Steam Traction

MAPLE SYRUP PLANT

By Walt Thayer
Published on January 1, 1979
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1. Business end of the pump system. That line on the ground is from the east end of the woods.
1. Business end of the pump system. That line on the ground is from the east end of the woods.
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3. Sap coming from the line into the tank. This is at start up and the flow is pretty heavy.
3. Sap coming from the line into the tank. This is at start up and the flow is pretty heavy.
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4. Steam rises from the evaporator. 10,000 gallons of water left in this way.
4. Steam rises from the evaporator. 10,000 gallons of water left in this way.
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2. Roads are always a problem!
2. Roads are always a problem!

Wenatchee, Washington 98801

Pictured is the maple syrup plant, owned by Allard Peterson of
Route 1, Box 78, Eland, Wisconsin. All trees in his ‘sugar
bush’ are connected by a plastic hose or pipeline, which
carries the sap to a holding tank, and from there it is boiled down
into maple syrup, which is ‘lick slickum good’ on homemade

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