Maple tapping don'ts for beginners
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Welcome back to the channel. Enjoy todays project as we get into informative and educational instruction on making maple syrup. Our family has been passing on our maple syrup making skills for several generations. There is a lit more to it than some people talk about. I hope this video helps you and you have a great maple season!
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What a sweet and beautiful mom!!
Thank you for sharing.
You're welcome.
From SW Minnesota. I use 5/16” plastic spiles with 3/8 plastic tubing running into cap of milk jug sitting on ground. This works great. Keeps the junk out of your sap, but usually have to check/change jugs daily(or more often). Then I run sap through RO system to eliminate half the water. Cuts boil time in half
RO systems are just so much money. I know the savings in fuel and time can justify but we just cant sell it at a profit. Maple syrup can be a very expensive hobby.
I have maybe $300-400 tied up in my RO plumbing parts. I’m not sure at what price you’d have to try to sell maple syrup for get make any money. The time this hobby of mine takes is gigantic!
Best video I've seen thank you so much from Maine
Glad it was helpful!
-Thanks for the tips and tricks
Always welcome
Great info! I’m a newbie and want to tap our “new” maples this fall (bought a different house with tons of maples). I’ve also subscribed as I like how you present things. Straight to the point and precise. Btw your kids are adorable.
Your off to a good start learning ahead of the next season, very smart :) Thanks for watching and caring enough to comment. We all appreciate positive feedback and your comment made the kids smile.
Super informative. Thank you
wonderful advice and attitude! thank you so much!
Glad it was helpful!
Great video! Every informational! Thank you! I have been harvesting maple sap for five seasons now. So fun!! Hard work, but very enjoyable!
Great job!
Nice job!!!! We appreciate your sharing!!!! Your kids are adorable! Keep up the great work!
Thank you so much!
Thanks a lot for this great video. I found it gave lots of advice that you don't often hear, and debunks several myths. Also I love your spirit, it is very enjoyable to listen to you. Thank you very much, and I wish you all the best with your farm. Warm regards from France, where I am trying to make Sycamore Maple Syrup :)
Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for a great video! About to tap for the first time this year!
Have fun!
Wow, very comprehensive. Having tapped for 4 years I've made some of these mistakes, mostly spiking a big nail into each tree to hold buckets. Mistake!! The handle hanging on the nail makes taking the lid off very awkward. Set it on the ground. Get a 4' tube. In summer shovel a flat spot in front of each tree to set bucket on, maybe put a square piece of wood down on flat spot to set bucket on. Lastly, have plenty of drivable roads. Carrying 5 gal buckets thru face slapping bush and seedings any distance sucks. Clear some pathways.
Thanks for watching
@@mommymilestones I do use a longer tube to give me options in setting it on flat ground. Tubes are cheap enough and often I can't get close to the tree due to root flair at ground level. And I get less bark falling on bucket lid by being set a little away from the tree.
Hey I’m gaming to be taping this weekend so excited
Some have started here in Michigan. Ordered 400 new taps for drop lines here this year.
Hi, nice video,
I went to school in Houghton many years ago. Good memories of Michigan.
question: is there a limit to how deep you drill the holes in the tree.
Seems to me the deeper the better, No?
living in minnesota now. Lots of snow this year, joking
Nice area
Don't wobble your drill or brace when you drill in and pull out or you will get a flared hole and sap could leak below the spile.
Correct in theory, not always possible standing on a snow pile. The sap will leak down the trunk before it get to the tap if done incorrectly.
Question. Can you place a plug in to the tap hole after removing the spire?
The tree does that on it's own. Fills the hole back in with regrowth.
How do you measure a maple tree to make sure it’s big enough to tap syrup?
If I can hug it with one hand too small, 1 arm 1 tap, 2 arm hug 2 taps, bigger trees sometimes 3 taps
I kept waiting for you to tap a tree but you didn't. That's why I tuned in, in the first place!
Oh thats in another video. This one is not how to tap a tree, mistakes to avoid. Thanks for watching. The others in my maple syrup playlist. Let me know how it goes!
I have about 17 Black Walnut trees (some small) on my property. There will not be gallons and gallons of sap so I cannot see spending the money for the spiles- they are very expensive.
Wouldn't it be ok if I tapped the tree and just shoved some tubing right in the hole?
They are not expensive at all. Stainless steel run up to $2 each. Plastic run .15-.50 cents each. If you add a platinum. Drop line to a plastic spike made for drop lines they are about $25 for 10 spikes with drop lines.
It’s a spout!!
Quantity all depends on your season and sugar content. If I had trees producing a gallon of syrup per tap. I’d be a millionaire
It is a spout, spile, tap. All terms used interchangably depending on region, education, experience in tree tapping, even the catalog or book you are looking at. Maple syrup is liquid gold.
I'm going to try for the first time on our huge Maple tree that is dripping on my car below. I hope to make beer with it! When you take the tap out, should you fill the hole with anything to protect the tree? Like beeswax or sawdust & glue?
No, any sap that flows after you pull the spile out flushes the wound and it will heal on its own.
@@mommymilestones Thanks! I tried to tap yesterday 1&1/2 inches deep. No sap is flowing and it got to 60 today. Did I do it too late? Or do you think the tap could be too shallow?
Howcome the 7/16ths spiles should be retired?
5-16th spile are smaller hole, smaller wound to the tree, faster healing. It also leaves less of a stain in the fascular sysytem of the tree leaving you with more tappable surface in the lifetime of the tree.
I'm buying a property in Southern Missouri, it has several large sugar maple trees. (Over 2ft diameter) could these be tapped? How much should I expect to get from them?
Oh yes! Each tap will bring you a quart-gallon each of finished syrup in a few weeks season. We have taps or drop lines on our Etsy link that you can add right to a jug or bucket to get started. There are several videos in my Maple syrup playlist and some reading suggesetions along the way.
I jus can't figure out if my trees are maple...I tried to research but jus can't tell. How do u know? Should I jus drill a hole and see if sap comes out?
look for twin branching and any leaves on ground.
Also can I tap Norway Maples I have heard yes and no
Less sugar content but yes. It all makes syrup. Reading suggestions in our maple syrup playlist.
how did i get 13L in 5 hours
It is called a sap run. The weather is perfect right now and it's a 2 week cycle of freeze thaw for sugarmakers. Perfect!
question... do bears come and eat your sap?
We do not have bears here. They would not eat it though. They could possibly drink it ;/
It is more likely in the Northern parts of Michigan or Canada that a bear may knock down some buckets or tubing lines out of curiosity. We have water everywhere to drink and there is not enough sugar in it to attract bears.
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Beginner mistake calling spiles taps, no that is what you do to the tree. “We retired our 7/16th tree taps”
Common slang in our area. Nobody calls them spiles. Pop, soda, cola, coke. 100 years straight is not a "beginner" family.
Badly in need of editing.
What specifically? Editing hours ofwork into youtube footage can take all week. We do our best in the time we do have without getting youtube sponsorships and huge ad payments like alot of the farm channels here.
I disagree, I find this video great, no clutter, very valuable advice and information, in a great positive spirit