Northern Ontario - 2018
Although our home is in south eastern we have a camp closer to North (Mattawan).
Anyone tapping up in the north country yet?
Since there was no thread started yet we're going to assume no lol
A local source near North Bay tapped about 40 trees but has yet to collect anything.
Anyhow, figured someone should start a thread, good luck this season!
2022 - 21 taps: 470 litres of sap / 15.75 litres of syrup (stopped season short)
2021 - took the season off
2020 - 20 taps: 524 litres of sap / 18.75 litres of syrup
2019 - 14 taps: 416 litres of sap / 15.25 litres of syrup
2018 - 9 taps (309 litres) + a generous neighbour (114 litres): 423 litres of sap / 14.5 litres of syrup
2017 - 4 taps: 55 litres of sap / 1.5 litres of syrup (just enough to get us hooked)
www.fort-wisers.ca
Pretty sure most are tapped in around here...
Sap running yet up there?Originally Posted by lewichuk19
2022 - 21 taps: 470 litres of sap / 15.75 litres of syrup (stopped season short)
2021 - took the season off
2020 - 20 taps: 524 litres of sap / 18.75 litres of syrup
2019 - 14 taps: 416 litres of sap / 15.25 litres of syrup
2018 - 9 taps (309 litres) + a generous neighbour (114 litres): 423 litres of sap / 14.5 litres of syrup
2017 - 4 taps: 55 litres of sap / 1.5 litres of syrup (just enough to get us hooked)
www.fort-wisers.ca
It tries to, but the weather is barely cooperating. Had a few nice days last week with lots of sunshine, and around 6 degrees. Lately though it barely gets above zero with pretty chilly nights. When the sap runs it is pretty slow moving and doesn't run for any length of time. I do use 3/16th, so it does help getting it going, and seems to run longer then it should.
We're just south of Trout Creek. Our 1150 on vac ran enough late last week for us to process and boil. Sap was at 2.1%. I'am guessing Mattawan Twp would be a bit behind us.
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Thanks sugarstone, good to know.....
2022 - 21 taps: 470 litres of sap / 15.75 litres of syrup (stopped season short)
2021 - took the season off
2020 - 20 taps: 524 litres of sap / 18.75 litres of syrup
2019 - 14 taps: 416 litres of sap / 15.25 litres of syrup
2018 - 9 taps (309 litres) + a generous neighbour (114 litres): 423 litres of sap / 14.5 litres of syrup
2017 - 4 taps: 55 litres of sap / 1.5 litres of syrup (just enough to get us hooked)
www.fort-wisers.ca
Well winter is back in the north but at least I was able to get 2.25 litres of niterless non filtered sweet gold before thìs 20+ cm dumping of snow and -15c nights.
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Yea, the weather has been less than perfect to say the least. We also got hit with a about 15cm of snow and some pretty good drifts, as well as a -20 dip last night. Needless to say I won't be collecting any sap until maybe after the week end. I haven't had enough sap yet to fire up the arch.
2016 - 90 taps and a brick lined oil tank arch (60L of syrup)
2017 - 100 taps (60L)
2018 - 60 taps (12L of syrup)
2019 - 75 taps (22L of syrup)
2020 - 75 taps (25L of syrup)
Looks like we're going from winter to summer up north so we'll see how the flow and budding goes in the upcoming weeks. Still a pile of snow that refuses to melt due to the layers of ice mixed in.
Northwood are you going to fire up or give up?
I have taps in West nippissing area very close to the lake and some in the Sudbury area and it seems that the trees are thawing at around the same rate as of last night's collection,
Imanaged to get 27 gallons over the past week to boil down on my small operation today in the +14*C temps today.
My trees at home in clay mix soil full all day sun have just started to thaw and run whereas my trees 3 kms away in sand and and on rock in full all day sun have been producing since late March, clay really prolongs things but the trees seem to grow really well in it
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