Second rendering of beeswax and update on recent hive removal.
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Because I had just done a second rendering of a few batches of wax, I decided to add to this video what those renderings looked like, and they were beautiful. However, the main focus of this video is an update on a hive removal Charlie and I had done 4 weeks prior. I get a lot of requests about doing updates but I never seem to get around to them, but because I was feeding these girls so much and I was very curious myself, I did the video.
For those who missed the video on the removal, that link is below, and for those who missed the video on the wax rendering, that video link is listed below as well. Thanks for watching. God's peace to all. Mr. Ed
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This man has the most joyful heart about his work as anyone I've ever seen.
Thank you so much for your kind words and taking the time to watch the video. Also, I hope you will check out more of my over 450 bee wrangling/ bee rescue adventure videos and let me know what you think of them. By the way, I post a new video almost every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace Nate.
Mr. Ed
The only thing more awesome than your enthusiasm for your bees is your smile. I am sure the bees thank Jesus they have you looking after them.
I can’t believe how smooth the blocks of wax are! You did an amazing job rendering these once again. Your videos are so chill and calming and absolutely the best ever.
Awesome.
I was expecting "SNAKES". LOL
Wow that bright white bee suit is blinding us!!!!😋
Don't worry, you won't need the sunglasses for long, in no time at all it will look like my old one. Sorry for the pain your eyes may have suffered, and thanks for watching. God's peace brother.
Mr. Ed
@@JeffHorchoff fortunately the automatic brightness control on our television dimmed it as best it could. But your aura shined through thank you thank you very much brother. Bless you too!
For a guy that is allergic to bee stings I am fascinated at what you do. Beautiful job and God bless you.♥️👍🏼
Those have to be some of the most relaxed bees I have ever seen. From what I understand, that queen is fantastic.
It is going to be very interesting to find out how these bees will do in the spring. Who knows, another update may be forth coming. Thanks for watching, and I hope you will check out more of my over 450 bee wrangling/ bee rescue adventure videos and let me know what you think of them. By the way, I post a new video almost every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace Alexander.
Mr. Ed
@@JeffHorchoff I've been watching for years. You, DirtRooster, Yappy, some that I have not just watched this morning so they are not fresh in my mind but they are still great. Thanks for doing good work Mr. Ed. (My favorite hive is the 'spring loaded' hive. They are just so energetic, and they get such a reaction out of the tour guests.)
Mr Ed them Bees wax came out goods👍👍👍
Awesome update Mr Ed, loving the new clean white bee jacket
Bee-ing (heyo!) someone who doesn't keep bees nor knows anything of what goes into it, those blocks of wax are beautiful! Makes me want to join your profession! seems therapeutic and productive!
Holy BEEswax , BEEautiful , looks like blocks of cheese ! 🐝🐝🐝
I love your videos! The adventure of rendering the wax is very interesting and calming to me! 😊
Love these…I like to see all the gunk getting scraped off the wax when it cools…thanks for sharing
Whenever I’m feeling a little down, I just come to your channel. Your videos are really fun to watch, not only because they’re really interesting and satisfying, but also because I just love how positive you are. That really inspires me to always smile and enjoy the little things in life.
I hope you have a great week, God bless
I just learn so so much from every single upload you make! I hope you never stop, I am fascinated! And your videos are so soothing as well. Exactly what I need after a long week.
Your latest wax rendering got me motivated to finally use my candle molds - first pair turned out perfect!
AWESOME! Great work Nancy. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
Always fun to watch your videos and hear your excitement and passion in your voice. It is contagious. Thanks for the time and effort making these videos
I absolutely love the bee wax rendering videos!
Send some of that rain north Mr Ed. Man those are some serious chunks of wax. You should put a cotton rope in one of those buckets next time and make a giant candle. lol. Cool hive tours of your two hives there. Lots of good work around the stainless palace. Thanks for the video!
Another great video. Tku Mr. Ed
Always enjoy your videos.
I have hives to move and it’s been hot.
Moving hives is hard enough work as it is, the hot weather only adds to the misery, sorry about that Bob. It seems a beekeepers work is never finished. God's peace brother.
Mr. Ed
@@JeffHorchoff It was brutal, but I got it done. Our hot, dry weather took its toll on the bees and myself.
thank you for sharing that experience
I'm dying to smell that fresh beeswax
Much appreciative for your love.
