"V Slash" Maple Tree Tapping

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hey it's mitch native survival tonight we're going to try a little experiment and try to tap a maple tree with a technique that the local natives or Indians used the v / okay so / number one so usually when I drill into a tree at go about a half inch this is about a quarter of an inch at its deepest so it's not quite as deep as i usually make that's a longer to longer wound so we're going to see if we can do half as much damage deep wise and it's about three times longer or wider than then a drill bit my drill bits about this wide so it's about three times wider than a drill bit but half is deep now this is something that they did for thousands and thousands and thousands of years and I've read that could see scars on the trees when neighbors were first seen like a Jacques Cartier 1500s things like that in southern Canada so it doesn't kill the tree which is key and because it really isn't that deep it it does heal itself okay so I'm going to do another one on the other side and I'm also going to clean up the inside angle in there so instead of being a V towards the middle I'm going to take this bottom angle and angle it like this so this way it's like a lip stop in the liquid from just dribbling out the side right here last thing I want is the liquid to come out right here just start coming down the sides so by making it more of a straight up and down almost on this outside lip it's going to help hold it in

all rights what I got comes down to a V right there

so I'm going to put a little wood chip right here because in the end the accounts historically that's what the natives used I took a little piece of wood shaving and stuck it in the tree right there so I'm going to try to create a little depression with my knife stick a little piece of wood in there we'll see how it works out this app is going to lie on the bottom and fall off slightly blunt so you should slightly sharp on the business end hopefully it's going to drip out the other end

it's not pretty good go all right there we go the fee / I put a little stick in there very very simple so we'll see how this works out and it would be excellent if this works because if it does will be much closer to self-reliance gathering maple syrup in the woods because I wouldn't be using a drill I want be using drill bits I wouldn't be using taps all i would need is my knife alright thanks for joining me tonight for another experiment and maple syrup self-reliance in this case I've taken all the apparatus out except for a knife using an Indian technique call the v / appreciate you view scum seen sport see you guys in the next one take care