Scouting trip = history lesson!

[Mead Maple]

Well we have had some gorgeous weather here in VT the last month. It has almost, ALMOST, made up for the mess we had this spring with storms and every few days of rain.
Yesterday, stevej and I were out for a scouting trip here and stumbled across an awesome old sugaring setup in the woods, long since forgotten. Stevej did some research and thinks it could be late 1800s based on its English tin, folded and hammered/soldered edges and fin type shape.
Regardless, brought us directly out of hunting mode to looking around for metal buckets and some giant old growth maple stumps! The pics do not do it justice but the rig we figured was approximately 4x12 or so. Also had a lot of old red brick kicking around so we could only assume it had a chimney of some sorts as well. Hope everyone enjoys a blast from the past!
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[littleTapper]

That's a pretty cool find! Thanks for sharing :)

[maple flats]

Nice find!
I have an old english tin flue pan (3x5) that has about 2" deep flues. It has lots of pin holes, but I still use it when I have an open house to help explain what a flue pan is.

[Galena]

That is so cool! I don't see lots of timbers laying around so maybe it burned and was just never rebuilt?

[steve J]

We where running short on time but at some point it would be interesting to see what other debris may exist. We know the old farm house on this property dates back into the 1800s.

[DrTimPerkins]

Cut down that little sapling growing in the center of the arch at the base of the stem and count the rings, add about 10 yrs for building up some leaf litter for it to grow in. That would give you an approximate minimum age of abandonment.

[Pdiamond]

I have an old one back in my woods that I just haven't had the heart to clean up yet. I like the feeling of the old stuff setting there upside down waiting for that next season that never came.

[Mead Maple]

I'll do some background research on it with the property owner as well. I got word last night that there's another one in the area as well.

[Galena]

there's an abandoned sugar shack with two arches in it, massive old Grimms...however they're in a very well built shed just a minute's walk from my front door :-) Very handy for photo shoots of weird creepy places but sadly not as romantic as stumbling across one in the back woods.

[Mead Maple]

Cut down that little sapling growing in the center of the arch at the base of the stem and count the rings, add about 10 yrs for building up some leaf litter for it to grow in. That would give you an approximate minimum age of abandonment.

Unfortunately the tree is not on property I (or steve J) own. But I know the owners can shed some light on it along with some other neighbors. Next time I'm out there, and that probably won't be long, I'll get some measurements of the tree and species. Didn't even bother to pay attention to that when we were there. My son and I went by again yesterday and there's plenty of bucket remnants, and lots of metal with handles. I might ask the owner about taking a leaf blower with me next time and just using wind to uncover what time has blanketed. That would probably allow for a lot more interesting pictures as well!