Tapping in Ontario

Hi Greg:

I havent tapped yet, gotta find a dam canoe first! man there is a alot of water around. Hope to start this weekend, will have to portage from tree to tree.

Happy syruping

Darrell

We my lines were running, finally. and the buckets were a dripping we will be doing a collection as soon as we can get some of this rain to slow down a little. What a diaster on the road into the shack...pure Caledon Mud....Well this was not the start I envisioned but I'll take it.
Good to hear all the reports makes me feel like my bush is not the only one starting slow.

Sounds like milton is running fast huh?

Gathered 250 gal this morning, and came in to dry off. need to gather about 70 more buckets yet. Sap was still running a little. -2c tonight, so we might get more tomorrow.

Nick

I am also tapping this Saturday (12'th). Little later than I wanted, but I guess I didn't missed a lot yet. This will be the latest I have ever tapped. Hopefully the season will run longer than last year. I am located between Simcoe and Brantford. Hoping for about 150 taps on buckets this year. Looking forward to getting the new (home built) evaporator cookin maybe Sunday. Good luck to all this season.

if next week's forecast pans out, if you haven't tapped yet, you'll be wishing you had. We're heading out today and tomorrow to get ours in.

got the first 110 taps in this morning and getting a good
flow into the tank ... without the vacuum on yet. Trying for another 100 this afternoon. Should have enough sap to flush the RO system later today or tommorow.

Let the fun begin.

Things are lookin' good in North Simcoe County and the sap is moving real good the past couple of days. Finally getting a chance to try the old Delavaal vacuum pump (first try last year didn't pan out due to poor run). Let the pump run all nite and day and she is bringing a goodly amount to the tank. Have some real light "near syrup" to finish off before we really get at 'er next week. Forecast looking good!

Finished off at about 240 CV taps in on the vac line. Now to get the vac turned on. There was about 50 gallons in the tote that just ran down under gravity while I was tapping.
By tommorow, enough to flush the new membranes.
Then flush the rest of the pipeline and put in another 350 - 400. Going to be easy to count this year.
Fresh new bags of CV's 100 to a bag.

500 of the new cv adapters in so far,hectic day today after the rain held us up.250 gallons of sap came in the tank by gravity,my wife and I spent all day yesterday stretching tubing,shortening lines,adding new taps.Today was fire up for first boil,then start up vacuum pump,tap some more(she tapped for the first time,will know later how she did.We went checking for leaks after shutting the rig down,found a lot of our new mainline manifolds were leaking around the 6 way stars even with teflon tape,also had to tighten the band clamps to stop the leaks.Biggest disappointment for the day was the kids waiting to get the first taste of fresh syrup,but 250 gallons of sap doesn't go very far in sweetening a 16' rig,maybe tomorrow.

looks like we'll start tapping around Monday or Tuesday here in Pembroke, ON. From the forecast looks like there is the possibility of sap running from Tuesday the 15th, through to the 22nd, but after that the models show quite a cold spell through to at least the 26th. Just wondering is there any chance of the holes drying or freezing up if it gets real cold for a week? By the way, around here our start date is normally around the 18th.