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Well yesterday was a great star with 108 gallons of sap collected here, looks like were on our way, today should be a great day!

All taped here in Trout Creek lines all tweaked and the shack is set! Let's see what happens this week.

Well looks like were on the slow start to 2014, we taped the fist of march and it warm up enough last weekend to vacuum out the lines, got home last night to see that the sap had run and by the looks...

Nice to see everyone south of me getting a jump on thing, if the weather holds for this weekend we may get our 600 taps done before next weeks freeze. We wish you all the best for this season!

Hi every one, things are starting to come together here up north, I'm planning on tapping on family day again this year, and then will let mother nature decide when she is going to run!

Hope you...

Well the trees finally started to open up we collected 100 gallons of sap, and boiled it down to sweeten the pans, it's looking to be a fast short season but colder temps are on the way!

Best of...

Well we did it and taped all our 600 trees on gravity feed on Monday, we will wait till March break to put up our buckets, sap is slowly starting to flow, will flush out the holding tanks this...

Looks like we will be tapping Feb.20th this year 7 days sooner than last year, we don,t have the snow like last year, so I have managed to keep the road to the shack open since November, theirs a...

Thanks Ron the tires and spindles are off an old boat trailer I had.

Thanks Chris it has made the last four trees allot easier to move down to the house, I don't think I did that bad of a job considering I know very little about them and had never used one before.

sorry guy's let see if these pic's work.

Just tough I'd post a few pic's of my latest project, this logging arch was a great way to use up some of the scrap steel I had laying around.

Well were still in the game, boiled off 200 gallons today made 3 1/2 gallons not bad for a rainy day, collected another 150 gallons of sap and still fairly clear. all our soft maples are done and...

Hi Woodburner we have been going for the last four weeks and were not done yet were trying for one more week, still averaging 150 gallons per day and still fairly clear sap, our soft maple have...

Well all our gravity tap are done and the shack is ready to go, will wait till the 12th to put our bucket out. This is the first time that I'm ahead of the game. Will just sit back and wait for...

Hey Brent this is one restoration project I love working on year after year, every new problem that come up, my wife and I look at the replacement part cost, then look at the cost of rebuilding the...

Look's like will be tapping next weekend, I will get all the gravity feed done and wait a week fore our buckets now that the sugar shack is at 90% ready to go.

First full day working in the sugar shack, the evaporator has been stripped, re-bricked, sanded, painted, new seals and gaskets and a new stack put in. and for tomorrow, all new plumbing form the...

510 taps on gravity and 90 buckets, Northern Ontario, Canada.

Looking forward to opening up the road to the sugar shack this weekend snow is waist deep,good time to get thing washed and ready to go.

Well another fall clean up has started, we washed the bush yesterday,not leak in the system no bear bits this year and no blow downs, it was one of the quickest wash's we ever done, just need to...

Hey Ken be thankful with that amount I have 410 taps on gravity and 50 buckets and we just hit 35 gallons, right now we are we are sitting at 1/4 liter per tap at this rate I will never have to...

Hey their is sap in the bush other than me, we finally got a run collected 155 gal. hopefully an other 100 or so today will see, all the best to every one!

We know the feeling but we sold out of last year stock, it has not run in the last week, we only made 10 gallons so far. Just called home and were finally back in the game 130 gal. in the tank thus...

Hold on for one more week guy's I don't think we have seen the last of old man winter yet things should go back to normal by the end of next week.