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I had a bit of sap... probably about 15 gallons.
I did alot of work in the fall filling in the ruts I had with fence line rock, they are holding up pretty well... but a new section of trail I made to bypass the worst ruts from last is already breaking through the frost into mush... likely be some work this weekend to jam something in there. Better get the winch on the bike tuned up I suspect.
Looks like the next couple days might be good sap days!
Have had good sap run until today bringing in about 400 litres off of 160 taps on buckets. Looks good for this weekend too.
I am getting the imperial metric thing wrong. I am getting about 800 litres or 200 US gallons (last post said 400 litres). These late nights are catching up with me.
@Treetapper, I still just hate that metric system, and it started changing when I was in school, 60/70s. Our family has been here a long time time also, although 70 acres is not enough to farm anymore, I still use it for wood, and keep a few draft horses. Sold my cattle
in 2008. You must have one of those green bicentenial plaques the Ontario Gov. gave out in 1984? The bush I tap is not mine, 2-3 miles up the road. The landowner is just great.
Happy tapping. Hope it runs today, finally froze last night.
Didn't freeze here last night. Though the forecast looks fairly decent for next week.
Boiled the last 750 Imp. gals. I had yesterday. Took off 80 litres and now have a total of 330.
Got to grease the seals on the Argo today and have 3 tanks to get washed out.
Final froze last night but only going up to 2c sometime later in the day..
With no sap yesterday and only 15 the day before, this places me with only 100gals thus far this year. Hoping to double that by next weekend. :rolleyes:
Gorgeous day, everything is ready, off work for the weekend... and nothing to do. :mad: I've collected a total of 2 gallons of sap per tap so far this season and it's already boiled down. I'm starting to think I'll come up way short on my season totals but we'll see I guess.
Things are looking good for this season. Have had a real good week and have made 3/4 of the total I made all last season! The old Delaval pump is getting a good workout and is producing real good and amazingly the 3 sap ladders I hooked up in tandem are actually working - they bring sap from the other side of the road, under a road culvert and back up to the sugar shack - this saves me hauling a trailer, pumping, etc.
This is the first day off in 7 from the shack (which is good) and catching up on 15 pages of New Posts. Next couple of days look good and then some real cold weather which should reset the trees for another go!
John
Collected close to 40 gal today. Puts us around 150 gal since last Sunday. Pretty poor run so far. Upcoming weather is looking much better.
We are going to boil what we have tomorrow. Just built a cinder block arch for one of our 2x4 pans. Should work well.
I must admit, I'm pretty psyched. Probably won't sleep too much tonight.
Froze good last night. Should get a decent run today.
This coming week looks more like a freeze up week after we get rid of the rain tonight.