I use mine daily!!! I can catch a swarm in mid air if I can get the bucket in the middle of the swarm with a little Swarm Commander. I can’t thank you enough for this idea!!!
Just the sound of the bees being so calm with the harmony of their buzzing put me to sleep while watching your video! This was absolutely awesome with your explanation of what you were doing and how it's supposed to be done! Great job, sir! Thank you!
What a wonderful tool for catching swarms! You could even use a larger mess trash bucket for larger swarms too! He should get someone to manufacture some and sell them! Thank you for making this video!
I just caught a swarm today using the same method but my bucket was on a swinging arm so that when it’s brought down to dump you can swing it like a pail. A fellow lady beekeeper welded the arm to fit around the bucket and a bit deeper than the 5 gallon bucket so that it could freely swing.
Finally- finally some ingenuity. I’ve been watching these bee removal videos for one week now, first person to utilize creativity. I think when e hit the limb, the bees dropped a small amount of distance. The mesh provides familiarity. They don’t even know what happened. As long as the queen stays in there he’s good to go.
Yay, I made one like this a couple of years ago and have saved me a lot of dangerous, sweaty climbing. Great tip from you is to keep the bucket up to attract all those bees scattered around after knocking the swarm down - I'll try that next time for sure, thanks! Greetings from Norway.
I thought this was great! I’m new to beekeeping and caught my first swarm last week. I didn’t know to put the Queen excluder on the bottom. Thanks for the information.
Thank you for this very helpful video. I just lost a swarm because it was too high up in the trees so I may have to get a bucket system as you demonstrated. Thank you very much for making this video.
Fascinating. I remember your video when you showed how this device was made. I immediately collected all the parts to put one together. I haven’t needed it yet but it’s ready for when I do. I’ve caught two swarms since that time but they were both on low branches. The first about a foot off the ground and the second about four feet. The second was just last Sunday. It was very cold and they spent Saturday night outside. I’m not sure if they will make it but at least I got them in a box before it started snowing Sunday night. Monday morning I put a feeder on them. Fingers crossed they will be okay. Time will tell.
I got down to the bee yard today. They have consumed half a quart of feed and they were bringing in full pollen baskets. I think they’re going to be fine.
Thanks for the big tip. I have 3 of those mesh trash can which I bought at Lowes for .50 each several yrs back. As for the pole I have several of them but I don't know where they are at.🙃👏🏽👏🏽👍🏼🍻✌🏽
I was a bit dubious at first but after seeing how good the bees were in your catcher i must admit its simplicity in design makes it truly genius. The bees dont get agrivated because they stay in a neat little ball. Have seen some bee keepers use a veiled straw hat on low hanging limbs in the past and that worked very well too so I should not have been a doubter. Sorry about that. Great video too. Thanks for sharing
I love the mesh garbage can idea but I don't think you need the paint roller section. Just fasten the pole directly to the side of the can (or bucket). This is what I do with my current bucket using some small ratchet straps and zip ties. It makes the reach a foot or two shorter and makes transporting a little more cumbersome, but the strength of the whole thing is way better.
Another option, you cut some holes in the top & bottom sides of the bucket, you can feed a hoop clamp through it, and just tighten the rod to the bucket with a screwdriver.
Thank you. This set up is a game changer for catching swarms. I have a subscriber that will stand in his be yard whil swarm is issueing and he stands pole up with swarm commander on can and swarms will settle on it. He has caught about 5 this way.
@randallcarter-carterhillho2277 so the swarm I caught and put in the hive left and went back into the tree. So I used this idea the next time. They are now safe and at my house. One question, it was easier to get them, but it was much harder to get them out. They clung to the mesh. Any suggestions?
Great catch. I have a 5 gallon bucket made the same way with parts of it cut out and i have screen around it. If you get them in the bucket the rest will fly to it. But I do like the one you have better. ❤️🐝
I made one using 2 pieces of pictures type, one lightly smaller than the other that telescopes. Bolted to a 5 gallon bucket but I really like the lighter weight mesh bucket. I'll be looking for one! Thanks.
