57 taps after 5 days have produced 77 gallons of syrup. Was able to run my 2’x4’ for 3 hours today.
A bit disappointing
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57 taps after 5 days have produced 77 gallons of syrup. Was able to run my 2’x4’ for 3 hours today.
A bit disappointing
I have 20 taps in.
Boiled down 38 gallons from the last couple of days, working on 15 from today.
A friend in town has a couple of taps in and I give him 5-10 gallons at a time.
I boil on two turkey fryers, he boils over a campfire.
My first nearly done batch is super dark, like all of mine was last year. Every year turns out differently, but last year everything was as dark as molasses, looks like this year will be too.
Finally got to about 115gal off our 62 taps so started the process up yesterday. Today was able to draw off about 3.5l of syrop. Weather not living up to forecast so still low sap flow. Will likely be able to run tomorrow but have to stop after that for at least a day or two. At one point during our "mostly sunny " day we had a white out blizzard with 40kph winds! Thankfully the snow only lasted 10 minutes but wind was strong all day.
210 Litres / 55 gallons in less than 24 hours. Now we’re talking!
Things ran pretty good in my area today. Will collect tomorrow am to get a total of sap for today. This week is looking not bad weather wise for us on the Bruce.
Today was absolutely mad! Collected 125 Gallons off sap for the day, took the afternoon off and in 4.75 hours evaporated 150 gallons of sap all measuring over 2%!!
Today was a slow running day, thankfully!
I have two trees in my front yard, 5 taps, with hanging buckets. I emptied them late this morning, getting about 5 gallons. I didn't touch the other drop line buckets as they only got half full.
I have been boiling all day to catch up with everything I had left over from yesterday. I intend to get all of the sap to a boil as some was starting to get cloudy. I'd be ok if tomorrow was a slow running day too, so I can get everything finished and bottled.
I don't have anything for measuring sugar content, but I am definitely getting better than 40:1 I'll know better when I finish off what I have so far. I'll keep anything I collect tomorrow separate. I have tapped only sugar maples.
Hi FanshaweGirl. Funny how here in Caledon the sap was running hard. Either feast or famine isn't it?
Collected 115 gallons from 58 taps today. Been boiling since 6ish down 60gallons still like 120 to go. Drew off around 10L so far tonight. Sap so far has been averaging 3-4%!
It sure is! Today was overcast all day, with light rain that started in the afternoon. We hit a high of 9C. We're not going below freezing tonight, so tomorrow may be a slow day again. But the next several days after that are back to prime running temps!Quote:
Originally Posted by Run Forest Run!
I may just have to start selling "organic maple water", available in 5 gallon buckets! :D
Mark that 3-4% is nuts! I’m just happy I’m getting over 2% this yearQuote:
Originally Posted by MarkReynolds
Slow and steady here.
• 80 taps with approx. 160 gallons sap this past week.
Nice start to the season!
Curious to know how everyone’s day went sap wise. Mine all but dried up with this excessive warmth. It’s always so confusing.
I got 117L on Wednesday, diddly on Thursday and squat today. Good thing I saved some of my sap from Wednesday for my demo tomorrow. Hopefully the hurricane winds will have calmed down a bit by then! :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Smokeshow
Day three of cold temps and very slow running. I'm finally getting caught up!
I'm leaving the sap in the buckets today just to keep them weighed down in this wind. Final bucket of sap is boiling away, probably be late tonight before it's all ready to bottle. Will probably wait till tomorrow to finish it all. I've got half a batch of nearly finished syrup waiting in pickle jars.
Saturday is supposed to be +5 and sunny, -1 overnight, +7 on Sunday. Should start up the run again.
I am just south of you Fanshawe Girl in Belmont. a nice day off as its been busy.. looks like tomorrow might start up again.
Actually, I live in Lambton County. Went to Fanshawe College.Quote:
Originally Posted by canadian_diesel1964
It does look like tomorrow will get busy again. At least I'll have had a chance to catch up and start fresh again.
You never know, buyers do sometimes turn up on threads looking to purchase sap!Quote:
Originally Posted by FanshaweGirl
It's +4C and sunny here. I just went and emptied my buckets, most of the sap was from yesterday that I had left to weigh the buckets down. But, the trees are starting to drip pretty consistently now. Round two has started!
I have about 7L of syrup on the stove just about ready for bottling.
Another 5.5L in bottles.
By my numbers, it looks like I'm getting 28:1
Maybe one of these years I'll have the $$ to spend on a refractometer and be able to check actual sugar content.
