Amazing how that machine works. Revenue made from honey extracted from the wax. Also the wax blocks. Your friend owes you more than a bottle or two of mead.
Your friend is lucky to have someone to do this for him. Hopefully he’s able to get his own system for next year, but let’s hear it for neighbours and friends helping friends! I’m in Alberta, and we all still help our neighbouring farms out whenever and wherever needed - good to see that still happening all over in the many different communities. I used to be extremely deathly allergic to bee stings, and still need to carry my epi-pen just in case. As per my MD & allergist’s instructions, I’ve been taking small amounts of natural bee pollen every day for the past six years or so and it has actually helped me to measurably lower my histamine response if I was to be stung. We use honey and bee products for so much at our place - cooking obviously, but our vet uses a honey plaster on some of the wounds our farm animals or our dogs get from time to time, and it helps prevent infection and speeds healing time. It’s truly amazing stuff! I personally use beeswax and honey I buy from from a local keeper in several of my homemade moisture bars & such. I won’t be involved in all aspects of it, but my husband is getting things organized at the moment to start keeping some hives out on our farm starting next spring. You and other TH-camrs are really helping us to learn a great deal, and it’s much appreciated! Thanks so much
When you watch you tubers for information my advice is to watch the professions like Ian. I’ve found too many back yarders who have limited knowledge give bad information and poor advice. Good luck with it. It’s a fun hobby
It's amazing how many of us beekeepers are allergic to bee stings! I developed a life threatening reaction to the stings - body covered in hives, blood pressure drop, swollen throat - ya know, the works. I've since undergone Venom Immunotherapy Treatments and get stung on a regular basis with little to no swelling at the sting site. My allergist saved my life and my business!
That was just way too cool. It is amazing how much honey and wax was recovered from the toppings. Any serious bee keeper should have such a machine. It is worth it's weight in golden honey.
It's nice you did this for your fellow beekeeper. At least now he can see the benefit of the wax melter, maybe a smaller one, but the benefits are obvious. A bottle of mead is cheap but I'm sure you got help and advice from someone as you were getting bigger in the business. Good video of the whole operation. Thanks
What an ingenious machine! Thanks for the great instructional video of how it's done in the real world. Every time I watch you harvest your hives I'm also awed at how much wax those little guys make each year to encapsulate their honey stores, they sure know what they're about. Thanks.
thanks so much for the info Ian I am in my second year and just pulled 25 pounds, made 7 splits that look great, your productions have helped me time and time again. Instead of giving the cappings directly to the bees I will put them into paint strainer bags and spin them, because you have clearly demonstrated just how much honey is left to harvest there.
You need to put that melter on a pallet or something so you can lift it on your forklift, that way you don’t have to crouch all that time working the tap.
That is amazing, great job and great machine! Bottle of Mead wine is well deserved, also helping out a fellow beekeeper. Thanks for sharing, also that close up of the honey/wax layer when you were pouring was very helpful.
Wow! This is so interesting! Thank you for sharing this process, your friend is very lucky you were willing to try this. A lot to be learned from this .
Absolutely, and completely fascinating. No wonder you have 200,000 views. What I found most interesting is though you are dealing with large weights of honey and wax you still treat the products gently, and your machinery with such care and patience. The world be a better place if we had more artisans / craftsmen / businessmen like you.
Hello Ian. Our latest purchase is a junior cappings spinner. We have several buckets ready to be processed. We only have 50 hives but as our operation grows so does our need for simplicity and effectiveness. I just had open heart surgery so I havent put the cappings spinner to work yet but I'm doing fantastic and hopefully the boss will let me process our honey/cappings next week with her help of course.
We are headed into Spring here in Chile and I am so happy that I do not have to deal with snow or ice. Just cool and wet here in the winter. This was rendering is awesome. Hard good work. Thanks Jim in Chile.
