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All done for another year at my stove! Pulled my taps on the 31st, my trail all but disappeared and turned into an exercise akin to walking on a wet bar of soap! No complaints - ran really well at the end. Finished of with 6 gal of syrup - should keep the grand kids bouncing off the walls a while :{)
Till next year - best to all, enjoy your bounties!!
john
Finished my final boil the other day. All jarred up now. Ended up with 19 litres of Syrup, 905 litres of sap, over 500 collected in 3 days last week. From 52 Taps Attachment 18455
Wow jaystersj!, I can't believe that you are done already. I'm just getting going.
I’m done this year as well. 15 litres off of 900 and I would have kept going but I ran out of wood.
Last weekend I collected 300 litres in 24 hours off of 30 taps (buckets).
Still boiling in my neck of the woods. Clear sap and cold nights. Two thumbs up. Next week will prob be my last week for collecting I think. We have had a very good past few weeks with on and off days. I am running low on the pile of wood I dedicated to maple season and have already bottled psat my last years totals. Good year for me and my little setup. 46L of syrup so far and with 90 gal of sap in the tanks plus a few more good days of drips in the buckets I think I could hit the 65-70L total. That’s more then enough.
Finished off 3.9L of syrup on the stove yesterday. Turned out to be a nice rich amber. I would have had an even better time of it if I'd be paying more attention to the pot. Then I wouldn't have had to spend an hour scraping off burned on black carbon from my stove top and running around the house taking the batteries out of the smoke detectors. You'd think I've had learned by now......
I've had one good run of sap (Easter weekend) and am still waiting for my season to really get ripping. It's been one weird weather season.
Ya that sucks Karen. I don’t finish on the stove for that very reason. I use a Colman stove with LP gas or a turkey fryer when I am finishing over 10L of syrup. Still glad to hear your boiling sap these days. More to come for those in Ontario that have not yet got their fill for the season. Had the stove fired up at 5am today. A new record for me. Going to boil everything down today that is in the tanks plus maybe grab what’s in the bush I hope.
Hey folks, first time checking in here this year. Still tapped here just south of PTBO.
Tapped on Feb 20th. Collected 380l of sap by Feb. 28th and finished 9.5l.
Nothing to collect from Feb. 28th, until March 28th. Crazy!!!
Since march 28th, i have collected 535L of sap, and finished 10.5L.
We have some still to finish, and evaporator is full, just need to get enough for one last boil this week. Sap is still running clear, all our shady trees are still running good, sunny trees kind of slowed down and a few with cloudy sap. Our bush is mostly shaded though.
Oh, I have 46 taps on buckets. I'm hoping for a busy week, but its been a weird season so far, with unpredictable flows! See what happens I guess. I'm hoping to get a bit more, but also hope it ends this week lol
S.
Crazy weather, yesterday we had 2300 l of sap, no boil since last Thursday! Hoping today it finally starts running again. No signs of budding our woods. We have run 151000l of sap since feb 19. Produced 1950l of amber syrup. Hoping for a couple of boils to finish the year off.
Crazy weather indeed! I gathered some sap yesterday and hope that the temperatures start to cooperate better. I'm itching to get some serious boiling done this season.