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Sawyer's Maple Farm
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2014
We are a small family farm and this channel is for educating everyone on how to make maple syrup, the uses for maple beyond pancakes and just to give updates on what we are doing on the farm.
Water and muck and beavers oh my!
The beavers are back for the 2nd time this summer.
To get our maple products.
sawyersmaple.com/
To join the Maine Maple Producers Association.
mainemapleproducers.com/
To get our maple products.
sawyersmaple.com/
To join the Maine Maple Producers Association.
mainemapleproducers.com/
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It comes in pints?
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Hey everyone, We are running a sale on pints, go to our website and get some while supplies last. To get our maple products. sawyersmaple.com/ To join the Maine Maple Producers Association. mainemapleproducers.com/
Product display
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I take a look at product display and how it influences your sales. To get our maple products. sawyersmaple.com/ To join the Maine Maple Producers Association. mainemapleproducers.com/
Maple syrup in Virginia?
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We took a trip to Virginia and West Virginia to see some maple farms. Was lots of fun and we learned a few things, like how to milk a cow by hand. Enjoy! To book a stay at Mill Gap Farms www.millgapfarms.com/ To get our maple products. sawyersmaple.com/ To join the Maine Maple Producers Association. mainemapleproducers.com/
Farm update and wildlife
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Hey there everyone, hers is an update on whats been happening around the farm and some of Gods creation.
Tree Health 101
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A few factors to think about to keep your maple trees healthy and producing at maximum capacity. To get our maple products. sawyersmaple.com/ To join the Maine Maple Producers Association. mainemapleproducers.com/
Leia finds a snake!
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The adventures of Leia continue when she finds a snake in the maple orchard.
Tree trouble.
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Chasing leaks in the vacuum system in the woods. To get our maple products. sawyersmaple.com/ To join the Maine Maple Producers Association. mainemapleproducers.com/
Solar eclipse 2024
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Solar Eclipse 2024. To get our maple products. sawyersmaple.com/ To join the Maine Maple Producers Association. mainemapleproducers.com/
Tree tapping 101
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Lets take a look at proper tapping technique and some things to watch for. To get our maple products. sawyersmaple.com/ To join the Maine Maple Producers Association. mainemapleproducers.com/
Chasing leaks again
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Chasing leaks in the vacuum system in the woods. To get our maple products. sawyersmaple.com/ To join the Maine Maple Producers Association. mainemapleproducers.com/
First boil of 2024
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This is the earliest we have ever boiled. To get our maple products. sawyersmaple.com/ To join the Maine Maple Producers Association. mainemapleproducers.com/
Fixing leaks in the tubing system
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Finding some leaks in the woods and a few tricks to fix them. Silicon tape. www.ertape.com/ To get our maple products. sawyersmaple.com/ To join the Maine Maple Producers Association. mainemapleproducers.com/
Thoughts on tapping and tools of the trade
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Some general thoughts on tapping and a showcase of the gear and tools used in the woods. To get our maple products. sawyersmaple.com/ To join the Maine Maple Producers Association. mainemapleproducers.com/
Tapping time, 2024 season
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Its time to get those maple tree tapped and ready for the 2024 maple season. To get our maple products. sawyersmaple.com/ To join the Maine Maple Producers Association. mainemapleproducers.com/
What to try when your spout is leaking in a maple tree
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What to try when your spout is leaking in a maple tree
Hi there Kurt. I saw that you have your sugar operation up for sale???
Yes indeed, we are looking to buy property of our own and set up a new maple farm. Know anyone who would be interested in this one?
@@Sawyersmaple wow that's crazy. I don't know of anyone. I am on the coast in a small town called Gouldsboro. Long way from Jackman.
@@AaronScottWestBayMapleCo Well if you ever need bulk maple syrup for your customers and markets, just let me know. Thanks for watching.
Thanks for sharing Kurt! Kevin MGF
Thanks for watching!
how many cfm vacuum r u running?
300 CFM and 27-28 inches of vacuum.
Cool!
Thanks for watching!
Hi Sawyer's Maple, why are your lines so high up? Do you have a bear problem? Thanks MGF
Hi Mill Gap Farms, We have three reasons for doing this. 1) Snow. Our typical snow fall used to be 10 ft of snow annually and about 4ft on the level. Snow coming in November and staying on the ground till mid April. Not so much in recent years, but we keep our lines high for the following two reasons . 2) Slope, we have fairly low rolling hills that we are tapping trees on and they do not always slope in the optimal direction and we need to maintain height over our trails. 3) Wildlife, Moose stand 6ft at the shoulders and much higher at the head and bull moose can have large antlers. Then there are bears and coyotes that chew on pipe. We used to have our lines much lower, but soon found swaths of tubing on the ground where moose ran through them and places where the pipe was under snow in big snow fall years. Short answer is snow, slope and wildlife. Thanks for watching and asking questions!
