They had a scraping tool Jed and when the sap started to harden they'd reopen the wound. I can just see you with your tongue stuck to a stumpRay: Wow! Turpentine. You can't tell me that this isn't the coolest thread in the universe. So, do you think the old-timers made all of those little V-groves at the same time, or in succession, so as not to bleed the little pig out. Dang, ya'll got some sap. Me? I'd be all rollin around in it and lickin it off the stump and stuff.
Great pics!
Sam....buy a maasdam!