Took your advise a while back and have the same setup. I've used it several times this year and it works great!!! The last extension is pretty useless unless working almost vertical. The leverage gets the best of you without some support as you said. Another great common sense video. Thanks Randall!!
I wish I had seen this a couple of weeks ago. Caught a swarm last week just outside my apiary. Took me half an hour to carefully cut the branches around the swarm and get them into the box while crawling under the hedgerow. Annoyingly, I have one of these waste bins in the shed and moved it to get the box. Just never thought to use it.
Hey man, a lot of good ideas here. One word of caution, if you are using a plastic outer cover, you might want to put the ratchet strap under it. I broke an outer cover before I realized this to be a problem. I strap the inner cover and carry the outer cover home separately (if it is plastic). Good video, thanks.
Great instructions…..I have never been able to find an equivalent wire mess basket like that….I’ve tried the internet….and even flea markets….but I’ve not found anyone that makes them anymore….
Excellent video. Discovered yours in searching for blue green horizons queen throne bucket for a new bee keeper. I do like you design. My question is why do you think there may be a virgin queen in that swarm. I thought conventional wisdom says the original queen leaves with the swarm. The queen excluder on the the bottom board is a trick I’d not heard of in my mere 12 years. I caught 3 swarms in one days but 2 left and I wish I had known of the queen excluder trick.
Goodday sir. You're opinion on a few aspects will be appreciated. 1. The queen excluder at the bottom. Is it to prevent the swarm leaving,because the queen can't get through? 2. I would have liked to see the broad you're using. I am of the opinion in an attempt to prevent pests I use wax foundation and then feeding the bees within the box to make up for the lack of broad. For this I use the " Genius lid" With this lid I can see the proceedings in the hive without opening it. 3. You take the hive away before dark. What about the bees returning from scouting to find nothing. Thanks for this demonstration. Cobus🐋
1. Yes 2. I am not sure what broad is. Please clarify. 3. Overall I find it best to move about 45 mins to an hour after swarm capture. Sure there will be 20-30 bees left but they will find a place to go. If I waited til dark to move it they would have oriented and worked about 7 hours that day and then the field force would want to go back to where I left the hive til dark.
Thanks for the response. By "broad" I am referring to the foundation you use and the comb build by other bees. 3. You're explanation makes sense. How for did you take the hive from where you caught it? If you take it a few kilometers away, then the bees will orientate again and stay there. If not far from where you caught it, then you are quite right. The way you handled the bees is an eye opener. I am from South Africa and I am sure the local swarms will not take this in their stride. Although swarming bees tend to be more docile. Stay safe,Cobus🐳
@@jljjoubert3611 3. I moved the colony about 30 meters. If I was going to move them more more than about 3 kiloneters away I would have waited til dark and moved them. I started years ago using wax doundations but I now use plastic for the durability and ease of assembly.
@@randallcarter-carterhillho2277 Think 'Broad' is a Spelling or Typo to mean : "Brood" ! Saw today's Q&A with Fred Dunn. . . He went to Kentuky to go to the NAHBE . . . And saw an Old Dude 'making' a Frame Clip to add to an extention Pole. Nice and Cheap and easy. A Commentator mentioned your Channel. . . Seeing the Bucket in action was Cool ! Sayong Hi from Scotland. 🏴 Enjoyed your Demonstration today. . . Thank You !😎
There where still bees coming into land as you walked away to show the camera, You have the Queen before 12 minutes for sure. That is way kinder and safer to catch the bees. Hardly any stress at all. My grandad uses Dark Brood Comb on a pole for high ups that he cannot reach. Your idea might even be better. I do a lot of swarm rescues so I am going to make one of these and compare it to some of our contraptions. The only thing I would do different is have that bucket on strong light weight tripod just for stability in difficult to reach places like if you had an angle to reach out etc Great video! and great job there.
