Welcome one and all to the Northern Ontario 2025 forum. I had the pleasure of meeting another local Maple Trader member recently. We got to hang out at the wood hobby club up at the 22 Wing air base. It may be cold out now but spring is coming.
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Welcome one and all to the Northern Ontario 2025 forum. I had the pleasure of meeting another local Maple Trader member recently. We got to hang out at the wood hobby club up at the 22 Wing air base. It may be cold out now but spring is coming.
Can't wait to get started. I found 5 more trees this winter that I can tap. I will now be over 60 trees. Slowly growing with each year. This year is the first year I haven't spent money on my setup as well.
"Haven't spent money"....yet :)
Yet is the correct thing to say.
Anyone in the North Bay area going to tap this weekend with the warm week forecasted?
I will be tapping in West Nippissing on Thursday. Still a lot of frost in the ground but maybe all that rain will speed up the thaw.
Tapping Thursday in Parry Sound>
Loads of snow in the bush
I tapped about half my trees yesterday in West Nipissing. Probably 30% were running. Will finish the rest today.
Ended up tapping yesterday before the storm. A few were starting to flow.
Hey fellow northerners. Anyone got their taps in? Wondering how the flow was over the past couple of very warm days. My buddies down in Powassan were all set up and has a small run on the first day of the warm up then nothing. I am tapping today. Wish me luck. 670 holes to drill but should be able to scurry across the snow without snowshoes due to the hard freeze last night.
I tapped March 9th. Yesterday I collected 3L of sap from 62 trees. Not much sap flow yet, hoping it picks up this week. Good luck on your tapping, at least the snow isn't as deep now after the weekend's rain.Quote:
Originally Posted by 4Walls
We collected yesterday- maybe pulled a quart of sap per tap.
Trees seem to be just waking up.
Kinda surprised given the really warm two we had
I tapped west nippissing Thursday and the only trees producing full sap were the two in the full sun but nothing since. Should expect some sap this week.
Smart on you to wait until after the rain knocked that snow down and refroze
Thank you all for the reply. I was worried I had missed the first run. I typically isolate and pull off the very first sap run and make a specific batch of early early season syrup. It is my daughters favourite. She loves the butter marshmallow flavour.
I got about 150 litres from 68 taps since March 14th that I will boil tomorrow
I’m doing my first boil tomorrow as well sitting on 118L of sap.
I got 600L of the early season stuff boiled off. Old school. Straight sap. Holy crap it takes a long time at 2% as opposed to 12%. My big 4x40 RO had a crack in the end cap. Just got the replacement part delivered today. Have 950L in the tank and the RO is humming along. No leaks and we are back to making syrup. I will let it concentrate overnight and boil it off tomorrow afternoon. I still have another 220 trees to tap. Should be nice and firm in the bush tomorrow morning. Easy walking. No need for the snowshoes.