You are the winner! NOT! I forgot to mention in the video that you specifically are not allowed to participate in the contest as we are already in a competition with swarms and contestants are only allowed to participate in one event per calendar year. We may have to change some rules next year in order for you to qualify for some of my future give aways . Sorry about the technical point there buddy. God's peace brother. Mr. Ed
(just to clarify that I'm not stealing the answer, 47lbs is about how much a 12inch by 12inch cylinder of beeswax would weigh and that's roughly how big the combined blocks looks to me)
I am a 70 year old with ADHD and I’d be so happy going through the whole bee process. There’s enough diversity to keep me interested and the straining and extraction is really satisfying! I need some bees on my 5 acres!
I'm 67 and have been keeping bees since 1978. It's a wonderful hobby and helps our environment as a hidden benefit. And I am very fond of saying, the world needs as many beekeepers as it can get. 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 Joellen. Mr. Ed
I remember watching you trying to collect all your bee boxes out of that ravine. That was a very sad video and it broke my heart seeing all your hard work just lost. But you bounced back better than ever! That was a hard day and I’m glad it’s over as I’m sure you are too!
Trust me, I will never forget the flood of 2016. But looking back, I'm not sorry at all for going through it as it was the catalyst to bringing Abbee Honey to where it is today. God's peace Mary Jane. Mr. Ed
One of my all time favorite videos, and to this day, I still can't figure why that video has not gone viral as it has never been documented like that before. God's peace Christi. Mr. Ed
I'm all about scrounging for the betterment of our operation, and in all truth, I did no wrong. After all, the equipment still belong to the monks. 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 Stacy. Mr. Ed
As the wax is so valuable to the bees, and me as well, I love making these videos. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace Deborah. Mr. Ed
Mr. Ed the wax is exactly what it's supposed to be. My numerical guess is 35.8 lbs. I thank you and all your bee buddies for the information given out so freely on youtube and keep putting out the sound of bees, I love it!!!!!!
Always love hearing positive feedback when it comes to my channel, thank you so much for that and your support, it is greatly appreciated. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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. Mr. Ed
Love the videos, but specifically your positive energy and your spirit. You're like a 'life coach' in your videos and your positivity and love for God is infectious and joyous. You always have a way of bringing a smile to my face. Thank you Jesus! 32 pounds, 3.4 ounces 🙏
Your kind words and support are greatly appreciated, thank you for them, and I will keep making more. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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. Mr. Ed
Job well done on a ginormous scale. Ive tried several different ways every years. I now use the oven and pool skimmer disposable bags and newspapers for the mess. Only thing I wish I could change is the smell of the debris in the comb during the heating process. Ew, so foul but once I render a few time the final wax smells so good.
You have to admit, the challenge of rendering wax is so cool, but no matter the method, it's always a mess. Yet, upon seeing the finished rendering, it's worth the effort. Thanks for watching. God's peace. Mr. Ed
My guess is 32.8 lbs! My daughter, 5, and I like to Watch your videos every Friday! Between you and bigstackd, metal melting TH-camr, we get our fill of educational and visually appealing content. Thanks for everything you do!
How awesome to share my videos with your daughter, it's quite the honor to trust that what I show and tell will be a positive influence on her. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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 Jake. Mr. Ed
As bees are so vital to our very existence, the word needs to get out about their importance, and I'm just trying to do my part in making sure it does.Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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. Mr. Ed
:-) You certainly are a man who knows his beeswax ! It amazes me the bees make their own wax, while so many wasps make their own paper cells and hives. I always wondered why bees make wax instead of paper ? I imagine paper is not strong enough for building a honey hive ... ?
I do love rendering the beeswax, taking what is no longer useful and making it new again. I believe if wasps and hornets had the ability to make wax hives they would, it's just so much more than paper. 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. Mr. Ed
Me too, but let's try again the next time you are down. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching, God's peace Ted. Mr. Ed
I really enjoy your videos and have learned a great deal at my 15 month mark as a keeper. I currently have 4 hives and began processing the honey yesterday and what I didn't know was the comb can be saved. I literally melted the comb after harvest. When you get time, a nice video focused on ways to maintain and increase comb would be pleasurable. Thanks again for your informative post..
Congratulations on your 15th month and success at harvesting honey, you have done very well! I will keep in mind your request about focusing ways of increasing comb production and maintenance of it, and in my next Friday's post I actually talk a bit about it. Thanks for watching, and I hope you will check out more of my over 600 bee wrangling/ bee rescue adventure videos 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 Dewey. Mr. Ed
Your bee channel is always a great way to enjoy a morning cup of joe and the wax rendering is my favorite, right after the honey processing videos. I'm going to guess a weight of 56lbs and 14 oz. Thanks for the enjoyable morning.
Always love hearing a positive response to the videos I post, and I too am very partial to the rendering and processing videos which is why I make so many of them. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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. Mr. Ed
Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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. Mr. Ed
Just because you seem to have some confusion between the two, here's how I remember the difference between stalagmite and stalactite: StalaCTite hangs from the Ceiling or Top StalaGMite is a Mound on the Ground
I do always have trouble remembering which is which, but with your tip, I should remember it from now on. Thank you for that and for watching. God's peace. Mr. Ed
I loved how precise your guess was, in kilos, but I'm sorry to say it was not the correct guess. It was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace. Mr. Ed
@@JeffHorchoff Hehe, I'm going to confess that I used the math for the volume of a cylinder and the approximate density of beeswax. So I guessed the dimensions and did the math.
I am so fascinated with honeybees. I read a book about them when i was younger, and have been fascinated ever since. I got and now have so much respect for honeybees. I just started watching these videos, and I think it would be so cool to be your assistant and learn everything about bee keeping and everything you do to get honey and what you do with wax and everything else related to bee keeping. Your videos are great and very informative and easy to understand. Have a blessed day and thank you for sharing all your videos with us. 🐝🌻🐝🪷🐝🏵🐝
If you are ever in the New Orleans area, reach out before hand and come visit me at St. Joseph Abbey, I'd be more than happy to spend time with you showing our operation as well as talking about bees. Thank you for your blessings, kind words, and for taking the time to watch. Also, I hope you will check out more of my over 600 bee wrangling/ bee rescue adventure videos 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 Brian. Mr. Ed
If the cappings are the cleaner wax, why not render them first, leaving the cylindrical filter in place and only removing the course scum from the rest of the kettle, then refilling with water and rendering the nasty stuff? Would save a run of cleaning the kettle
Though the cappings are cleaner, you'd be surprised just how much dirt is in them. 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. Mr. Ed
So glad you enjoyed the video Lesley, thank you for taking the time to watch it. As far as your guess, it was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace. Mr. Ed
May God`s Grace and Peace and Jesus Love stay with You Jeff all the time, all the best throughout this New 2024 Year, may all God`s blessings be with You Jeff, greetings from Poland😀😇😀😇😀😇😀😇😀
I'm going to guess 11lbs 4oz. I love your videos! I usually stop what I'm doing as soon as I get a notification from youtube that you posted a video. Thanks for all that you do!
Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching, and until the next one, God's peace. Mr. Ed
Thank you very much for you kind words and your appreciation for bees.Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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 Max. Mr. Ed
Good Morning Mr. Ed! I must again say that your walking intro tour is as enjoyable seeing the natural landsacpe of your living space as is following your various bee keeping activities. From a natural disaster as your were describing a flood a few years back, a bit of conversion and human ingenuity, and you have created yourself the tools you need for a wax capturing process. I am suspecting that the process is enhanced by quick access to kitchen tools? Here I will leave a guess of 37lbs - 5.579oz of fine bees' wax at the end of a good day! In fact, may this be a start to a Great Weekend! -Bob...
I do like to walk and talk, and it's great to hear positive feedback on that situation, thank you for that Bob. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace brother. Mr. Ed
@@JeffHorchoffGoodness me, 2 whole weeks? Did that fine 628 Dirt Rooster, where hobby bee keeping is a way of life, come closer with his guess? Much can be learned by paying attention when out in nature, whether paying attention to nature, or to someone speaking knowledge. Always happy to watch Mr. Ed, while Hoping that you and everyone else around the Abbey have a wonderfully enjoyable weekend! -Bob...
