That's a really great design. You can also just take about five minutes to carve a spile from a small branch or twig and it will work just as good. Also bones work as long as you shape them and sterilize them. And both of those r completely free .

Thanks for confirming my suspicion, I wanted to make a batch of beer with sap . This morning I grabbed what I had, a roll of 5/16 od 3/16 id food grade clear hose and a 4 gallon bucket w/ lid , drilled 9/32 holes in the tree and in the lid and the sap is flowing. Thanks again!

I count 6 tubes coming out of that little tree. That's 5 too many

@missmud2053

Жыл бұрын

Tree is going to die now

@frankglass

Жыл бұрын

I agree, 10" dia. Tree 1 tap

Love it. Love the frugality.

Love it! Thanks for sharing!

Tornado came through Grand Rapids, Michigan. Top half of half a tree broke and fell on my house, smashed through my porch roof. Never payed attention to the two trees in my yard, looked at the leaves falling through my ceiling and noticed they looked like maple leaves. I said no way....did a quick Google lense search and what do ya know.. maple trees! Want to tap them immediately!

I like this way better. You could put the lid on and cut slits for the tubes it would keep it clean.

Thanks . Great idea, will be using this

Excellent !! Thank You !!!

Pretty cool, I might go with a bit more heavy duty hook, that size has given me problems with houseplants before. They were made of weak wire and bent. It might have been a bad shipment or whatever but something to be mindful of.

That is an awesome idea. I have a lot of air brake hose that would work perfectly. Thank you for that great idea

@codylovelace2237

Жыл бұрын

May want to get some fool grade hose. Price wouldn't be much and you could avoid a bunch of chemicals and oils being in your sap from the manufacturing process. Safe tapping

good idea thanks

Who is that in this video!? LOL So many great videos! Thanks for serving us newbies all these years!

What month in Michigan is usually safest how do you go by a different time every year depending on the frost

The question everyone is asking is. Is there enough taps in the tree

Thanks worked

you should bend the hook in to an eye around the bucket handle. Very cool way to tap a tree ! would you get more sap if you drilled the second hole on the back side of the tree and used more tubing? Thanks for this tip ! 8)

all i did was take a tree branch, slightly larger than 3/8", cut the branch in 3" pieces. then took my 3/8" drill bit and drilled out the branch. drilled into my tree and tapped in the branch piece. drilled a hole in a 650gram yogurt container, 1" from the top. slid the container onto the branch. used the container lid to keep crap out of the sap. nice youtube channel, keep up the good work. now to watch your boil down vide.

OPPS! disregard the boil down question...some how i missed your video...I just watched it...Nice Job!

Totly rad to the max dude

Is the blue tubing food grade? I can find super cheap tubing too but last year I used some clear tubing from hardware store, maybe plumbing line, not sure, but I don't think it was food grade because we could taste something off. Please explain what this tubing is and where to get it. I didn't understand who we should ask for left over pieces. Also, I've been reading how much better 3/16 tubing is. Is this just for large sugarers who yield lots of sap and need long lines? Does it matter the diameter of tubing on trees that are about 4 feet wide? I plan to put three taps in again, connect them with t joints, and join them all to one exit line into our 5 gallon bottles. Thank you for any help. Great job!!

@codylovelace2237

Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure it's PEX tubing. It's used for water pipes in homes so I would think it would be considered food grade but by that standard lead would be food grade lol PEX is easy to find in about any hardware store. Usually you can buy a small stick of it or a roll. Some do by the foot. Happy tapping.

Man, we in the South are so jealous! The one thing we wish we had, but CAN'T have, on the homestead is maple trees for syrup!! And I didn't expect the syrup to look so clear as it came out of the tube...it looked like nectar, and I bet it was delicious. Love the frugality of your method, too!

@JacobvsRex

7 жыл бұрын

Can use other trees, historically Black Walnut was pretty common to tap in the south.

@creatednordestroyed5339

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting

@daveb8598

2 жыл бұрын

@@creatednordestroyed5339 yes we're tapping black walnut this year, not sure what trees you have down south that could work, hickory is done too. The sap is what is coming out of the tree so it is clear, you have to boil it down to get the syrup, so it is about a 50:1 or more reduction, so 50 gallons of sap will only yeild you 1 gallon of syrup after a lot of boiling, so keep fuel cost in mind

@ursa3646

Жыл бұрын

you can tap birch to get a water like sap. wont taste nearly the same though i bet

You can tap black walnut for syrup and our forest is FULL of them, im gonna try this!