So, if you hadn’t been there to help him, all that recovered honey would have gone to waste? He’s lucky to have a friend like you. He needs to take steps before next year if yields will run consistently high like this one. Good job 😎👍👏
Maybe some of the smaller beekeeping operators can come together to form a consortium, pool their money, choose the member with the most space and buy the equipment needed and share the proceeds from the extracted honey equally.
Great video, thanks. It’s all these details that we don’t think about and how much honey beekeepers loose/waist. Makes me think I should reinvest differently.
I wholeheartedly agree.. I found it extremely an an eye-opening experience of all the Lost honey revenue.. I'm sure that stainless steel melder is expensivebut I can also see where it wouldn't be too long and it would pay for itself....
I really enjoyed watching this. Another aspect of bee keeping that should not be overlooked. i am also sure that the bee keeper will be so surprised to see what he is missing that he too will invest in a wax/honey separator. Just so you know, I was born in Wpg and worked for Modern Dairies for several years and I even made deliveries to Morden and Carman. Those were the days. I have moved to Montréal for work reasons, but my heart is still back in Manitoba. Have a great day. Tim
Neighbors HELPING neighbors? Wow! That takes me back to my farm days. In the city if you say "Good morning" to your neighbor they think you're a weirdo.
Hey Justin... I was thinking that too... I mean there is an external clear tube but it just shows the level of the heating water. Plus even if you could see inside, you'd be going through two layers of metal and then heating water. Still love the concept though of being able to see whats inside. Looks like OP monitors by the way he heats and then pours material off.
@@ceruleanfish6703 my thought process was a strip about 2 inches wide of heat resistant acrylic or glass, hell could even use 2 layers so the water can go all around it, have the acrylic or glass beside the tap so you can see the level of where the honey is and where the wax begins.
Just a thought: what would happen when you let the whole batch cool down so that the wax gets hard again while the honey would still be able to flow? This way you cloud easily separate honey from wax. Afterwards you would need to heat it up again to cook the wax. This would take some extra time
@@svenweihusen57 Exactly, it would take extra time. Seeing how this is a money-oriented process, he won't. This recovered honey is clearly not as first-class as one straight from the centrifugal extractor.
You should pour the melted beeswax into molds the size of soap bars and sell the wax bars. Beeswax is good for waterproofing and conditioning Knife handles and cutting boards. Among other things.
Seems like for the second melt, you could set your melter to about 65 degrees, allow the wax to fully melt and float on top of the honey, then turn the unit off and let the wax solidify. I'm guessing the wax would stick to the sides of the melter and stay in a block on top of the remaining honey. Then all the honey would then easily tap off the bottom and the wax could then be processed to completion. That would all the honey to render to the bottom without heating it to 90 degrees. Just a thought.
Nice one Ian: I have an Alto Shaam cook and hold oven. Radiant heat, retains the moisture. Think I'll look around for some pans and stuff. I only have two top bar hives.
i happily did this exact thing all winter, very small scale using a slow cooker, with several big buckets of cappings that a local beekeeper gave me- they usually threw them away. got a cupboard full of beautiful raw honey, and made the rendered wax into a zillion one ounce cubes. was the most satisfying, even theraputic thing way i had ever passed a cold winter in my life. did it for several winters, until i eventually moved to a warm place.
Superb video... very very informative instructional and useful for beekeepers. Btw, I'm based in Dubai,UAE and originally from Mumbai, India. Keep the videos coming bro, great work.
Really well worth a bottle or even two. I did not know that there was that much honey wasted in the old fashion prosess. However, i would like to know what the very end product was, if its not honey or wax what is it and has it got a use. The interesting thing for me was the wax, as i am sure it has a whole lot of uses as well as being one of the best polishes going for woodwork. I use to make furniture polish for people which in fact is only bees wax pure turpintine and what ever and smell, like lavender,,orange and rose, and with a slab like you showed you can make a lot of tins of polish from this. Its incredible what these small insects do and the amount of work they do that most people never get to know about, so this video was very good and informative, thank you very much for taking the time to make the video.
