Posted by Adirondack case guy on February 20, 2014 at 17:16:41 from (74.69.160.79):
We started tapping our 60A sugarbush yesterday. Been doing it for five generations. We are well on our way to hanging 2000 plus buckets, this season In our haydays back in the seventys, we hung 3500 buckets. Got off to a slow start yesterday, and only hung 350 buckets. We have 4 generations of our family working in the woods together. The youngest is a sophmore in highschool. The schools close here in central NY for presidents week, so we have some great help during this week to get the bush tapped. We got in the grove today with more help, and hung 850 buckets, with two crews working each side of the woods roads. It takes 4 people for each crew. One to drill the holes, one to drive the spiles, one to carry and hang the buckets, and one to put the covers on the buckets, plus one person to drive the tractor with the trailer carring all the buckets, covers, spiles, etc. We have two 2cycle gas tappers, we can use when help is abundent. Until 2 weeks ago we had a very cold winter with little snow. The last two weeks the snow became knee high in the woods. "it figures", however the snow will extend the season. It could have been short and sweet, pun not intended. Only time will tell how the season will turn out. For those of you who wonder why we don't use tubing, it don't work on a dead flat 60A square of gronud with 6" of soil over limestone bedrock. BTDT years back. Loren, the Acg.
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