Just watched Bob Bonnie’s how to produce Queens. Totally blown away with the work to take to do this. Really impressed and learned a lot. Thanks for dropping his name.
Bob is a great guy, and what you see is what you get with him. I'm so looking forward to seeing and talking with him again next weekend. Thanks for watching. God's peace Dave. Mr. Ed
Mr Ed, I’m surprised that you remembered from last year when I commented that idea. I say it’s 38 lbs 8 ozs or 38.5 lbs. I always love watching your videos no matter if its rendering wax or doing cut outs! If I win you prize I bet folks will think there’s some hanky panky going on. lol I think the winner should split the prize with me… lol x2
Tell you what Don, you are going to have to work it out with whoever does win because it was not you. You were close, but no cookie....I mean honey. Thanks for the idea and for watching as usual. God's peace brother. Mr. Ed
Thank you so much for your blessings, it is a real joy receiving them.Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace Patricia. Mr. Ed
I know you enjoy watching all my bee wrangling adventures Amanda, thank you so much for taking the time to watch them all. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. God's peace. Mr. Ed
Wow! So awesome! I am so glad to have seen this. We have wax almost ready to render and I have been wondering that a good way to do that would be. I also know now to scrap the wax right when you separate it from water! I’m going to guess 47pounds and 9ounces. Thank you for sharing your wisdom!
It is my pleasure to share what I know and how I do it when it concerns rendering beeswax....as well as a ton of other beekeeping skills. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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. Mr. Ed
I actually tried to do that a year ago, but because the process takes hours to do, I kept on running out of battery life. 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
You should make a “French press” for the first scum recovered from the kettle. Put it in a tall cylinder with 50-75% water and remaining scum. Get it hot enough to melt wax. Press the “press “ part down cylinder into the hot water. Take off heat and let it cool very slowly (wrap it up). When done slum should be just debris and a nice block of wax on top
Love the idea, and I know it would work. Thanks so much for the suggestion and for watching. Also, 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. Mr. Ed
Hi there. Nicely done. You've been lucky with getting these cookers for free. I use a steam fruit dryer and nylon socks and a bucket and distilled water to achieve the same. Need to melt wax during the coming weeks too.
A real blessing to have come across those kettles, I use both of them on a regular basis. Years ago I used nylon stockings and a 5 gallon soup pot to melt my wax, things have really changed. Best wishes for a successful wax rendering. Thanks for watching. God's peace Daniel. Mr. Ed
Why not just put one large basket shaped screen with some spacers under it that fills the whole bottom of the kettle? That way it can drip down through a much larger surface area.
I had tried that in the past, and it did work. However, because my basket wat not the exact contour as the inside of the kettle, debris and trash made it's way into the kettle and into the wax. Still, if the screened basket were a better fit, I agree, it would be the ideal solution. Thanks so much for your suggestion and for taking the time to watch the video, it is greatly appreciated. Also, 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. Mr. Ed
I hope you do find a solution that lets you be a bit more productive with your time! Thank you so much for all the knowledge and good times with bees, I don't keep any myself but I have a garden full of them.@@JeffHorchoff
Delighted to hear you enjoy following along with my bee wrangling adventures, I'm very happy to share my fun. As far as your guess, it's close, but not the number I'm looking for and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thank you for your blessings and for watching. God's peace Sharon. Mr. Ed
Delighted to hear you have found my channel, it is unfortunate it happened under your circumstances, sorry for your pain and sufferings. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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 Ashley. Mr. Ed
Great video, Mr. Ed. I love how you take the time to explain the details of what, how, and why you do what you when it comes to the bee's, honey, and wax. Very informative
Great Vid Jeff. I love your wax processing playlist. You need to shout out to us Australian Bee Keepers. Tough times ahead. Verroa is now here on the East Coast of Australia after someone didn't do their job at the Ports in Newcastle. Bio security is trying to stop it, but i think it's futile. Thousands of hives have been euthanased so far. Take care Brother
I am very familiar with the plight of Australian beekeepers after the recent accidental, hopefully, introduction of verroa as so many of my subscribers are from Australia and have kept me abreast of the situation. It breaks my heart the method your government chose to stem the assault with the eradication of so many colonies of bees, infected or not. My personal feelings are the same as yours, it is a futile battle, and now the Australian beekeeper will be in the same boat that most of the world's beekeepers are in, dealing with mite issues from here on out. On my next live pod cast, September 30, I will talk about the issue. God's peace brother. Mr. Ed
@JeffHorchoff Awsome response. I can't even move my hives that dont have verroa yet to a safe zone. Otherwise, im given a ticket by the government. If i do it without a permit, that seems impossible to get. It's like Australia's Covid response, but for Bee keepers. The Department of primary industries have been slow on their response. They're offering compensation. I've heard that's a struggle to get, too. This is ruining peoples lively hood. Take care. Keep on making vids. . One day im a meet you. Steve
@JeffHorchoff Big changes overnight in Australia. They've moved from eradication to management. No more hives are being euthanasied. Im now in a suppression zone. Im moving my hives further away for a while. Not sure if i can post a link here. www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/emergencies/biosecurity/current-situation/varroa-mite-emergency-response Have a look if it works for you.
Delighted to hear that you stumbled upon my channel, I certainly hope you will visit it again as there is always a lot of fun going on here. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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 Raye. Mr. Ed
I love spreading the sound of the south, thanks for listening and for watching. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Also, 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 Jason. Mr. Ed
Love your videos, got some catching up to do because I've been so busy lately, going to be a lovely evening of bees and honey. Going to throw a guess of 38.7 pounds, minus 8 milligrams for the lovebug.
Yes, that love bug is throwing off a lot of guesses. Enjoy your visit with your bees. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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
@@JeffHorchoff Oh no dear, I sadly don't have any bees of my own, just catching up with yours. Some day I'd absolutely love to have bees, for now I'm just praying for a stray swarm and enjoying them vicariously through your truly wonderful videos
I’m gonna guess 27lbs. Wish smellivision was real! I’m betting they smell heavenly. Those cappings cleaned up really nicely and I bet they will make great chapsticks and candles! I keep trying to talk my husband into getting some raised bed gardens and a couple bee hives for our yard but haven’t been successful yet! 😂❤ May God continue to bless you and yours.
Good guess, but not the correct weight, sorry. As I'm rendering the wax, the smell is wonderful, but after the process is complete, the finished block smells divine. It's to bad I can't put the smell on video and let everyone enjoy it with me. Keep working on your hubby on getting your dreams to happen, I'm sure he will work with you especially if you concentrate on the rewards of his efforts, fresh veggies and honey. Thank you for your blessings and for watching. God's peace Copper. Mr. Ed
27 pounds 6.4 ounces. Thank you for the video's Mr. Ed. My dad was an Ed also and when I was in Junior High he had 124 beehives in Florida. Once a month I would help him work the hives. My siblings and I were in charge of extraction of the honey with a hand crank 3 frame extractor. Fun days.
124 hives, that man worked! Good thing he had kids to help out, I bet you guys loved it. Your guess was close, but not correct, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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 Mysti. Mr. Ed
I also love to dumpster dive, there is so much cool, free stuff out there and all it needs is a bit of TLC and you really have something good. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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 Susie. Mr. Ed
My guess is 43.7 lbs. love when you melt the wax on videos. I should have a hive next year as I got a bee hive this summer and me and my dad are fixing it up so we can put bees in it next spring. Love all of your videos.
Love the idea of you becoming a beekeeper, the world needs as many as it can get. As far as your guess, it was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching, God's peace Ronald. Mr. Ed
You are welcome Barbara, and thank you for your kind words as well.Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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. Mr. Ed
Yes they are, and wonderful smelling as well!Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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. Mr. Ed
You are very welcome Peter, and thank you for being such a faithful viewer of my bee wrangling adventures.Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace brother. Mr. Ed
To help catch all the junk left over in the wax water, you can make a wire basket insert from that hardware cloth to put everything in and leave in while it boils out the wax hopefully keeping the pot clean so you don't have to put a mesh by the drain and scrape out what's left.
