Tapping in Ontario

From talking with my cousin tonight, it sounds like the Mennonites are having an awesome year.

He had a fella call him today wanting to know if my cousin wanted to buy 15000lbs of light that he had made this year!

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Originally Posted by argohauler

It worked for me in 07. I had made 66 gallons in March, it got hot and then it froze up April 4th to 10th and I rebored the lines and buckets and finished up on the 23rd of April. I made 77 gallons in April. Everybody gave up cuz there trees dried up!

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Agro when you say rebored, di you go depper into the tree? What exactly did you do. I am thinking about this for later this week

Yeah I went just a bit deeper. I could see some of the spile holes were starting to slime up a bit. The drop lines looked fairly good. I had the time to do it and free help from dad and my father in law. We'll see how it goes, except now it may only freeze nights till Thursday or Friday and more rain come in and at least 2 nights it isn't going to freeze. Could possibly be over here after this week.

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Originally Posted by BryanEx

Just got around to finishing my first batch for 2011 and I now have 3 gallons of the lightest syrup I've ever made. It actually compares to canola oil in colour. I have bottled up a little of it to keep as a souvenir but otherwise I have no idea what to do with it. I can't sell anything lighter than medium so there's no way for an extra extra light. It will likely end up being blended with late season stuff for the volume. It's cool to look at but sure doesn't seem like maple syrup to me. :rolleyes:

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Why not try a batch of candies? I personally don't have the patience to make'em...thats my wife's department. Peanuts (Dark or strong Medium), I can handle...

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Originally Posted by H. Walker

I'll try a couple of names on that list but, I know that the site is under reconstruction because the last it was updated was several years ago. Delta Foods is still listed and they have been closed for at least 3 years and that is one of the problems of no buyers in this area.

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...good point..
Try Quebec? Depends on how far the buyer wants to truck it I guess. We'll see in a month what the supply is going to be.

well, got about 30 gallons yesterday by 5, it stayed warm quite late though so maybe more back there, think that north wind was holding things back. Hoping today is a HUGE day.

Went back and thawed out the pans. Will drain the flue pan this afternoon and finish it tomorrow, if we get any sap today that is. 2 lines just started to trickle at 12:30. The buckets were running very slowly and those were the ones in the sun.

My uncle told me last night when he came home from work that a further away neighbour was boiling last night. He has 3000 taps on vac.

We still couldn't boil if we wanted to - the open top tanks are froze solid and the Zero tanks have a good layer of ice in them. Today's sap should thaw things out so we can fire up tomorrow.

Sugarstone. Quebec is on Quotas, even Qc producer are limited..

We collected only about 4 gallons of sap from 45 taps yesterday, but it did only got up to about 0 C (near St.Thomas). Today is supposed to go to 3 C and sunny, so I'm thinking (hoping) it will be a big run.

On Sunday we boiled down about 50 gallons, half of it ice. Most of that sap was from over a week ago as nothing ran last week. I know we could have thrown the ice out, but we had visitors helping and wanted something to boil! Got it down to about 15 litres of sweet, ready to add to the next batch.

Chris