A cold day here in central /ny

Well, we never broke the freezing mark here today. Coldest day of the fall season. Corn harvest here at Clinton Camp Farm is about over, only a few acers to go. and the 2013 crop season is over.
We got a lot of fire wood to cut for the maple syrup evaporators yet, this fall, before the spring syrup season.
Loren, the Acg.

Looks cold. How much syrup do you make? Do you sell it?

Cheer up it will get colder.

I have got a ways to go. I do everything with wagons but somedays it feels like I am doing it with 5 gallon buckets instead. Hopefully I can upgrade the grain handling portion of the operation this offseason.

Come a little bit west. Twenty-one degrees and 4 inches of snow this morning.

Now that is just downright depressing and not the caliber of stuff we are used to from you Loren! lol RB

We made 532gals. last spring. I shipped the last of our syrup out last week to fellow YTers last week. We have bought some bulk syrup from two realitives, who also make syrup to keep a farmers market buyer stocked. Our family has made maple syrup the traditional way for near 100 yrs in our sugar bush. We still hang buckets and boil the sap down in wood fired evaporators.
We plan on hanging another 750 buckets this Feb., so we don't have to buy any bulk syrup and rebottle it. In our haydays we had 3500 buckets hung in a 60A woods. We will be hanging 2200 this spring, and hopeing to make 700 plus gal. It is a lot of work, but fortunately we have 3 generations of family involved, plus some really enthusiastic neighbor kids.
Loren, the Acg.

Thanks for all the info. I have never been around this. Would love to know more. One bucket per tree? How often dumping the bucket. Some day I will order some good stuff from you. Do love Syrup. More photos please.

Good pics. I don't think anything makes a good picture like a woods in the winter, snow and all. I finally got started cutting firewood this week. Got a couple of loads in before I have to stop for deer season. I'll get at it again in December.

Warmer weather is on the way. It was 50F today again in Minnesota, after a few days that stayed below freezing. Last weeks snow is almost all melted.

Really nice pics Loren. Warm weather is on the way tho, got above freezing today for the first time in 3 days.

(quoted from post at 21:21:43 11/13/13) Really nice pics Loren. Warm weather is on the way tho, got above freezing today for the first time in 3 days.

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LOL yea that 8F at 9AM: stuff in mid November is too cold too soon. We got up to 48F today.

Rick

No wind at least, just the ears got cold today.

I find that amazing, the sugar bush, and the amount of wood you put up to make that happen, + heat your home, didn't you say it was 100 cord or something like that ? Thats quite a bit of hard work, with everything else, an awesome tradition.

I cut mostly dead or dying off trees, storm damage etc. just seems at some point it would run out or I'd be clearing woods to maintain what I need every year, but thats not all that much 4-5 cord.

We had that hard, cold rain Mon night and then it dropped to 21F. Miserable, miserable weather to work in. But the sheep need to be moved to fresh pasture every other day. Soaked right thru Mon night, and I still don't think I've warmed up. Tues was c-o-l-d. Wind was whipping here and all the stuff I hadn't gotten picked up is froze down. Heifer got out in the night and wound up at a neighbors 3 miles away. Had to walk the idiot back. Worked through that mess plus a Town Board meeting that didn't end till 10PM, mostly because some people can't help but ask the same question 23 different ways trying to get the answer they want. Yesterday wasn't near as bad but I'm still kicking myself for not getting some of my stuff moved before the freeze.

Supposed to be 55F Sunday. Sounds good to me!

I recall how the wind can whip and how much colder it gets up where you are, also remember driving from here to Malone in some blinding snow early on monday mornings to get to the job at the prison before 7AM. I had to change the oil to something more viscous, install a higher CCA battery in the truck. Could not believe how stiff that 5 spd would get on some mornings up there in the F150. We got a little rain, must have broken up when it passed by.

We get people doing that at the town meetings, planning/zoning, asking irrelevant questions, being redundant, bringing up something that is for another meeting and or just taking too much time, one thing is for sure, there's always one. They have to be reminded about the time limit, and you know its ticking someone on the board off, in reality, its ineffective, you lose your credibility and so on. Be concise, to the point, and prepare what you have to say, you get a lot more respect, your point is made without all the padding in between. I have an important one to attend this evening, there will be one doing this I am sure, I try get up first to speak, so I can leave right after, people have to understand, everyone has things to do, don't come the meeting and drag it on, please LOL!

It's tougher when it's one of the elected Town Officers asking the stupid questions!

Why is that case sitting outside? Lol, yep it's been cold, but for me it beats the 96 degree weather of this past summer! Lol

(quoted from post at 19:35:02 11/14/13) Why is that case sitting outside? Lol, yep it's been cold, but for me it beats the 96 degree weather of this past summer! Lol

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Spoken like someone who has lots of storage space! I'd bet 90% of the tractors and equipment up here sits in the weather. Just economics.