Congratulations on your honey harvest! Your extractor will be well worth the cost. My father had bees for nearly 60 years, he bought a used extractor to get started. That extractor lasted all those years! Sadly, he passed away in August, but my son has taken over his honey business.
Congrats on that wonderful harvest! You can also set your tools and extractor outside, away from the house, and let your bees do most of the cleaning for you first. That way none of the honey goes to waste. My beekeeping neighbor always let her bees help with the clean up.
All your efforts rewarded. Honey can disinfect wounds and promote healing. It's not just great for consumption. Pure honey is expensive. Your vet or community rescues might appreciate. Thanks for sharing.
What a wonderful addition to the homestead having the tools to help with the honey harvest! It was so satisfying watching the honey come out of the spicket! 🍯 Thanks for taking us along for the harvest.
Hi Todd & Rachel. How cool to get honey for harvest. The one thing you forgot Todd was to add Mike thebees. That would have calmed them down. But no, you heated the poor bee 🐝. That is never good. That makes them angry. Next time smoke the bee 🐝, it will calm them. God Bless the bee 🐝 and the honey. Stay healthy my friends. Mari'a. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝💙💙💙💙💙💙❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💙💙💙💙💙
When I had bees I had a larger extractor. Similar but larger. What my husband did was he built a platform (like a pallet with a solid top) to bolt the extractor to. We put the extractor near one side to be able to get a pail under the spigot for the honey. He also left an area under it spaced perfectly for using a hand truck to move it where I needed it. I washed it out in our yard so this way I could easily move it for that. Also the platform made it easy to stand on to keep the extractor from walking all over the place while spinning. Thanks for sharing it was so nice watching you doing this. I miss my bees so much.
Congratulations! 100 lbs of Honey from your very own Bees! That’s so awesome. Since Rachel is taking next year off from Gardening, how about a series on Bee keeping 101? Bee keeping is on our bucket list…but we starting a New Homestead, and chickens are first!
I would love a beginner's bee keeping series. I need the very basics. I don't even know where to start, but I've wanted bees for awhile now. There isn't anyone else I'd rather learn from than the two of you!
My sister is a beekeeper, and last year she supplied me with SO much honey (and, considering our consumption, it’s probably 5 years worth if not more).
We mounted our extractor to a piece of solid plywood...maybe 3 x 4 1/2 feet. The long side sticks out enough that we can stand on it when the extractor is really out of balance. It's easy to unbolt the extractor from the base/feet for cleaning and storage.
Never kept bees but once every few years when the old Tudor beams shifted through subsidence or uplift, we could place a glass bowl on the dining room sideboard to catch honey dripping through the ceiling. It bypassed the bedroom above. Must’ve crept down the inner walls from rafters then under floorboards. We had bats, too. Goodness knows whether it was contaminated! 😅
Congratulations on a great harvest!! I will say that Honey Bandit spray is great! All I did was took an extra inner cover and tacked on a piece of fleece to it that I spray the honey bandit on. It works GREAT!!
Oh and I wanted to say how much I enjoy your videos! I like how you live what you believe and aren't afraid to share your faith. Also as someone who's been canning approximately 40 years, I really appreciate how you can safely and don't put the wrong or dangerous information out there into the world wide web. I'm looking forward to watching next year when you take your 7th year of rest!
We also had a good year for honey here in IN. We too had some very aggressive bees this year. I think the bees were on there A game this year due to the farmers not having all the chemicals they normally have and spray. It's corn and soy fields all around us, and my goodness in years past it seemed like they were constantly spraying something. I think this is our 10th year as beekeepers and it has been our best year. Congrats on a successful harvest.
Try spinning the extractor frame holders manually before you turn on the motor. Most of the energy used is to start the spin from a stationary position. There will be less wear & tear on the motor if you help it start
Todd, get you a piece of plywood or advantech sub floor and make you a fume board. A piece of either board, cover with felt, and staple. Get a commercial spray bottle from lowes because honey bandit, honey b gone or any of them eat through the bottles they come in. Spray on the felt and let sit on hive for about 3-5 minutes. I hardly ever have to use the blower unless a huge hive. Congratulations to you both!
