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Well I finally got the evaporator fired up yesterday. I managed to get 60 gal of sap out of my 55 taps on the weekend! Looks like we may have a couple of runs this week. But as we all no you can not trust the weather man!! And no it was not all rain!
Got 160 in yesterday. The rest to come this week.
There's a very real possibility that it's not going to freeze here for the next 5 nights. I say 3 for sure. There's a big rain system coming for 5 days.
It's getting very scary here in the banana belt along the north shore of Lake Erie. This is our prime maple time now.
We'll see what +3/37 degrees does with sun today.
ennismaple, 100 Liters according to their facebook, 25 gallons?
I believe it hit a high of -3C here yesterday and the sap was running really good with it being sunny on my roadside trees. Unfortunately my tubing was still frozen in the last foot into the buckets at 5:00 pm so all that sap oozed out and froze on the outside."sapsicles" everywhere!!! grrrrrr.... no more tubing for me next year.... buckets right on the spile to catch it when it runs!!Quote:
Originally Posted by argohauler
no sap here today worth mentioning... but my slope is north east so worst case for early sun
Have 300 of the cv adapters in so far,not much coming out at the tanks.Have to look on the sunny side of the tree to see anything at all.I will look at some of the old calendars tomorrow,as for several years my cousin would stop by on his way through from Toronto and help set up the vacuum pump on St Patrick's day,so majority of syrup would be late March and April.
Taps going in today. The weather reports go all over the place. I dont want to miss a decent run.
Finished last of the drilling yesterday (300+) and despite being a nice sunny day the south side holes were a little damp and rest were dry!!
Checked my journal for other years and over the last 15 years my average first boil was Mar. 16 - last 2 years were much earlier, so despite getting a little ansy this looks like a "normal" year (if there is such a thing?).
Going to look at a used 2 1/2 X 8 tomorrow and if price is reasonable the boiling days might be a little shorter next year.
I'm still on hold but tentatively planning on tapping this weekend... depends on the five day forecast at that point... - 30 next week and I won't bother... -2 and full sun and I will.