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This howto video will teach you everything you need to know about tapping maple trees, and the do's and don'ts for when to tap, how to tap, where to tap, and so much more! So come along with me as we begin our series on how to make home made maple syrup! this is just part 1 of 2 in the series.
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@danelle4314 11 лет назад

When I was a little girl in Northern Indiana...in February we had the Amish Maple Syrup Festival. We would take tours of the woods where the sap was produced, then into the production areas where they made the syrup. To this day I still remember in detail how they did that. There is nothing tastier on a cold winter morning, than pancakes with fresh organic maple syrup. Yummmm brings back memories of my grandma.

@tessaallen1346 10 лет назад

your using a 5/16 " masonry bit that is why you need a pilot bit, a wood bit would work much better, also your formula is off diameter should be divided by 3.14 (pi) thanks for the video

@TweedleK 4 года назад

Old video but want to reinforce this point, Kinda takes away from his credibility if he is using a masonry bit for drilling wood....

@reddawng43x91 3 года назад

😂

@emilywolff431 8 лет назад

Thank you! Been sugaring 40 plus years in Vt. and now MN and It was fun to see the new spiles and 5/16 bit and electric drill. Still use base and bit. Your way will save my shoulder. With gratitude

@livingready69 10 лет назад

Your diameter formula is incorrect. The correct formula is circumference divided by pi which is 3.1415. With that in mind, trees as small as 12 inch can be tapped and the tree you are tapping is closer to 25 inches in diameter.

@rekleoa 9 лет назад

yeah I wouldn't want to put more than 3 taps in that tree.

@will2-b150 7 лет назад

hope he's never in charge of a sawmill with that diameter formula. lol

@youwardasuci 7 лет назад

i wonder if rubber tree tech can apply

@cdlax93 6 лет назад

Scroll Out I like the masonry bit he's using

@andy347 Год назад

@@cdlax93 noticed that too. After his wrong diameter formula, and seeing him use a masonry bit on a tree, he has lost all credibility and I’m not going to even bother watching the rest of his video.

@redvue04 7 лет назад

This is the most Canadian video I've ever seen.

@jasonpatterson8091 6 лет назад

He's in the thumb of Michigan...

@nicolecrystal6765 5 лет назад

junior---you say that to all the videos---ha ha !

@samprice7786 3 года назад

I love this

@jaymon3252 3 года назад

Hey we have the same profile pic

@onebelligerentbeagle 3 года назад

The guy is using imperial units

@johnwicks3652 7 лет назад

when you doing a new drake and Josh show.

@etellewyn 9 лет назад

IMPORTANT MATH ERROR! Don't injure a tree by tapping one too young. See comments below -- circumference divided by 3.1415 will get you closer to the correct diameter. Great video though, I can't wait to try this in the spring! Thank you! :)

@timothyrussell1179 7 лет назад

Your "soft maple" at 2:00 is in fact hard maple. It's bark has not developed fissures yet because of its age/radial growth. Soft maple has typically smoother bark than that one when it is that size, with fissures forming "spider webs" or "cracked elbows" and peeling over time, eventually looking almost shaggy. Red maple can sometimes have shaggy bark when they are that small if they are on a poor growing site or are old trees that are smaller because they were suppressed by competing trees.

@nicolecrystal6765 5 лет назад

tim-hot dam u go!

@joshsmith7176 2 года назад

Yes just a young sugar maple that will look just like the one he tapped in 10 years.

@christymckee8133 Год назад

Thats a sugar maple, right?

@BlessedBaubles 5 лет назад

The “chunks” in the bark are called fissures :) Also, I’m on the Cape in Mass and I’ve been tapping Norway Maples for years! I believe they might be a softer maple. But nonetheless, it makes great syrup!

@jsmythib 5 лет назад

That soft maple, which I think is a silver maple which is all I have. I love the syrup- it does have a maple flavor with a unique flavor. If thats all you have, its worth it!

@murchlk 5 лет назад

This guy doesn’t know what he is talking about. Most of his information was incorrect including his tree species. Your silver or red maples will produce great syrup they will just have a slightly higher ratio of sap to finished syrup, closer to 45:1 rather than 30:1

@tonyapenelton7178 7 месяцев назад

Luke Luke Luke… Was searching videos to learn to tap my maple trees this year and to my surprise I stumbled upon a much younger Luke! Love stumbling upon some of your earlier videos- and I did learn something! I’d didn’t know where was a hard and soft maple tree difference when tapping. None of the other videos mentioned that so far. I am looking forward to trying this this winter, and boiling it down and everything. To be self sufficient- and have a small sugar source for my baking. As always - thank you Luke!!

