Eastern Ontario 2018

[Galena]

Trust me, TurkeyJohn, I am trying to quit...it's that my trees just keep giving me perfectly good sap!! I keep asking them nicely to stop ;-)

Ditto here, Clinkis. I also have 100 other responsibilities that I have to get to and the neverending sap run just keeps on a-runnin'. *sigh*

[Clinkis]

Tanks overflowing today with nice clear sap. Unfortunately sugar content is low, around 1.7. I know I said I was done collecting today but looks like tomorrow might be good again so HECK i’ll Collect again tomorrow but then that’s it! For sure this time!

[Galena]

Good news! 4 of my trees have slowed down enough to justify removing their spiles this afternoon with a clear conscience.

Bad news! The last two trees, little one-spiler Surprise and unassuming little 3-spiler #1, are still going strong. They gave me 11l this morning.

So that means I am now at 795l sap collected this season, could easily break 800l. I hope so, I just want to get this season done dammit!!!!

[paulslund]

Wow Galena!.. sounds like you'll only have to wait a day to break the 800 mark.. a record for you it sounds like?

And I was wrong about my sugars.. my little ones have dried up (although I could see sap running down the sides of them a few days ago) but of the two regular sized trees (i.e. about 10 inches across) I'm still collecting about 2.5 liters a day from one of them..the other slowed down so I pulled it..but it's still dripping. My other sugars were kind of small to tap, to be honest.. it was just an experiment to see how much I would get in relation to my silvers.. So I made about 350Ml of sugar maple syrup on Monday, and will hopefully get another 350Ml by the weekend (i know it's small.. but man I love the Sugar maple syrup! My kids actually prefer the Silver maple syrup.. one of them does not like the molasses-tasting one at all! Picky kids I have!)

[Fort Wisers]

Good news! 4 of my trees have slowed down enough to justify removing their spiles this afternoon with a clear conscience.

Bad news! The last two trees, little one-spiler Surprise and unassuming little 3-spiler #1, are still going strong. They gave me 11l this morning.

So that means I am now at 795l sap collected this season, could easily break 800l. I hope so, I just want to get this season done dammit!!!!

WOW, great work!
We'll send the pictures of our rig soon.

[ennismaple]

We are definitely still going. We had another good boil yesterday. We started out as a dark Dark-Robust but by the time the first drum was full we were back into Amber-Rich. Crap - we need more dark!!! By the end of the day we were all the way back to 65LT. The first 3000 gallons was at only 1.7% but the sap coming in afterwards was much higher because we ended up at a 43.5:1 ratio by the end of the day.

The sap ran decent all day and was still running some when I turned off the SP-22's at around 9pm. I expect the 2 woods on the auto-start/stop Airtech pump ran fairly well until midnight. The sap coming in was crystal clear so we won't be making dark syrup tomorrow either.

We are at a record 44 days since our first boil and still making good syrup - and still going. We might need to find a stainless steel bathtub to store the rest of our syrup if this craziness keeps going much longer!

[Big_Eddy]

I boiled all day yesterday and finally got all our tanks emptied. We had collected Tuesday night (after almost a week of below freezing) Made another 15 litres or so of syrup which will put me over the 1l per tree for the season.

My son's new puppy spent most of the day sleeping on my fire-stoking gloves - which resulted in a good burn on my thumb.
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When he got home from school he for took his puppy for a walk to check the buckets and came back with the "great!" ( great! ??@#??) news that there was lots of sap in the pails. By that time it was too late to collect before dark - so it will still be there tonight. I still have wood on the pile so we'll probably boil it - but I'm out of glass and almost out of "gas" as well. 53 days and counting.

[Run Forest Run!]

Wow, all you eastern folks are still killing it! Congrats on such a great season out that way. Sap AND puppies. You guys are living the dream!! hahaha

I'm hoping to see some sap today after things thaw out. I've got 60L in a holding tank to start to boil today but it's been a rather odd and discouraging season here for me. I freshened three holes yesterday and put in a fresh tap as well. I can't make heads or tails out of this year.

[ennismaple]

Wow, all you eastern folks are still killing it! Congrats on such a great season out that way. Sap AND puppies. You guys are living the dream!! hahaha

I'm hoping to see some sap today after things thaw out. I've got 60L in a holding tank to start to boil today but it's been a rather odd and discouraging season here for me. I freshened three holes yesterday and put in a fresh tap as well. I can't make heads or tails out of this year.

Karen - I've been doing this all my life and I can't remember a season like this. We're over 1L/tap and the sap hasn't ran well yet. We've been boiling for over 6 weeks but only on consecutive days once. Some years it runs at night, some it runs in the rain/snow but this year it runs a little bit almost every day! I've put a lot of sap through the RO at zero or minus 1 and on only one day was it reasonably warm to allow for a decent permeate flow rate.

6 weeks into the season and 90% of our syrup is Golden or Amber-Rich. I'd be happy with 4 straight days of +15 C and be done with it!

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[Galena]

WOW, great work!
We'll send the pictures of our rig soon.

Yes, please do, as I think that's the direction I'm headed in. Either that or the loony bin, though I am not planning on taking more yoga school for another year or so.

And Paul, yes, my previous record was 701l, that was 2 yrs ago. Already broken it. Those two trees left on tap have approx 2 l or so at a guess between em right, the cold slowed the run. Thankfully!!!!!