Ian awesome unit, love videos. My suggestion make sure brass draw off is lead free or change it to Stainless. Residual lead will appear in the honey over time.
Even if you darken it a bit it is still good for other uses.. like one person said you can use it for Mead making..or sell to bakery's ..or feed to your hives
Hello i was wondering what you do with the slum. i find your videos fascinating. i'm in Perth Western Australia the weather conditions you have to contend with are quite amazing. Very informative and interesting great work.
Ian has had so much rain and cold he can't farm if he wanted. That's why he has had time to help out his friend. We have had rain and more rain all year and lately it's been 10-15 degrees below normal. 48 degrees for a high today here in central MN. where did summer go. LOL We only hit 90 once or twice all year and not many days up to 80 - cold wet year - wettest year ever for MN.
Amazing how that machine works. Revenue made from honey extracted from the wax. Also the wax blocks. Your friend owes you more than a bottle or two of mead.
From a none beekeeper, this is the most tutorial video I have seen on the web about this process, well done, 10 /10
Your friend is lucky to have someone to do this for him. Hopefully he’s able to get his own system for next year, but let’s hear it for neighbours and friends helping friends! I’m in Alberta, and we all still help our neighbouring farms out whenever and wherever needed - good to see that still happening all over in the many different communities.
I used to be extremely deathly allergic to bee stings, and still need to carry my epi-pen just in case. As per my MD & allergist’s instructions, I’ve been taking small amounts of natural bee pollen every day for the past six years or so and it has actually helped me to measurably lower my histamine response if I was to be stung. We use honey and bee products for so much at our place - cooking obviously, but our vet uses a honey plaster on some of the wounds our farm animals or our dogs get from time to time, and it helps prevent infection and speeds healing time. It’s truly amazing stuff! I personally use beeswax and honey I buy from from a local keeper in several of my homemade moisture bars & such.
I won’t be involved in all aspects of it, but my husband is getting things organized at the moment to start keeping some hives out on our farm starting next spring. You and other TH-camrs are really helping us to learn a great deal, and it’s much appreciated! Thanks so much
When you watch you tubers for information my advice is to watch the professions like Ian. I’ve found too many back yarders who have limited knowledge give bad information and poor advice. Good luck with it. It’s a fun hobby
It's amazing how many of us beekeepers are allergic to bee stings! I developed a life threatening reaction to the stings - body covered in hives, blood pressure drop, swollen throat - ya know, the works. I've since undergone Venom Immunotherapy Treatments and get stung on a regular basis with little to no swelling at the sting site. My allergist saved my life and my business!
Another bottle of Meade, you mean a case of his good stuff!
Newbie here...you just opened a new unknown area in a Beekeeper’s life. Thank you so much...so educational & well instructed 🐝
It’s great to see somebody extract honey and render the wax very thoroughly so there’s no waste. Bravo!
This was an excellent video to show how much was there is in capping. Thank you for your time in producing all these great videos. God bless
Accepting payment in mead? It better be a barrel of mead.
That was just way too cool. It is amazing how much honey and wax was recovered from the toppings. Any serious bee keeper should have such a machine. It is worth it's weight in golden honey.
It's nice you did this for your fellow beekeeper. At least now he can see the benefit of the wax melter, maybe a smaller one, but the benefits are obvious. A bottle of mead is cheap but I'm sure you got help and advice from someone as you were getting bigger in the business. Good video of the whole operation. Thanks
a lot longer process than i would have ever guessed. Great video...thank you!
Outstanding video! An incredible effort on your part! Thank you for sharing.
