Eastern Ontario 2023

[Bruce L]

Anybody else having problems with sand/nitre this year? Been a pain since day 1 this season. Don’t have a reversible pan or a 2nd syrup pan so need to shut down and clean about every 100 gal. Tried to go further the other day and baked it on pretty good. Lucky I didn’t scorch them! Had a thick sludge that looked like chocolate pudding in the pre filters that day. Wondering why so much worse this year? Because it’s been such a dry winter?

Also had the chocolate pudding nitre the other day,usually can filter 25 gallons through the filters,now it’s pushing it for 15