Eastern Ontario 2018

[BrutemanAl]

I am expecting allot, I boiled till 10 pm last night, filled the pans, stocked the fire went to bed.

It’s almost 540 am and I am back at it, got out of bed just before 5. By the time the family is up I will be ready to go to the forest and bring more sap back.


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[Fort Wisers]

Nice work Al!

Been up since 12:30am, but unfortunately it's been to work on our SxS (Yamaha Rhino) and not time spent on sugarin'!!!
Collected about 18 litres total over the last couple days (seems the trees are slow to thaw this time) and got 40 litres from our neighbour.
Was planning on boiling today but might wait for warmer temps of tomorrow.....
Will likely boil and finish our first batch on Sunday.......

[BrutemanAl]

I have been seeing a few Facebook posts that are in neighbouring towns that have burn bans in effect now because everything is so dry. Hope it doesn’t happen in my district.



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[cheesegenie]

Everything here is still covered in snow from last week. BTW, sap ran pretty good yesterday, boiling right now.

[Galena]

40l sap in holding, a lot of frozen this morning. Won't be boiling til Monday afternoon at earliest, so wouldn't mind if that brisk North wind keeps the run down today!

[BrutemanAl]

I have ALLOT of sap in the forest this morning, I gathered 40 L from buckets that were over flowing and left the rest were it is right now, if I had to guess I would say there is at least 200 L waiting to be boiled, not including the 87 L I buried in the snow the other day.


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[Run Forest Run!]

I have been seeing a few Facebook posts that are in neighbouring towns that have burn bans in effect now because everything is so dry. Hope it doesn’t happen in my district.

Al don't quote me on this, but it's my understanding (from my firefighter nephew) that a burn ban does not apply if the fire is being used in food preparation. Check with your township office if the ban extends to your area in the future. I think you'll be OK because you are making syrup.

I'm still being patient and waiting for my turn to join in the fun. Since March 3rd I've gathered a little here and there and stored it in the garage. Most of the time it's frozen so I have been lucky to peel off the ice to RO it. There's about 50L out there representing three weeks worth of collecting. Still almost -3 around here at the moment with a high of perhaps 1C for the day. Not really enough to get things going. By mid-week I expect things will change for the juicier.

[BrutemanAl]

Al don't quote me on this, but it's my understanding (from my firefighter nephew) that a burn ban does not apply if the fire is being used in food preparation. Check with your township office if the ban extends to your area in the future. I think you'll be OK because you are making syrup.

I'm still being patient and waiting for my turn to join in the fun. Since March 3rd I've gathered a little here and there and stored it in the garage. Most of the time it's frozen so I have been lucky to peel off the ice to RO it. There's about 50L out there representing three weeks worth of collecting. Still almost -3 around here at the moment with a high of perhaps 1C for the day. Not really enough to get things going. By mid-week I expect things will change for the juicier.

Pretty sure you are correct Karen, that rings a bell, they issued a burn ban a few hours ago for my municipality, I’m still boiling away though, I slowed the process down and don’t have 2 ft flames shooting out the end of the stove pipe any more.


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[Galena]

According to the local 'learn before you burn' pamphlet I got last year from the municipality of North Grenville, burn permits and bans are mostly for open burns like a bonfire. If you're making syrup over an evaporator of some sort, esp if it's enclosed, you should be fine. Double-check on your municipal website just to be sure.

[BrutemanAl]

I asked a few neighbors one of which used to be a volunteer fire fighter and they all said who cares, make your syrup, the volunteer said, F@&K that and them, burn baby burn, so I did.

I boiled down 110 L today, have about 6 L of Near up, wanted to boil more but I slowed down around 230 ish, didn’t want any issues with the current burn ban and it was starting to become a long day by that time.


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