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thenewguy
01-15-2010, 11:50 AM
Did any of you ontario producers get your 1liter per tap last year?? We had a great year in our area. We have a bucket operation and we got roughly .83 litres per tap. Some of the tubing operations on vacuum got over 1 litre around here.

Big_Eddy
01-15-2010, 01:20 PM
I tapped 97 trees on buckets and made more than 90 litres of syrup. I also dumped sap more than once last season as I boil on a 2x3 flat pan and couldn't keep up. Best year ever - 20 years doing it.

KenWP
01-15-2010, 04:56 PM
The one fellow I know that sugars here with vacuum figures they haven't got more then 3 pounds a tap ever. He's in his 80s and his Grandfather and father tapped before him. The one thing some guys do here is they stop real quick compared to what I would tap. Once a few trees bud they pull everything.

Northern Ont. Maple
01-15-2010, 06:23 PM
In 2009 we had 1100 taps and got 1160 litres of syrup. This year the maple bug is biting hard and we're going for 1400 taps. I can't waite to see what the spring run will be like.

timbers
01-17-2010, 08:08 AM
This past season we got .75 ltr per tap. We thought it was a pretty average year with only a few "big' runs.
Ian

ennismaple
01-17-2010, 01:30 PM
We've been at or above 1L/tap in 2 of the past 3 years but this was the fist time in over 20 years. With more vacuum and tubing improvements we hope this becomes the norm!

Jerome
01-21-2010, 04:51 AM
Last year we ended up 1.59l/tap but I only do 9 trees along my drive so optimal conditions.

ABS5405
01-21-2010, 08:00 AM
Last year we had 2050 taps on buckets and 3150 litres syrup. We fertilize our bush I feel that helps.

Brent
01-25-2010, 07:53 PM
I think we were near 1 L / tap. We figure we hauled in 17400 litres of sap that was better than 2% .... until we ran out of firewood and body energy to do more. And from what I've heard talking to locals, we missed the best 7 - 10 days at the end of the season. This energy issue is why we got a real RO for this year and we're getting serious about oil fired for next year. Anyone got a 2 x 6 oil fired they want to sell ?

RileySugarbush
01-26-2010, 07:29 AM
We had real sweet sap last year. 1.3 liters per tap! I hope it repeats this year