Mr. Ed, when I look at dark clouds, I can always tell when it’s fixin’ to rain or storm. In Pennsylvania, where I come from, thunderstorms, often referred to as thunderheads and thundershowers, and severe thunderstorms, commonly referred to as severe thunderheads severe thundershowers, and on rare occasions supercells, are common occurrences in hot weather, but because I’m a gardener and a God loving Christian man, I believe that God brings the rain. And in my belief, the tornado I witnessed in 2017 was God’s way of sending a warning to my community that a tornado can spin up anywhere. As for bees, I’m fond of them. I’m not afraid. But when it comes to wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets, I stay away from them. I know they’re aggressive. My dad got stung by a yellow jacket.
It's ALL grace, and everything is given from the hand of God. I love bees, but wasps just have to go. Thanks for watching, and I hope you will check out more of my bee wrangling/ bee rescues adventures and let me know what you think of them. By the way, I post a new video every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace brother.
Mr. Ed
Hi Mr. ED is that Big Day Coming Soon., Thanks For the share 8-26-2022😊
September the 30th....I can hardly wait. God's peace Marilyn.
Mr. Ed
the exitement, the happynes, its contagious
Thank you so much for your kind words and for watching, it is greatly appreciated. Also, I hope you will check out more of my over 450 bee wrangling/ bee rescue adventure videos and let me know what you think of them. By the way, I post a new video almost every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
I really appreciate the time you take to explain your thoughts and what you're doing and why. Thank you for the education Mr. Ed.
Thanks for following up on those bees. Most interesting.
The Canadian beekeeper keeps a few hives next to his honey house just for 'lost' bees to join. There is lots of 'clean-up' stores around and if they come bearing food, they are usually welcomed.
I agree with his practice as I do the exact same thing here. It's also why each year I catch several swarms on my back porch.Thanks so much for taking the time to watch the video, I appreciate it tremendously. Also, in case you did not know, I post a new video every Friday, and I would hope you could check some of those out or a few of the 500 that I have already posted. Until the next one, God's peace George.
Mr. Ed
I loved all that wax. Great job.
Gorgeous beeswax...makes me happy just looking at it!
Nice blocks of wax. It is so clean and I’m sure it smells great. It is amazing how well these hives recover and expand. Thanks for the video. God bless.
Great video! LOVE the energy you bring to everything you do.
good morning mr ed
Good Morning Mr. Ed !!!
Very nice video, Mr Ed. I've trapped robbers just like you did, and it works! I had 3 frames and filled up an 8-frame box with robbers last time. Was mad at the robbers at first, thinking the split was a goner, but the queen's smell did it's thing, and it turned into a great box of bees. Thanks for the video
Excellent and Informative work👍👍👍. Thank you for sharing. Take care of yourself, be safe, and healthy 🇨🇦
Looking good Mr. Ed!!!
One of the Rockstars in the beekeeping world! Best regards!
Thank you Jeff
Great story!
Never gets boring love the bees,everything reuseable. Green bees?
Nice video Mr. Ed1😊
Stroong in the Brethren!
I love the wax even way more than I love honey. 💛💛💛💛💛💛🍯🕯
You did GOOD with the rendered wax but you missed a prime opportunity for another 'Observation Hive' deal, even though I saw that the hive you were dealing with was smaller than the jumping out job. I guess it was easier for the robber bees to switch than to fight, coining an old commercial for cancer sticks. HAPPY WEEKEND for you and Mona and Gods Blessings all over yall!
I was thinking about you the whole time I was talking about the robber bees, and I thought I did miss the perfect opportunity for the observation hive. I hope you saw I put your name in the video. Don't you worry, the observation hive will be making a cameo appearance very soon. Thank you for your blessings and for watching. God's peace brother.
Mr. Ed
@@JeffHorchoff I saw and got a good laugh out of it. Yes, don't let the surprise hive get moldy! God Bless Yall! Hi to Charlie and Ralph too!
Beautiful wax! Glad the bees are doing well and working hard on attaching the comb to the frames. 👍😊💕
I always learn so much from your videos. Thank you!
Another great video. You explain very clearly. Thanks!
That is amazing that the robber bees became hive bees! Guess the girls decided to get along❤️
Beautiful blocks of wax you have made :). Love your videos, you make it look easy. Thanks for sharing and letting me tag along :)
Your storms are the same ones that have been passing over Nevada a few days before getting to you. We've gotten the most rain during our monsoons this year than we have in the last 10.
I'm not complaining, I'd like for a solid month of rain, we need it.
Do much of the west is in desperate need of rain, I'm glad it's happening. God's peace brother.
Mr. Ed
OH how beautiful!!!!!!!
Thanks!
Love you LD, thank you so much! God's peace sister.
