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