What an ingenious machine! Thanks for the great instructional video of how it's done in the real world. Every time I watch you harvest your hives I'm also awed at how much wax those little guys make each year to encapsulate their honey stores, they sure know what they're about. Thanks.
thanks so much for the info Ian I am in my second year and just pulled 25 pounds, made 7 splits that look great, your productions have helped me time and time again. Instead of giving the cappings directly to the bees I will put them into paint strainer bags and spin them, because you have clearly demonstrated just how much honey is left to harvest there.
Would of liked to have seen his reaction on what you salvaged. Cool video.
It's nice to have such a good neighbor 🌻
Thank you for helping a peer with extraction as well as clearly explaining the process.
You need to put that melter on a pallet or something so you can lift it on your forklift, that way you don’t have to crouch all that time working the tap.
I think the melter should have a hopper type bottom to drain more efficiently.
Learned that from a house painter I assisted... Work smarter, not harder whenever possible.
its got wheels.... maybe je could extended that wheels but than he would need to lift all the wax higher...
@@ceruleanfish6703 I agree. Here is an efficient and smarter way to eliminate cappings all together. th-cam.com/video/Eym8rxYeLTc/w-d-xo.html
crgaillee but he would still need to separate the melted cappings from the honey.
This was FASCINATING to watch. Thank you so much!!
You should get a case of Mead for your service. What a cool family you are part of. The way things should BEE.
That is amazing, great job and great machine! Bottle of Mead wine is well deserved, also helping out a fellow beekeeper. Thanks for sharing, also that close up of the honey/wax layer when you were pouring was very helpful.
Wow! This is so interesting! Thank you for sharing this process, your friend is very lucky you were willing to try this. A lot to be learned from this .
Absolutely, and completely fascinating. No wonder you have 200,000 views. What I found most interesting is though you are dealing with large weights of honey and wax you still treat the products gently, and your machinery with such care and patience. The world be a better place if we had more artisans / craftsmen / businessmen like you.
What a great video!
Very informative and interesting.
Thanks for doing this - it's given me ideas!
Lot of work..and a great set of skills you have..tthank you for shareing.👍
Hello Ian. Our latest purchase is a junior cappings spinner. We have several buckets ready to be processed. We only have 50 hives but as our operation grows so does our need for simplicity and effectiveness. I just had open heart surgery so I havent put the cappings spinner to work yet but I'm doing fantastic and hopefully the boss will let me process our honey/cappings next week with her help of course.
Not to sound greedy but the work we just witnessed is worth at least 3 bottles. You're a great friend for only 1 bottle.
Ace_OneShot
😂
We are headed into Spring here in Chile and I am so happy that I do not have to deal with snow or ice. Just cool and wet here in the winter. This was rendering is awesome. Hard good work. Thanks Jim in Chile.
That is so wonderful how you’re helping your fellow beekeeper.😃 kudos to you!
This is one of the coolest videos I have seen so far, thanks so much for sharing Ian
I enjoyed watching the new machine at work. I'm gonna say your friend is going to be pretty stoked on the honey and wax haul
So, if you hadn’t been there to help him, all that recovered honey would have gone to waste? He’s lucky to have a friend like you. He needs to take steps before next year if yields will run consistently high like this one. Good job 😎👍👏
Joe Romanak Looked like a lot of work ... I hope the guy pays him or at least returns the favor somehow...
@@TheBulldoggboy21 He returned the favor with gods drink.
Yep, that was close to 65% by volume of honey recovered. By weight, that is probably closer to 75%.
Nothing would waste because it can all be fed back to the bees. They will clean up every drop
Maybe some of the smaller beekeeping operators can come together to form a consortium, pool their money, choose the member with the most space and buy the equipment needed and share the proceeds from the extracted honey equally.
I could watch this all day. its so relaxing and enjoyable.
Great video, thanks. It’s all these details that we don’t think about and how much honey beekeepers loose/waist. Makes me think I should reinvest differently.
Aww i so want to see his(honey guy) reaction to your awesome work.....