Mr. Ed
I am off in Hawaii now Mr. Ed! Sharing the rain with you it seems. Enjoyed seeing what you've been up to!
Have a great time out there and while you are there, try some of the macadamia honey, it's awesome. Safe travels and God's peace Ben.
Mr. Ed
Great video Jeff!
goood morning mr ed, i can only imagine the smell of the beeswax. glad to see the tht box of bees is doing ok .. n tht swarm wow wee lovely hidden gem
Mr. Ed!!! It missed the opportunity to send you a *Happy Honey Bee Day* message on 08/20. 🐝🐝 Happy belated though! Good to see you and I'll make sure I donate to your channel. That beeswax is amazing! Of course, I like the 22 lb. block.
Happy belated Honey Bee Day to you as well, Thank you so much for your support. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
Jeff, lots of great info about your work!
I missed you at the Holy Rosary reunion
I'm so sorry I missed the reunion but a small emergence popped up the day before that required me being elsewhere. All is good now though. Happy to have you following along Eric. God's peace brother.
Mr. Ed
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That would make one bigggg candle..
Don't know when you made this video, but since you posted it today I am hoping all your hives are out of the flood zone with what it looks like folks in your area are getting weather wise. Looked like Jackson and several other areas are flooding and I remember your story about the early days losing a lot of hives to a flood. Fingers crossed for your successes. Sweet trick on those robber to hive bees.
Our area missed the heavy rains, but north of us were not so lucky. Please say a prayer for all who suffered during this event. God's peace Mark.
Mr. Ed
It’s like at a convenience store when they lock the door and make the thief wait inside for the police to arrive.
Awesome to see you still going strong here brother keep spreading the love godbless
If you cook your wax in a paint strainer held on the bottom clean up is so much easier
I don't use a paint strainer, I use 1/8th inch hardware cloth. It works great, but I still have to do a second rendering. God's peace Nick.
Mr. Ed
Hi Jeff
When you give the bees some ugly comb, I like to say that the bees will make a silk purse out of a sows ear. Amazing....
Mr Ed. Your wax …………it’s……….soooooooooo…..sexy. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Every time I saw a hive beetle I wanted to reach in and squash it.
I feel the same way. Very often Charlie will tell me to stop killing them so we can get on with our work. God's peace Angela.
Mr. Ed
Being driven by pheromones as they , the enforced proximity to another Queens pheromone will become an attractant impossible to resist . Unless they can begin a mutiny and ball the extant Queen in preparation of Absconding . Not likely but a definite possibility .
I was happily surprised to see the robbers become hive bees. From now on, when a hive is being robbed out and I catch it quick enough, I'm keeping them locked up for 3 days. God's peace William.
Mr. Ed
great vid Ed, God bless
please make a vid talking about pollen and providing it for the bees and what areas can sustain a colony with no external pollen added, and what this means for the bee industry. ty
I wish I knew more about feeding bees pollen, but because I rarely do it, except in December I put out a big feeder, I do not feed our bees. Thanks for your blessings and for watching. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
Good morning. Love watching your TH-cam. Very knowledgeable. I have a couple of questions I hope you answer.
How do you know when you have fed them enough honey?
How and when did you get started being a bee keeper?
How are you associated with the Abbey?
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and for answering my questions.
1. I will feed them till the box weighs about 60 pounds. At that point they will have enough honey stores to make it through the winter.
2. I got my first bees back in 1978 after a fellow I worked with told me all about them.
3.I am simply a volunteer, but I do have a bit of say in matters of the bees as I am the one running the program.
You are very welcome, and thank you for asking and for watching. Until the next time, God's peace Teresa.
Mr. Ed
nice wax.. can we see another Brother Austin video?
You may be getting one very soon, he asked me yesterday they need more wax as the orders for the lotion bars are pouring in. God's peace brother.
Mr. Ed
Jeff you have to be most up beat bee keeper of all time. Do you get paid or do you do this for the Abbey out of the goodness of your heart
I am only a volunteer here at the abbey, and the work I do for the monks is an investment for my final destination.....hopefully. Thank you for your kind words and for watching. God's peace James.
Mr. Ed
do you use hive beetle traps. If no, why? If you do what kind. Always looking for your next Vido. GOD BLESS
At one time I did use beetle traps, but I found them to be difficult when gong through a hive. After a few years I stopped using them all together and just let the bees handle the beetles. It works for me. Thank you for your blessings and for watching. God's peace Jake.
Mr. Ed
You are allergic to bees? We just found out that my wife is allergic the hard way on Friday. Kind of scary, but she's getting better. I have to get all my hives away from our home now. I was wondering why you were fully suited up, but now it makes sense. Please be safe!