My husband is a beekeeper and he really like the heated knife for taking the caps off the comb. You will love your extractor. We had a hand crank one for years and now we have an electric one and it’s so much faster! Bees are the best ❤
Congratulations on your honey harvest, you and the bees make a great team! This was so interesting to me. I imagine it would have been quite sticky though. Warm soapy water and some towels were a good idea.
Loved today’s video and I can’t tell you how satisfying the sound of the roller makes when opening up the cells. Tod’s right everyone has to learn on the job, no one was born knowing how to do everything. A thing of beauty, liquid gold, you’ve earned every spoonful, enjoy.
How exciting! That honey is such a treasure. You can use honey almost any time a recipe calls for sugar. Thank you for sharing your honey harvest experience with us. It is very encouraging to those of us who would like to get in to beekeeping.
I can't believe how yellow that honey is! Such an amazing harvest! I wish I could do bees here but my city-boy hubby can barely tolerate chickens and a small garden.
It always feels so good to have a big harvest. We have been checking our hives and they are all so inconsistent this year for some reason. When we have tried to pull there is either to much uncapped or there is brood mixed in. We added our queen excluders for the brood problem so she stopped laying in those boxes but now they don't seem to be fanning as well so it can be capped and we are worried we won't be able to harvest. We are thinking we may just have to pull the boxes to get them down to 2 or 3 for winter and freeze the frames and give them back in spring....
Liquid gold. We have some beekeepers in our family, and I remember the Honey House was always very warm, so the honey flowed easier. Not sure how warm your garage was. Great honey haul!
Congrats, Rachel & Todd! I love to see care and hard work pay off. Rachel, the honey is a glorious gift idea. I've been on the receiving end of some excellent honey from a good friend. That extractor is so cool! Hope you're enjoying this Fall weather that came to us right on time today. Have a great evening! xoxo
Just bought a 3 frame hand crank extractor (yours is WAY nicer than mine...lol) - I was like you and did the scrape & strain before. I did buy some Honey Bandit - one of the beekeeper youtubers I follow said he liked that one the best as its not as stinky as some of the others. Great job on the harvest!!! I'm waiting for some yeast nutrient to get delivered today - and I'm gonna be starting a batch of mead this weekend!! I will toast to all the girls that made it possible with all their hard work! I'm happy next year I don't have to destroy all their wax when harvesting - so they will be able to make even MORE next year! ;)
The leaf blower is to aggressive if you give a frame a good quick shake over your box it usually gets most of the bees off and you can use a brush for any left set your clean frame in a transfer box the bees will be much happier.
Wow ! Bees are awesome ! I think I will never take honey for granted! The bees work so hard to make the honey ! I buy mine at the Amish store when we go ! Thanks for sharing !
Congratulations!! When I saw that leaf blower I was really worried about you all! Not a surprise the bees were upset. 😊 For sure, we all truly live and learn!! Thank you for sharing your roller tool. I think that will be one of my next purchases!
I'm in SC too been thinking about something on small scale gotta buy some local honey soon. Was in NY my sister's neighbor gave me qt it's look pretty solid but the honey I had there from him was best tasting I ever had. Who buy store bought after having real thing
Oh my goodness!! I think this is one of my favorite videos that you have done (well...of the ones I've watched so far!!)!! Congratulations on your liquid gold harvest!!! Thanks for sharing the process!
That was very exciting to watch All that honey 🍯 delicious Besides sharing it with family n friends Sell some get some rewards for the labor you both put in You both always put 100% in your homestead Thanks for sharing with us all
Rachel you look so cute going for a ride on the tractor 🤣😂😀 Don't eat it all Rachel 🤣🤣🤣 I know how you love honey, me too. I'm envious of you. Not sure if this is something I could try??? I love honey too
So exciting guys!!! Congrats on the amazing honey harvest. That's so much honey, can't wait to see what all you guys do with it. We hope to have bees once we get our larger property, so we definetely appreciate all the tutorials and info you guys put out!
