We just got 18" of fresh heavy and packy snow yesterday and today. It reminds me of the snow you would get in late march. Just got back in from collecting the first batch of sap. I started at 5. took 3 hours, mind you, it is only a 1000 feet from the sugar house. I got the wheeler stuck, then the tractor, then I had to carry the chains, come-a-longs and shovel back to the woods. I knew I should have left the winch on the tractor. Once I got into the woods, the new section I tap was all knocked down by limbs and heavy snow. Did the best I could to clean it up in the moon light. Actually that was the most relaxing part. I will have to re-level (slope) it tomorrow. It only ran about 5-10 gallons on 24 tap there where as the other section has 45 taps and there was 45 gallons. I brought those 45 gallons back to the SH. and loaded into the head tank. The 5 gallon jugs i did not empty, I'll check them in the morning. The tractor went through the snow with no problems, well a lot better anyways when it had the extra ~400 pounds of sap on the back. Decided not to start the evaporator tonight and wait 'till tomorrow.
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