A few years back I did just that, and it worked very well. The big problem was because the basket I shaped was not exact enough to match the interior of the kettle, a lot of debris managed to escape. Thank you for your suggestion and for watching, it is greatly appreciated. Also, 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 Vincent. Mr. Ed
Nothing like the smell of newly cooled beeswax early in the morning 🙂 And the bright, yellow color of cappings blocks is almost like gold. Have started to use my own wax too instead of delivering it for processing and having to buy it back for 4x the price I get for it. Here in Norway it is illegal to use wax that is not heat-treated at 120C/248F, so I bought a big pressure cooker for that, saves me money in the long run and it is satisfying work too.
So smart of you to save your wax instead of selling it. I would never sell any of our wax as no one would pay the price I'd ask for it, and besides, I need all my wax just for my own needs. I have to admit, rendering the beeswax is very satisfying, and the final product is simply beautiful to look at and wonderful to smell. 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 Raymond. Mr. Ed
Thank you very much for your kind words and supporting my channel by actively watching my videos, it is greatly appreciated. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace Delise. Mr. Ed
Thank you for another facinating video love how upbeat and positive you are😊 I am going to guess 35. 48 pounds will be fun to see what it actually is !
Thank you very much for you kind words and support of my channel, it is greatly appreciated Carol. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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. Mr. Ed
Hi Mr. Ed, real nice video. I was really surprised to find out that you had peacocks. I kept peacocks as an alarm system. Difficult birds unless you keep ‘em happy. So impressed with your bees.
Personally I have never had peacocks, however, one of the monks at the abbey did, over 30 of them. Unfortunately, over the years, they passed away, and the pen was unused so I was given permission to use it for the bee program here at the abbey. 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 Dwynnell. Mr. Ed
It's ALL grace, thank you Jesus! Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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 Roy. Mr. Ed
Well, what a small amount for the year, but alas, you got some wax. Great video once again. My guess is approx 28.7 pounds. Being Canadian, I had to convert my guess, haha. Keep the videos coming. Love everyone of them
Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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 Tammy. Mr. Ed
I CAN smell it. Oh wait...I'm working with beeswax. 32 pounds and 6 1/2 ounces. I love beeswax so much. I'm making my fall salves. I'm sharing the goldenrods with the honeybees and some odd looking white mini bumblebee looking guys. Such pleasant times. Happy bee keeping and God keep blessing you. Keep em' coming.
I bet your room smells divine, lucky you to be able to work with beeswax and make such awesome products.Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. Thank you for your blessings and 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 Jacki. Mr. Ed
Thank for the opportunity of the contest my guess is 41.42lbs of beeswax you harvest.. Mr. Ed. Thanks for that value info.. I tried to melt wax It was very smelly, difficult and messy & tough to clean, it gets bridle.. But I still have the hopes to find a better way you give me that hope… I think if there left over could’ve be squeezed on a prense we can get the last bit of was left on it..
Melting and rendering wax can be challenging, but once you have a system in do it, it becomes very easy. Don't give up and keep trying until you succeed.Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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. Mr. Ed
You are very welcome, delighted to hear you enjoyed watching, and thank you for taking the time to do so and leave your comment. Also, I hope you will check out more of my over 600 bee wrangling/ bee rescue adventure videos 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. Mr. Ed
Im new subbie & im probably late😂. I just think it's amazing how much Wax you got from them cappings. & watching that was so awesome & the honey looked so good omg. Im like I wanna stick my finger in too M.r Ed 😂.
Thank you so very much for subbing to my channel, I'm humbled every time I'm honored by such a gift. I know you will enjoy watching many of my bee wrangling adventures as often I show delicious looking and tasting honey in the videos. I look forward to hearing from you again on the videos, and remember, I have posted over 550 videos already, and post a brand new one each Friday. Thank you so much for watching, and until the next one, God's peace Kali. Mr. Ed
@@JeffHorchoff You're welcome. I do enjoy watching the ones I've seen so far. Like y'all crazy as hell sitting around the bees, just chilling with nothing on 😂. It's awesome and wild tho when y'all do go in and wrangle the bees up. I know I have a lot more videos to watch lol. &🙏🏾. !
Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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 Keith. Mr. Ed
As hard as the bees work to produce all the things they make, it only makes sense to do that in appreciation of their efforts.Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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 Kenda. Mr. Ed
You are welcome Steve, and thanks for your kind words and for taking a guess at the weight, it is very much appreciated. Unfortunately, your guess is not correct, but in 2 weeks you will know the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace brother. Mr. Ed
Really like your avatar, I lived in the Canal Zone for 5 years in the early 60's, what a wonderful place to grow up. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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. Mr. Ed
One day TH-cam is going to have smell-o-vision as an option for videos, and you can rest assured, I'll be including it in the videos.Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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. Mr. Ed
Happy to bee here for you Mike, thanks so much for watching. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. God's peace brother. Mr. Ed
I would like to know what the total was. Is there a video on how you will reuse this. I have so many questions. Do you have a series of videos I could watch to see your whole process. I thought this would be used for candles as in for the 3 days of darkness. Thanks and God bless Mike
I have lots of videos about rendering beeswax. If you go to my channel and find the playlist, they are all in there...along with over 550 videos I have made in the last 12 years. 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 Mike. Mr. Ed
Love watching your videos, I will be melting my first years wax this fall. My guess will be 47 lbs 6.4 oz. Keep on taping, I’ll be watching! God bless!
You are going to love rendering your own beeswax, it is so cool to do so and you wind up with the most beautiful looking and smelling block of wax. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thank you for your blessings and for watching, it is greatly appreciated. God's peace brother. Mr. Ed
I have to say, for sure I got stories....and I am old as well. 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
I think the idea of putting the wire mesh around the opening is good but I was thinking why not put a piece of metal sponge in the opening and then adding the metal mesh that way when the mesh gets clogged up the sponge will still be clean and then you can remove the mesh and not worry about any of the garbage dripping into the clean wax this way you provide two forms of barrier not just one
Because the wax gets rendered once more, it is not necessary to get the initial rendering perfectly cleaned out. On my first rendering, I strain out about 95% of the trash that is in the wax. On the second rendering I get out almost 100% because I use finer screens to clean the wax. The idea of using a metal sponge, copper brillo pad, is a very good one. However, I do not want to restrict the flow of the liquid wax/water in any way on the initial rendering, and the sponge would in fact do that. Thank you for your suggestion and for taking the time to watch the video, it is greatly appreciated. Also, 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
Delighted you enjoyed the video, thanks so much for taking the time to watch. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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 Helen. Mr. Ed
Delighted to hear how much you enjoy watching, thank you very much for doing so. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace. Mr. Ed
Thank you Sheri, I really appreciate hearing when folks enjoy the channel, it makes me want to keep up the effort.Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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. Mr. Ed
If you really want to extract all the wax from the cocoon debris, you’re going to have to press the waste. If you use a heated press, that could be used on the cooled waste from the kettle
I have to agree that pressing the wax would extract all the wax. My problem, I do not have a press that would do the job, but because my process does get the majority of wax, I'm very happy with the results given my equipment. 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
@@JeffHorchoff a panini press / George Foreman grill type thing would be ideal if you ever went that route. Something like that would work for a test at least and is available for pennies at a second hand shop or garage sale
26.5 lbs We’ve got 15 hives on our property that a friend manages with my daughter. We melted down some capping earlier this year. It was a lot of fun. I enjoy watching and learning from your videos!
Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching, God's peace Josh. Mr. Ed
Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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. Mr. Ed
Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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
@@JeffHorchoff I’m on board and watch all your videos. They are awesome and so enjoyable to watch with the humor. I don’t bee wrangle but you make it fun and interesting but being outdoors is awesome to me! Looking forward to the wait! Thank you again and God Bless!
