Not much flow today. I don't think it got cold enough last night. It looks like a few days of being too warm now. The weekend looks promising though.
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Not much flow today. I don't think it got cold enough last night. It looks like a few days of being too warm now. The weekend looks promising though.
I collected 30 ltrs yesterday around lunch time, everything was flowing really really well. I probably could have gone back in the early evening and collected, but ran out of time, today i suspect i will collect around the same amount if not more :)
Not much flowing today, but am boiling off what I have. My one storage pail with 61L of ice in it had a fair bit of melted sap that I was able to pour off. It was registering at 10%. That helps!
somewhat disappointing of a run today, although the temps did seem fairly high it was mostly overcast here - really need that nice sunshine to help out! I collected 25 gal (from Monday afternoon till this morning). It was dripping fairly well but seemed to shut down mid day. I ended up with another 10 gal today, still would like to see more cold temps at night.. forecast is 14C tomorrow!!
So far boiled off just under 2 gal syrup :{)
Today I boiled the sap that I had to the nearup stage. Added my nearup from the first boil and made 2.9L of syrup tonight. I'm letting it settle in jars instead of filtering. Got 39:1, so a decent sugar count. It seemed to take forever to get to the proper density, but I'm happy that I've finally got some syrup for 2016. :)
I boiled off 45 ltr yesterday,it was sap I had collected from a few days ago and yesterday morning, just finishing it now on the stove.
I went over to the forest around 3 pm yesterday expecting to see some good drippage.... not so much, it was dripping but very slowly, then I remembered what Big Eddy told me when we had the cold snap, just to leave the taps be till we get out of the cold snap, then check them, so out came the hammer and I tapped them all ever so slightly and guess what.... the drippage got real fast. I was kind of frustrated that I forgot what Big Eddy told me, hope I didn't miss much yesterday.
Al, thanks SO much for that reminder. My very marginal sap day is looking slightly better after I reset my taps with a gentle "thunk". Its no tsunami, but every extra drop helps. :)
Update: Sap count for the day drastically improved after I got to the sugar maples down the street. :)
Karen,I notice in your profile you are down 9 taps,did you lose some trees or time?
Thanks for reminding me to update my signature Bruce. :) That number of taps was correct until recently. A couple of days ago I added ten more taps into the sugar bush down the street. I couldn't get in there any earlier due to snow on the laneway. Thank goodness I've got taps in there as they might be the saving grace to my season. I might end up pulling some here and putting them down there instead. Today I collected 85L on the ten down there and sadly, most of them had overflowed long before I got there. Then I made a dumb manoeuvre and dumped 15L of it all down my pants and boots. Good thing there was still lots left. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruce L
Well, I had collected 240gal of sap up to 3:00pm yesterday when I finally got my vacuum working again. For 3 days I walked the lines checking for leaky taps...when low and behold the problem was at a pressure tank right next to the pump. Took one of the ends off and greased the O-ring, and voila, there's the vacuum...so with that fixed, I started my first boil of the season. Looks to me like its going to be a good season.