@kentcq 8 лет назад

Pull the taps just before the trees bud. The later SAP will produce darker, stronger syrup. As the tree buds it turns bitter because the carbohydrates are used up.

@MIgardener 8 лет назад

+Kent Brenneke definitely agree.

@EVERGLOW828 3 года назад

So cool, I love it! Thank you, I’ve been really interested in tree tapping lately. You can also tap black walnut, birch and linden trees. Yummy 🎊🙏🏽

@nereidapr1 11 лет назад

Thanks Luke. This is the first time i see this. what caught my attention was the word tap the maple tree and wanted to know what was it. thats what i love about youtube, you learn so much with you's guys. great video.I watch it 2 times.

@dainasoar 11 лет назад

Thanks for sharing Luke. Great topic. I`m going to tap Birtch-sap soon. Here in Scandinavia, it`s in march/april. It`s done the same way and was used by the lumberjacks in the old times. While they worked, they would put in a tap or cut the end off of a thumb-thick branch and drink it on the spot, for hydration and energy. During w.w.II, the germans took all the sugar from the Finnish people, so they made a sugar from the sap, like You make sirup. I just drink it and put in the freezer for later

@AlmostHomestead 6 лет назад

Answered a few questions that I had. Just subscribed. Thanks

@hbirdshot 10 лет назад

the smaller tree you said was a soft maple...it's a hard maple too. it's just younger.

@stevenopolis3155 7 лет назад

hbirdshot the soft and hard refers to the age of the maple not the species. Both trees he showed were young (soft) and older (hard) sugar maples.

@jasonpatterson8091 6 лет назад

Steven Opolis Soft and hard do not refer to ages. Hard maple is another name for sugar maple, period. Soft maple is literally any other species of maple. Sugar maple is 50-100% higher on the Janka scale than other maple species - it dulls saws faster and is used in applications where hardness is important. Most of the MI gardener videos are great, but this one was not, in terms of the information it contains.

@seanl.5181 6 лет назад

Jason Patterson I have a red maple tree in my yard and it has identical bark to the hard maple shown in the video

@neilobrien7369 3 года назад

@@seanl.5181 To avoid identifying maple trees by their bark, I do it when they are in leaf and then mark the tree so I don't have to think about it in February when they have no leaves.

@New2Growing 11 лет назад

Just to correct Luke on one small thing, to get the diameter of the tree with the circumference is to take the circumference divided by Pi. Ex. Tree trunk is 109 inches around. 109/3.14=34.69” Thank for the great video.

@ajoakley84 11 лет назад

It's cool that you're getting into making syrup. My dad and I have been doing that for 20-25 years now. Can't believe you guys are getting sap flowing over on that side of the state already. Over here in Holland we just got hit with another foot of snow yesterday. I think in the past few years, we've estimated that we're closer to a 20:1 or 25:1 ratio for sap to syrup, but that also varies by the time in the season. It's usually lower earlier in the season and higher later in the season.

@kan-zee 10 лет назад

wow...that is soo good, this video is..I am ojibway, it is a big part of our Family ceremonies, to gather the family members, the elders tell us about our history, the men work with wood cutting, the women build the birch bark lodges for shelter and storage of the tools and wood..as well as the ppl. everyone works and has great fun, no one is ever bored. The first four trees that we tap, we rectreate the old original ways of how our ancestors made this Sweet water into thick delicious syrup..it is one of our most biggest gatherings up in northern Ontario, when I was a younging. Now today, these ways are gone, everyone is hoarding the trees, there is no unity of family and no more stories of the good younge days being told. ;-((

@Cjandlindseyland 11 лет назад

after watching this vid i ordered taps from amazon 10 for like 20$.i had alot of luck so far my sap is still running,just wanted to say thanks for simplfiying it for me.i had gone last year to a demo on a farm and got all kinds of info but felt over loaded and intimadated to actually go out there and tap one.so thanks.

@IsaacsGarden 11 лет назад

Really cool!! It was a different and fun video! :)great job!

@allancrow134 7 лет назад

I like tapping and boiling as well....it's great outdoor fun. Nice touch with the tree love and respect....gotta have that! In BC...where I live.... we can tap the Big Leaf Maple which ranges from Northern California to Southwest Alaska. The sap flows from Dec to March.... best on high to low atmospheric pressure changes. Cheers.