You are very welcome, it's a real joy for me to share my bee wrangling adventures. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. Thank you for your blessings and 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. Mr. ed
Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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. Mr. Ed
I’m going to guess a combined weight of 32 lbs 7 oz. I always enjoy the videos where you are processing wax or harvesting honey. Well, I enjoy them all!
I do love hearing when folks like watching my bee wrangling videos, thank you so much for your kind words and for taking all that time to follow along. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace Cathy. Mr. Ed
I heard you mentioned feeding the honey water back to the girls? How do you feed it back? Feeders or you pour it into a larger drown safe container?What do you do with the black yuck? Trash or compost? I just didn't want to go dumping piles of stuff in my yard that'll induce robbing. Thanks as always, so informative. I need to figure out how to scale it all back to a homestead or backyard beekeeper scale though! 🤣 Love that giant vat though, so jealous. Does the Abbey offer tours? $$?
By pouring the mixture on the ground, the bees are able to get the honey, plus it is difficult to remove the wax without a lot of the water going everywhere. The refuse from the rendering goes to a compost pile. As far as robbing goes, I have yet to have a problem with that and I have lots of hives where I pour the water. You will get it all figured out eventually. My best advice, start small and get a feel for it before getting a plan for the future. Yes, I do tours of our honey operation, and in fact, I have a bee club from Mississippi coming tomorrow for one. Reach out before hand and it can be arranged. Thanks for watching. God's peace Heather. Mr. Ed
I'm fairly new to this. I have yet to render any wax. I plan on doing it for the first time this winter when all the deartth related activity is over and everyone is bottoned down for the season. You talk about how beautiful it smells. I have one question. Does it smell as good and propolis? that is a smell I do love.
In my opinion, it smells better than propolis, but then propolis smells great as well. Good luck on your rendering, you are going to love doing it. 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 Paul. Mr. Ed
Very good suggestion, thank you for that and for watching. Also, 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. Mr. Ed
Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace Jennifer. Mr. Ed
A bit light, it was 25 pounds and 13 ounces. Congratulations on becoming a beekeeper, you are going to love it. Thanks for watching, and I hope you will check out more of my over 600 bee wrangling/ bee rescue adventure videos 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. Mr. Ed
I find it hard to believe that it was cooler in Dallas than here, but I'm very happy for you. You guys have been under that heat dome for months. Thanks for watching. God's peace Leeanne.
Thank you so much for your blessings and support of my efforts. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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 Teresa. Mr. Ed
Jeff, thanks for all the videos. Unfortunately all my hives are empty right, so I rely on your videos to get my "bee fix"!! I am guessing the wax blocks to be 14 pounds 8.7 ounces!
Sorry to hear your bees are gone. Fortunately, you can do something about that in the spring to get those boxes humming again. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace Debbie. Mr. Ed
I will render the wax one more time, and by then, it will be clean enough for me to use one the foundations.Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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. Mr. Ed
I was wondering why you don't screen it when it's coming out. Thats how we strained maple syrup . Just a screen to catch everything on the outside. It was a lot easier to keep the screen clean. My guess is 51.4#
I do strain the water/wax mixture and because the wax gets rendered once more, it is not necessary to get the initial rendering perfectly cleaned out. On my first rendering, I strain out about 95% of the trash that is in the wax. On the second rendering I get out almost 100% because I use finer screens to clean the wax. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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 Joe. Mr. Ed
Just stick a wick in that little dribble of wax on the pipe and make it a natural candle formed by the wax itself. That wax is so pretty and I wish I could smell it too. But I have smelled warm beeswax. When melting wax to make candles can you blend beeswax and soy wax?
Just as everything in a hive is "bee made," so too is the wax. It is excreted through glands on young bees and gathered and used for comb building. There is some great info on this subject from google, and they do a way better job explaining it than I could. Thanks for asking and for watching. God's peace. Mr. Ed
Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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. Mr. Ed
They really were some beautiful looking and smelling blocks of wax. I always love making these videos. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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
Wax rendering videos are one of my favorite ones to make, it's just so cool to fire up the kettle and clean up some nasty wax and turn it into something beautiful and useful. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace. Mr. Ed
I like a good competition as well, and there are a lot of viewers who think the same thing as so many have ventured a guess. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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 Linda. Mr. Ed
Good Evening Mr. Ed, My guess is 51 pounds 5 ounces for the weight. Just a thought, if you placed the wax cappings into an old pillow case, tied it at the top and weighed it down to the bottom of the boiler, then the melted wax could rise to the surface and the junk would be trapped inside? Cleanup would be easier too.
In my early years of rendering wax and trying multiple ways of getting the job done, I did use the "pillow case" method a few times. Yes, it did work, but I still was not happy about the amount of wax that was lost in the pillow case. I even tried remelting the case in fresh hot water but the results were not up to my satisfaction.Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. Thanks for your suggestion and 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 Ralph. Mr. Ed
I'm delighted to hear you found the video informative, and hopefully entertaining as well. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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. Mr. Ed
I always turn the gas off before draining, but because the kettle retains heat for so long, it still will boil sometimes. As of today, I have never scorched the wax while rendering it. Thank you for your suggestions and for watching, it is greatly appreciated. God's peace. Mr. Ed
I'm guessing 47 pounds and one ounce of wax blocks and one and a half pounds of slumgum.
You are the winner! NOT! I forgot to mention in the video that you specifically are not allowed to participate in the contest as we are already in a competition with swarms and contestants are only allowed to participate in one event per calendar year. We may have to change some rules next year in order for you to qualify for some of my future give aways . Sorry about the technical point there buddy. God's peace brother.
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42 pounds and 3 ounces
@@JeffHorchoff if this was a dungeons and dragons game I'd roll an insight check on this reply ha!
I came here to guess 47lbs so I'll just piggyback right on this thread.
(just to clarify that I'm not stealing the answer, 47lbs is about how much a 12inch by 12inch cylinder of beeswax would weigh and that's roughly how big the combined blocks looks to me)
I am a 70 year old with ADHD and I’d be so happy going through the whole bee process. There’s enough diversity to keep me interested and the straining and extraction is really satisfying! I need some bees on my 5 acres!
I'm 67 and have been keeping bees since 1978. It's a wonderful hobby and helps our environment as a hidden benefit. And I am very fond of saying, the world needs as many beekeepers as it can get. 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 Joellen.
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I remember watching you trying to collect all your bee boxes out of that ravine. That was a very sad video and it broke my heart seeing all your hard work just lost. But you bounced back better than ever! That was a hard day and I’m glad it’s over as I’m sure you are too!
Trust me, I will never forget the flood of 2016. But looking back, I'm not sorry at all for going through it as it was the catalyst to bringing Abbee Honey to where it is today. God's peace Mary Jane.
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One of my all time favorite videos, and to this day, I still can't figure why that video has not gone viral as it has never been documented like that before. God's peace Christi.
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Is there a link ? I am interested in seeing this .@@JeffHorchoff
"Under the cover of broad daylight" got me 😂 thats how i feel when i salvage something
I'm all about scrounging for the betterment of our operation, and in all truth, I did no wrong. After all, the equipment still belong to the monks. 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 Stacy.
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30 pounds 4 ounces. Beautiful wax. Love how you conserve everything you can from the bees
As the wax is so valuable to the bees, and me as well, I love making these videos. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace Deborah.
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Mr. Ed the wax is exactly what it's supposed to be. My numerical guess is 35.8 lbs. I thank you and all your bee buddies for the information given out so freely on youtube and keep putting out the sound of bees, I love it!!!!!!
Always love hearing positive feedback when it comes to my channel, thank you so much for that and your support, it is greatly appreciated. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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.
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Love the videos, but specifically your positive energy and your spirit. You're like a 'life coach' in your videos and your positivity and love for God is infectious and joyous. You always have a way of bringing a smile to my face. Thank you Jesus! 32 pounds, 3.4 ounces 🙏
Your kind words and support are greatly appreciated, thank you for them, and I will keep making more. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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.
