Eastern Ontario 2020

[Big_Eddy]

Our Sugar house is steaming again!!
Started with 300 gallons this morning, boiled off somewhere around 130, collected 75 more.
Looks like we will be generating steam again tomorrow and much of the weekend. Forecast looks like good sap weather as well.
Here's to a great 2020 season.

[Fort Wisers]

Right on Big_Eddy!
We collected another bit last night, we're now at a total of 77 liters of sap.
Water tested the new gravity tank yesterday, cleaned all the pans and finished up organizing.
Hoping to have enough for our first boil Sunday or Monday.


Just getting caught up on older posts:
Galena -> I hope your renovation goes well and comes to an end quickly!
TurkeyJohn -> I hope that new continuous pan works well for you
MikeC82 -> Thanks for your initial report of South Grenville

Everyone-> As Big_Eddy mentioned, here's to a great season indeed!

[Big_Eddy]

Boiled another 100+ gallons today. Still have 150 plus what is in the woods. Did not collect today as it was a light flow day and expected to freeze overnight. Might as well let nature do some concentrating for us. Will collect tomorrow and discard any ice.
More steam tomorrow and Sunday.


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[Galena]

Wow so glad everyone's having a good run....my taps still aren't in, and have yet to stock up Shack Whacky with firewood etc...but frickin current reno is almost done!!! My wondereful handyman mudded yesterday, I sanded today, about to do some minor patching, hope to have paint up Sat night and Sunday, clean up everything and get it back in place....then Monday drag out sugaring stuff, get out there and frickin tap!!! :-)

[Clinkis]

Collected about 750 gallons the last few days. Processed about 500 gallons Wednesday and Thursday evening. Will get through the rest of it tomorrow. New evaporator sweetened and working good so far. Finished about 30L. Forecast looking good the next week so should keep everyone hopping! Cheers to a good season for everyone.

[JeffB]

Happy Maple season to you all..

Season off to rough start but all taps are in and freaking repairs to line completed after the deer had several parties
And made a feast out of the lines.
All that's left to do is clean and sanazite the sugar shack and will do that sunday.
Collection might be a bit of a issue I still have big drifts in low areas to try and get sap hauler thru.
Hope next couple days of sun knocks the deep stuff down..

[Lespetras]

Hi everyone! Good to see you all back at it! We tapped here March 1.. ran well a couple of days.. slow today. Forecast looks good for the week!
Hope we all go well again this year!!

[Galena]

...Hope next couple days of sun knocks the deep stuff down..

Do what I did and lay a trail of birdseed down the pathways you take out to the sugarbush...turkeys will come along and eat and in the process scratch through the snow pretty much down to the ground...every little bit helps! hehehe

ETA: *waving* Hey Lesley! Glad to see you here, hope you have a great season!

[MikeC82]

My sap partner bought us a new pan/stove this year. We boiled yesterday first time. Its a continuous flow pan. We've got almost 90 gallons in the thing so far and have yet to draw any off. Does anyone else use one of these pans?

Its pretty big. Holds 10 gallons at float level. The sap in the final partition was running about 216 degrees when we called it off last night. Shooting for 220. Once we figured out the damper and right way to load the wood we were cruising along at about 13 gallons/hr.

It is pretty neat to see it work, but we were amazed at how much sap has to go into the thing before any syrup is ready. At 40-1 we figured we would get about a gallon once we had 40 into it. Certainly wasnt the case. Would be interested to hear from anyone familiar with this type of pan in terms of how frequently we will have to 'pour off' once it does start to make syrup.

Should get a big sap flow today-tomorrow, Good luck everyone.

Mike

[Clinkis]

That doesn’t sound unreasonable. My 18”x60” continuous flow takes at least 100 gallons of sap before I see any syrup.