Canadian Water Warehouse Ltd.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maplesapper
17075 Leslie Street Unit 19
Newmarket, Ontario
L3Y 8E1 Canada
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Canadian Water Warehouse Ltd.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maplesapper
17075 Leslie Street Unit 19
Newmarket, Ontario
L3Y 8E1 Canada
Collected 11l at 3pm. Don't think I've ever had such a strong start to the season. Only one leaky spile, and it's my fault cause for some reason I thought it might be good to tap above a burl....anyway should go re-drill in a more promising location :-/
unning into one large bucket, do I need a slope downward between each tree. Do I then have to leave an airlock above the highest tap or it a sealed system to the collection barrel?
94 gallons collected today, so everything is now full as full can get. So the only way I can free some space up is to do a boil in the morning. :)
I figured since I had a couple of large 250 gallon totes everything would be fine, no, suckers are sitting in 5 inches of solid ice behind everything else, one large brain fart forgetting to get them out. Called to buy a tote and I could almost see the guy laughing on the other end of the phone "Don't you know it's maple syrup season?" DAH!
Collected a total of 111 litres of sap today.. Boil #3 in progress..
Wow Lesley, you are killing it! Way to go.
Been a busy couple days. Collected around 250 gallons in the last 2 days. Has been running slow but steady for the last 36 hours. Unfortunately sugar content is a little low.....around 2.4% yesterday and 2.1% today (I'm usually sound 3%). Just came in and it's still running. Got the RO all fired up yesterday, sweetened the evaporator and made about a gallon of syrup so far but stills lots to RO and boil. Will have another busy day tomorrow. I will take it because if weatherman is right this ain't gonna last long and it may be over before it really gets started.
Thx Karen, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for your trees! Have you started collecting much sap yet?Quote:
Originally Posted by Run Forest Run!
I'm a bit confused at the delay in sap flow your way. Like I do remember last year I finished a lot earlier than most..I'm starting to think that my season in the Rideau area is a bit earlier than much of Ontario due to the Great Lake exposure, I could totally be wrong in saying that but then I remember last year boiling buddy sap when many were still getting beautiful maple syrup... Can't be a coincidence that my trees are thawed out and ready sooner.. Right?
Lesley, I collected 61L during those two warm days we had over a week ago. Things froze up and now during this thaw I've collected a total of 20L from Saturday through to today. That's from 19 taps. Usually my trees really give an A+ performance. Looks like summer school's in their future for this year. ;) I'm at the top of a "mountain" here so my spring is always delayed. I'm hoping that's the reason for my late arrival to the fun. Also, I always tap down the street at a friend's place to get access to some sugar maples, but the laneway is still snowed in and I don't want to get stuck part way up. By tomorrow I should be able to consider tapping those trees without spinning my car out.
However, today I boiled what I had and got about 2L of nearup. (There's still a massive ice ball in my storage tank that didn't melt down all the way. It's probably 20L's worth.) I'll finish off the nearup to syrup another day. It was nice to finally be boiling, even if it was a quick one. It was such a beautiful day out today. Looking forward to whatever comes my way.
Heh, Lesley, your trees are a young bush of mostly 1- and 2-spilers, so smaller trees would probably thaw out a lot faster! :-) I don't know Karen's trees but I would think her elevation and proximity to the Great Lakes probably affect each other.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lespetras
At this end, a nice promising start to the season, no overflowing pails. But when I put the trees to bed last night about 10pm, making sure that they got the memo that it was time to quit for the day, #5 and #6 were still plinkin steadily away...while #2 must be a union tree, won't produce too much after 5pm!
ETA: I hear geese....and just brought in 15.5l. Will have to wait til after work to collect again, then time to start foggin up the windows!!