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Overflowing buckets was the standard for yesterday and today. Made 65 litres today, and my storage tanks are still full. Can't boil again till Saturday. Stoopid day job:mad: Can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm glad the sap has slowed down.:emb:
Nick
We got about 250 gallons yesterday. Hauled in 70 gallons from the buckets tonight. Some were overflowing. The sad news is that we could not get to the tote on the pipeline. There's 200 gallons of it that mostly came in today, without the vacuum on. We can't get to it for all the mud. So is is going to spoil before we find a way to get to it ... 2 or 3 more warm days coming.
Sap has been running good here since Sunday. I went to check on the buckets this evening at six and could not believe the run today. I collected 90 gal. and it did not even freeze here last night. I collected last night at 10 PM (in the rain) and collected 120 gal off 80 taps. That gives me 380 gal since Sunday! Looks like it will be a long night!!!
Looks like it froze a bit last night. Hope it will produce something today.
Nothing ran here yesterday to speak of, trees ran out of power.
Took off 44 litres, for a total of 210.
I collected maybe 30 gallons from 45 taps yesterday.
Last night was supposed to go down to only 2 C, but I notice a bit of frost on the ground here and there. Maybe that will be enough to get things moving again today? We're getting very warm today (14C).
Chris
frost on the ground here last night around 11:30pm when I got home from hockey so hopefully trees re-charged here a bit. No sap yesterday really.
Finished off the first 7 litres of syrup yesterday... that was out of around 70 gallons of SAP so not that bad really. right about 40 to 1.
Finishing pot full again from the past couple days boiling, and about 60 gallons left to boil. Might have to save that for Saturday night if we don't get any more so I have an excuse to sit in the shack and watch hockey.
We gathered over 6,000 gallons of sap yesterday (hadn't gathered since Sunday night), got it run through the RO and boiled. Sugar content was poor at about 50:1. We ran into with the RO as the fitting for the temperature probe in the supply pump is leaking and electrical tape just doesn't do a good enough job on leaking pressure pumps! We should get it fixed today before I fire up again tomorrow. Sap's running well today so there should be lots in the tanks when I get to teh camp in the morning!
boiling today and adding some sap untill i have no more ,, hope to have good syrup for pancakes :)
finishing it inside haha my mom will not be happy lol but its the allmost done and not much steam coming up so lol..
Yesterday's little freeze just made them drip a bit. Lines were just dripping as well.
Took off 40 litres yesterday fror a total of 250. 4 more litres and and I will tie last years dismal total.
Got between 7 and 800 gallons to boil today and then I'm caught up.
Supposed to freeze tonight and Saturday, then Tuesday, Wednesday.
Glad I packed the trails and holes this winter. I'm still running on some ice and still have a lot of frost in the trails as well. The snow is almost gone in the bush now.
See the neighbours are having trouble with their sap hauler. The have a Kubota RTV 900. When I came home last night I could see they had the loader tractor hoisting up the back end and all 4 back wheels were off and 2 guys underneath.
I went by the neighbours bush on the road Saturday and they didn't pack their trails and that RTV has ruts that look like the underside would be scraping the ground.