Wow, that was a really interesting demonstration. I'm really interested to know why you were clearly sure the queen was mated? There must be some chance she was not the original mother queen from that colony off a prime swarm. Is there no chance it was a cast?
I had to rewatch video since it was over a year ago. In this case the swarm came from the colony i pointed out. Nothing is 100% in beekeeping but being the size if the swarm and it was wintered in that medium and deep that i believe i had rotated a few weeks earlier the odds of it being the queen from previous year is better than 95%. If it was an after swarm with a virgin queen it would have been much smaller.
what you've shared will make a real difference in peoples attempts to successfully mine for honey and remain respectful of the bees that make it...not to mention all the time saved . more time to spend enjoying the process and the product.. I buy my honey and I don't dance with bees but I appreciate you and frankly the bees here in southern California would too..I read lately they are starving and pissed off...the fancy flowers people are planting in the yards are primarily for adorment..and not nutritious enough to sustain a hive.. plus... it's not legal to keep bees in most the cities that allow you to water non native plants .. funny cause the golfers seem to stay liquidated.. and they all call the girls honey
That was a GREAT IDEA. Ya I can say I have never seen a swarm go to a bucket like that. Thank you very much for showing this. Are you getting a good flow yet this season??. THANKS
nice catch , good source of Re-USE and the Bees seem to like the way you caught them ! The march would tell me , The Queen is in the box . would you think those bee's are YOUR Bee's that decided to venture out ?
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I use mine daily!!! I can catch a swarm in mid air if I can get the bucket in the middle of the swarm with a little Swarm Commander. I can’t thank you enough for this idea!!!
Everyone talks to much, before the came to the important things youre tired of it all the things...
Great job on the Demonstration and Explaining as you go!! What a wonderful idea!! Thanks
Just the sound of the bees being so calm with the harmony of their buzzing put me to sleep while watching your video! This was absolutely awesome with your explanation of what you were doing and how it's supposed to be done! Great job, sir! Thank you!
Wow, a lot of great tips. Like the wire basket & telescoping pole. The queen excluder on bottom is a great idea too. Great video.
What a wonderful tool for catching swarms! You could even use a larger mess trash bucket for larger swarms too! He should get someone to manufacture some and sell them! Thank you for making this video!
Nice work! I'm a big fan of things that make work safer, and not having to climb a ladder for a high swarm is a major improvement!
Thank you
I just caught a swarm today using the same method but my bucket was on a swinging arm so that when it’s brought down to dump you can swing it like a pail. A fellow lady beekeeper welded the arm to fit around the bucket and a bit deeper than the 5 gallon bucket so that it could freely swing.
Great tip to reinforce the handle! I've had them break several times and have been contemplating a solution. Appreciate it!
What a cool idea! A little ingenuity goes a long way, eh? Love it!🐝
The use of the mesh bucket is clever, either by accident or design. Will make one for this season!
Finally- finally some ingenuity. I’ve been watching these bee removal videos for one week now, first person to utilize creativity. I think when e hit the limb, the bees dropped a small amount of distance. The mesh provides familiarity. They don’t even know what happened. As long as the queen stays in there he’s good to go.
I bet the mesh feels a bit like comb
Yay, I made one like this a couple of years ago and have saved me a lot of dangerous, sweaty climbing. Great tip from you is to keep the bucket up to attract all those bees scattered around after knocking the swarm down - I'll try that next time for sure, thanks!
Greetings from Norway.
Thank you and glad to hear from you.
I thought this was great! I’m new to beekeeping and caught my first swarm last week. I didn’t know to put the Queen excluder on the bottom. Thanks for the information.
This was my favorite thing I learned today. Thanks for posting!
Randall that was very well done.
Thank you to the person that came up with the basket concept.
This would have to be the best tip I have seen. Will get busy right away to build one. Thanks so much.
Thank you for the great video. I like your bucket idea.
Thank you for this very helpful video. I just lost a swarm because it was too high up in the trees so I may have to get a bucket system as you demonstrated. Thank you very much for making this video.
first part "yeah we get it." Once you started the demonstration it got better and the basket thing got was really good.