@MIgardener 7 лет назад

Wow, I have never heard of the big leaf maple! So cool!

@allancrow134 7 лет назад

There's some nice vids on RU-vid regarding western Big Leaf Maple. The sugar content of the sap at 1% to 3%.... is slightly lower than eastern Maple....but there is lots of it and the tapping season is much longer. I'm boiling off my first batch of the season as we speak....in December!

@brendalabuda4127 10 лет назад

Thanks for the info very helpful and encouraging gonna try this for the first time!

@jajajdjdjdj6434 4 года назад

How did it go

@RealMommyLife 6 лет назад

So when you say 6 taps, is that 6 taps at one time per year, or is it 6 times indefinitely?

@allandanforth9516 10 лет назад

Thanks for the information ! I found it very informative ! :)

@Gracist5 6 лет назад

Awesome Video, thanks a lot for sharing!

@nandpclement 11 лет назад

Nice jod Luke,these videos will be fun to watch. ty

@dawn2131 Год назад

Watch you a lot this may be the oldest video I've come across! Love the hairdo!!!

@shinobigames6771 8 лет назад

Thanks for the video and all the advice about the supplies you need.

@MIgardener 8 лет назад

+Desta Fisseha It is a very easy process and totally worth it if you go for it.

@atlan61 11 лет назад

Great Video! Very interesting! You are so blessed to live in the region that you are in and the four sesons and climate. I used to live in Illinois, but we moved here when I was young, We were once a tropical climate with four sesons, Now were a desert with two in a half sesons, Spring which we are in now, long dry hot summers, and a short falll, with a hic up of winter for a day lol. FYI the northern birds that fly south here are now heading back north, So get ready to plant you wonderful tomat

@kathrynzurcher6529 8 лет назад

Super informative! Thank you!

@WalkingScriptureWithShanna 2 года назад

I love when I need a how to video and get to choose a baby Luke video 😹🥰

@finefollyglassworks 8 лет назад

Thanks so much for making this video. You did a great job.

@MIgardener 8 лет назад

+www.FineFolly.com Thanks! I appreciate the feedback!

@kathleenhowe5362 9 лет назад

You're the best! I love your enthusiasm.

@MIgardener 9 лет назад

Kathleen Howe Thank you!!!

@mauisurfer3 11 лет назад

I always wondered how that worked. Thanks!

@cellsofhell6409 9 лет назад

Can I use the sap as a binding product to make my own briquettes out of coffee?

@GlenlandMiniFarm 7 лет назад

Great video. This is my second year that I'm going to try this. Not much luck last year. :(

@sammyg.8532 3 года назад

May I use that same process for other trees? For example, I have a huge Mango Tree in my yard and would like to tap it for the mango resin.

@amycaruso2971 3 года назад

Thank you. One bit of info I learned was not to blow into the hole due to bacteria. How much syrup do you get from one tree?

@HeritageStacking 9 лет назад

Perfect. I have 3 hard maples in my yard always wanted to know how. I did not tap this year because I was not to sure. Next year 9 taps :)

@giovannh8217 8 лет назад

don't forget to divide the circumference by 3.14 not 2

@jonathanthompson2261 2 года назад

How did ur tree tapping go?(:

@HeritageStacking 2 года назад

@@jonathanthompson2261 well. I have been tapping my trees for 5 years. First year made 2 liters. Put it in 4 bottles 1 went bad not sterilized correctly. Last year I did 6 liters and this year I have just started collecting. I am at 16 liters of sap. My trees just started to run yesterday. By the end of the weekend I will have a 45 gallon drum of sap. I use a old wood stove and a pan I made for a evaporator in a pole garage off the side of my main garage for finishing. I love doing it. My experience started right here. I planted more sugar maples. My property has 30 now. 5 more years until they are all single bucket trees.

@saduniguruge5565 11 лет назад

wow. good looking zap maker. Nice you r into these stuff.

@kevinmusgrave835 4 года назад

A maple actually only needs to be 12inches in dia. You should be drilling at chest hieght ,and use a clean new bit. Also nebver blow into the hole to clear saw dust from drilling,by doing so you are pputting potentially harmful bactieria into the hol÷ and your sap(might as well spit in the bucket.

@postroadvintage 11 лет назад

I also would love to hear where you got your supplies. I'm thinking of doing this army in-laws.. what is the minimum length of time for checking the taps? Daily? Weekly? THANKS!

@jenniferpulchinski1875 3 года назад

Hey Luke I know this is a really old video do you happen to have a link for the supplies you used? I see that you used to sell them but they're no longer on your site.

