Making Maple Syrup on a Campfire Part 2

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alright so just came back out here it's night time to finish up this maple syrup I got to say it really can't be a better night for it it's really just felt like a special night this whole time there's just fat drops of rain falling really random I'm sure you can hear them there's a squirrel a grey squirrel and the tree right above me I flustered it when I first actually wasn't when I first came in when I first lit up my lantern got a really bright all of a sudden it went crazy and knock some some stuff down next to me and you know so I woke him up and there's an owl behind me hooting and hollering which is great and it's really little fog tonight I mean really little fog it says it's a fog going through the woods so I really love the atmosphere tonight you know get the raindrops the owl squirrel fog you know let's finish up the sir you

oh it's delicious that stuff is money right there you go touch further just to really kick up that sugar content it's already super super sweet though looking real good my taste this oh yeah yep we thought about it with that that is beautiful right there oh man I'm gonna pull this pull this off the fire absolutely amazing all right but a metal spoon out here show you guys to call look at that oh man oh boy sweet golden amber right there I gotta taste this ever so gentle I'm gonna spill even a drop oh wow that's the stuff right there yes oh yes oh yes what come on oh boy mmm-hmm that's what I'm talking about he knows it too oh man oh boy mm-hmm mm-hmm all right sighs you can hear my bird friends are coming out and singing dawn is approaching how cool is that right I just made our first batch of maple syrup on a campfire and dawn is approaching the birds are out the world is coming alive very very cool so let's just discuss the significance of what we just achieved we just literally made liquid sugar in the woods I can't fire you know I collected this SAP this is a SAP I collected you know guys saw all that footage and I end up locked in like eight gallons there's only two harvests worth and I only had like maybe seven trees taps that's it you know so I pull that down and i have about well i guess maybe let me check the file maybe 10 ounces eight ounces something like that I'm not sure to be exact but really doesn't matter because i lost like 15 ounces because I spilled it you know it was propped up on a couple sticks in the fire and they were green but one of them burnt away and broke off and tumblin it went so I lost half half my syrup on that happen but hey it happens right no big deal okay so we just made liquid sugar in the woods from the SAP that we collected not too far from here I mean I can see some of the trees from here and I used a drill and taps for some I also experimented with some other techniques where I took the tap out and I used a twig as the tap that was a success and then I also want to step further only use my knife and nothing else and I made a V / in the tree to collect sap and I got a good amount I mean I filled up my bowl like at least halfway I wouldn't bull so it's very possible to collect maple sap without the drills and without the taps I mean it's a no-brainer I mean people have done it for thousands of thousands of years you know the qur'an's the here ons i believe were the first to be to be documented as doing which is cool because i'm here on it was in the blue the st. Lawrence River area of Southeast Canada and it was jux Katya and it was early I mean it was like fifteen hundreds early you know it was cool actually ended up running into one of his ancestors reason recently I was talking about my my maple sap experiments and I was gonna be making you over fire and all that and so I was mentioning about the her arms and jock Scotty air and I'm gonna find out he was actually one of his ancestors and he was super proud of it too was really cool we had a nice little chat very nice guy so anyways um back to the sugar so like our ancestors I collected SAP and we started boiling it down you know I chose a metal pot because this is my first time doing it over a campfire and I didn't want to go the full primitive route just yet and do it by you know rocks and things like that I definitely plan on it though especially after now that I got my feet wet in a way morning dove this is super huge because you know we collected SAP we boiled it down and now we have some amazing liquid sugar we just made syrup you know out of a material that was in the woods that was not surfing in with it was just it was like water you know nice crew over there yeah so by boiling it down i created something far more valuable you know this is sweet and delicious and it's liquid sugar which is huge now I've also already taken some syrup and i boiled it down further all the way down to sugar so that's huge because we've literally created sugar in the woods every step of the way you know talk about a long term thriving skill now making sugar incredibly huge yeah sugar is such a huge part of our diet all the time you know when I drink coffee it's in my coffee one drink tea to my teats and everything we eat practically every drink all the time it's in tons of foods you know just you know everything almost that you can imagine in your house has sugar in it it's how that's just how it is so you know we've gotten accustomed to it but I tell you what if you go camping for four or five days or even longer I'm gone camping for a couple weeks and I ran out of sugar I noticed you know any mean sugar is a great pick me up man you know it really makes me feel good it puts a bounce-back any step having the ability to make syrup and to make sugar it's really a key component to actual living and thriving in the woods you know just far more important than just than just surviving right because who wants to just survive right yeah you want to enjoy life you don't want to just be able to get by Billy and scrape by yeah what makes life good is these above and beyond things you know what I mean yeah like sugar like having salt but he's above and beyond things that would become accustomed to ok so to round it all up we made liquid sugar and the form of syrup super awesome super pumped super excited the birds are out I got crows around me and mourning doves and a gray squirrel above me I'll be licking his lips looking at my syrup so super excited officially made maple syrup liquid sugar on a campfire in the woods from SAP that I collected with very minimal kit I just used my pot but I keep in my rucksack all the time no big deal he's been Mr native survival appreciate views your comments in support see you guys the next one take care