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Although referred to as "...a sanitation strategy developed at the Krueger-Norton sugarbush in Shrewsbury VT...", the original method of cleaning with a calcium hypochlorite solution injected into or pumped into the tubing system was developed at the UVM Proctor Maple Research Center in Underhill, VT, as an alternative to using sodium hypochlorite. Art Krueger was the first adoptee of this method after talking with the researchers at UVM PMRC. He went on to produce a video describing his experience to educate other producers, but he was not the developer of the approach.

Homemade rocket stove evaporators are the best!

What type of filter do you use for the "pectin"

Was wondering about best tapping pattern, up and down or around the tree then move up or down.

So much really good information. I'm very grateful for this resource. I am thankful to have met Dr. Mike a couple of times at WV and KY Maple seminars, and Met Abby in Summersville several years ago. We're going in to our 9th season and some of the many differences in our sugar woods and latitude, compared to many who are further north, are a much shorter season, with many warmer days in between sap runs. I have 1100' of 3/4" mainline collecting 250 sugar maples on 3/16 on steep. north facing hillside. This sap is pumped 900' to the sugar house from the end of the mainline. We have another 170 silver maples on shurflos, and another section of 120 reds/sugars mixed on a shurflos running into our dairy tanks. Our tree density per acre isn't very high, but we've adapted as many best practices as possible to quickly get clean sap from the trees to the sugar camp. I'm sure my sap is in tubing longer than most other producers, so keeping the tubing clean is paramount. There's nearly 1 1/2 miles of 3/16" laterals feeding the mainline and another mile on the shurflo set ups. I have been very successful with our tubing washer set up. Several years ago, I built the air/water pulsator that can be found on The Krueger Norton Sugar House youtube channel. The tops of most of our lateral lines are on a steep ridge and we have no vehicle access, no way I'm hauling even a 3 gallon sprayer to clean from the top down. We pump air/water up, let it sit a day, then drain the main, and pump a few hundred gallons of permeate to rinse. We started with county water, but now use permeate and calcium hypochlorite and air from an oiless air compressor with a check valve on each line. We pump this 900' through 3/4" to the end of the mainline and the air/water solution rides the bubbles through every one of our laterals. Since there is air in the lines, the water rides the bubble uphill, greatly reducing head pressure. I couldn't imagine this working until we put it together When we rinse again pre season, it shows any leaks from squirrels, split lines at fittings etc. This season I'm going to add a spray ball on the end of my pumplines coming into our dairy tank. We run out of sap holding weather long before our leaves bud out. We are in Lawrence County OH, just across the river from Huntington WV. Sugar camp is 590' ASL our highest taps are around 890 'ASL.

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I couldn't cope without the smell of black walnuts filling the air on these colorful autumn days. Each of us would grab a hammer and sit on the side of the road, hammering away. NO they weren't for mom's baking, we just ate and ate and cursed every time we hit a hull. Sometimes even louder than the bicyclists who use to get flat tires driving over those cracked, titanium like shells!

What ppm is 5% paracetic acid. Or how much water to get it to 600 ppm

That hillbilly music is unnecessary and annoying AF.

The forest decides syrup quality and color and it changes throughout the season. The boiler merely gets the syrup to the correct density and then that is your syrup for the day and you read it against the gauge. In Vermont, the density of pure maple syrup must be between 66.9° and 68.9° Brix when the syrup is at 60° Fahrenheit. This density range is measured using a hydrometer or refractometer. 41:36

How long will Walnuts store in the shell?

I picked my walnuts today and was able to get the holes off, but I can’t clean them for three days. Is this going to be a problem with the black hardening on the nut?

Thank you for the video. I just want to confirm that the nuts can be dried in the bulk mesh bags. I don't need to spread them out in a single layer somewhere?

This looks like too much work

Thats a lot of fabrication work for a less than user friendly evaporator.

Thanks for not showing any of the process!

I've seen some taps made of wood where they soak up the inner sap and drain it out. The advantage is that the tap can be shaved off and left inside the tree or re-used each year if you attach a spigot. Any experience with this?

Great info, thank you.

Where did she get the 30 quart evaporator pan?

This video was just incredible! Learned so much! Thank you!🍅

Is it possible to use pectinase to break down the pectin before boiling?

Where can you purchase one of these crackers?

GOD BLESSED 🙏❤

This was a great video but the title is completely misleading 😂 I was expecting a video on how to use your forest to produce income. Thanks for the history though!

Zar nije svaka sorta oraha crna ako nije kalemljen tj kultivisan 😂😂

Wait until they have turned black and very dry. Then there husk them. Much easier and cleaner. Then soak them in water with a little hydrochloric acid. A couple hours or so. Then rinse and dry.

thank you for this information. I've treated this as a "wacky weed" since discovering it and stung while weeding! good to get the right kind of information. thhank you!

I used an antique corn shell to dehull all of my walnuts when they are black . No washing , just solid walnuts. Use a roots and harvest nut cracker, crack into 4 quarter or halves. Then use the cracker jaws to further crack off the shell, result 3 to 4 quarter meats. Sifted and laid on plastic sheet and sorted , meats together, shells out. Fastest way .....2 cups of clean meats ready for freezer in 4 to 5 hours. Used for several years and proven. Larry D.

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you should mention more the poison in the nuts that some plant don't like and it will the plants. the guy behind me had a young tree and some of my plants started to die. i showed him what is affected by the plant and he cut it down. my plants are doing great now. i know you said the name of the poison but did not expand enough about how bad it is .

Great Video ! Loved the Blooper, Nuts get aggressive, lol !

This is a great setup!

Black Walnut trees are great for lumber.

I live in Minnesota and planted Black Walnut bareroot trees I purchased from my extension office. That was 30 years ago. I planted them for the future. The trees have produced nuts, but the squirrels like them.

This video made me think of my grandmother. She had us grandkids cleaning black walnuts for her every fall. Our fingers would be black until Thanksgiving.

Excellent vid. I knew as soon as i saw your pto rig it was a rotted seeder. Ive got 2 of them ive been wondering what to do with.

What is the price on a large bag?

So the stuff in a store is not a black walnut ?

This guy doesn't get there are actually "HULLING" machines that don't involved this much filth work? We've used them for decades. Time to come into the 21st century!!!

I've got 6 and yard is FULL !!! 😊❤

Is it too late to harvest black walnuts after a freeze? I won't be able to get to them all before we freeze and was wondering if I'll be able to finish after.

I was very interested to learn about walnut processing

I built a chest of drawers with screening in the bottom of the drawers. I cut a hole in the side and put my dehumidifier in the basement up against the side, blowing the warm dry air up through the drawers and it dries them out very nicely.

This is so helpful and gives me some ideas. I have several walnut trees on my property and a neighbor who is annoyed with picking up walnuts. I'm really thinking about how to turn these into a small profit.

Very interesting video. Music is terribly distracting.

Who does your shirts? Just joking. Great video! Thanks!

Do you use any other part of the walnut? making stain or oil?

Thank you

Walnuts: The Gateway nut...

*I bought a house in a suburb with a bunch of these trees. They were big and when they dropped the heavy fruit it was unsafe to be under them! Incoming! I learned that black walnuts are a headache! I had to pick up thousands of these every fall and put them out for the town pickup otherwise they destroy the lawn when the hulls get soft and black! I ended up selling the trees to a logger who sold the trunks to Germany for veneer! He made money. I made money. Bye bye headache!*