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Hi Bruce. There is a lot of sap this morning. The taps did run all night and there is 2-3L in almost every bucket. The wind has picked up a little so some of the dripping has slowed done somewhat. I'm heading out to empty the water jugs as they only have 4L of capacity and some will be overflowing soon.
Lucky you !! Nothing here so far
We had a good run also yesterday and last night on the Bruce. Today has also slowed down but still drip drip. Time to boil again
Collected 32L at noon. It also includes the sap that was frozen into the buckets at the end of last week. Was able to eliminate some frozen bits and have a sugar content of just under 3%. That should get me close to a litre of syrup when it's boiled down.
Got my boil on by 6:00am this morning. Nothing was running and in fact, my little space where I keep my pump and such was frozen?? 100W light on and vacuum running, but it still managed to freeze. So much so that the float for the sump was frozen in a down position...yikes! Anyway, sap started running at 10:00am-ish, but slowly. I boil at 12gph and the sap seemed to be coming in at 8gph (from 200+ taps). Its still flowing, but we are expecting it to drop below zero tonight so I am hoping the ~120gallons of storage I have available will be enough. I've got 280 gallons of sap in storage, so tomorrow is going to be another big boil day.
My pans are still sweetening, so I have no idea what color I am going to get. I am hoping for some nice clear, as I only ever got that on my very first boil 4 years ago. I should find out tomorrow.
I collected about 180-200l today around 11 am. Has slowed big time now but will likely get close to another 100 tomorrow when I go around. That's of 62 taps. I can boil at 5-6gph if I am really working at it. So far first batch had a nice colour I think. Attachment 15917
Folks, I don't know about where you live but right now I have the most amazing red sky to the west...WOW!
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Collected 15 gallons of sap from the front yard and hardly nothing from the trees in the vally. Most of my trees are in the vally, go figure.