I've got around a grand total of 38l so far, with a lot of it coming from the 3 Surprises. The big trees just don't like to put out any kind of sap unless it's warm and sunny. So I've put the 7l or so that I collected today into the evap pan and left it on the woodstove - it won't boil and will still slowly evap off a litre or two. Got 2lof nearup from 19l collected sitting in the fridge and the 14l I got yesterday sitting in a snowbunker outside. I've done this long enough to know that all this is just par for the course, and that a certain amount of thumb-twiddling is expected, but I'd much rather be griping about having 45l in holding to boil and be running around getting wood and combustibles into Shack Whacky and firing it up....then staying up til 2 in the morning to finish a batch, and fall into bed before clambering out at 7 to get up go to work, come home, collect another 45l and be running myself into the ground all over again...
Sorry for the rant but gawd this feast or famine thing is driving me nuts!!!
Last edited by Galena; 03-21-2019 at 06:59 PM.
Been tapping since 2008.
2018 - 17 taps/7 trees...819l sap, approx 28l syrup
2019 - 18 taps/8 trees...585l sap, 28l syrup...21:1 ratio
2020 - 18 taps/8 trees...890.04l sap...gave away about 170l, 30l snafu'd....23l total for me from approx 690l
2021 - 18 taps/8 trees...395l sap, 12 l syrup
2022 - 18 taps/8 trees....7 sugars 1 red due to #2 having surgery so had the season off....582l sap, 18.5l syrup
2023 - 18 taps/8 trees...all sugars again. 807l sap, so far approx 14l syrup
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