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Job well done on a ginormous scale. Ive tried several different ways every years. I now use the oven and pool skimmer disposable bags and newspapers for the mess. Only thing I wish I could change is the smell of the debris in the comb during the heating process. Ew, so foul but once I render a few time the final wax smells so good.
You have to admit, the challenge of rendering wax is so cool, but no matter the method, it's always a mess. Yet, upon seeing the finished rendering, it's worth the effort. Thanks for watching. God's peace.
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My guess is 32.8 lbs! My daughter, 5, and I like to Watch your videos every Friday! Between you and bigstackd, metal melting TH-camr, we get our fill of educational and visually appealing content. Thanks for everything you do!
How awesome to share my videos with your daughter, it's quite the honor to trust that what I show and tell will be a positive influence on her. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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 Jake.
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35.8
Jeff.... You are such a great teacher. I've learned so much watching you persevere with the Kingdom of the Bees. Thank you.
I'm guessing 28 pounds, 2.7 ounces of wax. Thanks for spreading the importance of bees to our world.
As bees are so vital to our very existence, the word needs to get out about their importance, and I'm just trying to do my part in making sure it does.Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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.
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:-) You certainly are a man who knows his beeswax !
It amazes me the bees make their own wax, while so many wasps make their own paper cells and hives.
I always wondered why bees make wax instead of paper ?
I imagine paper is not strong enough for building a honey hive ... ?
Hornets also make paper balloon 🎈 like nests. Yellow jackets nest sometimes in the ground.
I do love rendering the beeswax, taking what is no longer useful and making it new again. I believe if wasps and hornets had the ability to make wax hives they would, it's just so much more than paper. 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.
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Thanks Jeff! I sorry I missed you when I visited the Abbey last Mardi Gras. My guess is 47lbs 3.4 oz. Keep up the great videos!!!
Me too, but let's try again the next time you are down. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching, God's peace Ted.
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I really enjoy your videos and have learned a great deal at my 15 month mark as a keeper. I currently have 4 hives and began processing the honey yesterday and what I didn't know was the comb can be saved. I literally melted the comb after harvest. When you get time, a nice video focused on ways to maintain and increase comb would be pleasurable. Thanks again for your informative post..
Congratulations on your 15th month and success at harvesting honey, you have done very well! I will keep in mind your request about focusing ways of increasing comb production and maintenance of it, and in my next Friday's post I actually talk a bit about it. Thanks for watching, and I hope you will check out more of my over 600 bee wrangling/ bee rescue adventure videos 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 Dewey.
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Your bee channel is always a great way to enjoy a morning cup of joe and the wax rendering is my favorite, right after the honey processing videos. I'm going to guess a weight of 56lbs and 14 oz. Thanks for the enjoyable morning.
Always love hearing a positive response to the videos I post, and I too am very partial to the rendering and processing videos which is why I make so many of them. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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.
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My guess is 27 lbs with a clean and clear way
Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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.
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Just because you seem to have some confusion between the two, here's how I remember the difference between stalagmite and stalactite:
StalaCTite hangs from the Ceiling or Top
StalaGMite is a Mound on the Ground
I'm going to guess 22.8315 kg, which is about 66lb 9.91oz if my conversion is correct.
I do always have trouble remembering which is which, but with your tip, I should remember it from now on. Thank you for that and for watching. God's peace.
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I loved how precise your guess was, in kilos, but I'm sorry to say it was not the correct guess. It was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace.
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Hehe, I'm going to confess that I used the math for the volume of a cylinder and the approximate density of beeswax. So I guessed the dimensions and did the math.
I always use the StalacTIGHT ie it is holding on tight to the ceiling to remember their differences.
I am so fascinated with honeybees. I read a book about them when i was younger, and have been fascinated ever since. I got and now have so much respect for honeybees. I just started watching these videos, and I think it would be so cool to be your assistant and learn everything about bee keeping and everything you do to get honey and what you do with wax and everything else related to bee keeping. Your videos are great and very informative and easy to understand. Have a blessed day and thank you for sharing all your videos with us. 🐝🌻🐝🪷🐝🏵🐝
If you are ever in the New Orleans area, reach out before hand and come visit me at St. Joseph Abbey, I'd be more than happy to spend time with you showing our operation as well as talking about bees. Thank you for your blessings, kind words, and for taking the time to watch. Also, I hope you will check out more of my over 600 bee wrangling/ bee rescue adventure videos 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 Brian.
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If the cappings are the cleaner wax, why not render them first, leaving the cylindrical filter in place and only removing the course scum from the rest of the kettle, then refilling with water and rendering the nasty stuff? Would save a run of cleaning the kettle
Though the cappings are cleaner, you'd be surprised just how much dirt is in them. 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.
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Love how you have explained this process!
I’d guess at 35lbs 9oz
So glad you enjoyed the video Lesley, thank you for taking the time to watch it. As far as your guess, it was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace.
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May God`s Grace and Peace and Jesus Love stay with You Jeff all the time, all the best throughout this New 2024 Year, may all God`s blessings be with You Jeff, greetings from Poland😀😇😀😇😀😇😀😇😀
What a wonderful blessing, thank you very much for that and for watching as well. God's peace and blessings to you and yours as well Johnny.
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I'm going to guess 11lbs 4oz. I love your videos! I usually stop what I'm doing as soon as I get a notification from youtube that you posted a video. Thanks for all that you do!
Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching, and until the next one, God's peace.
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37lbs 2.7oz, sweet wax man! I love your energy and the bees!
Thank you very much for you kind words and your appreciation for bees.Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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 Max.
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Good Morning Mr. Ed! I must again say that your walking intro tour is as enjoyable seeing the natural landsacpe of your living space as is following your various bee keeping activities. From a natural disaster as your were describing a flood a few years back, a bit of conversion and human ingenuity, and you have created yourself the tools you need for a wax capturing process. I am suspecting that the process is enhanced by quick access to kitchen tools? Here I will leave a guess of 37lbs - 5.579oz of fine bees' wax at the end of a good day! In fact, may this be a start to a Great Weekend! -Bob...
I do like to walk and talk, and it's great to hear positive feedback on that situation, thank you for that Bob. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace brother.
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@@JeffHorchoffGoodness me, 2 whole weeks? Did that fine 628 Dirt Rooster, where hobby bee keeping is a way of life, come closer with his guess? Much can be learned by paying attention when out in nature, whether paying attention to nature, or to someone speaking knowledge. Always happy to watch Mr. Ed, while Hoping that you and everyone else around the Abbey have a wonderfully enjoyable weekend! -Bob...
Just watched Bob Bonnie’s how to produce Queens. Totally blown away with the work to take to do this. Really impressed and learned a lot. Thanks for dropping his name.
Bob is a great guy, and what you see is what you get with him. I'm so looking forward to seeing and talking with him again next weekend. Thanks for watching. God's peace Dave.
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Bob's the man!!! He also has a really cool setup for rendering wax.
Mr Ed, I’m surprised that you remembered from last year when I commented that idea. I say it’s 38 lbs 8 ozs or 38.5 lbs. I always love watching your videos no matter if its rendering wax or doing cut outs! If I win you prize I bet folks will think there’s some hanky panky going on. lol I think the winner should split the prize with me… lol x2
Tell you what Don, you are going to have to work it out with whoever does win because it was not you. You were close, but no cookie....I mean honey. Thanks for the idea and for watching as usual. God's peace brother.
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My guess is 48.4. I love all your videos Mr Ed! God bless and keep you in the palm of His Hand.
Thank you so much for your blessings, it is a real joy receiving them.Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace Patricia.
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I always love the wax rendering videos! Oh who am I kidding, I love them all! My guess is 59.6lbs! Sending love across the miles! 😊
I know you enjoy watching all my bee wrangling adventures Amanda, thank you so much for taking the time to watch them all. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. God's peace.
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@@JeffHorchoff I will be patiently waiting for the answer! Take good care! See you soon! 😉
Wow! So awesome! I am so glad to have seen this. We have wax almost ready to render and I have been wondering that a good way to do that would be. I also know now to scrap the wax right when you separate it from water! I’m going to guess 47pounds and 9ounces. Thank you for sharing your wisdom!
