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Maple Sugaring, March 2007

This past spring, Sue went up north to visit her grandparents and helped her brother Scott gather sap. He decided to tap a whole lot of maple trees at Gramie and Grampie Ovitt's and sell the sap to a local sugar house. What an adventure that was. It's quite the process, even now-a-days with things like tractors.

Sue's brother Scott, gathering up the sap from a tap.

Then he hauled the sap back out of the woods to the tractor.

It takes a lot of little, white pails to fill up the bulk tank on the tractor.

Off to the next stop to gather more sap.

Sap buckets collecting sap from the taps in the maple trees.

Close up of the tree tap and the little hook the buckets hang off of.

The path into the woods was pretty muddy. Even with the tractor, Scott almost got stuck in the mud a couple of times.

The bulk tank at the back of the tractor. The strainer helps keep most of the junk out.

A view back at Gramie and Grampie Ovitt's farm house and barn.

Grampie took a little break from chores to visit with Sue and Scott when they came back from the woods.

Finally, Scott had to transfer the sap from the bulk tank one more time to bring it off to the local sugar house.

Last Updated: 12/24/07