It's 4 months to the start of maple syrup season and the first box just arrived from McMaster-Carr.
My Purolator driver likes to deliver these McMaster-Carr boxes because he gets to look at the latest changes to my machine room (and to visit the caramel fridge in my office.)
This box includes a bunch of replacement O-rings for the John Guest fittings in my RO system. If you've ever tried to buy replacement O-rings you will have been frustrated by the fact that it's very difficult to figure out what kind of O-rings they are and that they are available in very small packages for a ridiculously high price.
They are EDPM Dash 110 O-rings (McMaster-Carr catalog number 9561K41 .) $1.71 for 25 pcs.
I have 3 maples in front of my house and about a dozen in front of nearby neighbors. I was wondering about a community project to tap them and boil the sap down.
My recollection is that the time to tap is when it's freezing at night but warm during the days. But i live in Vancouver so that never really happens.
Hi. The most important thing is the freeze/thaw. The sap flows when its below freezing at night and above freezing during the day. You can definitely tap a dozen and a half trees. Depending on how big they are you might get 3 or up to 14 or 15 liters.