New Brunswick Tapping 2015
Started tapping yesterday, tapped this afternoon as well. We have probably got about half of them in. So darn cold we can't really do much repair work on lines, hopefully tomorrow will be warmer. Looks like at least a week before sap runs, have a fair amount of time to get most things ready.
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
13 Taps out today. Will be putting out another 15 or so this week. Bring on the sap making weather!
2013 -5 buckets. 37 litres of sap = 750 ml of syrup.
2014 - 21 buckets. 78 litres of sap = 1750 ml of syrup.
2015 - 24 buckets/13 taps plus 12 taps on lines into wine buckets.....150 litres of sap ~ 4700 ml of syrup so far.
I ran my lines Friday, put in 36 taps (mix of buckets and tube) since then. Still have 64 to go, but I should have most in by mid week. Not at drop of sap yet... it was +1 yesterday and +2 today but it only hit that for an hour or so around noon.
2014 - 6 buckets, 4 coffee cans and a propane burner - almost 40L of sap and 1.6L of syrup
2015 - 103 taps on gravity. Homemade oil tank arch and a Smoky Lake 2' X 5' hybrid. - 2.66 gallons of syrup
2016 - 101 taps, 550 gallons of sap, ~10 gallons of syrup all dark.
2017 - 138 taps, 225 gallons of sap, 5.55 gallons of dark syrup, still procrastinating on the vac.
2018 - ~150 taps, I lost track of the sap it was incredible!, over 20 gal of syrup, all dark.
i'll I tapped 9 yesterday and finish the other 7 when I get home from work. Had my first drops of the season yesterday (Fredericton) look forward to a couple days of running this week.
I look back a couple years ago around the same time as this week and there was no snow and I was boiling sap on the 14th. Hopefully this year isn't like that year's.
2013 8 taps 10L of Syrup
2014 8 taps 2L of syrup.
2015 15 taps 4L of syrup.
2016 12 taps 7L of syrup
2017 - Year off
49 taps in on Saturday, the last 11 on Sunday. All on buckets. And, there was about .5L of sap all said. We drank it!
I'm in SW NB and the first drips just started on my "clump-o-tree" (6 large trunks on one root mass). It is all alone on my point so it has the sun all day. 51 taps in so I'm over the hump...49 to go
2014 - 6 buckets, 4 coffee cans and a propane burner - almost 40L of sap and 1.6L of syrup
2015 - 103 taps on gravity. Homemade oil tank arch and a Smoky Lake 2' X 5' hybrid. - 2.66 gallons of syrup
2016 - 101 taps, 550 gallons of sap, ~10 gallons of syrup all dark.
2017 - 138 taps, 225 gallons of sap, 5.55 gallons of dark syrup, still procrastinating on the vac.
2018 - ~150 taps, I lost track of the sap it was incredible!, over 20 gal of syrup, all dark.
Did a check of the taps and nothing dripping yet. Hope to get a run tomorrow. Found a few more (about 20) trees on my neighbours property tonight. So this weekend, another 20+ taps going in to flow to my wine buckets which I am not using at the moment.
2013 -5 buckets. 37 litres of sap = 750 ml of syrup.
2014 - 21 buckets. 78 litres of sap = 1750 ml of syrup.
2015 - 24 buckets/13 taps plus 12 taps on lines into wine buckets.....150 litres of sap ~ 4700 ml of syrup so far.
82 taps in.....zero sap. The temp last night never went below freezing.....not good. Here comes the worrying, this is the 1st year so she-who-must-be-obeyed is watching verrryy closely.
2014 - 6 buckets, 4 coffee cans and a propane burner - almost 40L of sap and 1.6L of syrup
2015 - 103 taps on gravity. Homemade oil tank arch and a Smoky Lake 2' X 5' hybrid. - 2.66 gallons of syrup
2016 - 101 taps, 550 gallons of sap, ~10 gallons of syrup all dark.
2017 - 138 taps, 225 gallons of sap, 5.55 gallons of dark syrup, still procrastinating on the vac.
2018 - ~150 taps, I lost track of the sap it was incredible!, over 20 gal of syrup, all dark.
weather.ca says it's +7c at home right now. Last night wasn't too cold, I think it only got to be about -2c last night. Should I be optimistic when I get home?
Not sure what you're expecting, but I'd bet even if it turns out like last year Marvel, you should still end up with 3-4 gal of syrup.
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