We Ran Out of Fuel 😳 

Tried to be more informative this video! If you have any questions ask away! We now also have the glass quarts back in stock! 😄

I collected 5 gallons of sap and boiled it down over a fire, took all day and only had enough syrup for two servings of pancakes! I have so much respect for your operation! Thanks for sharing

Starting to feel guilty about my bed time😂 you all are amazing

That’s a really impressive set up 👍

The best explanation of the equipment yet

Lot of things to watch and do to keep the wheels on the wagon. Massive gallons per man hour, but requires full attention. No room for big mistakes. So much different than my little hobby production. Thanks for another great video Nikki.

Good morning it's been a long time since I've seen you in a video doing what you do best I'll keep looking thanks for the content

Great videos! My wife and I really enjoy watching how your tree to finished syrup operating Flows. We put our syrup in bulk storage containers and bottle or process as needed. Love the "Shanty" Our season here in Central Wisconsin has been so so slow. Stay safe!

Love watching your operation.

Beautiful video. Thank you.

This whole process fascinates me! So happy to be learning something new. I have a great appreciation for how hard your family works.

Awesome video 👏👏👏 Love how dad is part of it too. He seems really down to earth and understands 2022 technology. Way to go dad..!!

Fascinating process. I especially like the barrel overflow technique. 👍️

Another great video Nikki!!.. Thanks for taking us along during your nightshift. Have a great week..

What a sweet operation, very cool. Nice day today. I got my jug of Boxler syrup couple weeks ago, can't wait to crack into that this weekend.

I have always enjoyed your videos and learning. Somethings new. About what y'all doing and how much work y'all are putting into it.

Thank You for letting us visit your sugar maple farm

Love the videos used to live in northern ny and was the "boiler" for our syrup operation boiled lots of syrup with our leader 5x14 wood fired evaporator..... I sure miss it.... Keep the videos coming...

Thank you for sharing

That building is OUTSTANDING! It makes the CDL look small. When are you switching over to steam boiling and what do you use for fuel for that system? Also would love to see the R.O. Room in operation

Great video, and you all are doing awsome! Very informative, and what a difference in the last 20 years of technology. I learned a lot as a Vermont viewer. Thank you

Nice maple Farmer story...

Awesome video. The last part reminds me when we cleaned up the cider mill and everything connected to it. It looks as if y'all have a bunch of cleaning up to do every night!

Thanks Guys,,Take Care

Thumbnail=fire. 😊😊😊great video!

Awesome. I remember the days of the Maple Festival in Chardon, Ohio. Great to see larger way.

Thank you for sharing your filter cleanup process. Much easier and cleaner than what we've been doing.

The entire operation from sap collection, to boiling/filtering to final product is amazing. Great video. You looking forward to turkey season? Dumb question, I know you are. Lol!! 😁

Fun to watch!!

Love the videos, keep em coming! You might have already explained it but how does the weather and temperature effect the sap? Also I received my order from you guys and It is amazing, this was my first taste of 100% real maple syrup and I will never go back! All I can say is Aunt Jemima is gonna have to step up her game and lose about a hundred ingredients to even be in the same conversation as you guys. If anyone has the means I highly recommend picking some up, it is so choice 👌

I enjoy watching I know it's a lot of work I thank you

Great video!

Got my order in last week the pancakes are delicious with your syrup on them 😋 ✌️

We use a painters mixer on the end of a cordless drill to mix the draw off bins. Saves lots of time.

Would love to see a diagram of the boiler and the path the sap goes from back to forward as it concentrates to syrup. Obviously can see it when not boiling from side. Thank you

Curious how production is this year also is the season about over? This is something I I’ve come to look forward to watching you all January February March and hopefully April

I like the mix and match evaporator, a CDL frame/base and Dominion&Grimm pans and domes.

I watched my uncle make maple syrup back in the late 1940’s, he’d run the hot syrup through a heavy cloth bag then it would be canned. Not quite the same process today where purity is the highest priority. Thanks for a interesting and informative video.

Short maple season for sure, there was no graduation in cooler temperatures to warm, everything is feeling that….. disease and pest pressure will be high this year….

great video nikki

As soon as the L & XL shirts are restocked, I'm going to order a couple.. Love the stocking hats I got!!..

Nice job!

You might want to mention that the reason you monitor the temperature as a proxy for sugar content is that as the syrup gets more concentrated, the boiling temperature goes correspondingly higher. It might be illustrative to stick a thermometer in the other stages in the evapourator pan to show the temp higher in each successive stage. Thanks for the videos, very interesting to see how high-tech the business has become.

Amazing. I wonder if it is possible to make syrup out of any other trees, or only just Maples. Best wishes.

Some data on composition of the syrup would be very interesting.

Great information! Thanks for teaching me a little. Surprised Im not to far from you on the Canuck side across the Rainbow Bridge. Question..so the sap loaded into the large tanks outside goes directly into the evaporator? Where it is then boiled to 222 degrees. I bet it smells wonderful in the sugar shack?? 👍👍👍. Everyone remember thumbs up. 👍👍👍

Great vids,

Good video I'm from Rochester NY 💯🔥💯 used to do small scale syrup boiling ❤️❤️❤️

I milled black birch logs for a client a few years ago. The air was filled with a scent just like birch berry soda. Wonder if anyone has ever tried making syrup from black birch sap?