It is my pleasure to share what I know and how I do it when it concerns rendering beeswax....as well as a ton of other beekeeping skills. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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.
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Would be cool to see a close up timelapse video of the staligmite wax formation on the spout.
I actually tried to do that a year ago, but because the process takes hours to do, I kept on running out of battery life. 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.
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Another fine video
Thank you brother, glad you enjoyed watching. Until the next one, God's peace Larry.
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You should make a “French press” for the first scum recovered from the kettle. Put it in a tall cylinder with 50-75% water and remaining scum. Get it hot enough to melt wax. Press the “press “ part down cylinder into the hot water. Take off heat and let it cool very slowly (wrap it up). When done slum should be just debris and a nice block of wax on top
Love the idea, and I know it would work. Thanks so much for the suggestion and for watching. Also, 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.
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Hi there. Nicely done. You've been lucky with getting these cookers for free.
I use a steam fruit dryer and nylon socks and a bucket and distilled water to achieve the same. Need to melt wax during the coming weeks too.
A real blessing to have come across those kettles, I use both of them on a regular basis. Years ago I used nylon stockings and a 5 gallon soup pot to melt my wax, things have really changed. Best wishes for a successful wax rendering. Thanks for watching. God's peace Daniel.
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Why not just put one large basket shaped screen with some spacers under it that fills the whole bottom of the kettle? That way it can drip down through a much larger surface area.
I had tried that in the past, and it did work. However, because my basket wat not the exact contour as the inside of the kettle, debris and trash made it's way into the kettle and into the wax. Still, if the screened basket were a better fit, I agree, it would be the ideal solution. Thanks so much for your suggestion and for taking the time to watch the video, it is greatly appreciated. Also, 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.
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I hope you do find a solution that lets you be a bit more productive with your time! Thank you so much for all the knowledge and good times with bees, I don't keep any myself but I have a garden full of them.@@JeffHorchoff
I just love your videos. My guess is 45lbs 7.25oz. Thank you for the opportunity to join this contest, and may GOD bless you.
Delighted to hear you enjoy following along with my bee wrangling adventures, I'm very happy to share my fun. As far as your guess, it's close, but not the number I'm looking for and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thank you for your blessings and for watching. God's peace Sharon.
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26.4lb great video 1st time I’ve found you. Watching from uk with bad back so scrolling through what I’m missing with my bees.
Delighted to hear you have found my channel, it is unfortunate it happened under your circumstances, sorry for your pain and sufferings. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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 Ashley.
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Great video, Mr. Ed. I love how you take the time to explain the details of what, how, and why you do what you when it comes to the bee's, honey, and wax. Very informative
Great Vid Jeff. I love your wax processing playlist. You need to shout out to us Australian Bee Keepers. Tough times ahead. Verroa is now here on the East Coast of Australia after someone didn't do their job at the Ports in Newcastle. Bio security is trying to stop it, but i think it's futile. Thousands of hives have been euthanased so far.
Take care Brother
I am very familiar with the plight of Australian beekeepers after the recent accidental, hopefully, introduction of verroa as so many of my subscribers are from Australia and have kept me abreast of the situation. It breaks my heart the method your government chose to stem the assault with the eradication of so many colonies of bees, infected or not. My personal feelings are the same as yours, it is a futile battle, and now the Australian beekeeper will be in the same boat that most of the world's beekeepers are in, dealing with mite issues from here on out. On my next live pod cast, September 30, I will talk about the issue. God's peace brother.
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@JeffHorchoff Awsome response. I can't even move my hives that dont have verroa yet to a safe zone. Otherwise, im given a ticket by the government. If i do it without a permit, that seems impossible to get. It's like Australia's Covid response, but for Bee keepers.
The Department of primary industries have been slow on their response. They're offering compensation. I've heard that's a struggle to get, too. This is ruining peoples lively hood. Take care. Keep on making vids.
. One day im a meet you. Steve
@JeffHorchoff Big changes overnight in Australia. They've moved from eradication to management. No more hives are being euthanasied. Im now in a suppression zone. Im moving my hives further away for a while.
Not sure if i can post a link here.
www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/emergencies/biosecurity/current-situation/varroa-mite-emergency-response
Have a look if it works for you.
On the map, im at the edge of the bottom yellow circle to the left. but safely in the green
Super cool video that I just stumbled upon! My guess is 35.7lbs (without watching any future videos). Keep up the good work :)
Delighted to hear that you stumbled upon my channel, I certainly hope you will visit it again as there is always a lot of fun going on here. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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 Raye.
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A big chunk of my family are from Louisiana, so I love hearing the accents in your videos. My guess is 65 Lbs
I love spreading the sound of the south, thanks for listening and for watching. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Also, 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 Jason.
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Love your videos, got some catching up to do because I've been so busy lately, going to be a lovely evening of bees and honey. Going to throw a guess of 38.7 pounds, minus 8 milligrams for the lovebug.
Yes, that love bug is throwing off a lot of guesses. Enjoy your visit with your bees. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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.
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@@JeffHorchoff Oh no dear, I sadly don't have any bees of my own, just catching up with yours. Some day I'd absolutely love to have bees, for now I'm just praying for a stray swarm and enjoying them vicariously through your truly wonderful videos
I’m gonna guess 27lbs. Wish smellivision was real! I’m betting they smell heavenly. Those cappings cleaned up really nicely and I bet they will make great chapsticks and candles! I keep trying to talk my husband into getting some raised bed gardens and a couple bee hives for our yard but haven’t been successful yet! 😂❤ May God continue to bless you and yours.
Good guess, but not the correct weight, sorry. As I'm rendering the wax, the smell is wonderful, but after the process is complete, the finished block smells divine. It's to bad I can't put the smell on video and let everyone enjoy it with me. Keep working on your hubby on getting your dreams to happen, I'm sure he will work with you especially if you concentrate on the rewards of his efforts, fresh veggies and honey. Thank you for your blessings and for watching. God's peace Copper.
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27 pounds 6.4 ounces. Thank you for the video's Mr. Ed. My dad was an Ed also and when I was in Junior High he had 124 beehives in Florida. Once a month I would help him work the hives. My siblings and I were in charge of extraction of the honey with a hand crank 3 frame extractor. Fun days.
124 hives, that man worked! Good thing he had kids to help out, I bet you guys loved it. Your guess was close, but not correct, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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 Mysti.
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38 lbs 3 oz combined weight. That is some beautiful wax! I am bad about "adopting" repairable useful items from the side of the road, also.
I also love to dumpster dive, there is so much cool, free stuff out there and all it needs is a bit of TLC and you really have something good. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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 Susie.
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My guess is 43.7 lbs. love when you melt the wax on videos. I should have a hive next year as I got a bee hive this summer and me and my dad are fixing it up so we can put bees in it next spring. Love all of your videos.
Love the idea of you becoming a beekeeper, the world needs as many as it can get. As far as your guess, it was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching, God's peace Ronald.
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Thanks for the fun video. You're always so enjoyable!
My guess is 14 pounds!
You are welcome Barbara, and thank you for your kind words as well.Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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.
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Beautiful blocks! Im guessing 29 pounds and 7 oz. Its probably more as I'm not that good at guessing weight from a photo.
Yes they are, and wonderful smelling as well!Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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.
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Looks like 37 pounds 3.6 oz. I don't keep bees but I enjoy watching you and your friends doing all that work. Thanks for sharing.
You are very welcome Peter, and thank you for being such a faithful viewer of my bee wrangling adventures.Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace brother.
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To help catch all the junk left over in the wax water, you can make a wire basket insert from that hardware cloth to put everything in and leave in while it boils out the wax hopefully keeping the pot clean so you don't have to put a mesh by the drain and scrape out what's left.
A few years back I did just that, and it worked very well. The big problem was because the basket I shaped was not exact enough to match the interior of the kettle, a lot of debris managed to escape. Thank you for your suggestion and for watching, it is greatly appreciated. Also, 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 Vincent.
