Making Maple Syrup- Part 1- How to Select & Tap a Maple Tree

This episode is the first in a series where I teach you how to make Maple Syrup! From...
- Identifying & Selecting the right Maple tree,
- The type of equipment you need and how to prepare it,
- How to properly tap a Sugar Maple tree,
- How to turn the sap into Maple syrup.
- How to take your equipment down and how to store it.

[@TheFPSCENTRAL]

“Most hardware stores will have a small section devoted to maple syrup production” is possibly the most Canadian thing I’ve ever heard in my life.

[@noahreischmann64]

What?

[@rbon9414]

😂

[@TheOutsiderCabin]

Wait...so you're telling me that only Canadian hardware stores have a maple syrup section?! 😄

[@TheFPSCENTRAL]

@@TheOutsiderCabin I’m glad you actually just replied to me. I’m in that part of the year in NY. I forgot to buy a spigot for my sugar maple. Hopefully I didn’t miss my chance

[@sirmartinclarke]

I’m in Outer Mongolia, what’s a hardware store?

[@brittanyk.4691]

Haha, "there are benefits to being a tree hugger". Thanks for all the informational videos!

[@143katie]

Brittany K. I literally thought 💭 he was hugging 🤗 the trees 🌲 I commented on another video about it but now I know what he is doing but I’m still leaving my comment there. I LOVE ❤️ this guy!!!

[@contrafax]

That was the best.

[@bdub714]

Just bought 40 acres of wooded hillside with a lot of maples. Can't wait to try to make syrup. Thanks for the info!

[@namelessgames1608]

bdub714 nice

[@houndjog]

Did you make some bdub714? How was it??

[@tamirajohnelle4700]

Nice

[@Perilous3D]

Nice vid, man! I've been making syrup with my grandparents for the past 30 years. This year I'm doing it on my own for the first time. Although the weather has slowed down production, we had an early start and we're up to almost 3 gallons already! It's shaping up to be a great season. Best of luck to all you fellow tree-huggers and sap collectors! :)

[@ChristianWarriorInAGarden]

Thank you for this video, it was very informative and presented quite well! This winter will be much sweeter because of your sharing of knowledge!

[@bullrush6449]

Great tutorial ! I am tapping for the first time this weekend. Thankyou for the excellent tips.....cheers

[@HambonesAdventures]

Thank you I learned that those strange metal things I’ve been finding and keeping for years are mapel tappers. Over the years I’ve probably found 30 of them. Now i need to tap some trees and pray I get 40 to 1

[@bobcatfarm]

Great video, I have watched about ten so far, yours was the best, straight forward, to the point.

[@kriegjaeger]

Thanks for this! There don't appear to be many books on forestry, most herbalism books cover some wild and garden herbs but not much on trees itself, so I'm taking my own notes!

[@tomswildandwonderfulviews]

Very informative about how not to hurt the tree when doing this, I was wondering about the impact on trees but knew that places use trees and seem to have no impact.

[@cupcakescorner7684]

First is congratulations on these job that is passed to you. Its very productive and organic harvest.

[@sugarfoo4]

I just learned about this the other day. Good video. You speak clearly!

[@TheOutsiderCabin]

Thanks sugarfoo. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@timothychack9276]

Love the video.. great information...

[@jeremiahhunter1267]

if you use smaller tubing (1/4" or 3/16") will create a natural draw on the sap hole and will produce much more sap. doesn't seem to do any more harm than 5/16" tubing (in my experience)

[@TheOutsiderCabin]

Thanks for the tip!

[@timothycrum7000]

Nice video Kevin! You are a great dad!

[@tomellsworth2726]

Love the black Squirrel .

[@fattymcbutterpants9700]

racist!

[@ericrudgers6816]

@@fattymcbutterpants9700 stfu

[@fattymcbutterpants9700]

Eric Rudgers ur racist too!

[@143katie]

Tom Ellsworth I love ❤️ black squirrels !!! They are sooo noticeable ONCE you see one. I literally see them all the time NOW that I have seen one. And I live in NYC at the moment they are here too but if u don’t look you don’t see 👁 them.

[@143katie]

FattyMcButterPants you are kidding right!!??!! Seriously 😐 🤔🤨!

[@techberry2000]

So great..thanks for sharing

[@azlanameer4912]

Beautiful video!!! Love from Pakistan😍

[@OrganicBackyardGardening]

This was very helpful! Thank you!

[@sevensurvival]

Well done, thanks, respect

[@jimmyprice9349]

thanks 4 the information on maple trees,outside fun 1!

[@yankee9736]

Thank you for your video I appreciate it.

[@pvxtz0_437]

I’m high asf and it’s 2 am I love this tappn trees foo

[@dickle9604]

Enjoyable vid, gud stuffs

[@joymelcher3811]

Good video!

[@bigmvb4840]

Great videos. Learned a lot from both part 1 and part 2. Thanks

[@lloydclement2152]

very informative

[@optimalperformanceconsulta5813]

Before you tapped the new type of spile into the tree did you drill? I find when I drill the smaller spiles don’t redirect the sap. Rather it leaks around the spile. Thanks for helping me with this. Ps excellent video really educational and straight forward.

[@Toekneepowers]

Did you say 40 to 1 ratio as 2 1/4 gallons for 1 cup?

[@deannavargas3212]

I love this.

[@astrologist174]

Great video! :D

[@pr4runner937]

Just made syrup in IL. 25 gal sap made me 8 pints of syrup. YUM

[@TheOutsiderCabin]

Awesome! I love making maple syrup. For me, it's an excuse to sit around a camp fire all day.