My grandpa used to raise honey bees. He only had 2 hives, but it was so much fun to watch and learn the process. I was kind of nervous when you wanted to use the extractor with the lid off because the honey really does start to fly after a while lol. Are you planning on using the wax caps to make candles at all? I love to watch Jeff Hortchoff Bees. He removes hives from homes, trees, etc and brings them back to the Abbey to set up new hives. He has a team that he works with to extract the honey every season and he also has videos on straining off the wax and he makes big blocks of beeswax with it. Very fascinating process! Congratulations on your harvest this year!
Awesome video guys! I am definitely subscribing. I’ve always dreamed about being a beekeeper, but unfortunately I’m allergic to bees so buying honey is my only choice. I live in the country in the mountains, and there are many people that have bees out here, but not me lol
I have been learning about bees for some time now & am just about ready to get my first hive (Nuc). I am also researching here in Oz the Flow Hive which is quite remarkable - no extractor etc- take a look & see what you think. Fabulous amount of honey guys - but with Flow Hive there is NO CLEAN UP so that is a plus so far. Cheers Denise -Australia
@@1870s Oh !! What do you think of it in comparison to normal hive please. I respect your point of view & would appreciate some feed back if possible. Cheers Denise
That is so awesome I'm so happy for you guys I hope you much success I almost got into beekeeping and I explored what they call the flow Hive method because it seemed to be so easy but boy are they expensive they're called flow hives
I have been looking forward to this video for a while. Congrats. Isn’t it crazy how much honey you get out of a frame. I haven’t extracted mine yet…but hopefully in the next week or so. Great video🇨🇦🐝
Congratulations on your honey harvest! Your extractor will be well worth the cost. My father had bees for nearly 60 years, he bought a used extractor to get started. That extractor lasted all those years! Sadly, he passed away in August, but my son has taken over his honey business.
That's such pretty honey!Wax moths destroyed one of my hives while I was sick. It was full of honey,boohoo .
Sorry for your loss. I am always excited when I hear that a business stays in the family.
Congrats on that wonderful harvest! You can also set your tools and extractor outside, away from the house, and let your bees do most of the cleaning for you first. That way none of the honey goes to waste. My beekeeping neighbor always let her bees help with the clean up.
All your efforts rewarded.
Honey can disinfect wounds and promote healing. It's not just great for consumption.
Pure honey is expensive. Your vet or community rescues might appreciate.
Thanks for sharing.
What a wonderful addition to the homestead having the tools to help with the honey harvest! It was so satisfying watching the honey come out of the spicket! 🍯 Thanks for taking us along for the harvest.
Just so you know for the future, it’s spigot.
Hi Todd & Rachel. How cool to get honey for harvest. The one thing you forgot Todd was to add Mike thebees. That would have calmed them down. But no, you heated the poor bee 🐝. That is never good. That makes them angry. Next time smoke the bee 🐝, it will calm them. God Bless the bee 🐝 and the honey. Stay healthy my friends. Mari'a. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝💙💙💙💙💙💙❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💙💙💙💙💙
Little tip to get the most honey from your comb. Run the spinner in both directions. Once one way then the other
As a beekeeper myself, I can attest to the excitement of the first honey harvest. Congratulations on your honey success. 🐝🍯
When I had bees I had a larger extractor. Similar but larger. What my husband did was he built a platform (like a pallet with a solid top) to bolt the extractor to. We put the extractor near one side to be able to get a pail under the spigot for the honey. He also left an area under it spaced perfectly for using a hand truck to move it where I needed it. I washed it out in our yard so this way I could easily move it for that. Also the platform made it easy to stand on to keep the extractor from walking all over the place while spinning.
Thanks for sharing it was so nice watching you doing this. I miss my bees so much.
