrup. They are retired folks and he likes to tinker and stay occupied so they enjoyed doing it. I THINK this was his set up also. [B]So we built a POS wood-fired evaporator out of a barrel and some hotel steamer pans and we burn cull firewood. [/B]I THINK he and the wife took turns babysitting it at nites. They offered a gallon to us each season but we declined that amount. There is only 2 of us and we do NOT use a gallon a yr. Smaller amount is fine. [/QUOTE]

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