Such a fun cast of characters...a farmer, a very patient wife, a young painter, a cat, a dog and a dragon slayer.

@RedToolHouse

6 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of family time at your house....

@joshuajeffree9887

3 жыл бұрын

I had to doble take. I was like is that a sword ?? 😂

Highland County Maple Syrup Festival is this weekend. Various locations in Highland County Virginia.

My kind of channel...hanging out in the woods with family and identifying trees. Ain't too much better than that. Excellent vid.

the cat goes on walks! amazing!

@RedToolHouse

6 жыл бұрын

Usually there are all three cats following us (when they feel like it).

@IslandZsurvivor

6 жыл бұрын

as so inclined..i believe that is a species wide trait..that is awesome though

@athenashay700

6 жыл бұрын

I noticed that too! Just one of the gang! Love it ;p :)

I really like how you show a start to finish in your videos.( ex. fell trees, mill lumber, build barn.) I enjoy seeing the processes that it takes. I also enjoy how you explain the various projects on your farm and how you plan to move forward in the future. I appreciate the time that you take to do these videos which I find inspirational.

@RedToolHouse

6 жыл бұрын

Gary Wylie thanks! I hope some one can avoid a mistake I made if they see me address it. Thanks for watching and commenting for as long as you have

Man I remember tapping maple trees during some boy scout outings in Pa. getting ready for the maple festival. One year our troop did all the work while the other troops ate pancakes and enjoyed the syrup. By the time we got done swapping tree buckets for the day all the syrup was gone. Our scout leaders were pretty ticked off cause we did all the work…..lol.

Thank you! This is very helpful. I pulled a bunch of seedlings up and want to grow the red maples so now I know which ones are the red maples.

Thanks for the knowledge.

Thanks! I was just at the New York Botanical Garden yesterday. Alene

Oh my gosh I just realized your black kitty is going along with you. LOL 🤣

Have you looked at movable fencing solutions such as those used by a lot of people in the permaculture/regenerative ag communities? Electrical fence that's easy to set up and that is powered by for example a small solar charger is a very real option, and not even a particularly expensive one. You could move your animals all over the farm without having to set up any permanent fencing.

Thank you

Great video!! We have a couple sugar maples, a few silver and a few red in our yard. Not many around the farm though :/ We have done a.few leaf collections over the years. A great way for.the kids to learn the trees in their surroundings!! I went around last year and marked our walnut trees because I read about how wonderful.the syrup was... and why not use what we have?!? Lol. I think I marked 20 tapable trees but we have well over 30. I am excited to tap trees this Feb!!

@RedToolHouse

6 жыл бұрын

ItsAllAboutMyFamily sounds like a good plan. I hear walnut syrup is good

You have a nice property. Thank you for the explanation on how to differentiate a red maple from a sugar maple.

@RedToolHouse

5 жыл бұрын

Sure thing. We will be doing some other tree ID videos in the future.

@livelife4471

5 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to seeing them.

You failed to include black maple. ( or silver maple) Check out Audubon's tree guide and you will see that they are very widespread. P.S. Its easy enough to identify sugar maple by the bark- regardless of variability that most people don't need paint. By the way, black maple has less shaggy bark in older trees than sugar maple.

probably spend too much time at the computer but when I see a red maple leaf I just think of this emoji: 🤷 - I don't get that when looking at the sugar maple leaf. Kinda silly but it works for me!

One on the right

Thank you. Want to do this for the coming year. I have an area that I can tap black walnut trees. Will those make good syrup?

@RedToolHouse

6 жыл бұрын

Homestead Blessings I have never tried it but I hear that others have. It is supposed to be good

The sugar maple fall leaves are golden yellow with orange coloring from what i recall which is another distinction.

@yolazerbeam3205

4 жыл бұрын

Sugar maple autumn colours can vary from any of the traditional colours from vibrant red to yellow to orange

Yes, there 2 sugar maples behind my house

I would add, on the amount it depends on how sweet of syrup you like. I figure closer to 50 gal. to one. I would also add you want to do the bulk of the cooking down out side, unless you like sticky walls and curtains. Since we were cooking down in a kettle outside over wood fire, we did finish the last part of the cooking down inside on the stove, as not the scorch it at the last, and ruin the whole batch.

@RedToolHouse

5 жыл бұрын

That is what we did in our other video about making the syrup. Outside for primary boil and finished inside. 50 to 1 is what we had always heard too.

@victorcastle1840

5 жыл бұрын

Red Tool House, 50-1 is what I had heard also, but found out that can vary, to conditions, amount of runs ( color changes too ) and to taste of what you prefer. Also found out the hard way, that you have to keep the foam off of the top, constantly when cooking outside. I also found out all the old timers didn't remember it all and didn't do the last part. They cooked it down quite a bit before bringing it back to the house . Then the women did the rest. Back then they had summer kitchens and they would do the last 1/2 in the summer kitchens. Where probably like you we were cooking down around 3/4th outside. I wish you had some of my Sugar Maple Trees which are a lot bigger than what I saw. I'm clearing a lot of them out around my Oak trees. Especially the non-Sugar Maples.

