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Well, that's it for me. Pulled the plug tonight, spiles are out now and the last boil will be tomorrow night. In all, I produced 15 litres from 22 taps/buckets. I added 8 more taps this year and tripled my output. Not bad for one of the little guys. So I'll take that and start dreaming of next year...
We had a pretty deep freeze a few days ago. I suspect it takes a few days for the frost to work out of the trees. I'm expecting another flow tomorrow but a light, slightly cloudy sap day and then that will be it for this year.
We got a smaller run today, but still about a gallon / tap on vac. The buckets only coughed up about 20 gallons from about 100 taps.
Half decent day today considering how it barely froze last night and warmed up so quickly, 70 gallons. We'll probably leave the taps in over the weekend and hore the trees don't start to grow and amybe get some sap mid to late next week.
Mine poured today also but a few are starting to slow down a lot. I will not be able to look at them until late afternoon tomorrow so if they pour over they pout over . I can't believe they have ran for three days after a frost saturday night.
this week's total is 300 litres out of 44 taps (3days). Scared to boil any more incase it's buddy. does buddy sap always have an off smell or cloudy appearance? All my sap is still clear but I'd hate to spend more time/wood for nothing. Drained the evaporator with the concentrate from today's boil and will finish it on propane tomorrow night. Including start up and cool down 11 hours for the 300 litres looks like 10-12 litres of syrup in the finishing pot will know for sure tomorrow. 6 gals per hour, no forced air in the fire box this year and only a plastic tube preheater.
MTB Guy,
Take a couple quarts and boil them down on the stove--takes a couple hours. WATCH it towards the end. I had some really cloudy sap but made great tasting syrup--about 4 tablespoons. I will boil the tank tomorrow...
I was just out in the bush (11:00PM) to check on the check valves for a separate thread and our bush is still running. Going to leave the vac on all night. Theres close to 300 gallons out there now and we brought in 400-500 already.
Another gallon a tap day.
Edit the season may end tonight. Had a customer here this afternoon ordered 5 litres of amber. And we're still making light. I'm even laddleing done syrup back into the syrup pan to try to darken it up. Not much luck so far.
well the fat lady is making her way north but she was not here last night.
We got about 450 more gallons overnight and when the the woods last it was still running beautiful clear sap.
I just pulled the plug on the vac. I'm done.
Still making Ontario Grade A Light.
Fat lady seems to be standing and clearing her throat here to. Heard the peepers in the ditch in the yard today as it was like 70 degrees. Then the trees are finally slowing down.