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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 [...]

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

Main line Plan

October 19, 2009

Well Mike and I have been incredibly busy the last few days, mostly clearing brush.  Our plan is to eradicate every single balsam on the lot. We also finished layout the rest of the bush. We marked out our 500+ taps with taps with flagging tape, to good new is it was in a much [...]