Starting to think about this. The forecast by end of next week looks favorable. I hear they're tapping in some southern states already. Anyone else ready yet?
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Being it is minus 15 cel and more cold weather on it's way being in central Ontario we are expecting a few more weeks before it is ready to start here.
mike692
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It hasn't come close to freezing during the day and has been single digits at night here this weekend. But I'm seeing forecasts of 30's to 40's for highs and 20's for lows by next weekend. I think I'm going to at least get everything ready to go tomorrow.
I'm helping a friend get his evaporator up and ready on Tuesday. It's going to be a busy week!
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getting closer to the time hope to start tapping by the end of next week still adding more line to another 250-300 more that shoud be 14-1500 when done hope to end up at 2000 by the next three years
I tapped my 14 trees yesterday. Yesterday would have been a pretty good day had the sun came out a little earlier. Most of the taps were running as I put them out though. From what the forecast for the week says it looks favorable.
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mike692
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My trees ran fairly well yesterday. I picked up about 35 gallons of sap. I'm going to combine it with my partners and cook it off tomorrow. This is almost as exciting as checking traps. ;D
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tsr07
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We cooked sap all day yesterday. There is quite the learning curve to firing, etc. I understand why maple syrup is as expensive as it is. We cooked about 60 gallons of sap and got a little over a gallon of syrup.
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trapperbud
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I made my first gather last night. I got about 50 gallons of sap and will start boiling this afternoon. I hope by then to gather again and keep the fires burning
barkspud
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Nothing better then a hot cup of joe and reading the swamp posts in the morning..
I wish we had enough maple on the property to tap to make some . I really enjoy it and nothing better on the table no matter what the meal. Home brewed maple syrup on my baked potatoe skins, bisquits, ice cream or my cereal love the stuff.
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lilweasel
Select Member Group Swamptalker of the month 3/09 and 2/10
Eating breakfast then heading out to start boiling again. Should take off a gallon this morning and hopefully another tonight. The sap should run good on the weekend to. Now it's a chore just keeping up
fishleclair
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fun at the start but by the end of season can't wait for it to be over then there is the cleanup cutting the wood for next season adding more lines for more taps almost to point of looking for a real job made 37 gallons on thursday shoud make another 30 or more today from the forecast looks to be a great week comming = long days in the bush and short nights but wait all year for this just like the begining of trapping season
I hear ya on the extras Jim. We use to take people out with the horses to gather and everyone thought that was so cool Nobody ever came around to help cut wood, clean trails srub pans or wash buckets
mike692
Swamptalker Extrordinaire Swamptalker of the Month, March 2008
We had a heck of a run this weekend. I collected over 60 gallons from my trees. That's 14 trees with about three taps per tree. We had one big old maple on my friends farm that we collected over 20 gallons of sap from at one time! I think this is going to be the last big push. Probably start to see some budding here soon.
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mike692
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I pulled my taps today. I could have probably squeezed a few more days out of it, maybe a week, but I'm swimming in sap with no time to cook it off. I think we have about 180 gallons of sap stored in barrels. Maybe a bit more.
I think we did pretty good for our first season cooking. We have about 9 gallons of syrup, and will probably get another 6 gallons or so. Split between the 4 of us we should have more than enough syrup to last us the year, and it's primo stuff!
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Post by patricimo54 on Mar 15, 2013 22:49:02 GMT -5
OUTSTANDING! In my simple mind, what a harvest. ;D
I don't think I'll have the opportunity to do it myself once I move north, but what a blessing you guys have up north ;D
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lilweasel
Select Member Group Swamptalker of the month 3/09 and 2/10
Maple season is on hold here. It hasn't got warm enough in the last week to run. It doesn't look like it will run for another week yet Mike692, how long do you store sap before boiling? I like to boil all my sap within 24hrs. of gathering, after that it seems to go cloudy, making darker syrup.
mike692
Swamptalker Extrordinaire Swamptalker of the Month, March 2008
As long as it's cold I've kept it up to two weeks. But you're right, it does start to get cloudy after that and it does make a darker syrup.
We got too big of a run of sap this past week, so we decided to just sell what sap we had left. A couple of us got this flu that's going around, and the others just didn't have time to cook it off.
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woodsman416
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Quart canning jars. We just put the finished product into the jars hot, adjust the lids, and let it cool. As it cools the lids will seal. Then we just store it on a shelf. It will keep indefinately.
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Suppose to warm up by the middle of the week so I should be ready 