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Nothing like the smell of newly cooled beeswax early in the morning 🙂
And the bright, yellow color of cappings blocks is almost like gold. Have started to use my own wax too instead of delivering it for processing and having to buy it back for 4x the price I get for it. Here in Norway it is illegal to use wax that is not heat-treated at 120C/248F, so I bought a big pressure cooker for that, saves me money in the long run and it is satisfying work too.
So smart of you to save your wax instead of selling it. I would never sell any of our wax as no one would pay the price I'd ask for it, and besides, I need all my wax just for my own needs. I have to admit, rendering the beeswax is very satisfying, and the final product is simply beautiful to look at and wonderful to smell. 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 Raymond.
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My guess is 52 lbs 1.6 oz of beautiful wax! I love your videos, and watch them all. Thank you for producing them and for sharing your knowledge!
Thank you very much for your kind words and supporting my channel by actively watching my videos, it is greatly appreciated. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace Delise.
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Thank you for another facinating video love how upbeat and positive you are😊 I am going to guess 35. 48 pounds will be fun to see what it actually is !
Thank you very much for you kind words and support of my channel, it is greatly appreciated Carol. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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.
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Hi Mr. Ed, real nice video. I was really surprised to find out that you had peacocks. I kept peacocks as an alarm system. Difficult birds unless you keep ‘em happy. So impressed with your bees.
Personally I have never had peacocks, however, one of the monks at the abbey did, over 30 of them. Unfortunately, over the years, they passed away, and the pen was unused so I was given permission to use it for the bee program here at the abbey. 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 Dwynnell.
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45lbs 6 oz of wax! Another fantastic video and very entertaining I might add. By the grace of god!
It's ALL grace, thank you Jesus! Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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 Roy.
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Well, what a small amount for the year, but alas, you got some wax. Great video once again.
My guess is approx 28.7 pounds. Being Canadian, I had to convert my guess, haha.
Keep the videos coming. Love everyone of them
Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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 Tammy.
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I CAN smell it. Oh wait...I'm working with beeswax. 32 pounds and 6 1/2 ounces. I love beeswax so much. I'm making my fall salves. I'm sharing the goldenrods with the honeybees and some odd looking white mini bumblebee looking guys. Such pleasant times. Happy bee keeping and God keep blessing you. Keep em' coming.
I bet your room smells divine, lucky you to be able to work with beeswax and make such awesome products.Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. Thank you for your blessings and 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 Jacki.
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Thank for the opportunity of the contest my guess is 41.42lbs of beeswax you harvest.. Mr. Ed. Thanks for that value info.. I tried to melt wax It was very smelly, difficult and messy & tough to clean, it gets bridle.. But I still have the hopes to find a better way you give me that hope… I think if there left over could’ve be squeezed on a prense we can get the last bit of was left on it..
Melting and rendering wax can be challenging, but once you have a system in do it, it becomes very easy. Don't give up and keep trying until you succeed.Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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.
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Thanks for the video🖖🏻
You are very welcome, delighted to hear you enjoyed watching, and thank you for taking the time to do so and leave your comment. Also, I hope you will check out more of my over 600 bee wrangling/ bee rescue adventure videos 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.
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Im new subbie & im probably late😂. I just think it's amazing how much Wax you got from them cappings. & watching that was so awesome & the honey looked so good omg. Im like I wanna stick my finger in too M.r Ed 😂.
Thank you so very much for subbing to my channel, I'm humbled every time I'm honored by such a gift. I know you will enjoy watching many of my bee wrangling adventures as often I show delicious looking and tasting honey in the videos. I look forward to hearing from you again on the videos, and remember, I have posted over 550 videos already, and post a brand new one each Friday. Thank you so much for watching, and until the next one, God's peace Kali.
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@@JeffHorchoff You're welcome. I do enjoy watching the ones I've seen so far. Like y'all crazy as hell sitting around the bees, just chilling with nothing on 😂. It's awesome and wild tho when y'all do go in and wrangle the bees up. I know I have a lot more videos to watch lol. &🙏🏾. !
Mr Ed. Thanks for all of your wonderful videos and for the guests you have invited to join you. My guess is 36.5 pounds.
Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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 Keith.
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Hi Mr Ed, I guess 23 pounds 61/2 ounces, Love how you recycle everything the bees work for
As hard as the bees work to produce all the things they make, it only makes sense to do that in appreciation of their efforts.Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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 Kenda.
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Love what you do and thanks for sharing. My guess is 33.3 lbs.👍🏼♥️🙏
You are welcome Steve, and thanks for your kind words and for taking a guess at the weight, it is very much appreciated. Unfortunately, your guess is not correct, but in 2 weeks you will know the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace brother.
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Really enjoyed that. 25lb, 7.75oz. My sis has bees, but my my experience with bees, I am wary of them. Enjoy uour vids.
Really like your avatar, I lived in the Canal Zone for 5 years in the early 60's, what a wonderful place to grow up. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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.
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Hi Jeff, Love watching you render wax in that big kettle. Wish I could smell it. My guess is 29 lb, 9 oz. Thanks!
One day TH-cam is going to have smell-o-vision as an option for videos, and you can rest assured, I'll be including it in the videos.Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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.
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I love the videos, they always relax me. I am gonna guess 35 pounds 6 ounces.
Happy to bee here for you Mike, thanks so much for watching. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. God's peace brother.
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Now run that bucket through a cotton pillow case while its still hot. Love the DIY filter
I would like to know what the total was.
Is there a video on how you will reuse this. I have so many questions. Do you have a series of videos I could watch to see your whole process. I thought this would be used for candles as in for the 3 days of darkness. Thanks and God bless
Mike
I have lots of videos about rendering beeswax. If you go to my channel and find the playlist, they are all in there...along with over 550 videos I have made in the last 12 years. 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 Mike.
Mr. Ed
Love watching your videos, I will be melting my first years wax this fall. My guess will be 47 lbs 6.4 oz. Keep on taping, I’ll be watching! God bless!
You are going to love rendering your own beeswax, it is so cool to do so and you wind up with the most beautiful looking and smelling block of wax. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thank you for your blessings and for watching, it is greatly appreciated. God's peace brother.
Mr. Ed
I come for the Bees but I stay for all the Dope Stories 😊 I Love hearing tales from elders. ❤
I have to say, for sure I got stories....and I am old as well. 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
I think the idea of putting the wire mesh around the opening is good but I was thinking why not put a piece of metal sponge in the opening and then adding the metal mesh that way when the mesh gets clogged up the sponge will still be clean and then you can remove the mesh and not worry about any of the garbage dripping into the clean wax this way you provide two forms of barrier not just one
Because the wax gets rendered once more, it is not necessary to get the initial rendering perfectly cleaned out. On my first rendering, I strain out about 95% of the trash that is in the wax. On the second rendering I get out almost 100% because I use finer screens to clean the wax. The idea of using a metal sponge, copper brillo pad, is a very good one. However, I do not want to restrict the flow of the liquid wax/water in any way on the initial rendering, and the sponge would in fact do that. Thank you for your suggestion and for taking the time to watch the video, it is greatly appreciated. Also, 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
I loved seeing the process and your willingness to try and perfect the process. My 24.7 lbs total.
Delighted you enjoyed the video, thanks so much for taking the time to watch. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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 Helen.
Mr. Ed
Hi Jeff! We sure enjoy your videos! Our guess is 33lbs 3 ounces. Thanks for all that you do!
Delighted to hear how much you enjoy watching, thank you very much for doing so. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
I am guessing 33 lbs. 7oz. I thoroughly enjoy your videos and especially like the honey processing!
Thank you Sheri, I really appreciate hearing when folks enjoy the channel, it makes me want to keep up the effort.Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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.