Congratulations! 100 lbs of Honey from your very own Bees! That’s so awesome. Since Rachel is taking next year off from Gardening, how about a series on Bee keeping 101? Bee keeping is on our bucket list…but we starting a New Homestead, and chickens are first!
good idea, I've done some bee videos in the past but they never really perform too well. i'll try a new approach
I would love a beginner's bee keeping series. I need the very basics. I don't even know where to start, but I've wanted bees for awhile now. There isn't anyone else I'd rather learn from than the two of you!
I concur! First year beekeeper and due to queen issues, could not extract this year. Enjoy your channel.
@@1870s I would love to see more bee keeping videos!
My sister is a beekeeper, and last year she supplied me with SO much honey (and, considering our consumption, it’s probably 5 years worth if not more).
We use a triangular escape board to get the bees out and it works!
Fellow beekeeper! This is how I found you guys!
We mounted our extractor to a piece of solid plywood...maybe 3 x 4 1/2 feet. The long side sticks out enough that we can stand on it when the extractor is really out of balance. It's easy to unbolt the extractor from the base/feet for cleaning and storage.
Never kept bees but once every few years when the old Tudor beams shifted through subsidence or uplift, we could place a glass bowl on the dining room sideboard to catch honey dripping through the ceiling. It bypassed the bedroom above. Must’ve crept down the inner walls from rafters then under floorboards. We had bats, too. Goodness knows whether it was contaminated! 😅
Congratulations on a great harvest!! I will say that Honey Bandit spray is great! All I did was took an extra inner cover and tacked on a piece of fleece to it that I spray the honey bandit on. It works GREAT!!
Oh and I wanted to say how much I enjoy your videos! I like how you live what you believe and aren't afraid to share your faith. Also as someone who's been canning approximately 40 years, I really appreciate how you can safely and don't put the wrong or dangerous information out there into the world wide web. I'm looking forward to watching next year when you take your 7th year of rest!
We also had a good year for honey here in IN. We too had some very aggressive bees this year. I think the bees were on there A game this year due to the farmers not having all the chemicals they normally have and spray. It's corn and soy fields all around us, and my goodness in years past it seemed like they were constantly spraying something. I think this is our 10th year as beekeepers and it has been our best year. Congrats on a successful harvest.
Lee Anne, it's nice to hear that the fields around you are being sprayed less!
That’s a lot of honey!! Wow!
Awesome harvest ...
“WOW “ wish I was with Todd & Rachel now 9-22-2022
Try spinning the extractor frame holders manually before you turn on the motor. Most of the energy used is to start the spin from a stationary position. There will be less wear & tear on the motor if you help it start
Just fabulous ,So fun to join you in the honey harvest . Looks like you'll be having honey for a good long time , congratulations ..
Smoking them works...used to love watching the honey be collected.
That's wonderful I'm sure will enjoy!! Take care and bee careful!! 😄 Janell
Todd, get you a piece of plywood or advantech sub floor and make you a fume board. A piece of either board, cover with felt, and staple. Get a commercial spray bottle from lowes because honey bandit, honey b gone or any of them eat through the bottles they come in. Spray on the felt and let sit on hive for about 3-5 minutes. I hardly ever have to use the blower unless a huge hive. Congratulations to you both!
My husband is a beekeeper and he really like the heated knife for taking the caps off the comb. You will love your extractor. We had a hand crank one for years and now we have an electric one and it’s so much faster! Bees are the best ❤
Congratulations on your honey harvest, you and the bees make a great team! This was so interesting to me. I imagine it would have been quite sticky though. Warm soapy water and some towels were a good idea.
That was exciting! Congrats on all the fresh honey!!!
Loved today’s video and I can’t tell you how satisfying the sound of the roller makes when opening up the cells. Tod’s right everyone has to learn on the job, no one was born knowing how to do everything. A thing of beauty, liquid gold, you’ve earned every spoonful, enjoy.
That's Liquid Gold right there congratulations on your honey harvest. Bees were doing there thing. Good for you guys
Such a cool video. A ton of work but 100+ lbs of honey, from your bees!!!! That’s just too cool! Great job you two!
How exciting! That honey is such a treasure. You can use honey almost any time a recipe calls for sugar.
