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Final boil (this year)
Well, haven't had much time to keep up with the posts here with a record year in this area. I decided to finish it off yesterday and boil what was remaining - ended up with almost 1 litre per tap which is a record for me, probably could make more but that is enough and it is getting pretty dark.
Had many long days keeping up on the 2x 6 so will be glad to hook up the new to me 2 1/2 X 8 coming at end of season (the 2 X 6 was sold, for the guys that were interested).
This year has been a lot more fun that last spring and can only hope for another one in 2012.
Turkeys are gobbling big time in my bush, so have to get ready for other activities!!
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Monday was better to us than we first expected. Finished off 24 gallons. Almost everything this year was medium.
Still looking at 2+ cords in the tent for next year and haven't even dreamed about getting into the 3 cords we had the menonites bring down. Think we've got 2 or 3 years supply of wood. Man this system is miserly on wood.
No peepers in the pond yet, but maybe tonight. Came real close to freeze last night. It might have made -1. Going to start the vac again right now.
JUst went out and measured the wood in the tent. Look like we used 1-1/4 cords so far. Just got the wife's numbers that's in bottles and we're over 200 gallons. 160 gallon per cord. Wow
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Tuesday 1:00 pm we have 250 gallons so far this morning. The best trees with buckets are only dripping a drop every 5 seconds. The poorer ones are stopped. The vac system is getting some. We might get another 200 by the end of the day. No peepers in the ponds but the willows are starting to look buddy.
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We'll bring in another 2500+ gallons today. Not bad considering it hasn't frozen since Saturday night. It's times like this the vacuum pays for itself many times over!
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AMEN Ennismaple
My signature is not correct. Looks like we're really got about 475 taps on vac this year. Looks like we're getting about the same per tap off the vac. We'd be shut out if it wasn't for vac.
There isn't a freeze forecast for us in the local 5 day done by the goverenment employees, but Accuweather thinks we'll get a -1 tonight.
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-1 here at 10:00. Hopefully it drops two or three more. I need another day of boiling to get 1L per tap. They are calling for below freezing tomorrow night too. Bring it on:D
Nick
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Yup -2 here already., Ice formed up in the puddles at 10 o'clock.
We haven't had a gangbusters day this year ... maybe tomorrow.
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Got to -4 last night. Hope it runs good today.
Nick
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Hey longbeard, where abouts are you in Simcoe?
Got down to -3 here last night, and forcasted to get down the same for tonight. Hoping for one last run today and tomorrow. After Saturday, the low is onloy expected to get to +10:(.
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Sap I had left got dumped last night... was a bit cloudy and didn't want to make a bad batch.
finished a batch last night of medium that may be the best tasting syrup I've ever made.
Big freeze last night...will be quite a battle on the trail to get sap to the shack.
The weather and I think we are done after tomorrow.
