What a sweet and beautiful mom!! Thank you for sharing.

@mommymilestones

5 ай бұрын

You're welcome.

Super informative. Thank you

Nice job!!!! We appreciate your sharing!!!! Your kids are adorable! Keep up the great work!

@mommymilestones

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Great video! Every informational! Thank you! I have been harvesting maple sap for five seasons now. So fun!! Hard work, but very enjoyable!

@mommymilestones

3 жыл бұрын

Great job!

wonderful advice and attitude! thank you so much!

@mommymilestones

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Great info! I’m a newbie and want to tap our “new” maples this fall (bought a different house with tons of maples). I’ve also subscribed as I like how you present things. Straight to the point and precise. Btw your kids are adorable.

@mommymilestones

4 жыл бұрын

Your off to a good start learning ahead of the next season, very smart :) Thanks for watching and caring enough to comment. We all appreciate positive feedback and your comment made the kids smile.

From SW Minnesota. I use 5/16” plastic spiles with 3/8 plastic tubing running into cap of milk jug sitting on ground. This works great. Keeps the junk out of your sap, but usually have to check/change jugs daily(or more often). Then I run sap through RO system to eliminate half the water. Cuts boil time in half

@mommymilestones

3 жыл бұрын

RO systems are just so much money. I know the savings in fuel and time can justify but we just cant sell it at a profit. Maple syrup can be a very expensive hobby.

@kenleinen6689

3 жыл бұрын

I have maybe $300-400 tied up in my RO plumbing parts. I’m not sure at what price you’d have to try to sell maple syrup for get make any money. The time this hobby of mine takes is gigantic!

Best video I've seen thank you so much from Maine

@mommymilestones

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks for a great video! About to tap for the first time this year!

@mommymilestones

Жыл бұрын

Have fun!

Thanks a lot for this great video. I found it gave lots of advice that you don't often hear, and debunks several myths. Also I love your spirit, it is very enjoyable to listen to you. Thank you very much, and I wish you all the best with your farm. Warm regards from France, where I am trying to make Sycamore Maple Syrup :)

@mommymilestones

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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@mommymilestones

4 ай бұрын

Always welcome

Wow, very comprehensive. Having tapped for 4 years I've made some of these mistakes, mostly spiking a big nail into each tree to hold buckets. Mistake!! The handle hanging on the nail makes taking the lid off very awkward. Set it on the ground. Get a 4' tube. In summer shovel a flat spot in front of each tree to set bucket on, maybe put a square piece of wood down on flat spot to set bucket on. Lastly, have plenty of drivable roads. Carrying 5 gal buckets thru face slapping bush and seedings any distance sucks. Clear some pathways.

@mommymilestones

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

@finallyfriday.

Жыл бұрын

@@mommymilestones I do use a longer tube to give me options in setting it on flat ground. Tubes are cheap enough and often I can't get close to the tree due to root flair at ground level. And I get less bark falling on bucket lid by being set a little away from the tree.

Hey I’m gaming to be taping this weekend so excited

@mommymilestones

3 жыл бұрын

Some have started here in Michigan. Ordered 400 new taps for drop lines here this year.

Question. Can you place a plug in to the tap hole after removing the spire?

@mommymilestones

10 ай бұрын

The tree does that on it's own. Fills the hole back in with regrowth.

I have about 17 Black Walnut trees (some small) on my property. There will not be gallons and gallons of sap so I cannot see spending the money for the spiles- they are very expensive. Wouldn't it be ok if I tapped the tree and just shoved some tubing right in the hole?

@mommymilestones

2 жыл бұрын

They are not expensive at all. Stainless steel run up to $2 each. Plastic run .15-.50 cents each. If you add a platinum. Drop line to a plastic spike made for drop lines they are about $25 for 10 spikes with drop lines.

I'm buying a property in Southern Missouri, it has several large sugar maple trees. (Over 2ft diameter) could these be tapped? How much should I expect to get from them?

