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We have had a big slow down from a couple days ago. Like Brent said froze last night here to. I just talked with my dad (sugarin' partner) and the lines are running pretty good. I have a breakdown on the fourwheeler today so that is going to make it near impossible to get and move some of the barrels.
Good long freeze here last night. Lines are running as well as they have all year. It's tough to keep up. Looks like I might run low on wood. I have enough for today, then I'm into next winter's firewood.
Steve.
Ha firewood. If I am lucky and the season ends for me this week I will have just enough wood. after that all bets are off....the tire's and used motor oil is starting to look better and better hahahaha:lol:
By 6:00 we've hauled in 600 gallons with a few more trips to do. Not gangbusters like last year when we had 1500 gallon days, but I don't have all the trees tapped that I did last year. (booked into Shouldice for body work)
Tomorrow should be about the same if the weather guessers are close. Calling for -3 here. The next forecast freeze is a week away so we may be buddy before the next freeze. With the vac I expect we'll get slower and slower runs through the weekend.
It didn't freeze hard enough Tuesday night. Trees did nothing, so I finished off what was in the pans and got 57 litres.
So my grand total is......665 litres.....146.5 Imperial gallons.....176 US gallons.
So my dismal per tap average is....from 1800 taps.... .37 litres.
The season could of been oh so much better if we didn't have the 20 + nights that didn't freeze.
Also my bush, in fact this whole block doesn't run well to begin with. You go 5 miles up the road to my uncles and they run like they're supposed to. Maybe it's because of all the numerous swamps we have. Where my uncle is, he's got rock close and deep crick valleys.
So today is shanty clean up and bring things home and start to wash up.
Check out the weather. Environment Canada has got Sunday at 22 C / 73 F.
Ran like crazy again here in the Fergus/Arthur area again yesterday! And last night when I came home it was showing -4 in the truck. Should be another good day. From my 50 taps, we have 38L of syrup and we lost at least 15L (had my father running the arch both times...first time he thought the temp had to be 19degree's over the boiling point of water, instead of 219!...didn't hurt anything other than it turned into straight sugar within minutes!!!). Then on Monday he got side tracked with 1" in the pan and burnt the syrup and almost scorched the pan (ALMOST). Oh well, he has been a great help running the little arch as I have been busy busy in the shop! That all being said, with todays run we will be well over 1L per tap here and and there are already big plans for next year!
Ryan
We collected roughly 900 gallons yesterday. One test showed it was 2.4%. All boiled down.
We did get ice in the puddles again last night so we should get something similar today.
Sap runs have be pretty steady this year. No days like last year when we had some days of 1500 gallons when it was so warm it spoilded before we got it boiled. ( smaller evap last year )
Gathered 115 gallons yesterday,second biggest run of the year. Should be good days today and tomorrow, and possibly Saturday after that who knows. After Friday night it isn't supposed to freeze again until next Friday or Saturday night and we could probably see at least one day above 20 C next week. Anyone planning on pulling this weekend, or will most producers wait and see if the sap is still not buddy by next weekend?
Must have been a good run yesterday. Collected just over 140 gallons from my 100 taps. I gathered at about 6:30am this morning and all of my buckets have a thick layer of ice on them. Many were so thick, I could hold full buckets upside-down without a drop coming out. Had to bust the top layer of ice to empty.
Looks like the today and Friday are going to be carbon copies of Wednesday!
not as good yesterday for me, got about 65 gallons out of the 125 taps.
Need to start marketing some of this syrup I'm making, shack is filling up with bottles.
Froze good here last night as well, calling for frost again to night.
Almost stuck in the swamp yesterday..so tonight will be interesting!