Maple Syrup Time/Repurposing An Old Chopper Box
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- Опубликовано: 27 фев 2024
- Earlier than normal, but the sap is flowing at Trinity Dairy. Jennifer and the kids put in 22 taps this year. This is just our second year making maple syrup, but we have all been bitten by the maple bug. Follow along as we cook the sap into the golden syrup. Alan was recently offered a couple of Gehl chopper boxes to use for whatever as they were no longer usable as chopper boxes anymore. We decided to try and use one as a place to cook the sap in. The owner did want the running gear back, so the Case 830 and Gehl Skid Steer got put to work taking the box off the running gear and into place. The box will be very appreciated as the temps took a dramatic drop that night and the wind picked up.
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Alan Klejeski
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Sturgeon Lake, MN 55783
Trinity Dairy was established in 2006, in Minnesota. Alan and Jennifer farm with their 5 children; Jessica, Justin, Jordan, Joshua, and Jason. We milk a mix of 33 Jersey, Holstein, Brown Swiss, Guernsey, and Ayrshire cattle. We also enjoy sharing our family's love of Draft Horses and using them for logging and other farm work. Dairy Farming in Minnesota can be challenging, but it's a lifestyle we really enjoy. Subscribe today to watch our small family dairy farm and family grow while continuing to thank our Lord for the blessings we've been given.
It's so wonderful to see you raising the next generation right. They are learning the best values on that farm. You are giving them so many amazing experiences. Please stay safe, and God bless.
Great show, love seeing old things repurposed, and love seeing the whole family. 👍👏🐄
It’s always a pleasure to see your life on the farm and omg that maple syrup looked delicious!!! I always get a joy of seeing the kids out there and having fun helping mom and dad. You are a truly blessed family and I hope you have an amazing year on the farm!!! God Bless you all
Tks for sharing. I been waiting for your syup making. Hope your having a great run. I understand the smell of sap boiling. You never get tired of it and you never forget it. Chopper boxes look really nice. Great find. Going to make darn nice sugar bush for you.
That is a great idea with the chopper box. Also the maple syrup looks delicious. Time for pancakes.
Chopper Box Sugar Shack, I like it.
Keep adding taps each year and one day viewers will be able to get Trinity Maple Syrup 😋
That's awesome tapping the trees lots of work to process maple syrup kids enjoy that great videos 😊
Nice seeing more people making syrup!
I started first week of February! Up in pine city Minnesota, the sap has been flowing like a river!
Thats a neat idea for a use of a old chopper box great video as always
Maple syrup is so sweet and good.
mmmm, I bet that Maple Syrup will taste good.
That chopper box will work good for a storage, I never thought of that, great idea.
Talk about thinking outside the box , What a great idea for the wagon now a nice shed that didnt cost an arm and leg , That maple syrup sure looks tasty too , Great video and regards from Ohio !
That maple syrup was pouring out of those trees. Good work!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I love seeing the kids doing this I have been sugaring for 30 years and use a wood system myself if you boil in shallow pans it will go faster but whatever you do its all good :)
We were wondering if we shouldn't fill the pans as full and add more often, but we weren't sure what to do! Thanks for commenting.
Another very interesting video Thank you 😊😊😊
I see people tapping trees in their yards in town. It's getting to be quite the production wherever there are Maple trees.
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I was just at an auction that had several nice boxes that looked like yours & they went really cheap - now I know why
Great idea
Living the good life i quess, thanks and greetings from a Dutch dairyfarmer
Good luck with making syrup, it was always fun as a kid doing it until it became work.lol. enjoy, lots of memories for the little ones.
Looks like the same stove that we had for cooking pumpkin down for pie filling 😋
👀🙄🐾👍Great video Alan Jennifer and the kids
We're boiling tonight!
Love it ❤
Love those Case tractors. We had one with a hand clutch I drove as a kid!!!
Great second life for the chopper box. Maple syrup looks like a good crop so far. Thx
You may have to invest in a smaller 2x4 pan an arch 😊❤ that would be great. Love seeing the kids an all the excitement. Happy sugaring
Hello fun to make maple syrup. Enjoyed your video. Have a great day.
Awesome job on the syrup
If y’all turn the old chopper box into a sugar shack . Sounds like the beginnings of a small side business or at least some great birthday presents.
Excellent video again thanks for sharing great looking syrup
I enjoy watching y'all working
Very nice job and God bless y'all
A little bit of advice from an old-timer: Enjoy every minute of time spent with your wonderful children, they grow up way too fast and move on with their own lives. I recently read that, as parents, by the time a child is 18 you will have spent 95% of the time you will have with them.
Alan, you are so correct about Gehl boxes. Good design, but the under carriage always rots out. We have a 970 just like this one that let go last year. Also, the unloading beaters tend to rot out and they are now close to $500 apiece.
Grandpa and I did it one year. A lot of work I remember. But it was fun.
Did the same thing with a chopper box makes good firewood storage
How awesome reminds me of our set up for sap years ago small stove about 15 taps now we went big 500 taps vacuum pump etc but I had some health issues so no sap this year 😢 God willing maybe next but God bless you and your family that chopper box will be a great shed to work from keep up the good work
U got a good set up if memory serves 40to1 40gal sap one gal syrup lot of work but worth it 👌
FYI, 66 brix will keep mold from forming. If you see it start, dump it into a pot and boil it a little more. 👍
When I tapped in the 70s with my kids couple times I put hot dogs in the boiling sap for them tastes good
Maple sugar time.... yummy
I'm ready guys I'll b over for pancakes bacon eggs with your fresh syrup love u guys❤
If you use RO filters you will remove a lot of the extra water so you won't have to cook it as long.
Hi guy’s, nice video. Who is this lady named Gail, I see her all over the place 😂 I think that box is big enough to hold a bunch of kids. Great job repurposing it. I made mine into a chicken coop, take care 🇨🇦👍❤️🚜
To see if it's thick enough, dip a tablespoon in and take some out, hold it up and dump the syrup off the spoon, if it just runs off, cook it more, you want it to kind of just come to the end of the spoon and the drops should stick, then break off! That's how you do it without a thermometer or a hydrometer.
Don't if you know but you can put two or three taps in a 12-14 inch trees. If you want more syrup.
Nothing like pure maple syrup
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Flat bed on that running gear. Wonder how many small bales it would haul? I see pancakes in your future!
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You can send some syrup out here
Very nice and good job what do you do with syrup after your done cooking it and got idea with that old chopper box
We enjoy it on our pancakes.
Great video 😊👍,did you guys tap any box elders?
No we didn't this year.
put a tap on a power pole makes people laugh
That syrup probably tastes a little tangy 😂
That's how city folks make it.
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That running gear should make a great hay wagon or mount one of your chopper boxes on to have a stronger running gear! how long did it take to boil down that pan of sap?
I have to bring the running gear back.
@@trinitydairy Oh too bad they are good strong gear.
Do you have the sugar maple trees or just the box elder maples like us?
These are silver maple.
Would ship any syrup out? Wouldn't mind trying some.
Maybe someday!
Do you need a certain type of maple to tap?
Any type of Maple works. Certain maples have a higher sugar content in the sap. You can even tap boxelder trees as they are in the Maple family.
That's good to know. Thank you
a, thats the cheap way or you can buy small outfits worning to you maple fever is an awful thing to deal with, next is to have alan make an arch out of an old fuel oil tank there are lots of plans on line to make you a real good stove or you can go to smokey lake maple there in mich god bless you and yours in the syrup buiss ness get your candy thermometer and cook to around 190
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