Great idea. Thanks for sharing this. Very good video.
Something I’ll be investing in.
Very useful equipment and information by the beekeeper ❤️
Awesome job explaining everything!
Fascinating. I remember your video when you showed how this device was made. I immediately collected all the parts to put one together. I haven’t needed it yet but it’s ready for when I do. I’ve caught two swarms since that time but they were both on low branches. The first about a foot off the ground and the second about four feet. The second was just last Sunday. It was very cold and they spent Saturday night outside. I’m not sure if they will make it but at least I got them in a box before it started snowing Sunday night. Monday morning I put a feeder on them. Fingers crossed they will be okay. Time will tell.
I got down to the bee yard today. They have consumed half a quart of feed and they were bringing in full pollen baskets. I think they’re going to be fine.
Thanks for the big tip. I have 3 of those mesh trash can which I bought at Lowes for .50 each several yrs back. As for the pole I have several of them but I don't know where they are at.🙃👏🏽👏🏽👍🏼🍻✌🏽
I was a bit dubious at first but after seeing how good the bees were in your catcher i must admit its simplicity in design makes it truly genius. The bees dont get agrivated because they stay in a neat little ball. Have seen some bee keepers use a veiled straw hat on low hanging limbs in the past and that worked very well too so I should not have been a doubter. Sorry about that. Great video too. Thanks for sharing
Thank you.
That works slick, thanks Randal for sharing your tips.👍I'll be making me one of those heading to Ace today.😁
Thanks so much for showing us your catching bee's. , I love your ideal using the can ... I'm headed to Big Lots 😮
New Subscriber Here! Thanks for sharing this awesome demonstration with us. Great idea using the basket & the telescopic pole. 🙌🏻👍🏻🐝🐝🐝🐝
You are welcome. Thank you for subscribing.
Love this! Such a great piece of ingenuity!
I love it!!!! Going to go buy the stuff to make one tomorrow. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing.
That sheds some light on bee thinking.
Randall. This is the most helpful video Ive watched in a long time. Im definitely going to make one of these. THANKS!
Great video Randell. Keep em coming!
This is awesome. Thanks for sharing! Headed to the hardware store now to build one!
I love the mesh garbage can idea but I don't think you need the paint roller section. Just fasten the pole directly to the side of the can (or bucket). This is what I do with my current bucket using some small ratchet straps and zip ties. It makes the reach a foot or two shorter and makes transporting a little more cumbersome, but the strength of the whole thing is way better.
Another option, you cut some holes in the top & bottom sides of the bucket, you can feed a hoop clamp through it, and just tighten the rod to the bucket with a screwdriver.
Great video. I've been wanting to change my bucket out with the basket for the last couple years but just haven't done it yet.
Now that is some kind of setup, wish I'd had that the other day I was trying to corral a swarm. Gonna have to make me one of those.
I wish I had found this yesterday! Broke my pole twice, trying to catch a swarm because of the weight of the bucket. Great video!
Thank you. This set up is a game changer for catching swarms. I have a subscriber that will stand in his be yard whil swarm is issueing and he stands pole up with swarm commander on can and swarms will settle on it. He has caught about 5 this way.
@@randallcarter-carterhillho2277 wow!
@randallcarter-carterhillho2277 so the swarm I caught and put in the hive left and went back into the tree. So I used this idea the next time. They are now safe and at my house. One question, it was easier to get them, but it was much harder to get them out. They clung to the mesh. Any suggestions?
Terrific tool. Thank you for the tip!
Thanks for posting. I think I'll give this idea a try.
Bag/Zip ties would work well to fasten the handle on... Great Video . Thanks.
I may have to try that! May have my first swarm tomorrow on the side of a shed
Great catch. I have a 5 gallon bucket made the same way with parts of it cut out and i have screen around it. If you get them in the bucket the rest will fly to it. But I do like the one you have better. ❤️🐝
Very helpful. I didn’t know this trick.
