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I ended up asking my neighbor to empty my buckets for me , I left him some empty culligan water bottles in the forest ( 4 of them ) plus 2 8 gallon water jugs the kind you take camping , I got a text saying the 4 culligan bottle's were already full and by tomorrow the 2 camping water jugs will more than likely be full , hopefully he has something he can use to store more if needed . gunna be very busy when I get home from montreal I do believe
Al, the floodgates are opening for us now. Your poor neighbour. hahahah
I'm one happy gal with 32 litres collected today. It was gaining speed throughout the day and I question how much it will slow down tonight. I'll start boiling 70 litres tomorrow morning and expect at least another 30+ of new sap will be in the buckets tomorrow. Good thing I've got 4 propane tanks to put in rotation.
BIG SAP!!
600L on 100 taps since yesterday morning...and really running strong.
Steve.
Slower day, maybe 50-60 gallons sap. Have about 150 or so boiled down so far. Frost on ground already. Up to 46 liters of syrup
I had a weird day. All the trees on my property were shut down. There was a breeze that was the likely culprit. However, the 7 taps that I have down the street in a sheltered forest were champs today. I got 37.5 litres from those 7 taps and they were showing no signs of letting up when I emptied them at 4 p.m. I'll have to go back first thing tomorrow morning to make sure they aren't overflowing. Big difference between the two locations today.
Yesterday was weak for me... on 16 taps I got maybe 4 gallons. The day before on all 26 of mine I probably did 25-26 gallons. Do you guys think this could be close to the end of it?
Kyle, it sounds like you and I had the same sap day. I can't imagine that we are nearing the end because we've barely even started. Hang in there. I'm sure there is more to come. Even today the trees on my property are sleepy. Thank goodness I've got those few down the street to help me over the dry spells here.
Can someone tell our trees to wake up!! We last boiled on Monday so my brother was ready for a massive day today. Turns out he'll have to run less than 1 gallon per tap - and that's 2 days worth of sap! It has great colour and flavour and we're approaching last year's total (per tap) so we can't complain - we just want to see it go so hard we don't know how to get it all processed!
This is why this type of forum is so helpful. If so many of us weren't having this unexpected dry spell we'd think it was just us and we either did something wrong or have crappy trees.
Ennismaple, I'm not sure exactly where you are in relation to Lanark village, but for you Lanark tends to be a couple degrees cooler than where I am which will hopefully work in your favor... hopefully mine too, but only time will tell for sure ;)
I know way up in the Lanark highlands where Wheelers is it always seems colder.