Great video Sawyer's Maple!
Thanks for Watching Mill Gap!
How do you clean that cotton candy machine?
We have a large commercial kitchen sink, with a sprayer nozzle, this make it pretty easy to rinse the sugar off the various parts. The head itself, I take apart and carefully clean.
I was wondering how deep you guys drill?
About 2 inches.
Did you have the link for the silicone tape you use? Thank you.
Here is the company where I get the tape from. www.ertape.com/
Great vids
Do you find by adding the rinse water from your filter press that as the season goes on your syrup gets darker from adding it to the back pan?
Does not darken up my syrup at all, but that's on my evaporator. Someone else's rig may have different results. Thanks for watching!
Thank you
Your welcome!
Ever check out DSD saddles with the hose clamp? Installed a 400ish this year, fingers crossed !
We have tried those in the past and found they get really soft after they have been in the woods a year or two. forcing us to replace them with a new saddle sooner then other saddle options out there. H2O's saddles have been great thus far. Thanks for watching.
@@Sawyersmapleyou found the gaskets got soft? Which H2O saddles you guys seem to like? What you like for silicone tape?
@@MrBigBEYEA For silicon tape see. www.ertape.com/ For saddles I will have to get a good video of them.
Keep up the great work and commentary!! I really enjoy your videos!
I appreciate that! Thanks for watching!
What kinda cotton candy machine you running? The one I have I can’t get those nice fluffy large balls of cotton like you do I have to use a stick and then take it off that into the package
Its a Paragon 7105100 Classic Floss 5 Cotton Candy Machine with 26" Aluminum Bowl. The best way to make cotton candy is in a climate controlled room. We run an air conditioner and a dehumidifier in the summer months. Humidity is not your friend when you make cotton candy.
Im glad I have 1000' of elevation drop on our property
Thanks for watching!
Be careful cutting beach brush it will come back 10 fold if not sprayed with herbicides
It becomes a real problem there one central rt system not individual so cut one it sends up 10 more sprouts
@@BladesofglorylandscapeingGood to know, however we are not allowed to use herbicides on the land we lease.
It's my first year doing syrup. Ive got my lines all running downhill. When should I actually tap the trees? I only have about 20 im going this year. Im in Ontario Canada. Nice video
When to tap all depends on the location. Some parts of the USA are already tapping and or collecting and boiling sap. So its hard for me to say when you should start tapping. But since you only have 20 taps, You could wait till the temperature gets to 35 degrees Fahrenheit and is going to stay in those warmer temperatures for a few days or weeks. Would also recommend joining a local maple association, they are a great source of knowledge and can help tailor information to your maple operation and your specific region. Hope that helps some. Thanks for watching!
@@Sawyersmaple thanks. One more question. If I tap now because it’s running but it freezes back up, will I get more sap in the spring when it warms again? Does it affect the sap or trees?
@@RedRockMaintenance You can get mare sap in the spring, but it will be less. Larger producers can get away with tapping now because they have vacuum systems that keep bacteria away from the tap holes. The sooner you tap the more time bacteria has to plug up the hole in the tree, limiting the amount of sap you will get.
20 taps... Before breakfast, on the first day you think you'll get a good sap run.
What do you do this for ?
We make maple syrup for a living and we like to pass on our knowledge on the process to other maple syrup producers. Thanks for watching.
@@Sawyersmaple AA ok thx
Hey man, Im having good luck with the Les Mèches Bolduc bits. No more Cdl bits for me. 14k taps in and 4k to go this week. Stumbled upon your page, hello from Vermont
I've seen those Boduc bits advertised, have not tried them yet. Thanks for watching and subscribing! Hope you enjoy.
nice guys gl w your harvest this season
Thanks for watching!
Great video, thanks for sharing. I've learned several things from your various videos! If you don't mind me asking where can I buy a sifter and paddle beater like what you are using with your drill? Will your Amish friend sell to others?!
Thanks for watching! Check out Sunrise Evaporators out of Topeka Indiana, they are the ones that make them. sunriseevaporators.com/our-catalog/ Page 19 in the catalog.
Thanks for showing your improvements. It's hard to make videos and get the work done on the farm! Kevin
Neat video Ms. Sawyer! About the only help I can offer is to use a tire to clean the culvert and do it as soon as you can. The sludge is soft right now. If it dries, it will be concrete. If we were closer we'd come help in the clean up and fixing the road. Never a dull moment on a maple farm! Kevin
The road beyond our sugarhouse is just a winter logging road. I think come spring we will have that culvert pulled out so this does not happen again.
Great video Mr. Sawyer! Thanks for posting it. Kevin
Thanks for watching it Kevin! Kurt.