Bad Ass! Thanks! Im gonna make one these this weekend! Blessings! 💜💜💜🙏🙏🙏
So cool!! I am so glad I saw your video.
I made one using 2 pieces of pictures type, one lightly smaller than the other that telescopes. Bolted to a 5 gallon bucket but I really like the lighter weight mesh bucket. I'll be looking for one! Thanks.
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Wow! You can HEAR the difference as the bees returned to the bucket!
Great idea
All ideas as they come
Is always welcomed
Great demo!
Love it, Great idea. I Learned a lot, Thanks.
Great idea! Thanks for sharing the video
Took your advise a while back and have the same setup. I've used it several times this year and it works great!!! The last extension is pretty useless unless working almost vertical. The leverage gets the best of you without some support as you said. Another great common sense video. Thanks Randall!!
Genuis. Best video yet on catching swarms high in a tree.
Excellent, you are a benefactor!
Great video, we just invented our own swarm capture "milk carton on a stick" but it seems someone is steps ahead.
Great demo, thanks!
Coming back to congratulate you for the number of views. I knew this one was special!
Thank you.
I wish I had seen this a couple of weeks ago. Caught a swarm last week just outside my apiary. Took me half an hour to carefully cut the branches around the swarm and get them into the box while crawling under the hedgerow. Annoyingly, I have one of these waste bins in the shed and moved it to get the box. Just never thought to use it.
Amazing invention!
Your tool is genius!!!
Hey man, a lot of good ideas here. One word of caution, if you are using a plastic outer cover, you might want to put the ratchet strap under it. I broke an outer cover before I realized this to be a problem. I strap the inner cover and carry the outer cover home separately (if it is plastic). Good video, thanks.
Thank you. I have a few of those plastic covers.
Brilliant. Thanks for sharing.
Great instructions…..I have never been able to find an equivalent wire mess basket like that….I’ve tried the internet….and even flea markets….but I’ve not found anyone that makes them anymore….
They are on amazon. I just searched metal mesh garbage cans. I say some at menards last summer as well. They might not have them any more though.
Thank you.
@@randallcarter-carterhillho2277 I’ll check those out….I may have called them by the wrong name…..
@@apveening ….I will….Thank You….
The dollar store will have something close.
That bee on his head around 8:15 tickled me! 🤣
she was along for the ride for a few seconds.
Excellent video. Discovered yours in searching for blue green horizons queen throne bucket for a new bee keeper. I do like you design. My question is why do you think there may be a virgin queen in that swarm. I thought conventional wisdom says the original queen leaves with the swarm. The queen excluder on the the bottom board is a trick I’d not heard of in my mere 12 years. I caught 3 swarms in one days but 2 left and I wish I had known of the queen excluder trick.
The queen in this swarm was not a virgin. The same colony swarmed about 9 days later and I caught The swarm 30 feet up. It likely had a virgin queen.
Goodday sir. You're opinion on a few aspects will be appreciated.
1. The queen excluder at the bottom. Is it to prevent the swarm leaving,because the queen can't get
through?
2. I would have liked to see the broad you're using. I am of the opinion in an attempt to prevent pests
I use wax foundation and then feeding the bees within the box to make up for the lack of broad. For this I use the " Genius lid" With this lid I can see the proceedings in the hive without opening it.
3. You take the hive away before dark. What about the bees returning from scouting to find nothing.
Thanks for this demonstration. Cobus🐋
1. Yes 2. I am not sure what broad is. Please clarify. 3. Overall I find it best to move about 45 mins to an hour after swarm capture. Sure there will be 20-30 bees left but they will find a place to go. If I waited til dark to move it they would have oriented and worked about 7 hours that day and then the field force would want to go back to where I left the hive til dark.
Thanks for the response. By "broad" I am referring to the foundation you use and the comb build by other bees.
3. You're explanation makes sense. How for did you take the hive from where you caught it? If you take it a few kilometers
away, then the bees will orientate again and stay there. If not far from where you caught it, then you are quite right.
