Eastern Ontario 2014.

Two tanks. I have one big icb tote with about 150 taps on a 3/4 inch main line about 1000 feet from the house/shack. It is high enough on the hill I park my sled below it and it gravity drains. then a 45 gallon drum about 500' further up that two small 5/16 lines run into. Maybe 40 taps. That one I pump out with a bilge pump. I really should just give in and run a 1inch line right to the shack. Probably 1000$ by the time I am done to run the 1000' I figure. If that seems nuts to anyone let me know.

I collected 7 gallons yesterday,that was just what I had room for, there was probably another 10 gallons,but it is in water cooler bottle's so I will get that tonight after work,then tomorrow I will collect what is in the buckets and bottles and probably pull all the taps, my trees are starting to bud,they will probably open up on Thursday if the weather man is right with the temps going to 17.Finally seeing the forest floor though(in some spots lol),still allot of ice and snow in some low lying area's and I am starting to break through the layer of ice on my trail into the forest.

Nothing yesterday, but it was 26F all night and expected to go to 44F today, so let it run...

Cheers,
Russ

Went to -3C here last night. Just borderline cold enough. Keeping fingers crossed for a decent run as it very well could be last of the year with warmer temps in the forecast. So far year has turned out a little better then expected considering how late it was. I have made about 13 gallons so far.

Yep talk about a fast n furious run! Also hoping for one last batch today. Yesterday got 5l of nice clear and mostly yellow sap, all tastes OK so it's not buddy yet. Approx 5.5l syrup made so far, and two batches of nearup waiting to be made into syrup this evening.

well... my newest dilemma is the level of the water on my trail... I always have to drive through 10 feet of say 6 inch deep water... but after that rain I now have most of my trail under over a foot of water. I went back this morning to collect the sap from the other day (left it in the woods as it's way colder back there then up at the shack) and it occurred to me if I got stuck that I was completely surrounded in water deep than my boots!!! Hip waders will be mandatory gear tonight heading back to collect anything that runs. Hopefully the water recedes some today. Crazy thing is that it all has to exit about an 18 inch culvert at the road.. can't get the city to replace it but if they did with a nice big 4 footer there would probably never be water back there.

All the flood water had ice on it his morning of decent thickness so it must have been pretty cold my way.

snow is still hanging on in the woods... I really don't think we are that close to the end of the season .... unless the nights stay warm so it doesn't run. Radio forecast called for a couple nights below zero this week/weekend but it's not showing the same thing online.

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Originally Posted by Galena

Yep talk about a fast n furious run! Also hoping for one last batch today. Yesterday got 5l of nice clear and mostly yellow sap, all tastes OK so it's not buddy yet. Approx 5.5l syrup made so far, and two batches of nearup waiting to be made into syrup this evening.

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The yellow could be caused by rain getting into your pails. Do you have lids?

Sap has been running very well since Friday here in Cantley, QC. 20 gallons on Friday, none on Saturday, 30 gallons Sunday, 20 gallons Monday. Looks like it will run well today.

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Originally Posted by Galena

Yep talk about a fast n furious run! Also hoping for one last batch today. Yesterday got 5l of nice clear and mostly yellow sap, all tastes OK so it's not buddy yet. Approx 5.5l syrup made so far, and two batches of nearup waiting to be made into syrup this evening.

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On the bold, We had 6 of our trees turn to yellow sap sometime on Mon or Tues. Dumped around 10 gallons yellow of yellow sap on the ground. We'll see what today brings us. May be the last hurrah for us.

We had a long day yesterday - the RO was on before 7am and my brother pushed through close to 5,000 gallons. This gets us over 0.5L/tap but we need another 10 good days to get to our goal for the season.