Originally Posted by
aamyotte
With the cold morning there wasn't much flow yesterday. Hope your tapping went well with the windy conditions. On Saturday morning I was in a blizzard one minute then full sun the next. The strangest weather I've tapped in so far.
For several days now they forecasted +1 for today, but it would be above freezing for about 7 hours. This morning the forecast said it would reach +3. It rose to +1 quickly this morning in the sunshine. But it clouded over and the temperature has stalled at +1.3. The snow on the roofs is not melting and the sap is not flowing, at least not yet.
It is amazing the difference the sunlight makes. Tomorrow is supposed to be +3, hopefully the sap will run tomorrow. My original plan was for the sap from today combined with the sap from tomorrow would make for a good boil on Wednesday.
2022 - 5 pan block arch - 109 taps, 73 on 3/16 lines, 36 on drops into 5 gallon pails.
930 gallons boiled, 109 L (28.8 gals) of delicious syrup made.
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2023 - 170 taps, mostly on lines, 1153 gallons boiled, 130 L (34.34 gals) of delicious syrup made, on a 2x4 divided pan and base stack, 8” pipe, on a block arch that boiled at a rate of 13 gallons per hour.
2024 - made 48 L, December to March, primarily over two fire bowls.
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