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Sugar shack work

November 29, 2009

Today started out great. We began the day by fixing up the sugar shack. We installed a rudimentary sink drain for the sink . Mike put in some more rafter braces and cut out a few more logs. The Sugar shack looks amazing, much more wide open. We did not spend much time out in [...]

Running main lines, we’re committed now

November 28, 2009

Well it has been a long time since I have posted something on the site.  I am back up north for the weekend and Mike and I have a lofty goal of running all the mainline in the large part of the bush. This is about 350 taps and from now on it will called [...]

New Design – fresh maple syrup

November 11, 2009

I wanted to take this time to congragulate the new maple syurp website of Tig Tillinghast for his new web design. The site looks amazing and is much easier to navigate, really an amazing job. Tig has some really great stories and ideas on his website which is why he is number one on my [...]

Sap To Syrup Sugar Shack

November 3, 2009

Hey here are a few pics of the Sugar shack upgrades. Enjoy Mike

Videos – marking trees and mainline

November 2, 2009

I posted two videos a few day ago of mike and I running around in the bush marking trees and putting up main lines. As I said I would here they are Enjoy. Marking Trees Marking Main lines