Originally Posted by
4Walls
-20c on the thermometer outside my kitchen window this morning. Brrrr. Forecasting 25-30 cm of snow on Friday. Not a great start to the syrup season.
It was only -12° here this morning and will briefly reach +1 this afternoon. +3 Thursday and Friday, with more rain than snow in the forecast. Today I reheat and thaw my sap in the pan and may boil later on Thursday and for sure Friday depending on the rain. I should make syrup one of those two days.
Next week looks to be when the season will truly start.
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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