[@alexanderlindquist]

where to buy that taps?

[@crosbyfamily1309]

That’s cool that u can make syrup

[@garystritzel3571]

yum. yum.

[@joshuathompson7985]

Thanks for sharing. wish we had more sugar maple in my area

[@TheOutsiderCabin]

Thanks Chimara! I definitely am blessed to have an abundance of them in my area.

[@antoinel6057]

I am Boing to try this

[@helencollins5104]

I was wondering if you don't have a drill handy , what manuel tool would you recommend using to do the job?

[@nick9zx]

none. get a drill with a maple bit

[@Albertalea]

Would you have any idea why my tree only gave sap for three days then stop? I’m in southeast Missouri. It’s a red maple.

[@camjess60]

Southern Missouri is too warm for good maple production. Also, red maple is a poor source. We eschew tapping them in favour of sugar maples.

[@ThePiemasteification]

Wonderful video, thank you! How long do you keep taps up?

[@143katie]

Tim Galos I think 💭 he said 4 weeks.

[@funnywaves8765]

We are just collecting blood of trees and drinking them! Cheers Tampire ;)

[@idplease8088]

wha-you drink maple syrup?I thought it was for pancakes-

[@TheManOfSexs]

@@idplease8088 i usually put honey on pancakes

[@contrafax]

Maple syrup. Yummy.

[@Matty_ice-mv1of]

Will this work in eastern Idaho? What temps should I be looking for again?

[@WalkingScriptureWithShanna]

Above freezing during the day and below freezing at night until the tree buds

[@ImRussianDubStep]

“Water diluted with bleach.”

[@johnyates277]

Yeah in a good book reader to

[@Jason-wc3fh]

His tape on his drill bit looked quite a bit further back then 2 or 2.5 inches. Looked like 3.5 to 4 inches in this video!

[@popswrench2]

pumping temp swing . here , ideal 25 - 45*f

[@thehaddock8966]

3:01 : Shows a 2 inch sapling, "it will be able to support 3 taps"

[@donnainmt]

He said 72" not 2"

[@Arthurdankarelli]

Does it hurt the trees at all when you tap them? I just don’t want my trees dying

[@RobertViani]

As long as you tap the right size trees and avoid retapping to close in the future they will heal and be fine.

[@imfreeloaderjimmy2206]

So, can you not do this in the south?

[@zardozmyrh7789]

The outsider a great movie this guy ain't bad either.

[@sonofsteve566]

So realistically one could tap the tree for fresh drinking water?

[@chrisschweitzer8623]

Full of antioxidants. You can literally buy it on Amazon.

[@imthegrinchthatstolechrist4384]

It takes about 40 gallons to make one gallon of maple syrup.

[@myhomeCEO]

You guys are so lucky, I need to pay 20 USD to get a bottle🥺🥺

[@slimjiml7510]

Why am I watching this I live In Texas...

[@blueshard4632]

Slimjim L You can still grow maples

[@AAthlete34]

is the sap stickey

[@clearasmud376]

No, it's pretty much like water with a barely detectable sweetness.

[@AAthlete34]

@@clearasmud376 thank you, I have been waiting 3 years for a reply and now I can be free.

[@jasonnicholas4427]

"Today on bing" sent me here.

[@fiercepandaz]

You should mention how to plug the hole after

[@RobertViani]

Mother nature takes care of the hole. Filling the hole can cause bacteria to form and hurt the tree.

[@jabezgaona7989]

“The hole should be 2 1/2 inches deep” 😂

[@danishraza7113]

Ok

[@NY_CharlieC]

Would have been nice to show how to identify a sugar maple, otherwise great video.

[@clearasmud376]

They can be identified by their bark, as he described. If you have no clue about bare-branched winter trees in general, pick out the maples (using seed and leaf shape) in the summer and mark them so you can find the maples again early next spring. Then tap the ones with vertical plates of bark.

[@antoinel6057]

Yo

[@hornyanalmonkeyraper]

Tree jizz

[@joshuagrahm3607]

you look like seth green.

[@Randomgui220]

Joshua Grahm Which one

[@bobbyhill4118]

Freezing or cooling the bacteria slows its metabolism so it stops reproducing and doing its stuff, so I’d say it’s important to not get yourself sick and use sterile equipment for this, and pile snow around the thing you are using to collect it.

[@ChuckD59]

Don't forget you're going to boil it for quite a while which will pretty much sterilize it.

[@NoriMori1992]

Sap becomes syrup by getting boiled, which kills all microbes that are harmful to humans.

[@donnainmt]

WOW! Those poor trees have to do a lot of work draining out a lot of energy for 1 cup of maple syrup!!!

[@princesstauf5287]

id tap that... tree

[@JohnPaul_kun]

and just find out that it's illegal to do this to any maple tree you want i end up wondering too deep and end up in some government property

[@bgbg8857]

6:20 its fuckin MILK not MALK lol

[@scarface777x]

The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted; Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house. Psalms 104:16-17

[@Jay-bq1jc]

God bless everyone Jesus Christ is Lord!! Repent and believe!!!

[@willahern9601]

Well that was pretty disappointing to watch this much of the video to have to click on another link or video to watch the rest of it

[@scotttheriault835]

just watch the video, ever hear of the word suspense.

[@Survivalguy]

That's the longest 2 1/2 inches Ive ever seen. Im guessing 3 plus.