Hi Mill Gap Farms, We have three reasons for doing this. 1) Snow. Our typical snow fall used to be 10 ft of snow annually and about 4ft on the level. Snow coming in November and staying on the ground till mid April. Not so much in recent years, but we keep our lines high for the following two reasons . 2) Slope, we have fairly low rolling hills that we are tapping trees on and they do not always slope in the optimal direction and we need to maintain height over our trails. 3) Wildlife, Moose stand 6ft at the shoulders and much higher at the head and bull moose can have large antlers. Then there are bears and coyotes that chew on pipe. We used to have our lines much lower, but soon found swaths of tubing on the ground where moose ran through them and places where the pipe was under snow in big snow fall years. Short answer is snow, slope and wildlife. Thanks for watching and asking questions!
