Rainy Days and Squirrel Damage. 

Hard work and you are a pro. Can wait til you start boiling!

You are quite the worker! Very good job!

About time for squirrel and grave biscuits and maple syrup

If there is a specific tool or aspect of the operation you would like to learn more about, please let me know!

You appear to be more at home in the woods than behind a desk and I love the tubing splice tool.

Wow things have sure changed since I worked in the sugar bush over 35 years ago. Great content I enjoy very much.

You certainly deserve more followers for the amount of effort you put into these videos, Great job!

We just tapped some here in northeast Michigan but we are in a snow storm now

How you find those leaks is amazing. Nice tool for coupling the line. Did y’all make that in house??

What a cool tool you used to attach the lines together, we need one of these in the landscape and nursery industry for our drip line attachments, beats pressing them together by hand especially in the winter. This is so neat to see the process of harvesting, I don’t know exactly why but I find this to be such an interesting process. Just found this channel recently and I am loving the content, looking forward to learning more!

I’m a new subscriber. What a great video! Looking forward to more. Thanks for showing me a little bit of what is involved in obtaining the sap, the work, tools, and technology involved. Superb. 👍

Squirrel season coming. So do you like squirrel stew?

I Respect the amount of work involved. Hope y'all have a good season!

If you go back and watch the video again and listen carefully, filtering out the air leak and rushing water noises, you will hear the sound of squirrels laughing. Leave them some nice snacks as a payback.

Is it true you want the temp to go below 32 at night and warm up over during the day to get best sap flow?

How do the deer deal with those line do you get damage from them as well?

Thank you for being my Varysburg weather and snow pack girl.😉

Can you cover the evaporation of the sap process, at what point does sap turn into maple syrup, is it measurable, maybe what else can you do with finished maple syrup? Maple butter, candy, maple sugar. Process for how to each type of maple product. Thanks!

How many gallons do you collect a year? Thank you for sharing your amazing story of farming syrup. God bless you and your family.

Well done with your positive attitude and enthusiasm while doing a tough job.

Damn squirrels! We were chasing leaks all day Saturday.

Nice work! Very interesting.

Film/share what you can. We all understand you all are busy while in production.

Last couple years we were told closing and opening valves would cause the sap to rush back into the spile/tree and may bring bacteria with it from the dirty drop lines. If we had to cut into the lateral lines we would even clamp off the vacuum side before cutting. Can't wait for the time change you'll be in the woods until 7:00. It's looking great by the way. Wish I had time. I'd go help you for sure. Live it, stay safe alone in the woods.

I live on the west coast, like the channel just found it,what's your opinion on tapi g western big leaf maple,, is it good for syrup .people have done it in the past I never heard of any results,much appreciated if I could get your thoughts. ThNk you, Mike Olympic peninsula in Washington state.

I'd like to see how you approach your line sanitation/untapping when the season is over. Might be some different regulations regarding the use of isopropyl between Canada and State side but still interested.

I see lots of Canadian Hemlock standing in your sugarbush. Any woolly adelgid?

i got my maple syrup from y'all it delicious,i love it,,,thanks take care

This year in Michigan the sap production seems a lot lower than other years?

Is there a way to prevent squirrels from damaging your lines?

I must say I do like maple syrup it is very nice.

Is there such a thing as natural squirrel repellent? If not, maybe you could invent one.

You're one tough cookie! I'd be doing a lot of squirrel hunting though. 😂

Do you have a store front for local people?

I used to check lines all the time for my uncles setup in North Bay.. good times

Nice setup. How many trees tapped? red squirrels will get you every time.

Need to have a squirrel mulligan with pest.

Rub your lines close to the trees with TABASCO SAUCE! The squirrels will hightail it outta there!

Do the lines stay up all year or do them come down at some point?

Is it like a form of PEX tubing?

And WHO tapped the tree on the creek side????

good work

Follow the deer tracks across the creek :)

Can't wait to see all that new equipment working 👍

Is there something that could be applied to all the lines and fittings that would repel animals?

Can't wait to see the new setup run we're starting to tap trees here in WI keep up the great videos 👍👍

did you say your family also milked cattle if so how many do they milk

Surprised you haven't built a bridge of the creck

How far out are your videos? (Ie) a week a few days or does it vary