The sun is glorious today! But I've got a cold wind coming in off Lake Huron, so it's still super chilly out there.
The sun is glorious today! But I've got a cold wind coming in off Lake Huron, so it's still super chilly out there.
Dont get too excited! We just collected about 40gal from our 62 trees so ok but nothing to write home about! Tomorrow is looking to be very good.
2023 - 130 taps, 90L from 4,000L as of mid March
2021 - 84 taps, 50L from 2100L
2020 - 100 taps on buckets, 21L syrup from 2700L so far (FEB 26-Mar 13) and then the pandemic hit! End of our season!
2019 - 62 taps on buckets, 95L syrop from 3215L sap
2018 - 62 taps, collecting by hand, 90L syrop from 3200L sap
2017 - Lapierre Waterloo Small mini pro with 40 taps
2014 - 2016 40 taps making one or two batches on a 2x6 flat pan over an open arch as it would have been done in 1900
Not much going on in my bush today I got the cold Huron winds also. Lines to shack started a drip around 2ish. Not much in the buckets. To date around 250g from 60 trees. Will bottle my 2nd batch tomorrow. Putting the last of the sap through the arch as I am writing this. Might have to put more taps out. Was hoping for a good year so I am 40 taps shy of last year. I am starting to feel the lack of sap
225 taps 180 on vac 45 on natural gravity lines.
2x6 drop flue with auto draw.
Home built 3 x400gpd ro
2017 kubota M7060hdcc12
2019 can am defender
2017- first year 80 taps 22x36 home made arch and pan.
I just went and collected. 20 gallons today, with a couple left in buckets because I ran out of space. I need to grab a couple more buckets.
Sitting around 245 gallons of sap from 20 taps.
Well I didn’t do too shabby. Just got back from collecting 300 litres / 80ish gallons. My property is sheltered somewhat from the winds and the sun definitely helped out.
To date I’ve collected 1910 Litres / 500 gallons and I suspect between tomorrow and Thursday my trees will provide at least another 6-700 litres. I’ve started to drop in sugar to 2% average which tells me that I will start to produce amber instead of golden. At least that’s how it’s been in the past for me.
Hoping to reach my goal of 3000 Litres by weeks end and pull my taps. Not living where we harvest begins to take a toll on the body.
Hope everyone has a great season!
Eternally perplexed! Yesterday expected very little and was surprised. Today I expected a lot and was surprised!
Here’s to wondering what tomorrow will be like.
Should be a good run today... in Wellington County... and forecast looks decent for the next 6 days straight.
Today went fairly well, made about 14l of syrop, collected about 200l of sap from 62 taps. Only downer was after my last draw off I was trying to decide if I should shut down for the night or keep on going as everything had just been ticking along all day. Emptied some buckets into the collection tank and when I returned to the evaporator discovered that the finishing pan float valve had stuck open and pan was flooded to about 3" depth! There goes the sugar gradient! On the bright side the machine made the decision for me as to whether to shut down! So far this year we've collected 2200l of sap compared to 3200 last year. Does not look like we will exceed last year. Calling for sap flow on Monday but after that temps are shooting up and I fear that might be the end.
2023 - 130 taps, 90L from 4,000L as of mid March
2021 - 84 taps, 50L from 2100L
2020 - 100 taps on buckets, 21L syrup from 2700L so far (FEB 26-Mar 13) and then the pandemic hit! End of our season!
2019 - 62 taps on buckets, 95L syrop from 3215L sap
2018 - 62 taps, collecting by hand, 90L syrop from 3200L sap
2017 - Lapierre Waterloo Small mini pro with 40 taps
2014 - 2016 40 taps making one or two batches on a 2x6 flat pan over an open arch as it would have been done in 1900
Very slow drip today but collected 110 gal today around noon from yesterday. Still only 60 taps so far. It’s kinda nice being able to keep up. I will prob put another 15-20 for a last big run at the end of my season.
225 taps 180 on vac 45 on natural gravity lines.
2x6 drop flue with auto draw.
Home built 3 x400gpd ro
2017 kubota M7060hdcc12
2019 can am defender
2017- first year 80 taps 22x36 home made arch and pan.
That’s a pretty sweet haul HK!
It’s been slow for me the last 3 days. Just enough to have to boil because I’m out of storage space / weather is to mild but not enough to really crank the ole evap up! Only got 160 litres off of 58 taps in 24 hours.
I’ve harvested 2,600 litres of sap to date. I have an extremely sweet pan that is probably holding 20L of finish and I bottled 31 litres today of batch one and two. 13 for batch one and and 18 for batch 2.
Will probably pull my taps tomorrow. Sugar has dropped off and I’m tired. On the plus side, I’ve shed 5 pounds in 2 weeks!!!
My pre season goal was 50 litres of finished and I think I’ll get there.
It looks a lot darker than it is. I’ll snap a pic when they’re so natural light around.
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