I have tons of birch trees on my land, and I like to make birch syrup

@nlceguy

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting, ive never had birch syrup But i did notice that if you debark a birch, the fresh bark smells like spearmint!!! Not even kidding~ so i wonder what the syrup tastes like 🤔

I'll have to give this a try. I have four maple trees well over 200 feet tall in my front yard. Awesome!

@alankingsford3736

6 жыл бұрын

Savemyplant Haha...no, you do not. Lol

@uygyugyuuyg

4 жыл бұрын

The only grow like max 100ft.

@creatednordestroyed5339

2 жыл бұрын

lol

@codylovelace2237

Жыл бұрын

Out here tapping sycamores lol

That tree was to small for two holes it has to be 18 in in circumference at least to have two

@daveb8598

2 жыл бұрын

True, and he put 4 holes in it that we can see

He improves as he gets older with the number of taps.

Why not just use a drinking straw, especially the ones that are accordioned for easy bending or bigger ones for bubble tea?

@livin7774jesus

Жыл бұрын

probably not stiff enough to be wedged in so it won't fall out.

Nice Idea with the flex tubing. I have been doing low budget sugaring for a few years using hard pvc type pipe (water grade) and Arizona Ice tea container (1 gal). I drill a hole in the container the same size as the pipe. then I am able to slide the container over the tube. I have already started seeing ants on the container, but they can't get in with tight fit and the cap on. I find the set up is cheap, it's the boiling down that's expensive. What are you using to boil down your sap?

@savage22bolt32

Жыл бұрын

Don't ya just love when someone posts an interesting story, then people ask questions and the original poster ignores everyone?

hey could you use a 2Liter bottle to collect the sap? it would hold 2 tubes and it would keep the crud out of your sap.

@nlceguy

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@savage22bolt32

Жыл бұрын

@@nlceguy nope....

didn't you make a video last week or so???

What kind of maple trees are those? How many trees does it take to make a gallon of syrup?

@bradleybrunelle6807

6 жыл бұрын

Well it takes 40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup

@quiltstuff454

6 жыл бұрын

I have 3 maples, at least 3' in diameter, with 8 taps. Just finished over a gallon of syrup tonight. We get over a gallon a day of sap out of each tap on warm days, just under a gallon on cool days. If the temp gets below freezing, nothing. As soon as it warms up the sap flows again.

BAD!!! spikes are not the place to skimp. Shop Roth Sugar Bush out of Wisconsin and you will find that they are not very expressive. And yes that tree is too small

That tree should only have one tap in it if that let alone four!

great idea BUT...... next year if you tap that tree even once it WILL DIE!!! the smallest that you can tap a tree is 12 inches in diameter and that is once every few YEARS!!

New title, how to harm your tree with too many taps!

Its just pvc ice maker or ro line.

i bought seed from him and it was not right, he said i must have crossed up on the seed, next time i ordered armeian cukes,and they grew and i got lemon cukes.will buy no more seed from him.seed was wrong andit was my fault.

I have done very similar with Woodglut designs.

Isn't that tree too small?

Maple tubing is only 10 cents a foot.

You could have gotten better results for the same price or less by calling a dealer such as myself and getting the correct tools and not have killed the tree in the process. Tree is too small for 2 taps. Also if done with a proper spile, you wouldn't need the hook, which damages the tree and introduces bacteria.

@stephen-oy8lx

7 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Berube trees not dead xD

@alankingsford3736

6 жыл бұрын

Stephen Jones It will be after just a few years of this abuse. Lol.

@bendonner3534

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think this is even a significant stress on the tree. Those two small holes will be completely compartmentalized by June.

All if you fussing about him putting 2 taps in the tree. You something to do besides nit pick a you tube video. He was simply showing what could be done. Seems like people are always finding something to degrade someone that took the time to make a video.

@ryanwolowicz9371

Жыл бұрын

And it doesn't hurt the tree

It's called a J hook bud

Copper/Bronze/brass will kill a tree

2 inches?!

copper tubes? don't use plastic anything

killing the tree no bueno

Robbie Shapiro

Wow ok hippie

This is a joke, right? There are sooooo many things wrong with this and not a single good one. Everyone, do yourselves a favor and just do things the RIGHT way...not what Shaggy here is rambling about. Lol.

This kid should do hard time for cruelty to trees! THIS IS NOT HOW YOU TAP A MAPLE TREE.

@augustreil

6 жыл бұрын

Lighten up Francis !!!

@briansmith2138

5 жыл бұрын

If it dies cut it down for firewood.