Tapping in Ontario

Well I spent 5 more hours out in the bush today putting the other 200 taps out and the sap was running a little bit.
Brent: there are no big ice cubes yet but there will be tomorrow the sap yesterday was enough to fill the lines.

Mid afternoon I tapped and hung out about 40 Sap Saks and about the same in buckets. Collected a whole 10 gallons ... and that might be an exaggeration, but it was something. Hoping to get to the 125 gallon range ASAP to do a first run on the new evap and test the RO etc. Too many new toys to get it all right the first run. Might put up more taps tomorrow. Got to cut the holes in the roof, level the evap etc etc etc.

I am going to tap Saturday morning, unless i get off work early and do a few on Friday afternoon. I made a trail with snowshoes through the bush last weekend. There is an average of 3 feet of snow everywhere. My last years tap holes are at snow level. It is supposed to be +5 for a starting Friday so this should be the first run of the season.

Happy Tapping everyone, we will have sap for St Patty's day.

Mark

We'll miss what runs on Friday/Saturday but I don't expect it will be a lot and it'll have poor sugar content. With all this white crap we can only do so much.

well I've got my 100 buckets on (yesterday and today). snow shoes would have been a great investent. sometimes I was wading waist deep in show. sap was running alittle, not too sweet though. I tried out 10 5/16" plastic health spiles in the trees, its too early to tell how well they will hold up, but I really like them and they are running better then the 7/16" cast ones. It would be nice to enough sap to boil on the weekend!

thenewguy were are you in Ontario

Well - We've been tapped for a week and a half now - 99 trees and all I have to show for it is 50 gals of rock solid sap in the collection tank. Was hoping today would be a good day, but no more than an inch in the buckets by 3pm. Hopefully the weather will break. I guess it would be too much to ask to have it run while we're off for March break. I'll be back to work next week and there will likely be more than I can handle. I forsee some sleepless nights coming up.

I tapped before the big snow - We had to dig down to some of the buckets! I blow a collection trail through my woods and there are spots the trench is 3' deep.

Got 50 Sap Saks hung yesterday, late in the day, and maybe 75 buckets. Started collecting too late because everything in buckets was frozen. Like the sap saks for that. They freeze later.

Collectoin total for last 2 days...... drum rolll .... wait for it ..... 20 gallons.
But it tastes very sweet. When it melts I'll measure the sugar.

Got to cut the holes in the roof for the stacks and get the bricking done today to0!

Well Guy I am giving in and booked tomorrow off and I am going to tap weatherman said HI of +3 for the day. I tell you that waiting to tap is worse than getting teeth pulled.
Every thing is ready to go drills are charged buckets, taps, lids all washed. Should be a good weekend, all the tweaking is done. Hope to have some sap for Easter weekend first boil of 2008 season.

Glad to hear things are starting to run for you Brent you will soon have sap for the new rig!

with about 120 taps today was a goose egg.
nothing
nada
zip
zero
not a drop collected
Not so bad.... haven't got the firebricks in yet.