Some Pictures from Sugaring Season

[helwen]

[EDIT: These pictures were from a week or two ago.]




Lyle at the evaporator (where the sap boils/evaporates/becomes syrup-like). You can't see it past the steam, but there's a big flu at the far end of the evaporator.



150 feet of backbone pipeline that L laid out on top of the snow because we couldn't dig out the existing pipeline from under the ice. With the fir trees there, there wasn't enough sun to melt and soften the snow and ice there. South Woods.



One of our trenches in the South Woods, to uncover a pipeline.



That's a sugar maple I'm sitting on, that blew over during the winter. The pipeline is underneath it. When we determined that we weren't going to be able to cut it up at the time, I finished digging out and uncovering the rest of the pipeline on the other side of the tree, as well as another lesser pipeline that goes off to the right that you can't see in the picture. South Woods again.

More in another post.

Comments

[ellid.livejournal.com]

You still have that much snow? Holy crap!

[helwen.livejournal.com]

No, no. Sorry, should have said the pictures were taken a week or two ago.

[fitzw.livejournal.com]

We do still have snow in the South Woods. Not that much, however, but enough that there's not a lot of ground showing yet.

The name of that sugarbush, "South Woods", is a bit misleading. It's south of the farm, but it's on the north slope of a hill, so it doesn't get as much sunlight as other areas.

[fitzw.livejournal.com]

In the picture of the 150 feet of pipeline, at the near edge, you can see the section that I was temporarily replacing going down into the snow just to the right of the pipe laying on the top of the snow.