@@TheOutsiderCabin I’m glad you actually just replied to me. I’m in that part of the year in NY. I forgot to buy a spigot for my sugar maple. Hopefully I didn’t miss my chance
Brittany K. I literally thought 💭 he was hugging 🤗 the trees 🌲 I commented on another video about it but now I know what he is doing but I’m still leaving my comment there. I LOVE ❤️ this guy!!!
Nice vid, man! I've been making syrup with my grandparents for the past 30 years. This year I'm doing it on my own for the first time. Although the weather has slowed down production, we had an early start and we're up to almost 3 gallons already! It's shaping up to be a great season. Best of luck to all you fellow tree-huggers and sap collectors! :)
Thank you I learned that those strange metal things I’ve been finding and keeping for years are mapel tappers. Over the years I’ve probably found 30 of them. Now i need to tap some trees and pray I get 40 to 1
if you use smaller tubing (1/4" or 3/16") will create a natural draw on the sap hole and will produce much more sap. doesn't seem to do any more harm than 5/16" tubing (in my experience)
Very informative about how not to hurt the tree when doing this, I was wondering about the impact on trees but knew that places use trees and seem to have no impact.
Tom Ellsworth I love ❤️ black squirrels !!! They are sooo noticeable ONCE you see one. I literally see them all the time NOW that I have seen one. And I live in NYC at the moment they are here too but if u don’t look you don’t see 👁 them.
Thanks for this! There don't appear to be many books on forestry, most herbalism books cover some wild and garden herbs but not much on trees itself, so I'm taking my own notes!
Before you tapped the new type of spile into the tree did you drill? I find when I drill the smaller spiles don’t redirect the sap. Rather it leaks around the spile. Thanks for helping me with this. Ps excellent video really educational and straight forward.
Freezing or cooling the bacteria slows its metabolism so it stops reproducing and doing its stuff, so I’d say it’s important to not get yourself sick and use sterile equipment for this, and pile snow around the thing you are using to collect it.
They can be identified by their bark, as he described. If you have no clue about bare-branched winter trees in general, pick out the maples (using seed and leaf shape) in the summer and mark them so you can find the maples again early next spring. Then tap the ones with vertical plates of bark.
The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted; Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house. Psalms 104:16-17