What a terrible way to discover you are allergic, I hope she is doing well. And sorry to hear the bees have to find a new spot to call home, but it has to be done. You be safe as well. God's peace brother.
Mr. Ed
Hey Jeff! Do you watch Canadian Beekeeper? He puts his boxes in a warehouse during the winter. When he took them out this year they had two big snows followed by two floods. It’s amazing how he and his bees recovered from that! Love your videos.
I do follow Ian, an amazing beekeeper. Thanks for watching. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
Hi Mr. Ed, long time watcher here with a practical question:
Have/do you coat the inside of the rubber band frames with wax to encourage the bees to build or does that seem like more work than is necessary?
Either way I hope that you have a great day and God bless from Regina, Saskatchewan in Canada
Thank you so much for your blessings, and for being a long time viewer, it is greatly appreciated. I do not coat the frames as the bees will do that all by themselves as they attach the comb and build more. God's peace Regina.
Mr. Ed
Do you put a spacer between the honey jar and the opening for air flow and the bees can come and go.
No spacer at all. I use an inner cover and simply place the jar over the hole in the cover. The only way bees can feed on the honey is from the hive. Thanks for watching. God's peace James.
Mr. Ed
Please do a video of how you prepare your bees for winter.
As I do nothing to prepare for winter, there will not be a video on that. Our winters here in Southeast Louisiana are so mild, our bees fly almost all year round. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
Do you have to feed them?
@@heehaw8401 No, I do not feed them either. However, most of our hive weigh over 60 pounds going into the winter. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
When feeding honey back to the bees do you thin it with water or give it straight?
I do not this it at all. I give it back the same way as when they made it. Thanks for watching. God's peace Cindy.
Mr. Ed
Could it be possible that some of the robber bees came from the cutout hive? Maybe they were just checking out the neighborhood and decided they liked the smaller house.
There is no telling where the robber bees came from, but wherever it was they came from, this new box is now their home. God's peace Lorraine.
Mr. Ed
That is some beautiful wax there Jeff. So much work. It takes a lot of work to render those rounds of wax. If you retire after getting married what will they do for honey? God bless you and your gal.
I'm not leaving the abbey, it's part of my life, but Mona will bee the biggest part. Thank you for your blessings and for watching. God's peace JJ.
Mr. Ed
@@JeffHorchoff Maybe she will be in on the wrangling. Ha Ha GBY
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Is that dirt, propolis, or dried honey that made that ring under the jar?
It was propolis. God's peace brother.
Mr. Ed
1:11 What kind of birds are enjoying that House-in-the-Sky? ~ 4:03 HOW do you do that, Mr. Ed? While you were scraping, I was trying to remember the formula for Volume of a Cylinder, & thinking about asking you to weigh & measure them. Then, at 5:05 you give the measurements! #1.> 649.426 Cubic Inches, #2.> 562.836 Cubic Inches and #3.> 584.483 Cubc Inches.
Purple Martins occupy those houses. They arrive at the abbey right around Valentine's Day and stay there until they fly back to South America around the end of July. Thanks for watching. God's peace Steven.
Mr. Ed
@@JeffHorchoff Ohhh! Purple martins are gorgeous! Thank you for helping them out!
Do bees have night vision to get around that pitch black hive?
Though they can see, once they are in the hive, most things are regulated by pheromones. Thanks for watching, and I hope you will check out more of my over 450 bee wrangling/ bee rescue adventure videos and let me know what you think of them. By the way, I post a new video almost every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace Nick.
Mr. Ed
Jeff, have you heard about using peppermint candy to drive away small hive beetles? Seriously. One candy in one or two corners between boxes makes them leave. Not too much, it'll drive out the bees too. But 1 or 2 works great.
Hey Tony, I've been meaning to reach out to you for some time, get ready for a call soon. Yes I have heard of it and I have used it as well. I really can't say it will work every time, but I think it did make a difference. Talk to you soon. God's peace brother.
Mr. Ed
Jeff, Roster told me about locking up a Nuc of mine that was being robbed out and the same thing happened to me. The hive double in population.
That was the first time I ever saw it, but it will not be the last time I do it. He told me the same thing when I told him about it, the guy really does know a thing or 2 about bees. God's peace brother.
Mr. Ed
@@JeffHorchoff but no more than two! Hahaha
I would like to see how you manage that large a block of wax when you go to use it. I would also like to see how you use it and what you use it for.
@ 5:43 he mentions using it for foundations. Check this other video from him th-cam.com/video/FxJUTM4unzk/w-d-xo.html Rendering and pouring mini beeswax bricks.
