Brrrrr. -10c on the thermometer this morning. Late start for sure. Last year by this time I had 140 L put away. This year I have 19L in bottles. Looks good on the forecast tho....
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Brrrrr. -10c on the thermometer this morning. Late start for sure. Last year by this time I had 140 L put away. This year I have 19L in bottles. Looks good on the forecast tho....
I am doing my first boil this weekend in the blizzard with high winds. At least the wind may help draw the steam out of the shack.Quote:
Originally Posted by northwood
-11° this morning and likely no flow today. The next two following days will be interesting. On Friday if the forecast holds, the sap will start to flow at noon. The weather actually warms overnight, so the sap could flow all night and into Saturday. Lots of rain during that time. The temperature then starts to drop just after noon on Saturday. My plan if the rain slows, is to start boiling by 7 or 8 am with my stored 65 gallons of sap and then start collecting around 11 am and boil until the weather stops me.
Well the weatherman got that wrong. Yesterday around noon time it was supposed to warm up and the snow turn to rain. It barely warmed up and we received 8 to 10 cms of heavy wet snow. It did warm enough eventually for the snow to turn to rain, but not near as much as forecasted and not enough to make the fresh snow disappear. It also did not warm up near as much as forecasted. Sap flow was not what was expected.
I did boil today with sap I had stored, then in the afternoon the winds changed and strong, cold and snowy north winds came, cutting off my plans to boil longer.
Next boil will be Tuesday.
7 L of syrup made today. I have collected 81% of the sap I had collected last year. I am ahead in L of syrup made, but last year I made a lot in the first week of April, so it will be a battle to stay ahead.
I did my first boil today. I'm glad I was in my shack, freezing rain, snow and ice pellets.
I couldn't finish on the propane since for that I'm outside and the winds were crazy this afternoon. I will finish tomorrow morning.
I was in Sudbury yesterday and drove home despite warnings the roads would be bad, which they were not. This is a picture of my daughter’s neighbour’s driveway today. It was bare yesterday. I am sure glad we came home when we did.Quote:
Originally Posted by aamyotte
I was thinking about how your boil went.
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We didn't get that kind of snow. The first boil in the pan went great. Didn't need to laddle between pans. I just had to occasionally adjust the sap flow in the pan.Quote:
Originally Posted by Swingpure
Yikes I hope this changes!
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Could be a hard stop without cool nights to hold the sap over
Collected by far the most sap after a slow day yesterday and a big day today. Collected 106 gallons. Tomorrow will be a big boil day with 156 gallons of sap available to boil. I only see three boils left including tomorrow’s.