@zacharysherry2910 Год назад

I couldn't wait for the math part I read in the comments and it was even funnier than I thought 😂 also you're not using a wood drill bit but a carbide hammer drill bit. Kind of surprised it even drilled...

@Garysopinion 4 года назад

got it right away, divide circumfirence by 3+ to get diameter. and thanks for protecting trees.

@resurrectedinspiredpoetry1374 2 года назад

Thanks for the video

@Cjandlindseyland 11 лет назад

real cool dude,i went to the luscroft farm maple demo the only thing that they did that you may want to do is spray a hydrogen/water combo on your drill bit and tap piece.im going out side to try this thanks!

@alexcika9906 2 года назад

Pretty cool man 😎

@darrellvasquez7147 5 лет назад

i Think this video was awesome and informational, but i do have a question. Is there any other ways to tell a soft maple from a hard maple.

@calliecanrinus8318 Год назад

How far up the tree should you tap, or can you tap closer to the ground?

@orangeaquatics9068 4 года назад

Does the plug area need treatment when done? Thanks

@nova1563 8 лет назад

diameter = circumference / pi not circumference / 2

@MIgardener 8 лет назад

thanks for the correction.

@wither8 7 лет назад

Yeah, that was like 'wat'. Annotate a 'divide by approx 3', or people might risk killing young trees. Cood vid tho!

@Remington700BDL1 11 лет назад

Great video, thanks Love you Lucas

@kenrosloniec9546 Год назад

Ok so I have a maple tree. If I use the 3.14 it comes out to be 17.83 inches. Is that to small to tap? I never taped a tree before, but I want to try.

@LiamTheLMan 8 лет назад

beyond the tree being~ 25" in diameter; is there an advantage to using a masonry drill bit?

@MIgardener 8 лет назад

Whatever gets the job done! :)

@Adamman1518 7 лет назад

Good video sir. I was told to tap my trees between 2 and 2.5 inches dept.

@Adamman1518 7 лет назад

according to tap my trees. I have also read references to 3.5 inches

@censusgary 9 лет назад

To get a diameter, divide the circumference by 3.14 (or by 3 if you're in a hurry), not by 2. The circumference of a circle (distance around the trunk) = pi (~3.14) x diameter

@MIgardener 9 лет назад

+Gary Cooper I know.. I screwed that one up!

@ThatGuyUSA 8 лет назад

Main tree? There's trees within that tree?

@midnightblue69 6 лет назад

All maple trees will make a good quality syrup as well as birch. Sugar maple is the most productive and most popular but even silver maple will make a high quality syrup, it just takes more and doesn't produce as well. But if you got one tap it

@bowhunter2439 11 лет назад

Now I need some pancakes....!!!

@controlfoodcontrolthepeopl5627 2 года назад

Soft maple is good for syrup and so is black walnut.

@marythomson295 4 года назад

can you send link for / name of the plastic thing you put in the tree.Thanks.

@jbuell311 11 лет назад

Cool video, but yeah I'm in agreement you can tap soft maples as well. Just have to do it before the bloom, which is not as convenient because they bloom little earlier than their hard cousins. Good video, keep it up.

@jasonpatterson8091 6 лет назад

I'd be concerned about pulling the plastic spiles out at the end of the season. I wonder how many of them broke, particularly in the second and third seasons.

@carolinafine8050 7 лет назад

Thanks for sharing

@RaisedBedGuy 11 лет назад

It's still snowy there!?! It gets relativly nice where i like :)

@MsChickim 11 лет назад

I used plain poly tubing found at Lowes instead of the spile. The cost was just pennies this way and I didn't have to wait to have anything delivered. I then put some clear tubing over top of the tubing and put that into a 5 gallon bucket. I think it is a lot of fun also!

@zacharysherry2910 Год назад

Hope that plastic tubing on the hot south side of that tree is food grade...

@CeeDeeGrow 11 лет назад

Where did you buy your supplies?

@green-zone36 5 лет назад

Please please note!.! .! Red / soft maple, will produce good maple syrup. If you have red maple go ahead and tap them. Check the shape of the leaf. If there are no leaves on the tree look on the ground. Google it, but it doesnt matter. Boil down a couple gallons of sap. If you like the result keep going. Not sure about ornaments but suger maple and red maple will produce good syrup. These trees are native to the northeast of North America . Where I live. However In my local area we have more Red Maple, very few sugar maple. Tap what you have.

@7megan7 Год назад

TEN years ago. Holy cow, Luke. How do you feel seeing this? I feel ancient..

