Tag: maple syrup

Man uses backpack mounted drill to tap a maple tree

Man uses backpack mounted drill to tap a maple tree

Man uses backpack-mounted drill to tap a maple tree. A spout with a hook will be inserted into the hole, and the sap bucket will hang from the hook. A flexible metal lid will cover the bucket to protect sap from rain and ebris. Photograph by James Fynmore. 1965. Boonville, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack […]

Emptying sap buckets in Boonville

Emptying sap buckets in Boonville

Two men transferring sap from collection buckets to pails. Photograph by James Fynmore. Boonville, NY. 1965. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Unloading sap at a maple sugar house in Boonville

Unloading sap at a maple sugar house in Boonville

Maple sugar house. Two men stand beside a wooden gathering tank on a specially built low wagon being pulled by a team of horses. The wagon is on a mound at the end of the sugarhouse so the sap can be unloaded downhill into the building’s storage tank. Photograph by James Fynmore. 1965. Boonville, NY. […]

Collecting sap with a horse and wagon near Boonville

Collecting sap with a horse and wagon near Boonville

Man pouring sap into a pail. Another man stands behind him on a sap gathering trailer pulled by a team of horses that holds a large wooden sap gathering tank. Photograph by James Fynmore. 1965. Boonville, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Collecting sap for the Horseshoe Forestry Company in Piercefield

Collecting sap for the Horseshoe Forestry Company in Piercefield

Man carrying a specially made sap gathering pail (tapers from bottom to top to avoid spills), standing beside two maple trees with sap buckets hanging from them. Operations of the Horseshoe Forestry Company. Photograph by George W. Baldwin. 1901. Piercefield, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.