Mr. Ed
If you really want to extract all the wax from the cocoon debris, you’re going to have to press the waste. If you use a heated press, that could be used on the cooled waste from the kettle
I have to agree that pressing the wax would extract all the wax. My problem, I do not have a press that would do the job, but because my process does get the majority of wax, I'm very happy with the results given my equipment. 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
@@JeffHorchoff a panini press / George Foreman grill type thing would be ideal if you ever went that route. Something like that would work for a test at least and is available for pennies at a second hand shop or garage sale
26.5 lbs
We’ve got 15 hives on our property that a friend manages with my daughter. We melted down some capping earlier this year. It was a lot of fun. I enjoy watching and learning from your videos!
Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching, God's peace Josh.
Mr. Ed
My guess is 20lbs and 2.8oz! 😂 and its beautiful! Nice work!
Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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.
Mr. Ed
Hi Mr. Ed, the two blocks weigh 15.2 pounds! Thank you for the videos. I love these videos with the breakdown of the wax and honey.
Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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
@@JeffHorchoff I’m on board and watch all your videos. They are awesome and so enjoyable to watch with the humor. I don’t bee wrangle but you make it fun and interesting but being outdoors is awesome to me! Looking forward to the wait! Thank you again and God Bless!
My guess is 38.61 lbs. thank you for your work and God bless you!
You are very welcome, it's a real joy for me to share my bee wrangling adventures. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. Thank you for your blessings and 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.
Mr. ed
Hi Mr Ed! I love watching you in all your videos. My guess with the two beeswax blocks is 42 lbs 7 1/2 ounces. 😊
Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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.
Mr. Ed
I’m going to guess a combined weight of 32 lbs 7 oz. I always enjoy the videos where you are processing wax or harvesting honey. Well, I enjoy them all!
I do love hearing when folks like watching my bee wrangling videos, thank you so much for your kind words and for taking all that time to follow along. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace Cathy.
Mr. Ed
I heard you mentioned feeding the honey water back to the girls? How do you feed it back? Feeders or you pour it into a larger drown safe container?What do you do with the black yuck? Trash or compost? I just didn't want to go dumping piles of stuff in my yard that'll induce robbing. Thanks as always, so informative. I need to figure out how to scale it all back to a homestead or backyard beekeeper scale though! 🤣 Love that giant vat though, so jealous.
Does the Abbey offer tours? $$?
By pouring the mixture on the ground, the bees are able to get the honey, plus it is difficult to remove the wax without a lot of the water going everywhere. The refuse from the rendering goes to a compost pile. As far as robbing goes, I have yet to have a problem with that and I have lots of hives where I pour the water. You will get it all figured out eventually. My best advice, start small and get a feel for it before getting a plan for the future. Yes, I do tours of our honey operation, and in fact, I have a bee club from Mississippi coming tomorrow for one. Reach out before hand and it can be arranged. Thanks for watching. God's peace Heather.
Mr. Ed
I'm fairly new to this. I have yet to render any wax. I plan on doing it for the first time this winter when all the deartth related activity is over and everyone is bottoned down for the season. You talk about how beautiful it smells. I have one question. Does it smell as good and propolis? that is a smell I do love.
In my opinion, it smells better than propolis, but then propolis smells great as well. Good luck on your rendering, you are going to love doing it. 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 Paul.
Mr. Ed
Use stapler to attach other end then turn it 90° degrees each time for better flow
Very good suggestion, thank you for that and for watching. Also, 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.
Mr. Ed
The rendering videos are my favorite!! Seeing something made new again is so satisfying…thank you for sharing! I say 31lbs 3oz
Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace Jennifer.
Mr. Ed
7.1kg Australia, First bee hive learning all l can and combine together cheers 🍾🥂🍻❤
A bit light, it was 25 pounds and 13 ounces. Congratulations on becoming a beekeeper, you are going to love it. Thanks for watching, and I hope you will check out more of my over 600 bee wrangling/ bee rescue adventure videos 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.
Mr. Ed
Beautiful haul of wax. For once it is cooler just north of Dallas than it is at your place.
I find it hard to believe that it was cooler in Dallas than here, but I'm very happy for you. You guys have been under that heat dome for months. Thanks for watching. God's peace Leeanne.
27.3 lbs is my guess.
God bless you and your work.
Thank you so much for your blessings and support of my efforts. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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 Teresa.
Mr. Ed
Jeff, thanks for all the videos. Unfortunately all my hives are empty right, so I rely on your videos to get my "bee fix"!! I am guessing the wax blocks to be 14 pounds 8.7 ounces!
Sorry to hear your bees are gone. Fortunately, you can do something about that in the spring to get those boxes humming again. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace Debbie.
Mr. Ed
Looks nice Ed, how about if you heat up and filter the wax one more time that will clean it even better. I guess it is 32 Lb & 6 ozs for both blocks.
I will render the wax one more time, and by then, it will be clean enough for me to use one the foundations.Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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.
Mr. Ed
My Ed, I watch all your videos.
I would like to get in to the Beeswax Candles Business, Watching from Calgary, Canada
I was wondering why you don't screen it when it's coming out. Thats how we strained maple syrup . Just a screen to catch everything on the outside. It was a lot easier to keep the screen clean. My guess is 51.4#
I do strain the water/wax mixture and because the wax gets rendered once more, it is not necessary to get the initial rendering perfectly cleaned out. On my first rendering, I strain out about 95% of the trash that is in the wax. On the second rendering I get out almost 100% because I use finer screens to clean the wax. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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 Joe.
Mr. Ed
Just stick a wick in that little dribble of wax on the pipe and make it a natural candle formed by the wax itself. That wax is so pretty and I wish I could smell it too. But I have smelled warm beeswax. When melting wax to make candles can you blend beeswax and soy wax?
I really don't know much about making candles...other than using 100% beeswax to make them. God's peace JJ.
Mr. Ed
I was wondering where or how the bees get wax or make the wax they create to make comb.
Just as everything in a hive is "bee made," so too is the wax. It is excreted through glands on young bees and gathered and used for comb building. There is some great info on this subject from google, and they do a way better job explaining it than I could. Thanks for asking and for watching. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
24 pounds 12.49 ounces another great wax rendering video . thanks for the opportunity to participate in the fun
Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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.
Mr. Ed
Mr Ed that was a beautiful couple of buckets my man. My guess is 33 and 1/3 lbs
They really were some beautiful looking and smelling blocks of wax. I always love making these videos. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. 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
You could have another layer that you peal away when the wax slows down.
Love your wax rendering videos. I'm always amazed how clean it looks after. That's 31lbs 2.72 oz of wax of course.
Wax rendering videos are one of my favorite ones to make, it's just so cool to fire up the kettle and clean up some nasty wax and turn it into something beautiful and useful. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait 2 weeks to find out the exact weight. Thanks for watching. God's peace.
Mr. Ed
Great video Mr Ed and it’s always fun having a competition- 43 lbs 6 oz
I like a good competition as well, and there are a lot of viewers who think the same thing as so many have ventured a guess. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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 Linda.
Mr. Ed
@@JeffHorchoff Thanks Mr Ed - I’m always watching your videos and learning all the time!!
Good Evening Mr. Ed, My guess is 51 pounds 5 ounces for the weight. Just a thought, if you placed the wax cappings into an old pillow case, tied it at the top and weighed it down to the bottom of the boiler, then the melted wax could rise to the surface and the junk would be trapped inside? Cleanup would be easier too.
In my early years of rendering wax and trying multiple ways of getting the job done, I did use the "pillow case" method a few times. Yes, it did work, but I still was not happy about the amount of wax that was lost in the pillow case. I even tried remelting the case in fresh hot water but the results were not up to my satisfaction.Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. Thanks for your suggestion and 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 Ralph.
Mr. Ed
My guess is 28 pounds 3 ounces. Great video very informative!
I'm delighted to hear you found the video informative, and hopefully entertaining as well. Your guess was close, but not the exact number, and now you are going to have to wait until September 30 when I go live to find out the exact weight. 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.
Mr. Ed
Would it be better to add more water to prevent your wax from potentially scorching, then turn the gas off before draining?
I always turn the gas off before draining, but because the kettle retains heat for so long, it still will boil sometimes. As of today, I have never scorched the wax while rendering it. Thank you for your suggestions and for watching, it is greatly appreciated. God's peace.
Mr. Ed