Tapping in Ontario

[Big_Eddy]

I've been out of the country for a week - just left the buckets up - came back to close to 100 gals of slightly hazy sap with only one or 2 cloudy enough to dump - my rule of thumb is - if you can see the bottom of the pail - it's fine.

Boiled 40 gals off yesterday, and today I awoke to 2" of snow (covering my wood pile !#@#! ) and strong winds. So much for boiling off the rest today. Hopefully it doesn't get to cloudy in the tank waiting till tomorrow.

Forecast now sounds like I might get more runs this week after all.

[ennismaple]

We had a big weekend and the 5 lonely drums in the corner is now down to 1 lonely drum, plus another that's only half full. I've never seen a year like this. It's barely frozen at night for the past 2 weeks but it keeps running! We'll have to shut down this week because once the last 1.5 drums are full we'll have nowhere to put syrup anymore. Ambition is also on the low side too...

[cheesegenie]

Cold with a few inches of snow is here, might get a few more days out of this
season, I knew it would come back.

[KenWP]

Snow here also. It is actually getting white on the ground. Now if it goes below freezeing it will help.

[rob1640]

We've got a foot and a half of the white stuff, if the sap starts flowing again it will be worth putting up with more snow!

[KenWP]

After finding the old sugar bush yesterday I wish I could get ahold of another 20 buckets and really push the sugar maples for the few days left of the season. I might have to boil 24-7 but what the hell it only comes once a year.

[Brent]

Officially we got 24 cm, about 10", but it blew like ... so we've got bare spots and then 3 or 4 feet. We've had more than 36 hours of freeze so something will start to flow tomorrow. I need to clean and re-hang buckets. Then try to get the new ( new to me ) extractor tank going. See post in vacuum.
Having a bit of fun trying to figure out how it was hooked up and how I should hook it up.

Something is going to flow tomorrow and Thursday. Maybe buddy, maybe good. Hmmmmm Anyone got any firewood ?