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I got home just after 5 and collected 6 gallons from 7 buckets, didnt even touch the water cooler bottle's, a few were about 1/4 full while the rest were pushing the half full mark, I plan on collecting it all tomorrow and boil when I can,busy at work also so it is long work days ... late night/early mornings boiling sap.
Decent run today. 60 gallons off 120 taps. Not as good as I was expecting but will take it after the year we've had. Also made my first syrup of the year this afternoon. About 8 litres. Very very light and mild.
Didn't seem like much of a run, but anything is better than nothing. Ran the vacuum pump from about 9:30-7:30 tonight, maybe hauled in 600-700 gallons, boiled a couple hours tonight and sweetened the pans up, if we get a better freeze tonight syrup should start rolling off steady.
Out here collecting a bit late but I would guess 80 to 100 gallons. Nice of the coyotes to serenade me, should really bring the shotgun back here at night!
Nice crisp sunny morning out there, ground frozen (watch for ice - nearly did a faceplant or two) but was comfortable in just t-shirt and a fleecy, no long johns. Busy boiling down what I got yesterday so I can get my first batch done and onto other ones.
Hope we all have a good run today!
Disappointing day yesterday. I was hoping for 100 gals from my 150 trees but only had 45. Do have 100 in the tank so boiling today instead of working so not all bad :)
Finally starting to get sap. 7.5 gallons on Saturday and 11.5 gallons yesterday. Not great from 32 pails but a start. We have over 4 feet of snow in the bush here in the Ottawa area. Should be a better run today. I don't expect great runs until the snow melts down some.
Yesterday was good here. Not great though. 300L on 80 taps. Today is slow...just a trickle. No sun and too much wind. Tomorrow should be better.
Steve.
We had a good, not great, day yesterday with close to 1 GPT of sap collected. We re-sweetened the pans and pushed through over 4,000 gallons of sap for the day. Now we just need to repeat that 10-15 more times and we'll be happy!
Moved west no maples but back now
Actually there are bigleaf maples out there, but the sugar content is so low that the ratio is like 72/1 as opposed to the traditional 40/1 ratio you have with REAL maples!!! And yeah I also lived in BC, got sick of the rain and mostly coniferous forests. Saw sense and returned to Ontario :-)