Welcome to Mapledale!

About Mapledale Bat Co.:
I started doing indoor/trim carpentry using a circular saw, drill, and a hammer. Today, I use a table saw, sliding compound miter saw, router, cordless drill, air nailers, jointer, portable planer, and much more knowledge. I also have a lathe, drill press, biscuit joiner, and I use various systems of joinery in my woodworking shop. I can work with all types of wood on many different projects. I also have access to several lumber yards so that hard-to-find wood can be obtained. I can build many things, from jewelry boxes, to kitchen butcher block tables, up to dining room tables.

Measures 24" x 40". Top is made of solid hard maple and a massive 2 3/8" thick which I purchased from a local lumber yard woodworker already made. Base for table is oak aprons and drawer front, and bottom leg rails joined to legs with mortise and tenon joinery. Bottom slats are hard maple. The drawer is half-blind dovetail joined poplar.

I had a lot of fun on this project- it was my first time doing anything larger than a tiny box. It was given to my fiance, now my wife, for christmas in 2001. 

Mapledale Farms

About Mapledale Farms:
Jason and John started the business in 1997 as something good to do after school. We started out with 70 buckets, a little 24"x 33" flat pan to boil on and ended the year with 17 gallons of syrup. The following year, we bought a used 2' x 6' evaporator and boiled 50 gallons on 300 taps. In 2000, we boiled 65 gallons on 400 taps in a new sap house.

2004 turned out to be a great season for us. We made just over 225 gallons of syrup. Not only did our trees give us a lot of sap, we also got sap from a fledgling operation near us that Jason is getting the operation started for the owner. For 2004, they only had tubing set up and no sap house - so we bought some of the sap and boiled it. It made for some very late nights -- we were trying to boil 2,000 taps worth of sap on our evaporator - which is best run on about 1,000 or so.