@curtiscash131 11 лет назад

very nice!

@Mark_Jonas 4 года назад

What type of maples are hard maples?

@Outdoorsman1515 11 лет назад

im still getting some sap in upstate NY!

@carl16059 7 лет назад

do soft maple Syrup have any use and is it bitter?

@shack109 7 лет назад

It's all about sugar content in sap, Hard Maples have the most. You can tap Soft Maples, Paper Birch, Box Elder, Walnuts and many others. Hard Maples are the tree of choice because it has the highest sugar content.

@The_Nowhereman 2 года назад

Divide the circumference by Pi (3.14) to get the diameter. Edit . Just read all the other comments relating to the MATHS.🤦‍♂️ I noticed the masonry drill bit to, classic.

@deanobrien5934 8 лет назад

great video!! thanks

@MIgardener 8 лет назад

+Dean Obrien Glad you liked it!

@deanobrien5934 8 лет назад

Was going to start taping soon but weather is terriable.. To mild

@jackhill709 8 лет назад

I forgot to mention below you should tap the new hole at least 3" to the side and 6" above or below a previous hole.

@Frenchiiii 4 года назад

that was quite intimate experience, ill make sure ill tap only "strong" maple trees 😉😝😘

@OurBucketListHasHoles 10 лет назад

Thank you for sharing this great info. I do appreciate the tutorial on tapping as well. I'm in Michigan and have 3 that I will be doing this February/March. Hope u have a good holiday and take care-Debbie

@Dr_C_Smith 6 лет назад

Use a hand drill and not a power drill. The heat from the power drill can make the sap flow slower.

@Ashkanman 5 лет назад

To find the diameter you must divide the circumference by pi (3.14159265358979) NOT by 2

@kateryder530 2 года назад

How much can you drain off the tree at any one go?

@marshallfox1786 6 лет назад

Will doing this cut down on/ get rid of all the tree sap that gets all over my car because I have to park under a tree?

@nicolecrystal6765 5 лет назад

marshall put a tarp over car

@eugenejulson8742 4 года назад

My dad said before he died that we have (Canadian or Red) maples. Does anyone know anything about that? When I burn it in my stove it smells like syrup. So can I tap them?

@rudy52350 11 лет назад

nice vid ...thanks.....

@MrBlair19727 6 лет назад

Saplings are being tapped, by me. I see it this way, what absorbs the most water? Saplings that grow up from a previous cut on the land.

@fayeclever1136 4 года назад

What is wrong with the sap from a soft maple?

@TheBhannah 11 лет назад

thanks Luke

@podcastnotes3345 7 лет назад

thank youuu x

@nyannyan123456 4 года назад

Red maples are considered soft maple. Its all I have and it does make very good maple syrup.

@jasonmassart8760 3 года назад

Interesting video. As many others have already said, use a wood bit and you wouldn't need to pilot. Also, how has no one talked about "unthawed". Lmao. Last I checked things "thaw out". If something is unthawed it would be frozen.

@rogerthat7001 4 года назад

thank you

@manreekay 8 лет назад

this guy goes around saying, I'd tap dat

@itsarubiconday 8 лет назад

Why do you divide 2 to get a diameter? In every other measurement I know, you divide the circumference by 3.14. Why 2 for maple trees? A tree that measures 34" around is almost 11" in diameter, NOT 17" in diameter.

@johnvgig 8 лет назад

+itsarubiconday You have the correct formula, math is math, trees have nothin to do with it. He simply made a mistake.

@howardwhitaker1556 8 лет назад

The tree width, (measured from one side to the other) would be divided by 2 to get the diameter. Hard to do while a standing tree. Can really only be measured like that with a caliper (for accuracy).

@nicolecrystal6765 5 лет назад

@@howardwhitaker1556 ur wrong i think

@davidwiggins5691 4 года назад

Width divided by 2 is radius.

@Eiramilah 6 лет назад

Oops, I tapped my 15 year old tree but it has given me 2 litres of sap so far.It was oozing sap and the squirrels were licking the sides of the tree. It has been lots of fun!

@DetroitMike420 7 лет назад

Subscribed.......

@OurRandomLifeExperience 6 лет назад

Cool!!!!

@nickzee7723 6 лет назад

In "Stalking The Wild Asparagus" by Euell Gibbons, Euell explains that ANY maple tree, even the Box Elder, which is the maple family, will make good maple syrup. Also, this guy has no clue as how to determine the diameter of a tree.