Vacuuming Sap

At one o'clock this afternoon, Don turned the switch on the new vacuum pump/tubing system for collecting sap. And it worked! and tonight he's already transferring over a hundred gallons out of the collection tank and onto the truck for delivery to the boiling house. I won't miss the back breaking work of trudging through heavy snow with buckets full of sap hanging from my arms. But we still do have 50 buckets hung on the west side of the house where the vacuum system couldn't reach, so there will still be some old fashioned work to be done.