Thanks guys! You are the sweetest to watch work together, I haven't had rhubarb pie since middle school but I remember how good it was God bless you my cousins. 😊💕
Aw thanks. You should totally make it, its sooo good. Thanks for watching and God bless!
I have to lift 800 to 1000 taps up about 15 feet. How many 3/4 lines should i use.
I would say 4. This video has given me some ideas as to how to make this better. th-cam.com/video/ZLnmFfDZCVg/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared So from what I have found out and understand. Lifting sap there will always be a loss of vacuum, the higher you go the more you loose. Ours looses about 6 inches of vacuum. Now the alternative would be to put in a releaser and sap tank and one line that you can turn on to suck the sap out of the tank. I did try a version of this before I went to the spa ladder. All in all, its not a perfect system but it gets sap from trees that otherwise would be more expensive to set up or not get at all.
@Sawyersmaple thank you very much.
@@Sawyersmaple Have you tried putting a check valve to help it from draining out and not freezing?
@@northernwoodsvlogs We have not tried a check valve. It will freeze anytime the temperature drops below freezing anyways. The only way to keep it from freezing would be to make sure its completely drained every day. Sap ladders make for an interesting solution but they come with their own set of problems.
@@northernwoodsvlogs Your welcome.
Yum! Now I want a stack of flap jacks
Flap jacks are really good with our maple syrup. We also recommend maple syrup in chili, on spaghetti, pizza, cooked carrots, vegetables and so much more. Thanks for watching!
That is cool!
It sure is. Thanks for watching.
I’ve seen some producers attach a 1/4hp motor or a cordless drill to the same setup.
Now that is a cool idea.. Thanks for watching.
Great ingenuity on making your own tool! My uncle used to make his own auto body tools. Anyone who can do that is ahead of the game! Thanks for sharing! Mill Gap Farms
Sure beats cutting thousands of drops by hand. Now that is pretty cool, not everyone can make their own tools. Thanks for watching.
Strange you don’t have more subs or likes you are very under rated keep doin what you do man good stuff 👍
Thank you. We just really got started on TH-cam last year.
Then you are Deffinitly on the up and coming because there were two of your videos in a row in my recomendations just keep cranking videos out regularly and you’ll get noticed by the TH-cam algorithm
@@wafflelife6028 You make maple syrup?
Hey! Nice new draw off tank on wheels!
Yes that has been a very nice upgrade this year. Thanks for watching.
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Looks fun to taste
Oh it was. Maple is one of the best flavors in the world. So many things you can do with it.
Solo thinks he’s funny
He is a typical cat, love to climb into boxes.
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I just can't help watch a maple farmer taste syrup....
It’s just sooo good. Besides what maple producer doesn’t like to taste maple syrup?
That is impressive. How many taps?
When this was taken we had 7000 taps.
You're going to love it. Saves a ton of time and worry!
it has been great to use. A learning curve for sure, but well with the investment.
Your wrong on the precision tapper. It makes a perfect hole every time. Started using it last year and production went up. While I know every year is different, it was absolutely a contributing factor. All holes are the same depth without any wobble. Ever dealers that make sugar are using it exclusively
I do not doubt that they make a good hole. I just think they are way over priced for what they do. We teach all our woods help the proper way to tap and do not have a problem with bad holes. Well unless we missed an old hole an tapped too close to it. lol But hey to each his own. How many trees do you tap?
@@Sawyersmaple 2600 taps. I had people help in the past. Leaky tap holes and at least 2 broke bits a year made me think about a change. Also I did have the drill almost go into my leg, if it had I would be here today, so I have other reasons also. There is a prototype of a different design that will be available i am guessing through leader. I saw a post on fb and it looks like it will be light
Southern Ohio, I'm pulling taps today. Reds are blooming, turtles on the logs in the lake and things are starting to get green. I should have tapped January 1st instead of February 5th, I still made sugar just not that much.
Boy your season ends pretty early compared to mine. But southern Ohio is rolling hills if i remember right. Our season will start around mid March and sometimes runs into the first week of May.
I have one I lift it 10 feet up over about 30 ft up another 10 ft then it travels all the way to my releaser. Same thing I would have 25 vacuum before the ladder and could only get 18 after it 'with all the leaks fixed drove me crazy for 2 days then a woodpecker pecked a hole in a drop line at the end of my main line I vacuumed shot up to 23. at the very end of my main line I put a saddle and about 3 ft of tubing on it I take my Sharp knife polk a couple pin holes in it I've got figured out how much air to let in so I can get 23 in on the lift side I found I get more vacuum if I let the air and at the very end of the mainline on the ladder side
we put small valves on the end of one mainline per sap ladder and the seams to be working well.
Recognizing you're documenting the process, I do think you could cut several minutes of snowmobiles idling...or maybe time lapse that portion? When you finally got into the woods, it was interesting.
Yeah I could have sped that up some.