Last Day Tapping Trees
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Last Day Tapping Trees for the 2024 Season
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The new maple farmer would look good on your back, supervising mom.😅😅😅
I’d love to have him with me if I didn’t have to climb under/over lines, up/down steep hills, and through thick brush!! But he will check some pump houses with me!
I love tapping in the snow it is just a magical moment
I agree!
About as peaceful and beautiful as the woods can be. With the maple queen as the guide. Excellent
Wonderful videos for you and your family, Nikki.😅😅
Glad you like them!
Thanks for "bringing us along". The forest in mid-winter is beautiful.
It really is!
I love the sound of the creek in the closing shot.
It reminds me of when my family lived in Kentucky.
There was a stone bench that the driveway crossed. There was a creek that flowed over that bench. It had about a foot high drop at the east end of the bench. We had a foot bridge there also. I would go sit on the foot bridge and listen to the creek for hours.
You could also hike along the creek and find gravel bars and find pools that had their own sound also.
I should make an asmr video with just the sounds of maple season!
@@MapleFarmer I really like that idea. Sitting in nature, in town or in the country, and listening to nature is one of my favorite activities.
I can't fathom how much walking in done & time spent preparing the lines & then finally tapping all the trees.
Lots of time and energy
You are a amazing women who is willing to go into the woods tap trees being a mom and working as hard as you do on the farm
Snakeskins are good for that outdoor walking they fit from the Boot to the knee almost and are durable
Enjoy watching your videos. I started quoting Warren as to when to Tap--After at least 10 days if a deep freeze. Tapped out our HOME Sugar Bush last Saturday. Wish us a good MAPLE Season. Wishing you the same
Good luck! Wishing you a wonderful maple season!
Have a great maple season, it's not started yet here in Québec. Just show your video to my sister and you want to know what she first tell me ? Me gosh she has such nice teeth this women ;) ;) ;)
I love it! Thank you! I guess the braces I had in highschool did their job!
Enjoy your information while walking.
Thank you
When you set a tap it's a satisfying sound for me.
Me too!
Beautiful video.
Thank you!
Hi, we just tried your pepermint/ maple syrup in our green tea with a dash of cinnamin.... Fantastic!!!
That sounds fantastic! I’ll have to try it tomorrow morning!
Awesome. Just a few more taps than our 50 out here in NE CT.
Good luck this season!
You are right; when to tap is never an easy decision. You always want to capture your historically best run period for you sugar bush with out missing the first run. From what I understand, in a vacuum system the tap holes stay viable for up to 8 weeks while in a gravity system it is more like 4-6 weeks. And for buckets and bags 4 weeks tops.
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
Good work
Thank you! Cheers!
Thanks! Good info.
Thanks for watching!
Walking those lines is one whale of a leg workout.
I was taught sap, like water, is just a bit over 8 pounds per gallon. Sap is 98% water plus some sugar and minerals.
Love this time of year myself just tapped some trees yesterday got to go back and finish up today I’m just a hobbyist tap around 100 trees that keeps me busy enough have a great season
You ever wear snowshoes? Here in Mn the season sucks. Already been in mid 50’s and lows of 40’s
I’ve tried them in the past and didn’t like them 🤷♀️
So what's on tap?
Great to see your tapping I’m from Pennsylvania mountain man, Maple syrup and I’m tapped in since the beginning of January I only have 200 taps and got over 1000 gallons of sap for me. The sugar content is one and a half percent down here in Pennsylvania and got 14 gallons of syrup out of 1000 gallons, my season will end the beginning of March
I was just wondering when you were going to tap. I'm a couple hours south of you and the locals haven't taped yet. Weather has been so up and down here- and not in a good way.
It’s been pretty weird weather here also.
Hi Nikki, I am tapping some trees in my backyard with plastic drop line taps I purchased online. These taps require only a .25 inch hole instead of the 7/16 hole that my metal taps from last year required. I thought the smaller hole would be less trauma for the tree. Although the plastic taps work, they seem to leak a bit too much down the side of the tree. I tend to think it’s cheap taps, rather than my technique😊. Your advice on this would be appreciated. But I would like to know more about the taps you use, and if they can be purchased online maybe amazon. thanks. btw, my operation is only 5 trees, but last year (my first year tapping) I generated almost 4L of syrup, enough to last the whole year.
I found a solution to the leaking problem. I wrap several layers of teflon plumbers tape around the top of the tap before hammering it into the tree. This not only stopped the leak , but improved sap recovery as well.
If you could add one thing, no matter the cost, to your tapping job what would it be?
I think that Nikki loves trees.
😀👍👍👍👍
So we have weather close to 60° mid mid west and now looks like we’re gonna have a month a pretty cold coming. How’s that going to affect you. Regardless thanks for the video
Hi Nikki, I'm curious how many taps Boxler Maple operates? I know you pull your drops every season so that's a great way to count. I always have the folks on my crew counting with ranger beads and get counts for each mainline. Were just over half tapped with about 15000 taps in ATM.
I think I remember her saying 34000
~35k
What size of a crew do you have to get all the trees tapped in a timely manner ?
Depends on the day typically 4-5 people
I believe I'm seeing, sugar maple and red maple. Are there other maple species in your woods that you tap?
Can you get the same flavor from soft maple
Yep, you can tap reds and silvers, its all maple syrup. The difference is that suger maples have more sugar in the sap and you need less sap per gallon. I do all reds and its about 54 gal sap to 1 syurp.
Do you have a lot of problems with deer knocking down your lines?
Nope! Mainly damage from wind, storms, and squirrels/chipmunks. Occasionally deer will chew on the lines also
How do you keep your feet warm and dry?
Just keep moving! That way if they get wet they still stay warm if you’re wearing a good pair of boots
What is the smallest tree you should tap
Hi! thanks for all the insider info.. I tapped first time, it's flowing really good, 2/20/24. I may not want all the sap it's producing , no place to store it until boiling . Ii had mo clue it would produce so much so fast. i have leaking around tap sight. Live and learn. I was told to drill upward on slight angle. I'm using tubbing. Anything I can do to correct? or can I just leave it? I am getting 5 quarts per day🎉 Temps at night going above 35* so I'm thinking it will slow significantly. Thanks.
Why do you place the taps so high? In the old days they hung buckets a lot lower.
What does it take about a week to tap all the trees when it is snowing it looked like you were soaking wet from all the snow do you get cold then
Curiously, wondering how many feet of pipe do you have running through the woods?
I’ll have to ask dad for the exact number as it used to be 176 miles but I believe we are closer to 200 miles now
Y'all actually get paid to wonder around in the woods! I so live in the wrong part of the country...
She gets paid by working on her family dairy farm with 4000 cows, a maple syrup buisness with 34000 taps and running a wildlife park. :)
How many taps do u guys do?
Don’t deer’s and other animals run into your lines ??
Why were some taps above your head and others at waist height?? Previous years taps or just because you wanted. We need more musky videos, that is how i found this channel
1/2 pound of sap or syrup per tab?
6 lbs of syrup per tap which is about a half gallon per tap for the entire season
6# per tap sounds light.🤷♂️
Where are you guys located?
Wyoming county New York!
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