Boiled today and made about 10l but sap is not running, very little over past three days. Will use up the rest of our stored sap tomorrow but does not look like we will get sap tomorrow either! Not sure how this season is going to play out!!
I collected 74 Litres at 6pm off of my 58 taps today. It was all from today because yesterday things were pretty dry. Tomorrow looks promising!
Anyone producing any amber syrup? I have about 15 litres of golden to finish off.
Grabbed another 27 gallons of sap this afternoon. Buckets were half full again this evening, but I have nowhere to put anything more, so it's staying in the buckets till tomorrow. Maybe the freezing temps overnight will leave some ice in the buckets to help reduce.
Do you toss all the ice?
I toss the big chunks that are in the sap buckets.
I got lucky today. Trees provided exactly 100 gallons of syrup between last night and this evening. Boiled it down and now time for bed.
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6.5L bottled on Sunday. A little darker since I overboiled the evaporator once.
That's fabulous wobbletop.
+3 and sunny here today. Still finishing yesterdays sap, have just a bit more to get into a pot. The sap has been going back and forth between clear and cloudy, right out of the trees, so I'm trying to keep the batches separate just in case some tastes off a bit. Anything that's cloudier or maybe tastes off a bit, will go to sugar.
This sun is glorious! Has me thinking I’m in for a heavy load when I get home.
The sun is glorious today! But I've got a cold wind coming in off Lake Huron, so it's still super chilly out there.
Dont get too excited! We just collected about 40gal from our 62 trees so ok but nothing to write home about! Tomorrow is looking to be very good.
Not much going on in my bush today I got the cold Huron winds also. Lines to shack started a drip around 2ish. Not much in the buckets. To date around 250g from 60 trees. Will bottle my 2nd batch tomorrow. Putting the last of the sap through the arch as I am writing this. Might have to put more taps out. Was hoping for a good year so I am 40 taps shy of last year. I am starting to feel the lack of sap
I just went and collected. 20 gallons today, with a couple left in buckets because I ran out of space. I need to grab a couple more buckets.
Sitting around 245 gallons of sap from 20 taps.
Well I didn’t do too shabby. Just got back from collecting 300 litres / 80ish gallons. My property is sheltered somewhat from the winds and the sun definitely helped out.
To date I’ve collected 1910 Litres / 500 gallons and I suspect between tomorrow and Thursday my trees will provide at least another 6-700 litres. I’ve started to drop in sugar to 2% average which tells me that I will start to produce amber instead of golden. At least that’s how it’s been in the past for me.
Hoping to reach my goal of 3000 Litres by weeks end and pull my taps. Not living where we harvest begins to take a toll on the body.
Hope everyone has a great season!
Eternally perplexed! Yesterday expected very little and was surprised. Today I expected a lot and was surprised!
Here’s to wondering what tomorrow will be like.
Should be a good run today... in Wellington County... and forecast looks decent for the next 6 days straight.
Today went fairly well, made about 14l of syrop, collected about 200l of sap from 62 taps. Only downer was after my last draw off I was trying to decide if I should shut down for the night or keep on going as everything had just been ticking along all day. Emptied some buckets into the collection tank and when I returned to the evaporator discovered that the finishing pan float valve had stuck open and pan was flooded to about 3" depth! There goes the sugar gradient! On the bright side the machine made the decision for me as to whether to shut down! So far this year we've collected 2200l of sap compared to 3200 last year. Does not look like we will exceed last year. Calling for sap flow on Monday but after that temps are shooting up and I fear that might be the end.
Very slow drip today but collected 110 gal today around noon from yesterday. Still only 60 taps so far. It’s kinda nice being able to keep up. I will prob put another 15-20 for a last big run at the end of my season.
That’s a pretty sweet haul HK!
It’s been slow for me the last 3 days. Just enough to have to boil because I’m out of storage space / weather is to mild but not enough to really crank the ole evap up! Only got 160 litres off of 58 taps in 24 hours.
I’ve harvested 2,600 litres of sap to date. I have an extremely sweet pan that is probably holding 20L of finish and I bottled 31 litres today of batch one and two. 13 for batch one and and 18 for batch 2.
Will probably pull my taps tomorrow. Sugar has dropped off and I’m tired. On the plus side, I’ve shed 5 pounds in 2 weeks!!!
My pre season goal was 50 litres of finished and I think I’ll get there.
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It looks a lot darker than it is. I’ll snap a pic when they’re so natural light around.