Eastern Ontario 2014.

Come on Yellzee, you should only get depressed when you can't light your arch...;-]

Cheers,
Russ

Nicely done! Here is the handy helperAttachment 9561Attachment 9561

I bet all you gotta say is; "Pose!"...haha, I have never been able to get a pic of all 5 of my dogs at one time, so grtz...;-]

Cheers,
Russ

Good run here today. I would say my best one day run of the season. The RO will be busy tonight. Now I just need about 7 or 8 more days like this!

Ok pretty happy with my run today...29l of sap from 18 spiles (actually only 17, one seems to need some persuading to get going again. So glad, I was afraid the April Fools Day run was a one-off!!

I collected 55 ltr's today(roughly 14 gallons) from 17 taps, had another 2 buckets but I didnt have room to bring that back( these numbers are from 2 days as I had to work late last night and didn't make it in to the forest yesterday),boiling some right now,but this dude needs some sleep so going to shut it down for now probably and get back up in 4 hrs and start again before heading to work.

Hi Folks, I've been lurking in the background. We gathered 725L off of 245 taps today. Have made 12L so far this year off of a 2x5 Lapierre. Been a learning experience so far!!! BTW my location is Eastern Ontario...even though my profile says OH.

Galena, I got just about the same as you did. 30L from 18 spiles. Once I re-read Bruteman's instructions to me from last year on how to properly start up my propane burners I boiled down a total of 68L in 5.5 hours. The first boil of the season always seems to require a refresher course. lol

I'm now left with some "nearup" that I will save to finish to syrup in a larger batch. I'm done with making small batch after small batch. Too much clean-up. It was a great day to be playing outside. :) I hope for many more days like this one.

Oh, I almost forgot to mention.....box elders were running at 2.5% and my Freeman and silvers were clocking in at 3.5%.

Yesterday i collected 85 gallons, and still has a bit left this morning. this is about the limit of my 2x5 flat pan. The snow is still a pain gettign around the bush, only got stuck twice. We only bottled 8 liters but my whole pan is nearing syrup. commons satuturday.

I'm going to convert to litres as it will make me feel better maybe.. actuall collected 2 190 litre drums worth of sap, so 380 litres which is close enough to 100 USG... so better than I was thinking originally.

bottled another 10 litres last night... little darker... very sweet.