{"id":9832,"date":"2023-02-18T23:05:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T04:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=9832"},"modified":"2023-02-19T10:09:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T15:09:35","slug":"maple-tapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=9832","title":{"rendered":"Maple Tapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of taps with a hook for a bucket (which seemed, to me, like it would put a lot of stress on the tree!), we use ratchet straps to hold our maple buckets. One end of the &#8220;S&#8221; is passed into the fabric loop that holds the other &#8220;S&#8221; &#8212; and that other &#8220;S&#8221; becomes our bucket hook. I like the bright orange straps because it makes finding trees in the woods very easy (bright white buckets look obvious too, but they can hide behind the tree).<\/p>\n<p>Our first set of buckets has large holes drilled into the lids &#8212; which are great for larger trees with multiple taps. But the new buckets we bought this year have tube-sized holes to prevent rain from leaking into the bucket.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230218_174213.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230218_174213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230218_174213.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230218_174213-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230218_174213-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230218_174213-750x1000.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of taps with a hook for a bucket (which seemed, to me, like it would put a lot of stress on the tree!), we use ratchet straps to hold our maple buckets. One end of the &#8220;S&#8221; is passed into the fabric loop that holds the other &#8220;S&#8221; &#8212; and that other &#8220;S&#8221; becomes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[107,108,119,1321],"class_list":["post-9832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maple-sugaring","tag-maple","tag-maple-sap","tag-maple-syrup","tag-maple-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9834,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9832\/revisions\/9834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}