Dear Richard, thank you so much for this amazing and detailed video according our CFM Steam wax melter! We hope you enjoy using it! Best greetings from Mellrichstadt - the Carl Fritz Team!
Hi. Im a bee keeper and a plasterer. If you use a plasterers bucket trowel you'll find getting stuff out of buckets 10x easier. Love your videos. Loads of respect. Thankyou
Possibly worth lining the bottom with a layer of filter paper or cotton sheet then when you run it it will give a much cleaner wax and a simple clean out. Will help with runs of brood wax. Amazing product. Happy to come out and work the melter as a work experience 😊
Yes I see your point but because the lid is fairly well sealed on, the steam has to escape somewhere. So I suppose that’s why. In this Instance, there is a lot of honey with the wax and there is a lot to melt down st once, but I do agree with you.
Hi Richard, that looks like a great piece of kit and something I could well do with investing in myself. Do you know if they produce and supply them for the uk market? By the way if during your travels in the uk if you’re passing through sunny Derbyshire please feel free to call in so I can pick your brains face to face 😄. As a result of your TH-cam teachings I set up The Derbyshire Queen Rearing & Bee Improvement Group a couple of years ago. We are now supported by the DBKA and give practical queen rearing advice to local beekeepers who want to sustain their own apiaries. Many thanks to you and Mike Palmer for that…. Cheers Kim Beresford
That's a nice piece of equipment! 😀 My wax steamer is my pride and joy (though a LOT smaller than this one 😜), and I don't know what I'd do without it! 🥰
Normally I put the wet capping wax in a orange or red coloured bag, the ones from onions or potatoes before storing in the bucket so it can drain a bit, and is easy to take out incl from the wax steamers
Hi Richard nice video and a good looking machine. Looking at the energy costs (hopefully this will change) but to boil a kettle with electric is double the cost of boiling a pan of water equal volume on a gas hob even though the energy used is double in gas. As for the last bit always remember “you can’t always get what you want but if X
But boiling water in a kettle means that all the heat generated goes directly into the water. Boiling on the hob throws a LOT of heat around the saucepan as well as into it. So it's not quite as simple as that! Like Richard said, gas may be cheaper but it's less efficient.
How's the annoying and frustrating effect honey makes when you get it under your cuff or sleeve and your shirt sticks to you, have you ever washed up after a day of extacting then you just go back to check something and get all sticky ! Oh the fun of it all, all worth it in the end !
Yeah, nice but will your business not out- grow this peice of kit? I went for the largest 3 phase Swienty machine I could get, but quickly turned out to be too small for my needs
Yes by possibly, but I have generally melted things as they need doing so we don’t have frames hanging around. In the future I still may go back to an additional melter . But I think this will be ok for 250 colonies as an average. 🤷🏼♂️ thanks for your comments! 🐝
Dear Richard, thank you so much for this amazing and detailed video according our CFM Steam wax melter! We hope you enjoy using it! Best greetings from Mellrichstadt - the Carl Fritz Team!
Thank you!! It’s a pleasure to do videos on good quality machines. Hope to see you at the beekeeping show at Telford on the 25th February 🐝🐝🐝
@@richardnoel3141 That's how it is supposed to be: solid and sustainable devices for a longtherm. Yes, we'll be at the show! See you there! ;-)
Hi. Im a bee keeper and a plasterer. If you use a plasterers bucket trowel you'll find getting stuff out of buckets 10x easier.
Love your videos. Loads of respect. Thankyou
Thanks for the tip! I have a plasteras trowel lol will give it a go!! Best wishes! ✅🍷🙌🐝
Possibly worth lining the bottom with a layer of filter paper or cotton sheet then when you run it it will give a much cleaner wax and a simple clean out. Will help with runs of brood wax. Amazing product. Happy to come out and work the melter as a work experience 😊
Enjoyable video. Glad your new toys are working out.
Seems like Great unit.. ended up with close to 50lb of wax this year from capping.. took longer to extract than sell it..
