Posted by Harold Hubbard on March 16, 2015 at 04:22:22 from (70.16.213.240):
In Reply to: Done! posted by Donald Lehman on March 15, 2015 at 12:49:38:
We are all tapped, waiting for the weather.
Forty years ago, everything was on buckets, 2200 of them. By mid February Dad was turning away people who wanted to work sugaring. He used to hire two or three men full time, and several high school kid after school. In general we all enjoyed the work, it was a good way to finish winter and avoid cabin fever.
As the years passed, hired help became more expensive, and harder to find. We converted to tubing, first on the steepest nastiest terrain, then more or less over the whole place.
Dad passed away in 2000, and I was really scrambling to keep things going. In 2002 we got five feet of snow in March. No buckets were hung that year, by popular demand. "You think I'm dumb enough to wade through that "stuff" and carry pails?"
Two years later the only help I could find was one thief and one druggie. I declined their services, and cut back to only those taps that would run directly to the sugarhouse, so there was no time spent hauling sap. My sons were eight and ten that year, and the whole season was difficult. I had a couple of friends help me tap, and struggled through.
Since then, I have been getting one or another of my nephews for a couple weeks each year to help set up, and this year myolder son is home and unemployed, so it should go better. Unfortunately, I am not nineteen years old any more, and am having some health issues. Nothing that will actually affect working, but just require me to be away for appointments, most likely at critical times.
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