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Wow Bruce, I'm jealous of those sap numbers and amazed at the boil rate. Likely hauled in about 100 gallons sap with now about 160 taps, 40 of those tapped in the past couple weeks and doing a lot of the work. Found another screw up when i noticed my mainline full of sap about 15 feet from the tank. I had strapped a pre-filter to the end of the mainline at the start and hadnt changed it. Must have been a ton of stuff in a line somewhere i missed and it had clogged the filter. Oops! I had strapped the filter pretty tight on the pipe so it didn't have much surface area to clog. Going back to empty the tank shortly.
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BrutemanAl, how much syrup have you made so far this year?
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roughly 7 litres , been giving it away to everyone , and drinking it lol and putting it in my tea and coffee
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That's a fantastic start! I hope you are flooded out this week. :) Thanks again for your help with my propane burner. Now, do you think you can do something to get the sap flowing for me so that I can use it again?????
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I've just finished tallying up my sap for today. Of my 20 taps, only 10 had any sap in the bucket. I hauled off a whopping 16L of sap - total. (That's 4 US gallons) Pretty pathetic.
Still waiting......
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You can come get all the sap you like from my taps , I have to leave to go to Montreal for 4 days this morning for a training course for work and I have no idea how I am going to collect the sap , the buckets are filling up so fast for me
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Dangit Al, don't place temptation in my way...next thing you know I'll be looking up Codrington and borrowing a friend's pickup and as many 5-gallon foodgrade buckets from the local restaurant I can bum!!
Oh double dang, I can't raid your pails, I have to be somewhere this weekend. Dang.
Meanwhile had a slower run yesterday, got I think 6 litres total, boiled down the previous batch of sap into near-syrup to make room for more sap in the evap pan. But today it's meant to be +5 today...but with a slight breeze...so that could slow things further.
And then there's Codrington *rustle of opening map of SE Ontario*...;)
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Boiled over the weekend - only had 75 gals of sap by end of Saturday and most of it had been frozen and thawed, so was super concentrated. Made for a short boil. Syrup was a little darker as some of the sap had been frozen in the tank for almost 2 weeks. Discarded the remaining ice, cleaned and washed all the tanks.
Collected another 30 gallons on Sunday. Some of the trees are flowing well, the north facing ones are still slow - it's not been getting warm enough to thaw out the trunks yet. Hoping it'll be good this week. I've been tapped for a month now and only boiled 3 times! Still over a foot of snow in my woods, but I was into Trenton yesterday and there was no snow to be seen.
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Some of my buckets started dripping ten minutes ago. Fingers crossed.
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Bigsap warning in Plainfield! About 150 gallons today and still flowing! Murphys law in effect. I cant boil tonite, have to go to work tommorrow and my father in law who does all the boiling has surgery tommorrow!!! At 10-15 gall per hour i need him. Weather looks good for tommor as well. Up to 38.5 liters so far of syrup