Thank you for sharing your honey harvest experience with us. It is very encouraging to those of us who would like to get in to beekeeping.
Love honey. Fun to watch you extract the honey.that is gold! Expensive.
I can't believe how yellow that honey is! Such an amazing harvest! I wish I could do bees here but my city-boy hubby can barely tolerate chickens and a small garden.
Oooh that's a lot of honey! Pooh Bear will be very happy! ☺🐝
Congratulations! I could sense your pride.
I use to help my mom extract honey when I was little. Ours extractor wasn’t electric we took turns spinning it with a big handle on top. Good stuff
It always feels so good to have a big harvest. We have been checking our hives and they are all so inconsistent this year for some reason. When we have tried to pull there is either to much uncapped or there is brood mixed in. We added our queen excluders for the brood problem so she stopped laying in those boxes but now they don't seem to be fanning as well so it can be capped and we are worried we won't be able to harvest. We are thinking we may just have to pull the boxes to get them down to 2 or 3 for winter and freeze the frames and give them back in spring....
Liquid gold. We have some beekeepers in our family, and I remember the Honey House was always very warm, so the honey flowed easier. Not sure how warm your garage was. Great honey haul!
That was a sweet success with the honey haul
Congrats, Rachel & Todd! I love to see care and hard work pay off. Rachel, the honey is a glorious gift idea. I've been on the receiving end of some excellent honey from a good friend. That extractor is so cool! Hope you're enjoying this Fall weather that came to us right on time today. Have a great evening! xoxo
Just bought a 3 frame hand crank extractor (yours is WAY nicer than mine...lol) - I was like you and did the scrape & strain before. I did buy some Honey Bandit - one of the beekeeper youtubers I follow said he liked that one the best as its not as stinky as some of the others. Great job on the harvest!!! I'm waiting for some yeast nutrient to get delivered today - and I'm gonna be starting a batch of mead this weekend!! I will toast to all the girls that made it possible with all their hard work! I'm happy next year I don't have to destroy all their wax when harvesting - so they will be able to make even MORE next year! ;)
The leaf blower is to aggressive if you give a frame a good quick shake over your box it usually gets most of the bees off and you can use a brush for any left set your clean frame in a transfer box the bees will be much happier.
Wow ! Bees are awesome ! I think I will never take honey for granted! The bees work so hard to make the honey ! I buy mine at the Amish store when we go ! Thanks for sharing !
I’m so excited for you! It’s great that you planned your fields and crops in part for the bees.
Congratulations!! When I saw that leaf blower I was really worried about you all! Not a surprise the bees were upset. 😊 For sure, we all truly live and learn!! Thank you for sharing your roller tool. I think that will be one of my next purchases!
♥ amzn.to/3DM6zkg here's the one we got
@@1870sThank you! I will order it soon!
the advantage of using a knife to cut the caps off is all the frames will be much more even in wieght
What a wonderful machine. And so much honey!
my husband is a bee keeper here in SC, hard work he has a contractor that slings the honey out after he takes a hot knife to cut the caps off
I'm in SC too been thinking about something on small scale gotta buy some local honey soon. Was in NY my sister's neighbor gave me qt it's look pretty solid but the honey I had there from him was best tasting I ever had. Who buy store bought after having real thing
awesome!! your own honey
best thing ever
What a great harvest!! Thank you for sharing, love learning new things!!
Much love to you both from Mid Michigan ❤
Awesome tutorial. Thank you so much. Learned so much today.
Awesome. Very interesting. Thank you for taking us along
What satisfying work, it looks soooo good! 🌻🐝
So happy for you guys. You guys deserve it👍
What a beautiful harvest!
Oh my goodness!! I think this is one of my favorite videos that you have done (well...of the ones I've watched so far!!)!! Congratulations on your liquid gold harvest!!! Thanks for sharing the process!
Very nice. We always but local honey it’s got such good flavor.
What a fun and interesting clip! Thank you guys! Watching from Australia this Friday morning 🇦🇺
This was so fun to watch! There’s something about the sound that roller makes over the capped wax that was oddly satisfying 😅
Your honey is nice and clean compared to some of the others I’ve seen.
