A number of our neighbors tap maple trees to make maple syrup, here is a video about using sap buckets and taps.
Learn how to identify Sugar Maples trees, make sure you are tapping the right kind of maple trees with this neat tree identification book, Bark. The great thing about this book is that its based on bark identification, not leaf identification, because when you think about tapping trees, there aren't any leaves on the trees, you know..
Here is the tree identification book we like to use:
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Ken
In the meat loaf video, your dad was saving egg shells. Your lady there would appreciate them as her chickiens need calcium to produce eggs and this is a very old practice to recycle the egg shellls back to the chickens. Rinse the egg shells and dry before putting back in the egg cartoons.