I'm so glad the weather decided to cooperate and dip down below zero. I had collected a fair bit of yellow sap that I dumped Monday, but the overnight freeze cleared the sap up nicely. Will get at least one more boil anyway.Originally Posted by Big Daddy's Sugar Shack
We've boiled sap & bottled syrup 7 days straight. The sap hasn't run all that time, but had enough left over somenights to carry us over. It was a slow start, but we're doing ok now, 94 imp gallons after last night so far. Looks like sap weather will hold for another week anyway.
Murray
Somewhere around 800 - 900 taps on Atlas Copco vacuum
1 Sap Ladder & 1 can
2 1/2 x 10 Waterloo/Small, with Piggyback & hood,
Air over & under fire
CDL autodrawoff, Homemade drawoff/filter tank with pump,
Lapierre Sirofilter, modified steam pan bottler
Sap is still running good here in Fredericton area. Had another successful day boiling yesterday. Ended up with 2 and a half litres of syrup which is a lot for the amount of trees i tap. Trees are giving almost 2 gallons every two days. Turned out to be a pretty good season after all.
Maple syrup enthusiast
Running good here in Halcomb the last few days as well
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110 taps,buckets
Homemade 2 x 3
1983 ski-doo citation
2007 Big Bear
3 young pail dumpers
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Finished second batch yesterday, about 3.5 gallons. Started Thursday with 130-140 gal of sap (I think). Total on the year is approaching 5 gallons. Hopefully we'll get another run of cold nights here in southern NB, but sap was yellow on Saturday, and barely ran yesterday.
Hopefully after this snow we'll get a few more days. If weather holds true, should get to collect until Friday. Like others have said, turned out to be pretty good after all.
We finished out 4th batch, from trees in Southern NB, last weekend. It was a nice amount of sap for the week, just over 600L and some more from the trees in my yard in Fredericton. I bottled have bottled 50L this year so far, good enough for me but I will take another 2 weeks if I have too.
Geoff
Big Daddy's Sugar Shack
2014 - 4 Taps
2015 - 8 Taps
2016 - 12 taps, propane boiler 6L
2017 - 100 Taps, 24L
2018 - 100 Taps, 100L
1.5x6 CDL Econo Evaporator
I cannot believe the sap today! I have never collected so much in one day. I collected before work as many cans were almost full and again after work. Total was 284 litres from 60 taps! I've heard others speak of this but never experienced it! Going to be a busy last weekend!
The fellows in Maine were saying the exact same thing today too! Last week I got over 300L in three days from 28 taps. It kept me running!
~ Karen ~
2012 - 10 taps, 1 turkey fryer - 169.5L sap 4.2 L syrup
2013 - 23 taps, 2 turkey fryers - 748.5 L sap 17.56 L syrup
2014 - 22 taps, 509 L sap 12.5 L syrup
2015 - 28 taps, 1093.75 L sap 25.1 L syrup
2016 - 25 taps, 1223.5 L sap 28.25 L syrup
2017 - 21 taps, 518.5 L sap 12.7 L syrup
2018 - 28 taps, 2 turkey fryers & Denali 3 burner propane stove - 798L sap 16.9 L syrup
2019 - 28 taps, 1409.5L sap 40.12L syrup
Sugar, Norway, Manitoba, Silver and Freeman Maples
I took today off to get it started, I hope my wood pile holds out. I see you had a better season than last year Karen. And last year was exceptional, good for you! People that don't make syrup keep asking me when I'll be done, I say when the sap stops running of course, lol.
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