Central Ontario Tapping

[Fireguy124]

I collected 25gal from 18taps. Between yesterday morning and this morning.


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[dre75]

I am at about 15 Gals from 14 taps, seem to be getting about 5 a day the last 3 days.

[wobbletop]

I guess I'm more central ontario than eastern ontario... reposting this here.

Switched to bags this year. Hopefully less cleanup at end of year. Homemade bag holders from PVC pipe.

10 trees tapped on Saturday. Collected 85L so far. Worried about the coming even warmer spell. I've got as much snow as available piled around my storage buckets. I'll likely boil whatever I have soon to avoid spoilage. Freezing a big zip lock bag full of water to add to the storage barrel to try to keep it cooler.

[c0ps]

I guess I'm more central ontario than eastern ontario... reposting this here.

Switched to bags this year. Hopefully less cleanup at end of year. Homemade bag holders from PVC pipe.

10 trees tapped on Saturday. Collected 85L so far. Worried about the coming even warmer spell. I've got as much snow as available piled around my storage buckets. I'll likely boil whatever I have soon to avoid spoilage. Freezing a big zip lock bag full of water to add to the storage barrel to try to keep it cooler.

Calling for sun and heat tommorow, good idea to boil whats in the bags.I think ill start boiling when i get home from work tommorw as well.

[Run Forest Run!]

Only got 3L today. In another couple of hours my first boil will be done. My collection pails are all empty and ready for the next run whenever that happens.

[NTBugtraq]

I guess I'm more central ontario than eastern ontario... reposting this here.

Switched to bags this year. Hopefully less cleanup at end of year. Homemade bag holders from PVC pipe.

10 trees tapped on Saturday. Collected 85L so far. Worried about the coming even warmer spell. I've got as much snow as available piled around my storage buckets. I'll likely boil whatever I have soon to avoid spoilage. Freezing a big zip lock bag full of water to add to the storage barrel to try to keep it cooler.

Why are you worried?

[JWB27]

Been steady at 5 gallons of sap per day for 10 taps since Sunday. Today my better trees slowed down and my slower trees picked up. Boiling this weekend.

[wobbletop]

Why are you worried?

Afraid I won't have time to boil down the sap before it spoils due to the warmth.

[BrutemanAl]

Everyone is making me jealous, still don't have any tree's tapped, Saturday can't come quick enough lol. I did manage to score an old Oil tank that I plan on making into an evaporator for next year, just need to figure out how to do it.

[Galena]

Afraid I won't have time to boil down the sap before it spoils due to the warmth.

If you have snowbanks, esp on North side of house or shack, dig bunkers for sap storage. Some years ago a fellow MTer collected on a Saturday and realized he wouldn't have time to get to it. He told me on the following Tuesday (so 3 days later after collection) that this sap was available if I wanted it. I believe I went and took most of the sap that Wednesday, stored it in snow bunkers and got to it later on Thursday (5 days after collection) . It made an exceptionally lovely batch of late-season syrup. What I was unable to take - I took 16 of 25 gallons available - he kept and did boil up.