It’s a random thought, but for the hickory nuts/walnuts/acorns, could you use one of those lawn sweepers? (The type with the ground driven brushes that sweeps all the stuff into a tilting enclosure on the back?) We have an awful lot of hickory nuts at my childhood home, and that was how dad always picked them up. On your acreage, I don’t know if it would be incredibly practical, but if you had someone either running the lawn tractor with the sweeper and dumping the full loads into the bucket on your loader, or into a pile where your loader could scoop them up easier, it *might* make the process pretty streamlined. Granted, it would put leaves into it as well, but it would give the pigs something to play in, and would be more plant material to provide extra fertilizer. Might not be too hard to sort the leaves and the nuts, either, if a little thought was put into it.

@chuckk458

5 жыл бұрын

I will say, we never did it in the thick woods behind the house, (never had a reason to, as we didn’t have any pigs to feed them to. Dad just didn’t want them in his yard because they dulled his mower blades.) so the sheer amount of both bust and leaves might be an issue.

@RedToolHouse

5 жыл бұрын

We have so much uneven ground that most of our woods can't be driven through unless it is on a road that we have made. I have a friend who has one of the big lawn sweepers and I always joke about how many hickory nuts that thing could pick up.

@chuckk458

5 жыл бұрын

Red Tool House - Homestead, yeah, I suppose I didn’t even think about that! I guess we’re pretty spoiled up here in Ohio and Michigan, when it comes to level-ish ground.

Now do you typically boil all of the sap down together? Or do you boil sugar maple sap separately from say the red maple sap?

@Katiethreeable

3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn’t since it’s different ratio....

Sugar maple limb tips branch differently than red maples as well.

I wonder what is so specific that makes the maple syrup distinctive compared to walnut or corn syrup, is it the ingredients ?

@somerandomguy7458

3 жыл бұрын

Sugar content and wood flavor

I might graft some of my ornamental purple leaf plum to my peach tree then I'll have 2 on 1 tree

ypu should be using straps to make the trees not paint its not good for the tree if you dont want to hurt your yield the i would stop you will get more and better tasting syrup if you keep you trees healthy but you got some good tips

You could have said red means STOP and those are the trees we really want to stop at, yellow means caution these will do in a pinch!

@RedToolHouse

6 жыл бұрын

Oooh, I like that. That doesn't make me look as stupid!

Can you tap cherry maple?

How much would an average tree produce? Sap and syrup?

@RedToolHouse

6 жыл бұрын

Cliffside Acres much really depends on the size of the tree and the weather conditions. I know of people who get gallons a day or sap depending on how the temperature and the sun interact with the face of the tree. Sugar maple is a 40 to 1 ratio of sap to syrup and other maples are 60 to 1. That is why a gallon of real maple syrup is so expensive!

@OakKnobFarm

5 жыл бұрын

Cliffside: I tapped 5 medium sized trees last year, one tap each. I was a first timer with help from a thoughtful Christmas gift from my wife! We ended up with about 48 gallons of sap and just a touch over a gallon of syrup. So we averaged essentially 9-10 gallons per tap. And we started a few weeks late, also (Valentines day is the ideal tap date here - we started early March) The gift was a surprise, and the trees were already leafless... so I could only tap the five near the house I was sure of. I will be wandering the woods with a spray can this fall....

@victorcastle1840

5 жыл бұрын

Cliffside acres, He has pretty small Maple tree diameter, compared to here in East central IL. and Indiana. I had one Sugar Maple that was 3 1/2 ft. diameter. Around 16" diameter would let you put several taps in. If the temperature warms up in the afternoon , you will have to check a 5 gal. bucket several times as it could fill up in 3 hours. other times you may only get couple gallons maybe.

40gals damn

Where are you located?

@RedToolHouse

Жыл бұрын

Lincoln county, WV

birch syrup is best :)

@RedToolHouse

6 жыл бұрын

I haven't tried that yet. We don't get birch trees this far south.

@kathymcleod3583

5 жыл бұрын

Tried to may syrup from white birch one year. Tasted like turpentine! Absolutely foul!!!

@yolazerbeam3205

4 жыл бұрын

Try white birch water

Can we grow sugar maple in Bangladesh?

@RedToolHouse

5 жыл бұрын

I know nothing of that area. Is it considered tropical? I have seen sugar maple in southern FL which is sub tropical

@bigdfig6083

5 жыл бұрын

They can be grown virtually anywhere. I have one growing in my backyard, here in the high desert of south California. Zone8b, BSh 34°30′03″N at an elevation of 1000m. Extreme temps above 110°F are common during summer as is single digit relative humidity. Under 2m when transplanted twelve years ago, it now stands 5m tall with a caliper of 18cm. It is always mulched with bark out past the drip line and irrigation is constantly changing. It will never get tapped for the climate here, but it's one magnificent specimen unencumbered with only flat desert sand for 18m in every direction. It will get a haircut this winter. So, yes, you can grow a sugar maple in Bangladesh. Don't expect it to gift you any maple syrup or you'll be disappointed. Most important thing to consider is the soil. Compost is key to a good base from which to start. Well draining, pH balanced soil will provide what the tree needs and keep your job to a minimum. I add compost every year then additional mulch to replace wat has decomposed or been blown away. Have fun, you'll enjoy the experience.

@Actias1974

3 жыл бұрын

No.

@Mike-su8si

2 жыл бұрын

And its growing good with no wilted leaves

i have three maple trees in my yard, one is about about 6 feet around and about 50 ft tall that in the fall, the leaves get almost black, they go from green to dark green, i also have a maple tree by my front door that has smaller leaves and turns bright red and orange in the fall, the third one in the back yard, ended up getting a disease that made a white substance start to grow and half the tree died so i cut it down

Why didn’t u just mark the sugar maple trees??

Video is so blurry