That was very exciting to watch
All that honey 🍯 delicious
Besides sharing it with family n friends
Sell some get some rewards for the labor you both put in
You both always put 100% in your homestead
Thanks for sharing with us all
Awesome harvest. Gorgeous honey..
Thanks for sharing this process
Rachel you look so cute going for a ride on the tractor 🤣😂😀
Don't eat it all Rachel 🤣🤣🤣 I know how you love honey, me too.
I'm envious of you. Not sure if this is something I could try??? I love honey too
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That's a lot of honey. Mom dropped off that lard yesterday. Thank you very much. I'm going to render some down in the smoker.
Hope you enjoy
Wow that is amazing your little worker bees really put out some liquid gold for you great job 👍 👏 👌
The honey is beautiful! I would have a hard time dealing with all the sticky, though.
Fantastic video folks!!
How exciting...congrats!
Really interesting process. Thank you!
So exciting guys!!! Congrats on the amazing honey harvest. That's so much honey, can't wait to see what all you guys do with it. We hope to have bees once we get our larger property, so we definetely appreciate all the tutorials and info you guys put out!
My grandpa used to raise honey bees. He only had 2 hives, but it was so much fun to watch and learn the process. I was kind of nervous when you wanted to use the extractor with the lid off because the honey really does start to fly after a while lol. Are you planning on using the wax caps to make candles at all? I love to watch Jeff Hortchoff Bees. He removes hives from homes, trees, etc and brings them back to the Abbey to set up new hives. He has a team that he works with to extract the honey every season and he also has videos on straining off the wax and he makes big blocks of beeswax with it. Very fascinating process! Congratulations on your harvest this year!
I'll be in North Carolina end of the month of October.
I have done it a lot of different ways keep it up.
How awesome!!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Wow what a harvest!
Awesome honey harvest.
Nicely done! Great harvest. Oh, how I covet 😂 ❤❤❤
Good job on honey.
Awesome video guys! I am definitely subscribing. I’ve always dreamed about being a beekeeper, but unfortunately I’m allergic to bees so buying honey is my only choice. I live in the country in the mountains, and there are many people that have bees out here, but not me lol
Wow, Awesome guys!
Wow! Exciting!
We keep bees. I can’t think of a better way to enrage bees than to use a leaf blower on them.
Wow this was really cool to see, thanks for sharing ♥️🙏🏼
If you use the "honey robber," make sure you grab yourself a "fume board" too 🐝👨🌾😉
How cool is that? SWEET! 🐝 🐝 🐝
Nice job u two!!! Great team!
Great job 👍
I have been learning about bees for some time now & am just about ready to get my first hive (Nuc). I am also researching here in Oz the Flow Hive which is quite remarkable - no extractor etc- take a look & see what you think. Fabulous amount of honey guys - but with Flow Hive there is NO CLEAN UP so that is a plus so far. Cheers Denise -Australia
we actually have a flow hive. it's still out on one of our colonies and is ready to harvest in the next week or so.
@@1870s Oh !! What do you think of it in comparison to normal hive please. I respect your point of view & would appreciate some feed back if possible. Cheers Denise
Pretty Honey!
Michigan Garden Girl
great honey harvest
So very neat!! 🐝🐝 🍯
Great job!! I love honey! 🤗🙏👵
Wow! That is awesome! 🐝
I noticed that roller gets sticky after several minutes and pulled off pieces. Clean it like every 3-5 minutes with warm soapy water worked
That is so awesome I'm so happy for you guys I hope you much success I almost got into beekeeping and I explored what they call the flow Hive method because it seemed to be so easy but boy are they expensive they're called flow hives
Sweet treat? Baklava…yum!😂
Neat to watch how this i done
I have been looking forward to this video for a while. Congrats. Isn’t it crazy how much honey you get out of a frame. I haven’t extracted mine yet…but hopefully in the next week or so. Great video🇨🇦🐝