Tapping in Ontario

[Maple Restoration]

We survived the winds with only one tree down across the end of one line and we lost a part of the roofing shingles on the shack and the sap did run in the winds now we got 50 gal. frozen sap. It wont run till Saturday now good time to clean things up!

[KenWP]

Thermometer say -2 here but feels like 20 below. I will have to go check for surprises out back also. Our weather is the same saying maybe saturday.

[ennismaple]

I was really worried about my smokestack yesterday. It's 17" square and probably 35' above the roof and the 50mph winds put a pretty good warp and lean in it! Luckily it was still standing when we left the camp at 10:30 last night.

We got the hard day out of the way yesterday. We managed to figure out a lot of the things that Dad used to look after himself. The RO got washed up and membrane installed. I ran a couple hundred gallons of sap through it to get the storage solution flushed out and then started concentrating. We ran 3000 gallons of sap through it to concentrate to 8%. We flooded the pans, lit the fire and were off to the races. It took 4 hours to get our first runoff and by the end we had 43 gallons of very good light syrup - almost extra light. Mom made some beautiful sugar with it. Hopefully the weekend is a good one. Our first boil was 17 days earlier than last year!

[traderzach]

We tapped about 125 trees on this past saturday. The sap was running a little bit on Tuesday evening and Wednesday,,,,,,,we collected about 25-30 gallons and boiled it down last night.......the first syrup of the year is always special. But today was back to reality...exremly cold with the wind (probably minus 20)....suppose to be nice this weekend.....its still early in the season for us.

[Jerome]

I 5 gallon jugs are 1/4 to 1/2 full and frozen solid. Its suppose to get to 2 here today I hope I can get some sap out of them to day and tomorrow. I have to take my daughter to Montreal on Sunday til Tuesday to look at universities and those day look like a great run right now. Maybe I can get my son to collect while I'm gone.
I think I need to get some buckets with wide lids the 2 inch openings on the jugs suck when you get ice.

[cheesegenie]

Jerome, while in Montreal try and get to Dominion Grimm, fairly easy to find.
I went last year. Montreal is about an hour from here, but D&G an hour and a half or so because it at the east end of the city.

[Jerome]

That could be very dangerous for my wallet, its bad enough I live about 20 mins from Atkinson's.

[KenWP]

I found out the same thing I am going to empty my jugs every night from now on as that couple of inches of ice does not pout out very well. I exchanged the 4 I had with frozen sap for new ones and am trying to thaw them in the green house. We have a D&G in Compton and its just a small outlet but I still spend to much money in it. They have the two gallon buckets for 3 dollars there.

[Maple Restoration]

Well the poor man RO finally let go today and we collected 45 gallons of sap we should have enough to finally run off the first batch bi mid day tomorrow . if the temps hold true next week we should get BIG SAP.