At the farm store I run, we sell tank de-icers. These might help get sap warmer before pouring in your boiling pans. Might cut down time you spend boiling.
A few tips for this season 🤩 #1 You can toss the ice. It has almost no sugar content as the concentrated sugar is the last to freeze. It’ll save boil time. #2 find a stock pot and put a bulkhead fitting and ball valve near the bottom and use it to slowly feed your pan instead of shocking the boil with large amounts of cold sap. Try to match the inflow rate to the boil off rate and you’ll stay boiling the whole time. Just feed the stock pot with your bulk sap. it’ll evaporate much more efficiently! Great job guys! Sugaring It’s an addiction for sure 😂
Maybe you can look into a homemade revers osmosis system. It would eliminate approx 3/4 of the water from your sap and of course the boil time and fuel for the fire.
@@living.different ahh yes, now that rings a bell. Otherwise I would assume you would have them all on the ground. What's confusing though is, I assume you could off made your taps much lower for that reason. Anyhow, everyone does their own thing. Boiling will be next. 🙂
Can’t believe just how much sap you have collected! ❤
It’s flowing like crazy this season!
At the farm store I run, we sell tank de-icers. These might help get sap warmer before pouring in your boiling pans. Might cut down time you spend boiling.
A few tips for this season 🤩 #1 You can toss the ice. It has almost no sugar content as the concentrated sugar is the last to freeze. It’ll save boil time. #2 find a stock pot and put a bulkhead fitting and ball valve near the bottom and use it to slowly feed your pan instead of shocking the boil with large amounts of cold sap. Try to match the inflow rate to the boil off rate and you’ll stay boiling the whole time. Just feed the stock pot with your bulk sap. it’ll evaporate much more efficiently! Great job guys! Sugaring It’s an addiction for sure 😂
Thanks for sharing!!
that's amazing I am looking forward to supporting you and your family during this sap season.
Thank you! Be sure to check our website in the coming weeks for the syrup!
Maybe you can look into a homemade revers osmosis system. It would eliminate approx 3/4 of the water from your sap and of course the boil time and fuel for the fire.
Something to look into! 🍁
Looks a little more like Spring than last video. Have fun with it!
The weather is warming up! 🍁
Awesome jobs--both your sap handling and video coverage !
Thanks! 🍁
Wow guys, great job on the Maple syrup!🙌🙌
Thanks so much!
Evenin folks! 🖐😎👍
Howdy!
I think you guys need about75 taps lol ,love these videos and your enthusiasm with the syrup making ,
I’d love 100 taps! Haha 🍁
Good job! Nice video
Thanks for watching!
🥞🥞~tyfs~!🥞🥞
in the fall do you mark all your sugar maples they are the ones with the red leafs. they produce more sugar.
Yes we marked them in the fall this time
I don't know anything about tapping trees . The ice that is in some of the buckets is that pure water ? Great video's
People say that but when it’s cold out , the whole thing freezes. We’ve had buckets of sap frozen sold on the tree
Thank you I was just wondering @@living.different
I hope the ground underneath you blocks don't settle more on one side and cause your barrels of sap to tip over
we’ll adjust if we need to!
Oh my that is a lot!!! and 4 days in too! Have you guys taken a guess as to how much you think you will get in total?
Roughly 2000L we think!
a piece of plastic and a bungy cord on top of barrels will keep rain and dirt out until u boil thanks all looks good
Good idea!
The boil is gonna be a long time with that load
We will do 2 boils 🍁
all i can say is brrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Definitely chilly out that day!
plywood and concrete block will keep dirt and critters out
Thanks for watching!
I'm sorry I can't remember where you're at. Are you in the NE United States or Canada?
We’re in Canada
@@living.different Sound American lol, speak any french ?
@@bennym1956 my kids are fluent. I am not haha
Why do you hang some buckets and some you put on the ground?
In the previous video , we mentioned that we ran out of tubing and had to cut some in half which made them too short to reach the ground
@@living.different ahh yes, now that rings a bell.
Otherwise I would assume you would have them all on the ground.
What's confusing though is, I assume you could off made your taps much lower for that reason.
Anyhow, everyone does their own thing. Boiling will be next. 🙂
@@pasha_kasha taps need to be 2-3 feet off the ground 🍁
@@living.different you live... you learn. Best of luck to you guys
P.S. i've also wrote to you guys on patreon, if you even get to it.
I'm I able to purchase some of your maple syrup?
It will be available on our website after we’ve boiled 🍁 the website will be live next week
I was born in Bancroft if you know were that is in Ontario
@@jeremyprice255 I went to elementary school there haha
that's awesome watching your videos brings me back there everytime thanks for sharing 👍