Our new sap truck! Well new to us anyway, it does have 250,000+ miles on it. We’ll be attaching a 5,025 gallon poly tank to the bed once it arrives later today.

Before tubing our new properties we always like to have a selective cut done by our forester. This frees up canopy space for our maples to grow, eliminates undesirable species and damaged/slow growing trees, and of course produces lumber! This time we decided to keep two trailer loads of timber for future projects. A local Amish mill cut up 3,500 board feet for us. We’ve already used some of the tulip poplar for one of our pump houses, and we plan on using some of the oak and cherry for furniture once it finishes air drying.

Taking a break from running lines today to get our tractor out of the mud, not our typical January weather here lately!