Eastern Ontario 2018

[TurkeyJohn]

Around 760l collected now, 75+l out there in holding. I think I'm certifiable to still be going, but I just can't stop!!! Nor can (or will) the trees. Some have slowed down but others have increased their output.

You’re a monster for punishment Galena...stay at it, you put the rest of us who’ve washed up already to shame...proud of you!!

TurkeyJohn


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[nathancb]

Shutting down today in Lang (10km southeast of Peterborough). There is still lots of sap flowing, nice and clear, but the sugar has dropped below 1º, so its not really feasible to do anything with it. There hasn't been any cloudy sap at all this season. The sugar today is almost undetectable by taste. Overall, it was the same here as most everywhere else and sugar was down substantially from last year, but there were generally good runs to make up the difference.

Made ˜115l from 125 taps and about 7000l of sap on a 18x63 D&G.

Nathan

[Clinkis]

Still going strong here. Noticed my red maples sap was a little off tasting so pulled them (but that’s only 5). Sugars still producing nicely. Sugar content up over 2 finally too. No idea how much sap I’ve collected but I’ve made around 250L of syrup so far. I’d like to try and get to 300l if possible and then i’ll Pull the plug. New RO has been a godsend.

[Galena]

You’re a monster for punishment Galena...stay at it, you put the rest of us who’ve washed up already to shame...proud of you!!

TurkeyJohn

Hehe thanks TurkeyJohn :-) I just threw some more wood into the sugar shack stove to get it going while I go work today. Managed to book tomorrow off too so maybe I can actually finish that 60l still out there.

Oh yeah so far 758.5l collected. Haven't dared walk the trees yet.

[ennismaple]

I hope everybody has things tied down this afternoon!?!? This wind is crazy. Bucket producers may be SOL because if they don't blow away they'll all be empty by dinnertime!

We had a good run yesterday and overnight so my brother had the RO running at 7am. First fire was on by 11 but at 1pm he decided to shut down the RO and finish up the concentrate because it's so windy that we're almost certainly going to have a power outage today. Tough to concentrate sap and run a forced air evaporator without power!

We still have a LOT of sap left to process once this storm passes.

[Galena]

Hehe this bucket producer is kinda sorta hoping that a few buckets will get airborne...just sayin! ;-) The worst seems to be over now, but wait 5 minutes....

[Run Forest Run!]

To all of you sugarers east of me, please keep an eye out for one of my sap jugs. It must be close to Ottawa by now. Sheeesh! These winds are INSANE! You take your life into your hands checking on your buckets.

[Galena]

To all of you sugarers east of me, please keep an eye out for one of my sap jugs. It must be close to Ottawa by now. Sheeesh! These winds are INSANE! You take your life into your hands checking on your buckets.

Sorry haven't seen it, Karen, but amazingly none of my near-empty pails got blown off. Just a couple of lids. Was glad to see that more spiles are slowing or stopping altogether, but the remaining spiles that are going hot are in my late-running trees. I swear they do it on purpose! Leaving sap out there frozen til later today, have a lot of work to do.

Oh and batch #5 is a gorgeous red, a little over 5l. Going to hotpack later today and maybe get #6 finished too.

[BrutemanAl]

I hope everybody has things tied down this afternoon!?!? This wind is crazy. Bucket producers may be SOL because if they don't blow away they'll all be empty by dinnertime!

We had a good run yesterday and overnight so my brother had the RO running at 7am. First fire was on by 11 but at 1pm he decided to shut down the RO and finish up the concentrate because it's so windy that we're almost certainly going to have a power outage today. Tough to concentrate sap and run a forced air evaporator without power!

We still have a LOT of sap left to process once this storm passes.

Not really if you have a generator, we have a few customers that have sugar shacks and we have installed generators for them.


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[Galena]

Well been busy here cause I now can't use sugar shack stove, creosote buildup cause I was burning green wood from the pallets, even though I cleaned out stove and chimney as best as I could between burns, so I was risking both syrup tasting of creosote and a shack fire. Luckily the cold weather froze up storage jugs and pails hard enough that was able to get sap concentrate, though I felt guilty chucking away ice. But now that I have to revert to boiling indoors see no other way to do it.