The Bovine Bugle

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's...logs?!

While waiting for the sap to start running again, I finished cutting some more hardwood logs to fill out the load I had started almost two months ago. The ground had frozen up just enough so I wasn't skidding the logs through the mud or rutting up the road through the woods. My neighbor, Art Davis, had offered to truck the logs to a mill in St.Albans once I had the load ready.

Art came this afternoon to load up the truck. He supervised, while his son-in-law skillfully operated the knuckleboom loader and placed the logs on the back of the log truck. I had logs located in three different spots off our road, but it didn't take him anytime to have them loaded. Art actually had to go back to his place and get another truck to be loaded with some of the logs. I guess I had more cut than I thought. With the logs all loaded, they headed to Hudak's Mill to sell the black cherry, red oak, and white ash that the boys and I had worked to cut and skid over the last few weeks.

Just before leaving, Art said he had checked some of our sap buckets and a few of them were almost full. It looked like tomorrow would be a busy day gathering sap. That was something we had been looking forward too for the last two weeks!

Look for a "Moo-vie News" video of our team tapping the maple trees to gather the sap, here in The Bovine Bugle on Monday!

--Jonathan (left), Howmars Farm
Franklin, Vermont

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Posted by Blogger Chris at April 5, 2006 02:57 PM