Pulling my taps out this evening......this will be another short season like 2012 when I had wood frogs hopping around the wood shed in early March. Good luck to all.
Paul
Printable View
Pulling my taps out this evening......this will be another short season like 2012 when I had wood frogs hopping around the wood shed in early March. Good luck to all.
Paul
Nice run of sap the last 2 days , had one tree with 3 taps into a 20 l pail over flowing today. It's going to be hard to empty enough whiskey bottles over the next week to hold the all the syrup but hey I'll try.
Ya collected 75 gallon from 75 taps today but the sugar content isn't holding up an Friday is the only day that's suppose to be below zero and I think it will be too late by then.... :(
Boiling again today flow last night was much slower
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
If you guys ever see deep fryer basket like they use to make French fries grab it very convenient for hanging in your pans to let cups and pre filters to steam clean and pre heat
Attachment 13673
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Last firing for me today boiling off faster then the trees are filling tank. Wind is picking up trees. Are slowing down
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Ya I did my last boil today.. :( horrible season...
Hey Mark. It's looking like in a week you'll be back to below freezing nights. Any chance your maples won't have budded out by then? Maybe you should keep the taps in for another week, and maybe rinse out the buckets. What do you think?Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkReynolds
What a change, from just over 500 l of sap in 2 days down to 40 l today. Maybe this is part of the fun? wondering what will tomorrow bring. The weather is calling for some frezzing temps Thursday and Friday night so hear hoping for a busy weekend of boiling sap.
Heard some peepers tonight.
Nooooooooooooooooooooo! :oQuote:
Originally Posted by argohauler
Just finished bottling yesterday's boil
Think taps will be coming out shortly
Attachment 13706
Tree at the beach yesterday
Attachment 13707
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Had a visit from a peeper frog and a leopard frog in the shanty tonight.
How is your sap running? Close to end?
SuzukiSapper, had a big run Monday, and now catching up on that. I think it might be over. 0 tonight and AccuWeather says it will start freezing again by the 20th. I think that might be too long and too warm till then.
How long does it typically take a tree to start budding? My sap hasn't flowed in a few days now but it looks like it will drop below freezing next week. Just wondering how long I should hold out before packing it in. With what sap I have available to boil right now, I will be lucky to get 2 gallons of syrup out of my 64 taps.
My feelings as well. hopefully, my tendency toward procrastination will result in one more go round.
It over pulling the taps tonight last year we were just putting the taps in this week. Sure glad we tapped Jan 31 it was the best run of the season
Maple season is in full swing hear, froze up last night negative 3 and reached plus 6 this afternoon. 125 taps gave up 320 l sap today and with aprox same temp tonight and tomorrow, hope that Saturday colection just might be the best of the year. Finished off 34 l of syurp so far this season, and with these temps hope to keep the stove firing and make it to the 60 l mark.
What a day, 3- 200 l drums and a sap pail , all in one day. My 2 x 4 pan only boils off 25-30 l an hour, today's run of sap will keep the steam flying for a couple of days.
Next to nothing for sap today, the evaporator has been burning since Friday afternoon , about 100 l left to cook down . Season is sitting at 54 l of syrup made, the taps will be pulled out this coming Saturday any sap boiled down and then the final count and clean up.
I managed to get through 37.5 gallons today and ended up with just under 3 litres of syrup. Hell of a long day with my setup to get such a small amount. Sure gives me motivation to build a better evaporator for next year. As long as the tress hold off budding this week, the temps are going down below zero for another week starting next weekend, so I should be good for at least a few more boils. Still have about 100 gallons to boil down this week.
Shut the pumps off yesterday at noon small amount of sap was coming in but was cloudy. Forecast says -5 Celsius on Friday night then a high of 1 Saturday then back to seasonal temps after that. Any predictions as to weather or not that is going to reset things for another run?
I think it will re-set things Tyler. I'm boiling today's sap tomorrow and will then push through the evaporator with water so we can drain and wash it. I expect the cold temps for a few days will bring better sugar content and stronger flows. I recall us going from a dark amber (what was left in the pans) to a mid light in several hours boiling after a hard freeze.
Its flowing here today. Nice and clear. I'm SE of peterborough. The weekend looks ok too. I hope to catch up this weekend. I'm way below my usual average so far this year.
S.
I see some of the soft maples have popped and they're bothering my wife's allergies. It starts freezing tonight, but daytime highs are really too low and then it stops freezing after Monday night. Should of tapped in January, but wasn't ready. Syrup has went to dark. Almost got hit by a 6" ash tree that uprooted in the wind yesterday.
62 l of filtered bottled syrup, that's a wrap on this season. Not the easiest syrup season , but have made more than enough to share with all of family and friends.
Well what can I say making syrup is a bug, I had said that I'd had made enough for the season and the taps would be pulled out. Well work got busy and the equpiment stayed up and the Easter weekend hit and the week since has been a full on flood of sap. The evaporator has been running none stop since easter Sunday and we have now added 68 litters of syrup to the allready made 54 l and there is still 5 drums of sap to boil down. Not sure what we are going to do with so much syurp but still having fun.
Anyone plan on tapping with these warm temps forecast, I was late to the game last year and don't want to miss out this year. What do you all think?
I am about 30 mins away from you west and have done a little walnut but temps are messed up at the moment so waiting here
I am seriously thinking about putting my taps in this weekend to take advantage of the next 10 days which look promising. That will be more than a month earlier than usual and am wondering whether I will pay a price 6 weeks down the road as the taps age. Any thoughts on that? Meanwhile I am heading to the Waterloo/Wellington Maple Producers Information Day in Elmira today (Jan 12) and will see what others are thinking. I just don't want to miss if we get an early spring.
Ya I'm afraid of the same thing if I start early and then it freezes up and my taps are in for another 6 weeks. Let me know what you hear in Elmira I can't make it.
I know January thaws are tough to sit idle guys but with temps a few degrees above 0 with exception of a couple days around 8 above in the long range I would just sit tight. Spring will come!
My forecast is really strange. It's about a 10 day thaw with no freezing nights. Not tapping here.
Ya all the rain, mild temps recipe for Muddy Bush! DIY Tubing Tool
http://mapletrader.com/maplegallery/...um/image-2.jpg
Ya this week's forecast is 5-8 degrees but no freezing at night. I hope it just gets cold again and snows some.
If you want some snow you can come take some of ours! Only 12"-18" in the woods but there's a nasty crust on top that sometimes holds you up.
We only have 3-4 inches of snow in our bush. Mild here as well in eastern Ont. Plus temps all this week with freezing at night prime sap weather but i think I will wait a few more weeks before Ii get the drills out
OK guys listen up. We go through this situation every single year. January thaws are nothin new, and everyone starts wetting their panties thinking they can go start tapping. But if you go and tap now, first off you are probably tapping into trees that are still very thoroughly frozen and won't yield anything. And when the inevitable February freeze up comes, and you know it will, the resulting freeze can damage the trees - and that could mean trees that won't produce in the years to come.
So fer gawd's sake just sit tight and WAIT. FWIW I usually set my spiles during the first week of March, usually by March 7th.
Now that's funny.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Galena