The power of winter browse

[bucksnbears]

Just cut up a few boxelder trees in the yard. Tops were loaded with buds so I dragged them over to the bird feeder.
Guessing deer will be on them this evening?

Pic is from my back window.

 

[guywhofishes]

Boxelders or "Manitoba Maple" are a weak messy misshapen mess of a tree. But they're prolific as all get out.

AND you can tap boxelders for sap/syrup. Tastes like cotton candy to me.
But sugar content of the sap is kinda low, so be ready to boil a lot.

I'll be tapping the big hybrid maples in our yard tomorrow - it's looking like good sap flow in the forecast (freezing nights and thawing days).

 

[Lycanthrope]

Boxelders or "Manitoba Maple" are a weak messy misshapen mess of a tree. But they're prolific as all get out.

AND you can tap boxelders for sap/syrup. Tastes like cotton candy to me.
But sugar content of the sap is kinda low, so be ready to boil a lot.

I'll be tapping the big hybrid maples in our yard tomorrow - it's looking like good sap flow in the forecast (freezing nights and thawing days).

Ever try using RO to concentrate the sap?

 

[KDM]

Hinge cut a young tree and you basically have a natural bait pile. Timing is critical, but late season in a year with a foot of snow, a hinge cut tree is, IMO, often better than any corn pile ever dumped. Set up a trail cam. Could be interesting. Share the pics if you've a mind. I'd like to see how it works on the MN side, where you have more trees.

 

[bucksnbears]

Kirk, will post pics when the deer come.

As for hinge cutting, I've done that to 100s of trees however not for browse purpose (regrowth ) but for horizontal bedding cover.