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Ok Ken if you have been to North Bay head south from their down hwy 11 30 min. you pass the towns of Callander, Powassan then you turn off exit 390 onto hwy 522 Trout Creek we are 5 min west of town on hwy 522 right after butterflied rd. on the right hand side.
Hi Mike
OK just past Butterfield by 300 feet or so I see a dwelling with what looks like an equipment shed farthest from the road with a white something on the far side of it. If thats a sap storage tank you sure are thinking big !!!
I see a trail going through the conifers that spits in what looks like your bare maples. So I'm trying to figure if anything looks like a sugar shack ...
where to you boil
PS if you're tapping today you better use a carbide tipped drill. G*& when will this end.
Hi Brent if you follow the trail back in the bush keep to the right of it and at the bottom end of the loop you will see a small black square that is the shack google earth dose not have the greatest pic the shack is only 12' by 20'. if you go into my photo bucket link you will see the shots of inside the shack.
Does the weather in Ontario look as bleak as here. We get a bit of warmth this weekend but the middle of the month looks cold. Man a guys first season could be nicer.
Don't look good here either :( how ever I will probably tap Friday or Saturday this week depending on my work schedule as that's when I'm able.
Well - I'm all set - Buckets and tanks are washed and ready, Friday (in the rain) before the freeze, I blew the snow off my bush trail so we can drive through, then Sat and Sun - the snow in the bush was hard enough I could drive the tractor OVER it with the dump trailer attached. Pulled 5 cords of maple wood out of the bush over the weekend. Lots and lots of standing dead pine - all in the 4-6" range - all dry as a bone. Figured I might as well get a head start on the pile, no boiling to be done.
Looks like we might be tapping come the weekend given today's forecast.
Same in our bush. I got more forewood pulled out and did some misc repairs. A marshy area I wouln't have gone near a month ago I drove over the middle of with the tractor and stayed on top of the crust!
I may get some tapping done this weekend but most of it will probably wait until the following weekend. I've got lots of help lined up and I'm gonna need it!
Well as bleak as the temps are looks like I will tap all my gravity feeds this weekend coming and save the bucket till the 14th may get a small run to flush out the lines in the mean time I will finish washing my taps and bucket and tidy up the shack the weather is got to change in our favor soon, one could hope!
Well I poked holes in the 150 or so trees that are on the new tubing system.
Someone forgot to read the rules. About have of the trees were dribbbling down the bark before I got the spiles in !! And it was about - 6.
Our location is about 30 Km north of Toronto Int Airport.
Going to work on some bags and buckets tomorrow. As usual I suspect the flood will start before I'm ready.
Good luck everyone. Here we go.
I for one don't want any sap until the middle of March. I was checking things over on the weekend and found the smoke-stack base is rusted out. I changed everything a couple of years ago to a stainless stack, except for the base. At that time the steel stack base was so solid I could barely cut it with tin snips. I found a guy that can build me a new one but not before next week.
Oh well it will give me time to be 100% ready, ya right!!