YouTube Video Full System Tour of my Machine Room

This is a video that I made this spring to explain what’s in my machine room and what it does as well as the supporting development and operations hardware in my office.

  • m0darn
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    1 year ago

    Very cool! Makes me want to get back out into the bush.

    Is your lot all sugar maples? Or is it a natural forest with more diversity?

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      1 year ago

      Like most things this started with my wife, who is from BC, being excited about living on land with maple trees and saying, “We should hang a couple of buckets and make maple syrup.” We’re a mature second grown forest with mixed mostly hardwood. We tap all maples including Manitobas, sugars, and silvers. It gives our syrup a unique, not store bought flavor. We just tromp through the woods and tap them where we find them.

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        1 year ago

        That’s sweet! (Pun intended)

        I have fond memories of making syrup with my dad at the cabin and would love to do it with my sons but the cabin is in Ontario and I live in BC.

        Is there any profit in it or is it mostly a passion project?

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          1 year ago

          My wife calls it an expensive hobby. I do it because I love it. I don’t make any money at it.