Eastern Ontario 2018

[BrutemanAl]

Need everyone’s opinion, I’m looking at buying new spouts, next year I will be using drop lines into my buckets, next year I will be using allot of empty ice cream pails I picked up for free.

what kind of spouts would you recommend ?

Size? Colour? Why do you like what you are recommending?

I was looking at these in a 5/16 size.




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[Galena]

All things being equal, AL, I'd say it's just a matter of personal preference in terms of size, colour etc.

Just checked the trees. #1 has about 3l (and is running), Surprise had maybe 1l but isn't running yet. Will collect later and pretty sure will be over 800l.

[BrutemanAl]

That is what I kind of figured, I ordered 100 of them and a bunch of other stuff


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[Maple4444]

Need everyone’s opinion, I’m looking at buying new spouts, next year I will be using drop lines into my buckets, next year I will be using allot of empty ice cream pails I picked up for free.

what kind of spouts would you recommend ?

Size? Colour? Why do you like what you are recommending?

I was looking at these in a 5/16 size.




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I am switching my bush over to the white ones you have in the picture. I have found they seem to still be tight in the tree at the end of the season as compared to the black ones. I am guessing they don’t expand and contract as much on the sunny mild days- just guessing though.

[Galena]

Okay. It's official. As of this evening's collect, 800.3l of sap.

Batch #6 finished nice and smokey, just hotpacked it, a hair under 4.5l. Batch #7 will probably only be a litre or so, but just plan to keep nearuping til those **** trees quit!

[Run Forest Run!]

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!

Thanks so much for the insight. This is a very confusing season. I had a pretty decent day yesterday and gathered 51L of sap. Combined with the 60L I had in storage, I boiled all day and made 2.5L of Amber-Rich. All of my batches this year have been Amber-Rich with the exception of the first Golden-Delicate batch. Out of frustration I have reamed my tap holes and it has made a major difference. That extra 1/4" has worked like magic. Several of the jugs were overflowing this morning. If we dodge this two day ice storm that the news is threatening us with I'll be grateful. I can't face a third ice storm in four years.

[ennismaple]

As of suppertime tonight we had 4000 gallons in the woods. We'll run the pumps all night and see what we have by morning. It's just after midnight now and still +2C so we may get a night run with the sugar snow that's coming in as part of this low pressure system. We could be surprised by How much we have in the morning!

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[paulslund]

Out of frustration I have reamed my tap holes and it has made a major difference. That extra 1/4" has worked like magic. Several of the jugs were overflowing this morning.

Man Karen..you sure are having a challenging season.

Quick question for you... when you reamed the holes, did you use the same bit and drill a bit deeper? Or did you really ream and and go from, say, 5/16 to 7/16 and put in different taps? "They" generally don't recommend reaming out holes but your comments, and others on FB would indicate it seems to make a notable difference on sap yields! Fingers crossed you miss the storm!

[Run Forest Run!]

Hi Paul. I used the same bit (5/16) and just went a little deeper. We've been getting freezing rain and sleet since early this morning. It's so unsettling seeing the trees getting covered with ice - again.

[Galena]

Dang Karen, you are having a tough season to be sure.