Things sure exploded here today too. Most of my buckets are 3/4 full already. Probably will have to do a collection this afternoon.
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Things sure exploded here today too. Most of my buckets are 3/4 full already. Probably will have to do a collection this afternoon.
Finally a decent run here today, got up to 14C. Collected 75litres from my 40 taps, mostly from the tree on the edge of the yard. The tree in the bush aren't doing much, lots of snow around them still. Hopefully they all produce eventually. First boil tomorrow.
Well got a grand total of 42l today, so very happy...don't think I've ever collected that much this early in the run, will be interesting to see what happens over the next week or so.
Oh and I now have a 4th pail on #9...I was collecting this morning and was just getting rained on, steadily, from 2-4 natural spiles of bark...so I got some baling twine and tied another pail onto the tree...and got about 2l from all this new natural spile setup, about 50% increase over what that tree normally produces now. Only drawback is I can't have a lid on it, so there were some bark bits floating around, but it's definitely sap and not water or squirrel piss as my best bud already suggested :-)
Got a big surprise run today,squirrels have hopefully called for a ceasefire,finished repairs this morning,got the vacuum running,then found more leaks.Left the bush at noon,maintaining 24" vacuum,started picking up sap after lunch,came back to the main bush after picking up sap from the bush up the road to find releaser overflowing the tank,pumped that tank up along with the tub of sap from other bush,then found another tank ready to go over in the third bush.Guesstimating around 900 gallons came in today
Got 85L from the ten sugar maple taps down the street, and most had overflowed a long time before I got there. 70L made it home, 15L decorated my pants and boots.
That's a lot of decorating, I had a face plant and a on the arse plant today as well, came in and the wife said your all wet.;) Gave the trees a little hug today for producing 124 gallons (well that's what made it to the tote) The wind slowed down some of the trees this afternoon, but this morning I timed one tree and it was dripping 2.5 drips per second. I was happy to see a half dozen produce the 2 gallon mark today and they were still dripping at 6:30pm.Quote:
Originally Posted by Run Forest Run!
Just did night check on the trees, and they're bushed after all the work they did today. Even the keeners had slowed their drip rate to 1 drop every 5 seconds, while the Union trees were already in bed snoring their heads off...but, after collecting 42l as an all-day total...can't complain :-)
We collected 190 litres today! Now I'm starting to remember all the aches and pains of last year's collection.. yay!
Glad to see everyone else's trees have finally woken up! Maple season has officially started!
There's a lot of sweet steam over Ontario tonight. :)
Glade you all are full on hope it last for you all,done down in N.J.