Awesome process! Would love to know where the steam is going? It seems like in the new building there is no pipe going out of the building. Amazing video as always :)

I bet it smells good outside, when you are boiling. I received my syrup, sampled it, very good. Thank you.

Hi Nikki, what do you use for fuel and how can you run out of it? Can the diatomaceous earth be cleaned and reused or is it thrown out? Why do you have to work so late into the night, is it because once you start there is no stoping? It's been enjoyable for me to learn a little about the Maple Syrup business and your way of life. You certainly have to be the best looking Maple Syrup cooker in the business. Thanks....

Always love a lady wearing a Winchester hat

You work long hours for sure with no coffee either. Reminds me of the Army.. Great video! Impressive timber frame building! An electric pressure washer might work well for cleanup. I made the maple wine.. it should be ready to bottle by turkey season. Hang tough

wow that a lot of work

My wife LOVES maple syrup. I just ordered her a gallon for her birthday.

I'd like to see in detail of how the filters work and what was being pushed out of the framework. I'm visually impaired so it takes me time to see things. I watch things 3 times or usually more to figure out what is going on.

hi there WOW this aint no small ma pa operation . nice well done john

WOW Yummy ! The syrup probably too ;-)

I love your videos!!! I’m familiar with automation equipment, I recognize that actuator used on your valve, where your hydrometer is. I’m going to buy some yummy Maple Farmer Syrup. Thank you for sharing!!!

Does the used diatomaceous earth get recycled/cleaned for reuse? Boiler runs on liquid petroleum? Thanks for the videos, feels like we're a little part of your enterprise. You're always smiling and bright.

love the video got a great maple syrup education and nikki your smile can make my day turn around so cute keep up the great content

Nice video.

I visit a couple nearby that are maple syrup producers and when customers stop into the sugar shanty and see them add the white powder to the syrup, they jokingly tell them that it is Cocaine. Love the maple syrup videos 👍

Nice looking syrup I can just imagine what the shanny smells like I think I will have pancakes and syrup for supper tonight

Can you show what fires the evaporator, and where is the chimney?

Thank you Nikki. I never get tiered watching you. Very interesting video. Hot long hours for you, and brother.

Love that hair colour. Looks more auburn than before. I can't imagine the cost of burning that pan setup! How many trees do you tap?

Are you participating in any of the Maple Weekend Open Houses? Would love to stop by and talk with you guys and check out the new sugar house.

You have a great channel. I’ve been trying to find the quick connect fittings you’ve discussed in previous videos. Could you possibly provide a link to them?

What do you use to heat the building? Floor heating?

How is the season turning out so far for you guys we are having a normal year so far not like last years disaster

Sweet lookin' Gal! - prolly smells like Maple syrup.

Nice operation, too bad it's in NY. Signed Vermonster :)

Where did you get the fitting you use on your drums when filling?

Where are you located? Your store says products can be picked up locally.

Is the maple syrup season doing better then you expected a few weeks ago? Also it be nice if you could mention the date of the actual date of the filming of the video i know with editing and life many videos come out weeks later

I am speculating that due to cost increases such as the fuel oil used to run the evaporator and fuel in the truck to haul the sap and pretty much everything else around costing more, the price of maple syrup is on its way up as well ?

What temp is your syrup going into barrels?

Why did the bumblebees couldn't come out side because it's to cold

😋 sweet

How many barrel do you produce a year?

One drawback I see to going large like your family business is not really getting to visibly see the sap as it goes through the evaporator. Although when we ran our 2’ by 7’ it was all flat pans, and we had no electricity at the sugar shack, so we also did not have a steam away. You could watch the sap the whole through. We haven’t run our small set up like that for a few years, (200 or so 3/16 taps on gravity lines down hill), and now I just boil in a couple of buffet pans with 12 to 15 taps. Make a few gallons, chilling out while doing so, and bottle it up in etched glass for giving away a bunch to friends and co workers. I do stop while out on patrol at some of the bigger (and smaller) sugar houses in our area and talk to the owners and see how their season is going. Sometimes pick up some new bit of info I did not know of before as well. You guys have a pretty awesome large scale set up. It is nice for your family that their children are still into helping with it. Real big question time, did you and or your brother stray away from wanting to help boil, or just avoid sap season in general in your teen years? This is part of the reason we stopped boiling in my woods below us. Kids no longer wanted to hang around or were busy with sports and homework, etc. shack is a bit out of the way if there is still snow on the ground so it is even tough to get the “pop ins” from friends and neighbors.

I use DE and it's not white like that, must be the different brands. I LOVE MAPLE SYRUP the good stuff is so expensive in Kentucky

I like a woman who knows how to wear a baseball cap and you look good

I like the MemProTec RO. What size is it?

Those filter cartridge thingies look heavy when full.

What is your fuel source ? Oil or wood ?

Hi what cloud is suryp this year?? Our is really light

Nikki how warm is the syrup going in the barrels

How often do you change or clean the filters?

what a great spokesperson for your product, intelligent, knowledgeable, and cuter than hell!!

👍👍👍👍

There is something sweeter than Maple Syrup bringing people here ;-)

Can you use the diatomaceous earth again?

When the one neighbor firing with wood runs out of wood it's either a mad dash to cut some dead standing evergreens or call it a season.

I am glad that is not me paying for ALL that Equipment you must have 2-3 million

if your syrup tests too heavy to sugar coming off the evaporator what do you do?

👍super

Wow i'm here for the trees promise! 😇 lol