Wax melter is cool but the Beekeeping road trip sounds awesome!
Looking forward to a video with Gruffydd
Thanks for sharing your journey and procedures! Really enjoy your videos!
i'm surprised it didnt come with a valve for drawing off the liquid wax, would certainly make the blocks look a little nicer.
Yes I see your point but because the lid is fairly well sealed on, the steam has to escape somewhere. So I suppose that’s why. In this Instance, there is a lot of honey with the wax and there is a lot to melt down st once, but I do agree with you.
Hi Richard, that looks like a great piece of kit and something I could well do with investing in myself.
Do you know if they produce and supply them for the uk market?
By the way if during your travels in the uk if you’re passing through sunny Derbyshire please feel free to call in so I can pick your brains face to face 😄.
As a result of your TH-cam teachings I set up The Derbyshire Queen Rearing & Bee Improvement Group a couple of years ago. We are now supported by the DBKA and give practical queen rearing advice to local beekeepers who want to sustain their own apiaries. Many thanks to you and Mike Palmer for that….
Cheers
Kim Beresford
I hope your keeping an eye on the humidity in that room
First run is always the most hard one
, and yes I do see the advance off it
That's a nice piece of equipment! 😀 My wax steamer is my pride and joy (though a LOT smaller than this one 😜), and I don't know what I'd do without it! 🥰
I'd put a ball valve on the bottom valve so you can control the wax and that first melt would probably be more uniform.
Life of a keeper
Nice machine!! 😄👍🏻👍🏻
Normally I put the wet capping wax in a orange or red coloured bag, the ones from onions or potatoes before storing in the bucket so it can drain a bit, and is easy to take out incl from the wax steamers
I've just come back from near Quimper, I had no idea there was an event going on 😂
Hi Richard nice video and a good looking machine. Looking at the energy costs (hopefully this will change) but to boil a kettle with electric is double the cost of boiling a pan of water equal volume on a gas hob even though the energy used is double in gas.
As for the last bit always remember “you can’t always get what you want but if X
But boiling water in a kettle means that all the heat generated goes directly into the water. Boiling on the hob throws a LOT of heat around the saucepan as well as into it. So it's not quite as simple as that! Like Richard said, gas may be cheaper but it's less efficient.
@@manekdubash5022 sorry you’ve missed the point it may be less efficient but the cost is half using gas than electric.
Top tip, have an inch or two of water in the bottom of your bucket.
Was that ok as bee feed, did you feed it back. It would be getting to the point of being over heated to safely use as bee feed ?
Hi Richard, Where can I get hold of this Carl Fritz Wax Melter? I’m based in the UK.
Hi well obviously Karl Fritz direct. www.carl-fritz.de but I don’t know if they will ship direct. Always quality equipment for sure
How about cleaning stuff up so you can work?
Will it build up pressure from the steam ?????? With the lid clamped down????
Not where it is permanently open at the spoit
How's the annoying and frustrating effect honey makes when you get it under your cuff or sleeve and your shirt sticks to you, have you ever washed up after a day of extacting then you just go back to check something and get all sticky ! Oh the fun of it all, all worth it in the end !
you trying to be Ian Steppler,lol. tea rather than coffee.
Carl Fritz make some good bee equipment but their website need to be better. I leave their website after a few minutes as It drivers me insane. 😂
I have to agree with you. You can click on the change language, it’s a lot easier to navigate in English
hello ... I'm in that stage little bigger than a hobby not a sideline and at the age I better not get bigger and spend money on nice equipment
Lol its all very expensive!!
Yeah, nice but will your business not out- grow this peice of kit? I went for the largest 3 phase Swienty machine I could get, but quickly turned out to be too small for my needs
Yes by possibly, but I have generally melted things as they need doing so we don’t have frames hanging around. In the future I still may go back to an additional melter . But I think this will be ok for 250 colonies as an average. 🤷🏼♂️ thanks for your comments! 🐝
May seen you next Friday I am also at Beccome Quimper. Jacques