@mommymilestones

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yes! Each tap will bring you a quart-gallon each of finished syrup in a few weeks season. We have taps or drop lines on our Etsy link that you can add right to a jug or bucket to get started. There are several videos in my Maple syrup playlist and some reading suggesetions along the way.

Don't wobble your drill or brace when you drill in and pull out or you will get a flared hole and sap could leak below the spile.

@mommymilestones

3 жыл бұрын

Correct in theory, not always possible standing on a snow pile. The sap will leak down the trunk before it get to the tap if done incorrectly.

I'm going to try for the first time on our huge Maple tree that is dripping on my car below. I hope to make beer with it! When you take the tap out, should you fill the hole with anything to protect the tree? Like beeswax or sawdust & glue?

@mommymilestones

3 жыл бұрын

No, any sap that flows after you pull the spile out flushes the wound and it will heal on its own.

@jolox.

3 жыл бұрын

@@mommymilestones Thanks! I tried to tap yesterday 1&1/2 inches deep. No sap is flowing and it got to 60 today. Did I do it too late? Or do you think the tap could be too shallow?

Hi, nice video, I went to school in Houghton many years ago. Good memories of Michigan. question: is there a limit to how deep you drill the holes in the tree. Seems to me the deeper the better, No? living in minnesota now. Lots of snow this year, joking

@mommymilestones

Жыл бұрын

Nice area

I jus can't figure out if my trees are maple...I tried to research but jus can't tell. How do u know? Should I jus drill a hole and see if sap comes out?

@mommymilestones

3 жыл бұрын

look for twin branching and any leaves on ground.

How do you measure a maple tree to make sure it’s big enough to tap syrup?

@mommymilestones

5 ай бұрын

If I can hug it with one hand too small, 1 arm 1 tap, 2 arm hug 2 taps, bigger trees sometimes 3 taps

I kept waiting for you to tap a tree but you didn't. That's why I tuned in, in the first place!

@mommymilestones

Жыл бұрын

Oh thats in another video. This one is not how to tap a tree, mistakes to avoid. Thanks for watching. The others in my maple syrup playlist. Let me know how it goes!

Howcome the 7/16ths spiles should be retired?

@mommymilestones

3 жыл бұрын

5-16th spile are smaller hole, smaller wound to the tree, faster healing. It also leaves less of a stain in the fascular sysytem of the tree leaving you with more tappable surface in the lifetime of the tree.

Also can I tap Norway Maples I have heard yes and no

@mommymilestones

3 жыл бұрын

Less sugar content but yes. It all makes syrup. Reading suggestions in our maple syrup playlist.

It’s a spout!! Quantity all depends on your season and sugar content. If I had trees producing a gallon of syrup per tap. I’d be a millionaire

@mommymilestones

3 жыл бұрын

It is a spout, spile, tap. All terms used interchangably depending on region, education, experience in tree tapping, even the catalog or book you are looking at. Maple syrup is liquid gold.

question... do bears come and eat your sap?

@mommymilestones

3 жыл бұрын

We do not have bears here. They would not eat it though. They could possibly drink it ;/ It is more likely in the Northern parts of Michigan or Canada that a bear may knock down some buckets or tubing lines out of curiosity. We have water everywhere to drink and there is not enough sugar in it to attract bears.

how did i get 13L in 5 hours

@mommymilestones

3 жыл бұрын

It is called a sap run. The weather is perfect right now and it's a 2 week cycle of freeze thaw for sugarmakers. Perfect!

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Beginner mistake calling spiles taps, no that is what you do to the tree. “We retired our 7/16th tree taps”

@mommymilestones

Жыл бұрын

Common slang in our area. Nobody calls them spiles. Pop, soda, cola, coke. 100 years straight is not a "beginner" family.

Badly in need of editing.

@mommymilestones

3 жыл бұрын

What specifically? Editing hours ofwork into youtube footage can take all week. We do our best in the time we do have without getting youtube sponsorships and huge ad payments like alot of the farm channels here.

@viccw2366

3 жыл бұрын

I disagree, I find this video great, no clutter, very valuable advice and information, in a great positive spirit