First Day of Tapping Our Maple Trees in 2025

[@Cindi-From-Sunny-South-Florida]

I enjoy learning about how you tap for maple. Thank you for sharing 🎉

[@user-DR.James87]

Beautiful view that God has blessed you with ❤

[@dennismahonchak3228]

Kevin that was a great video of how a modern Maple Farm taps trees. I recall years ago taking my young sons to a local Ecology Center to see them tap Maple trees. They used a Brace and Bit to drill the hole, tapped in a metal tube and hung a metal pail with a cover on it. Thanks again.

[@RiverhillMaple]

I’m the same way, tapping and running tubing is just something I’d rather do myself.

[@oldfarmshow]

👍

[@fixtherustbucket]

I did not know there was such precision required for drilling those holes. My goodness, I would be so nervous. I say this all the time..... if I get the chance to visit your farm. I will be your pack mule and I am good at cutting with a chainsaw. I am looking forward to the water flowing into the sugar barn soon. Best wishes for a great season!! Milwaukee needs to send you a heated jack and gloves to try out. What better place than a snow covered windy mountainside.

[@A4allroads]

Thanks for the video. Do you sell the syrup at the stand? I live in Maryland and plan on stopping by the stand on one of my weekend trips.

[@MillGapFarms]

Yes we do sell our syrup in the farm stand. However, we pretty much sold out in the late fall last year. We have some bottles in the stand if I know when you're coming I can put some in with your name on it. We are out of the 33.8 oz bottles and the I believe the 8.45 maple leaf bottles too. We should be making syrup next week and bottling when we are not making syrup. Go to www.millgapfarms.com and email us when you are headed this way. Thanks for watching our videos and your interest in our syrup. Kevin

[@A4allroads]

@ Thanks for responding Mr Kevin. I will contact you via email when I decide to take my trip. Have a wonderful weekend and stay warm lol. Thanks again, Mitchell

[@TheSmagzilla]

I got a thinner chainsaw oil for working below freezing

[@Vtmaplefarmer]

How much syrup do you average

[@lr3465]

Wouldn't a snow machine with a sled work better for getting up in there?

[@David-fv7zg]

Are you referring to similar metal corrosion?

[@MillGapFarms]

I think I gave it away in a video. Did-similar metals. If you leave the bit in the truck or space where it goes. It will get stuck in there. Each year I take it out so that it doesn’t get stuck. This year I had a little trouble with it getting loose. One time I had a drill bit stuck in a tree. I had to go back to the side-by-side find the Allen wrench loosen them put the tool back onto the bit tighten it and then back it out of the tree. Thanks for watching a video and posting your comment. Hope to see you in another video’s comments. Kevin ps i’m off to go up on the mountain now. Daylights just breaking and we have a lot of tabs left to install.

[@David-fv7zg]

how many years can you tap a tree? Can you tap multiple times in a tree in a single season?

[@MillGapFarms]

You can tap a tree its entire life. We use some conservative tapping parameters so that these trees will last longer. Meaning if you put too many taps in a tree you could kill it. Not that anybody wants to do that. I will address this in the video coming out tomorrow. And share my ideas on how we tap our trees. thanks for asking questions. Kevin.

[@lr3465]

I really don't know how u do it, I don't mind winter temps above 25, any wind & where i can take off my gloves for a few minutes, forget about it! 😊

[@Mr53gil]

Eat some Bananas, that may help.