The video link below is a good one showing how I make smaller blocks, but the link on my reply shows how I melt the large bricks and then what I use them for. Thanks for watching, and I hope you will check out more of my over 450 bee wrangling/ bee rescue adventure videos and let me know what you think of them. By the way, I post a new video almost every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace Ryan.
Mr. Ed
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Hello jeff i like ur videos and channel but i know ur in louisiana. Where i live in wisconsin we ususally have snow on ground into march sometimes april i was wondering if you knew any good beekeeping channels that do beekeeping in a cold climate?
Here are a few that I subscribe to :
JC Bees
Scott Hendricks, Beekeeping in Northern Ontario
A Canadian Beekeepers Blog
I hope that will help. God's peace Jerred
What happens to the bees body when she dies in the hive?do they just throw her out with the trash? If so have you ever seen piles of bee bodies by a hive before? Bee safe.
If a bee should die in the hive, it is the responsibility of a hive bee to remove her body from the hive. Often they fly out of the hive and deposit the body away from the hive, but if there is a pile of dead bees right outside of the hive, that is an indication of poisoning, and the bee itself came out the hive to die but did not get far. God's peace Lamont.
Mr. Ed
@@JeffHorchoff fantastic animal,does so much for man ,and we repay them by polluting do much the bees have a hard time surviving.
At what time do the larva get capped and after capping how long before they emerge?
Generally, after an eggs has been laid to the time it emerges as a larva is about 5 days. Then the cell is capped and about 12 days later the bee emerges. God's peace Larry.
Mr. Ed
Hey there Mr Ed! If you get a beetle problem how do you get rid of them?
There has been a lot of talk about putting peppermint candies in the hive to chase them out. I did it once and it did work. Give it a try and see, it can't hurt. God's peace Tammy.
Mr. Ed
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I’m very interested in meeting you in person sometime I’m a new beekeeper
Looking forward to that day. God's peace Abbye.
Mr. Ed
Is the abbey a monastery are you a brother or a monk
Yes, St. Joseph Abbey is a monastery, but I am not a monk or brother. I am simply a volunteer here taking care of their bees and building caskets for them. God's peace Patrick.
Mr. Ed
I wish I could smell this video lok
I say that very often. I'm waiting for the day when TH-cam offers "smell-o- vision." By the way, the video I'm posting today is about rendering beeswax. Thanks for watching, and I hope you will check out more of my over 500 bee wrangling/ bee rescue adventure videos and let me know what you think of them. By the way, I post a new video almost every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
Have you ever considered adding some Hydrogen peroixde during the cooking process?
I have not, what is that suppose to do? God's peace Adam.
Mr. Ed
@@JeffHorchoff I acts as oxidizer and is antiseptic, so it works a bit like bleach, but it leaves no residues besides water. So for sure it does not do harm to bees or humans and leaves no chemicals. It is just an idea, I have no experience if it works. But if it does, you might get a wax with a lighter and nicer colour. I would use that when your wax is contaminated by brood and has a nasty coloor, on the other hand it might also take away of the smell of the wax. So it is an experiment to try on some nasty wax with the wrong color or smell, if it can improve the product.
@@JeffHorchoff Found this..... "Beeswax can be lightened by warming the wax, over water, at just below boiling point (of the water) and then hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is added, which boils... forming very small bubbles that rise through the molten wax. This "wets" small water soluble particles that were previously suspended in the wax and allows them to separate. There is also a bleaching action as the "spare" oxygen is released. This process needs to be performed in a vessel that has tall sides so that the violent foaming does not cause spillage of wax and water."...so probably needs to be done vey carefully, and anyway the golden colour is the real colour of beeswax.
@@PelicanSoup Yes, I thought about stuff that is more brown, reddish, black or grey, that has some off-colour. You do not need it, if your wax already has the right golden colour that you look for. And of course you start with a small dose of the stuff until you know what the right dosage is and how it behaves.
Hi Jeff do you ever sell your capping wax ?
I never sell our wax. Even though it appears that we have a lot, the demand for it is very high here at the abbey, and we just don't have enough to go around. Thanks for watching. God's peace Alan.
Mr. Ed
What do you do with the wax sell make candles ?
Check out the video link below, it show what most of the wax is used for. The rest goes to the soap operation here at St. Joseph Abbey to be used making lotion bars, balms, and candles. Thanks for watching, and I hope you will check out more of my over 450 bee wrangling/ bee rescue adventure videos and let me know what you think of them. By the way, I post a new video almost every Friday morning, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. God's peace
Mr. Ed
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