The way you handled the bees is an eye opener. I am from South Africa and I am sure the local swarms will not take this
in their stride. Although swarming bees tend to be more docile.
Stay safe,Cobus🐳
@@jljjoubert3611 3. I moved the colony about 30 meters. If I was going to move them more more than about 3 kiloneters away I would have waited til dark and moved them. I started years ago using wax doundations but I now use plastic for the durability and ease of assembly.
I am using wax foundations. Thanks for all the advice. Stay safe. Cobus🐳
@@randallcarter-carterhillho2277 Think 'Broad' is a Spelling or Typo to mean : "Brood" !
Saw today's Q&A with Fred Dunn. . . He went to Kentuky to go to the NAHBE . . . And saw an Old Dude 'making' a Frame Clip to add to an extention Pole. Nice and Cheap and easy.
A Commentator mentioned your Channel. . . Seeing the Bucket in action was Cool !
Sayong Hi from Scotland. 🏴
Enjoyed your Demonstration today. . . Thank You !😎
Great Idea thanks Randall
There where still bees coming into land as you walked away to show the camera, You have the Queen before 12 minutes for sure. That is way kinder and safer to catch the bees. Hardly any stress at all. My grandad uses Dark Brood Comb on a pole for high ups that he cannot reach. Your idea might even be better. I do a lot of swarm rescues so I am going to make one of these and compare it to some of our contraptions. The only thing I would do different is have that bucket on strong light weight tripod just for stability in difficult to reach places like if you had an angle to reach out etc Great video! and great job there.
Thank you.
Wow, that was a really interesting demonstration. I'm really interested to know why you were clearly sure the queen was mated? There must be some chance she was not the original mother queen from that colony off a prime swarm. Is there no chance it was a cast?
I had to rewatch video since it was over a year ago. In this case the swarm came from the colony i pointed out. Nothing is 100% in beekeeping but being the size if the swarm and it was wintered in that medium and deep that i believe i had rotated a few weeks earlier the odds of it being the queen from previous year is better than 95%. If it was an after swarm with a virgin queen it would have been much smaller.
Thanks, Randall!
what you've shared will make a real difference in peoples attempts to successfully mine for honey and remain respectful of the bees that make it...not to mention all the time saved .
more time to spend enjoying the process and the product..
I buy my honey and I don't dance with bees but I appreciate you and frankly the bees here in southern California would too..I read lately they are starving and pissed off...the fancy flowers people are planting in the yards are primarily for adorment..and not nutritious enough to sustain a hive..
plus...
it's not legal to keep bees in most the cities that allow you to water non native plants ..
funny cause the golfers seem to stay liquidated..
and they all call the girls honey
Thank you for the kind words.
Looks like a good technique. Where did you buy the pole?
Local hardware store in the paint section.
Very informative
Impressive for sure
Awesome! Thank you.
I just saw what you were talking about OMG!!!
That was a GREAT IDEA. Ya I can say I have never seen a swarm go to a bucket like that. Thank you very much for showing this. Are you getting a good flow yet this season??. THANKS
Nice!
Excellent!
nice catch , good source of Re-USE and the Bees seem to like the way you caught them ! The march would tell me , The Queen is in the box . would you think those bee's are YOUR Bee's that decided to venture out ?
Thank you. Yes, I pointed out the colony they came from.
Excellent. Thank you.
Randall is that bucket about the same size as a 5 gallon bucket?
It is slightly smaller. I would guess it would hold apx 3.5- 4 gallons. Search metal mesh garbage can on amazon and you should see them.
excellent
Where did you get the pole?
Home depot. Any hardware store should have them in paint section.
tanks
Great
From what I know the bees go to the queen so the queen is in there
Coooool 👊🏿
Nice
😍😍😍😍😍
awsome
I would have put the box on the trailer so it's higher............Z
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Wow. Thxs.
Brill. Im on it.
Look up a queen's throne....
No more plastic buckets for me
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Worth a look.