Well we did it just finished off the first 3 gallons of light medium of 2009 had a great day family showed up and the neighbors came over help in collecting could not have asked for a better day! we should be swamped with sap by Thursday!!!!!!!;)
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Well we did it just finished off the first 3 gallons of light medium of 2009 had a great day family showed up and the neighbors came over help in collecting could not have asked for a better day! we should be swamped with sap by Thursday!!!!!!!;)
Sap run well here today. Should be ready for my first ever boil on Monday or Tuesday. Just a few more finishing touches on the 2x4 homemade evaporator and still have about 75 taps to put in.
Rob
Looks like sap weather has arrived here also. You guys fianlly let some across the border. Was nice to see sap at 9 this morning instead of 3 in the afternoon. Now to just get enough to boil. The sap is getting sweeter on some trees also.
Ken make sure that sap that escaped across the border is speaking both official languages.:lol:
Boy I can hardly wait to get home, I've been in Montreal visiting universities, I went to Dominion and Grimm this morning and was not impressed I expected a nice showroom where you could walk around and touch but very little merchandise was out you had to ask for just about everything.
My son and daughter should have collected enough so that I can boil Wednesday I can hardly wait :)
How long can I leave concentrate in the pan between boils and how often should I empty the pan completely and wash it out.
You should go to D&G in Compton they speak only french so i have to use hand singals and sign language. Lucky one day there was a guy spoke english in there and gave me a hand. Well today was a bit better with sap. Getting almost enough to start boiling.
Judging by the slow down in posting activity the run in ontario is going strong. I'm about 1 hr N.E. of Toronto and am averaging about 100 litres of sap per day out of 38 taps is this close to what's happening out there? I haven't got my pan fully sweetend yet but am planning a 7 hour boil tommorrow. I've got 200 litres stored plus whatever I get tommorrow so I hope to be able to get my first batch of syrup tommorrow and do a big boil Fri/Sat again. I'll let y'all know how I do, this is my first year with a pan instead of a pot. I'm trying my best to keep my wife off the website but she keeps threating to set up a wife section so they can all discuss our obsession.
That is about right, some good runs past few days,yesterday boiled for 7
hours steady.I have a great neighbour who comes over and keeps my wood
ready by the evaporator and runs out with my truck and picks up sap if I start
to get low and I want to keep the boil going.
Well yesterday we collected a total of 425 gallons of sap the best this bush has ever ran, were looking at 14 hours of straight boiling good thing the wife is off work today, as I was heading in to work she was off to the bush to start boiling we should be ready to draw off by time I get home tonight.
:)