Mid-Wis Maple, Day 21

"I've made lunch," Xavier said, "let's go back to the woods!"

So we spent another day freezing our butts off (after checking that the sap in the pails was frozen, and definitely not running).

X had two candidates for cutting, along with some deadfalls.





Cut a notch...


...drive some wedges...


Tim-ber-r-r!


It bounced, and I caught it just right!


Too much to pull, so cut it in half,


...drag it out...


...and load it on the wagon.


It's maple, and it wasn't quite all the way dead. You can see scars from many years of tapping, and a small icicle (maple sap) at the lower bottom.



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