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Wow what a strange year
Figured I would run up to the cottage & boil off my last 30 gallons yesterday
arrived to find everything frozen & white LOL
then it shot up to 10 degrees , so I boiled off my 30 gallons made 8 litres of sap
and collected another 55 gallons of sap, hope I can get back up this Tuesday
Hi BryanEx, Size Give me plenty of place, have counters, a big propane stove to cook/finnish, table and chairs for helping peoples, and some inside drywood. This is also the limit size (20 M2) in Qc for a "forest shelter" whit no taxes.
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See another sugar maker with a beard.Has to be a rule or something.I need to make some kind of shelter also this summer.Between plastic and cold I get rained on all day and night boiling. Should be done tonight as trees are budding and no frost in site now.Time to maybe plant a garden LOL
collect and boiled another 2 gallons of syrup today..14 days forecast is no freeze at all, lots of rain in next days. i think it will be last boil tomorrow.:cry:
Make last run this morning, collect 50 litres cloudy sap, boiled all i have, empty reserve barrel, empty pans, finnish on propane stove.
Make 13 litre of syrup today.
Total for this year is 95.5 litres syrup from 3345 litres sap.
it is twice production from last year.
Ratio 35:1, about the same of last year.
Now the fun begin...Cleaning and storing, in french "Cabanner"
(put thing back in the shack).
Guess I am done, no buds on any trees that I could see anywhere but all my 30 gallons of sap smelled sour a bit, it was cloudy but not stringy
I threw it all out
glad I had put about 15 gallons in the fridge as a backup plan, otherwise it was an hour & a half of driving for not
we boiled it down got almost 2 litres and called it a season
Pretty proud of my homemade barrel & file cabinet setup, it was our 2nd year, last year we made 7.5 litres and were dam proud, this year final total 14.5 gallons