Thought it was time to get southwestern Ontario on here. Let us know how your season unfolds.
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Thought it was time to get southwestern Ontario on here. Let us know how your season unfolds.
50-tapped March 8
30-tapped March 9
Sap flowing in sheltered bush trees. Fence line trees frozen.
Sap flowing in Chatham-Kent today. 17 taps on the trees in the yard.
Yup about 15 of my 46 taps were dripping a lot of my trees are large so still frozen.. But tomorrow is suppose to be really nice!
Tapped 50 on our road Monday. Some showing signs of a drip. Prob won't get a big run for a few days.
Where you at jow your the first person in the woodstock area I've seen.
finally some locals Rodney ontario for me on the lake
saps running but slow sounds like wednesday is going to be nice. too cloudy today
squirrels are eating my lines like crazy and i have been shooting them few more to get i guess
oh yeah brix is 2+
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adding a video this will make you want to go pee LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACd2qO0fvlw
Well collected about 10L from around 15 of my taps the other 31 are still dry.. Hoping tomorrow will change that!
I got about 5 gallons out of a dozen of my taps over the last few days. A couple are still dry, a couple are slow.
Started boiling today why is the first day always the roughest squirrels are eating replaced lines / drops i did yesterday using electrical tape today
trees ran slow today
too much snow
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I wish I had enough to boil.. Got a little over 7 gallons from 15 of my 46 taps... Apparently I have some slow starters.
Glad to hear I'm not the only one that is getting below average sap yeild. Here's to hoping things open up this weekend! Dutton ON.
I have had about 60 taps out for the last few days, and have a little over 100 gallons of sap to show for it. First boil will be tomorrow.
Dutton? We're practically neighbours!
I got 10 gallons on 14 taps today. Two trees are still bone dry. One massive tree with four taps accounts for half of it.
80 taps in--75 gallons sap collected; first sugaring-off tomorrow.
A buddy of mine cleared a path into the field to get a a patch of sugars so I'll be putting in an addition 22 taps on top of my 46Attachment 11067
That's great news Mark!
Put 125 buckets out a few days ago, and collected about 100 gallons of sap today. Planning on boiling Monday but really need more sap.
I should add sugar content about 2.25%
Well currently in the middle of my first boil of the season and really first with a evaporator! And things are going good. Remembered everything except a cushion for the upside down bucket I'm sitting on lolAttachment 11075
nice looking rig
this is usually when your friends all show up and syrup goes away LOL
and you wonder if you have enough wood
finished my second batch this morn I hate bottling first time used the 1 liter whisky bottles long necks messed up first one filled to fast and it foamed then couldn't get any more.. in oh well freebie
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Didn't get any syrup but my pan is sweet! Boiling again Tuesday and hopefully I'll have a good run tomorrow. And then I should get some syrup off it. Luckly for me I'm on afternoons this week and ppl are working so I'll be keeping the syrup this week :)
My trees have already stopped!We need some nights below freezing. It's stayed right around 0 the last three nights.
So how are sap yields so far for everyone?
Mine not so hot 60-65 gallons total for 46 taps and just moved up to 56 last week.
Yesterday was a good day. Two trees are still dry, but I got about 16 gallons out of my other four trees. Hope it continues!
70 gallons from 75 taps yesterday
That's excellent. We were locked up tight here with the cold.
Ya same was -5 all day didn't get a drop high hopes for today and tomorrow
been boiling all day back is too sore to bottle tonight will finish this batch tommorrow and get it in bottles. yesterday line trees ran scary fast today was slow
my bucket trees suck this year except the tree with poison ivy LOL 3/4 5ga pail a day while others are 3-4 inches
Were is the best place to buy bottles in sw ontario ?
Bottled 3rd batch this morn if any of you need a sticky mess maker with syrup i'm your go to guy work cheap and fast at it ...
who knew that valve wasn't closed :o
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What's with so many of us dumping syrup this year? hahaha I still have to take off the baseboards to get the syrup that ran under there.
oh come on you know syrup is good on Everthing!! :lol:
GOOD GRAVY THINGS ARE MOVING!
I'm getting 2+gallons per tap per 24hrs over the last three days! I'm boiling like a banshee to keep up!
Collected 57 gallons from 56 taps so finally got a decent haul. Don't get off work til 7 then to the shack to boil my tail off!
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