Eastern Ontario 2018

[Galena]

Wow Galena. I only had a few smaller sugars tapped this year and they've all dried up. My big silvers were pulled last weekend (actually about 10 days ago) as they were started to get the buddy smell.. I left two taps in my sugars for fun and I may have 10 liters between the two of them over the past9 days.. using 5/16 this year..maybe they close up sooner? Are you on 5/16 or 7/16? But you sure are getting a great ratio! I calculate about 30:1!! And your color contrast between batches is really cool!

Hehe thanks Paul :-) All my trees are sugars and most of them are pretty **** big sugars. I'm a bad person, still on 7/16ths - I did try the 5/16ths but all they did was fall out of the trees. And very happy with my syrup colours and the ratio, I figured it had to be about 30:1... think some were around 28:1 and 29:1.

Think I will pull spiles today except on the 2-3 trees that are absolute diehards. I'm just done, in all senses of the word, and have to get on with my life.

[BrutemanAl]

Glad to see your all still going at it, I have been busy cutting wood in the forest and stacking it with the kids... getting ready for next year. Going to pick up a bunch of slab wood also at some point. Hope to bring home the sugar shack this weekend and then get the evaporator set up in it.


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[Bruce L]

A big kudos to Covells at Rideau Ferry. Had Maple Weekend at the bush this past weekend,had a hard time making what I presumed would be enough maple sugar leaves to have on hand for sale. Decided some time ago we needed more molds,so ordered from another place ( which I won't name on here publicly ) back in early January. Checked back end of January ,then again in February ,even in March to which they still responded could be any day now. Ordered from Covell's maybe 10 days ago,picked up molds today,so now when we are making sugar I can turn out 560 pieces at a time, instead of being limited to 240 Had a great time bubbling water away in the evaporator,biggest problem being amount of water needed to last the day,evaporator only boils at 2 speeds,fast and faster,even got to meet up with some fellow traders who were astounded at the evaporation rate.

[DrewCP]

A big kudos to Covells at Rideau Ferry. Had Maple Weekend at the bush this past weekend,had a hard time making what I presumed would be enough maple sugar leaves to have on hand for sale. Decided some time ago we needed more molds,so ordered from another place ( which I won't name on here publicly ) back in early January. Checked back end of January ,then again in February ,even in March to which they still responded could be any day now. Ordered from Covell's maybe 10 days ago,picked up molds today,so now when we are making sugar I can turn out 560 pieces at a time, instead of being limited to 240 Had a great time bubbling water away in the evaporator,biggest problem being amount of water needed to last the day,evaporator only boils at 2 speeds,fast and faster,even got to meet up with some fellow traders who were astounded at the evaporation rate.

I buy all my glass, filters, hydrometers.... you name it from Covell's. Always good for a chat and always have what I need or can get it fast. It also helps that they are only 5 minutes away. I really want to try to make some suckers this year. Might have to head over this week to see if they have any molds in stock.
Save some of those maple sugar leaves for Delta!

[Galena]

I also like Covell's and have bought a lot of glassware, hydrotherms etc from them. Problem is, that section of the store is only open for 3 mths of the year, and I live a good haul away so don't want to drive an hour or more to get there only to find that section closed down :-/

Still collecting sap, so am going to make a teeny little batch #7 of it, mixed in with the last tiny bit from batch #6. Don't want to mess any more with #6, even if it is going to crystallize a little cause it finished off two hashmarks over hot. Ah well.

[BrutemanAl]

I had someone sneaking around my sugar bush this morning.










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[Galena]

Cool pics Al! Game cam?

Even though I've taken down half my buckets, my best trees are still refusing to call it quits, though I suspect tomorrow I can pull another couple trees. Got no choice.

[TurkeyJohn]

Cool pics Al! Game cam?

Even though I've taken down half my buckets, my best trees are still refusing to call it quits, though I suspect tomorrow I can pull another couple trees. Got no choice.

Still going Galena?? You’ve got some persistent trees there. Good on you for staying at it...Took down my outfit just a few days before that wind storm couple weeks ago. So glad I did or I’d have buckets all the way to Gananoque...

TurkeyJohn


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[BrutemanAl]

Cool pics Al! Game cam?

Even though I've taken down half my buckets, my best trees are still refusing to call it quits, though I suspect tomorrow I can pull another couple trees. Got no choice.

Yep, just got it a few days ago.


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[Clinkis]

Just finished off 200 gallons of sap I collected today. Hoping for a decent run tomorrow and then I’m done. Been a long strange season. Probably end up with 270-280 L of syrup which is short of my 300L goal but still happy with that. Time to move on to my 100 other responsibilities I have been neglecting.