We have been showing the sugaring operation to a few people, and have had some inquiries already, thanks to Maple Trader. It's a hard place to let go of, but we hope that whoever ends up buying it will use it for sugaring!
We have been showing the sugaring operation to a few people, and have had some inquiries already, thanks to Maple Trader. It's a hard place to let go of, but we hope that whoever ends up buying it will use it for sugaring!
Great video! What's the price on the land? Skidder come with it?
Yes Great video Revi, I may check it out tomorrow while I'm in the area, OK? Had a great surprise visit from Hambone and his wife here in the Mts, they where checking their camp and going right by my driveway. So I showed them my modest operation and basically the whole property. I'm closing down, but still boiling for my younger brother. I went over my best, 8+ gallons. The sap is turning color and taste, I've been tapped since Jan 27th Enough!! I will post the break down in a day or so.
16 x 24 Sugar Shack
2 Turkey Burners
416 Cat Backhoe
2000? Artic Cat
Homemade R.O. and Vacuum System
84 Taps in all
Get a diffrent wife and keep sugaring! Priorities!!!
Salisbury Sugarworks,,Parker Rowe, and friends
Salisbury, N.H.
1988 taps in 09
over 2500 on vac in 2010
no buckets in 2010
2815 taps in 2011
shooting for 3000 in 2012
4000 taps? In 2014
5x16 wood fired "Mighty Marvin"
50 cords in the shed
Old, old R.O.
Charter member Andover/Salisbury Mapleholics
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How about you switch from sugarbush to coffee finca? We could set something up as an exchange like a sugar house - coffee house partnership!
I spent two summers in Xela. Enjoy your time in Guatemala and good luck with the sale. It sounds ideal.
Sean
Woodville Maples
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Around 300 taps on tubing, 25+ on buckets if I put them out
Mix of natural and mechanical vac, S3 Controller from Mountain Maple
2x6 W.F. Mason with Phaneuf pans
Deer Run 250 RO
Ford F350
6+ hives of bees (if they make it through the winters)
Keeping the day job until I can start living the dream.
Definitely, check it out! It's right on a paved road, so park and walk around if you want! 1 Burrill Hill Road, Skowhegan. Sorry, the skidder wasn't ours. We just had it parked there while we were doing a cut. There is a lot of good wood on the property, because the first cut 10 years ago was to get the junk out. The price is $83,000, which is a pretty good price considering the sum of the parts. 40 for the land, 25 for the shack, 5 for the evaporator and 13 grand worth of stumpage not counting maples. There a really nice woodyard. The maples have been lightly tapped, so it would yield a lot more than we have time for if a small vacuum was installed. There are over 500 taps possible now, and maybe more in the future.
Last edited by Revi; 04-04-2016 at 06:47 PM.
Coffee Finca
Not a bad idea! I know some people who had a coffee finca near Purulha.
My wife is actually okay with it, but I'm retiring in 2 years, and my friend's wife doesn't like him being away so much this time of year. So we'll see. I caught myself looking at a lot and wondering how many maples were on it in the place we're moving to when we retire.Originally Posted by Parker
I met my neighbor and inspiring mentor, Froggy (Jim Freyenhagen - quite the character study in himself)Froggy.jpg, 19 years ago when he had been tapping the big sugar maples we had at our old farmhouse we had then (and producing well over 300 gallons of syrup from other properties as well & calling it an "awful bad" year!). At that time he had been doing it for quite a while when he was retired from the Coast Guard. He thought he was too old then - calling it a "labor of love", but he's still doing it today - 19 years later!
Who's "sadly" and "reluctantly" tossing in the towel?! You're far from retiring, if I'm reading you correctly,
Maine Moonshine
117 Sugar maples & 60 red maples on 9 acres, buckets, Leader 1/2 pint arch w/36x24 pan
No shack (...yet??)
When you start to hear the spring peepers, you know your taps have overstayed their welcome.
Clarification please: is your wife ok with continued sugaring or getting a new wife?
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