This was fun to watch. I hope theirs more like it in the future,
I wholeheartedly agree.. I found it extremely an an eye-opening experience of all the Lost honey revenue.. I'm sure that stainless steel melder is expensivebut I can also see where it wouldn't be too long and it would pay for itself....
that was awesome. thanks for sharing your knowledge and work.
I really enjoyed watching this. Another aspect of bee keeping that should not be overlooked. i am also sure that the bee keeper will be so surprised to see what he is missing that he too will invest in a wax/honey separator. Just so you know, I was born in Wpg and worked for Modern Dairies for several years and I even made deliveries to Morden and Carman. Those were the days. I have moved to Montréal for work reasons, but my heart is still back in Manitoba. Have a great day. Tim
That was amazing to watch, educational and really emphasizes the importance of the machine in large scale extraction!
Neighbors HELPING neighbors? Wow! That takes me back to my farm days. In the city if you say "Good morning" to your neighbor they think you're a weirdo.
Very interesting and informative, thank you!
Wow, you saved so much honey and beeswax! This is a good lesson for any beekeeper. I have a new appreciation for beekeepers.
Cheers Ian! Best wishes for a restful fall and winter.
Someone's having way too much fun with the new toys. 😀
Nice recovery, I'll bet your friend will be ecstatic.
Just subscribed, I like your helpfulness towards another Beekeeper, well done and thanks
Good to see that process Ian
Thanks again
Wow, i mean, just wow.
Good work. Love you'r vids.
Cool video. Love the streamlined process. Special props for having the splash bottle for when you drained the water into the catch basin.
WIW! That was an education! Thank you for sharing!
Excellent video! Thank you so much.
That was a great video. Very interesting. Thanks
I'm no bee keeper but the process is interesting to me so ... great video and very informative :)
thanks for showing that whole process so well!
Good video. Amazing how much honey is left in the cappings. You just needed an excuse to play with the new toy.
Affective. The bees do all that work and we waste a lot of their honey. Good to see someone who has that covered.
That’s just amazing. Thanks for sharing.
As always-awsome video-seen for the second time
Its a shame that there isnt some sort of clear section so you can see where the levels are
Hey Justin... I was thinking that too... I mean there is an external clear tube but it just shows the level of the heating water. Plus even if you could see inside, you'd be going through two layers of metal and then heating water. Still love the concept though of being able to see whats inside. Looks like OP monitors by the way he heats and then pours material off.
@@ceruleanfish6703 my thought process was a strip about 2 inches wide of heat resistant acrylic or glass, hell could even use 2 layers so the water can go all around it, have the acrylic or glass beside the tap so you can see the level of where the honey is and where the wax begins.
Just a thought: what would happen when you let the whole batch cool down so that the wax gets hard again while the honey would still be able to flow? This way you cloud easily separate honey from wax. Afterwards you would need to heat it up again to cook the wax. This would take some extra time
@@svenweihusen57 Exactly, it would take extra time. Seeing how this is a money-oriented process, he won't. This recovered honey is clearly not as first-class as one straight from the centrifugal extractor.
Mead?? Awesome.
Great Video, Great Editing
Great video thanks for sharing. Texas
An excellent and informative video, thanks!
I love how beaker helps each other out
You should pour the melted beeswax
into molds the size of soap bars and
sell the wax bars. Beeswax is good
for waterproofing and conditioning
Knife handles and cutting boards.
Among other things.
How generous, nice work
Pretty amazing process.
Very interesting. I never knew that you could get that much honey from the wax. Amazing process.
Amazing how much honey you captured without darkening it!
You are a hard worker man I wish you all the best
Another great video that wax melted is a slick rig. Apparently it dont just melt wax, thanks for that video
Seems like for the second melt, you could set your melter to about 65 degrees, allow the wax to fully melt and float on top of the honey, then turn the unit off and let the wax solidify. I'm guessing the wax would stick to the sides of the melter and stay in a block on top of the remaining honey. Then all the honey would then easily tap off the bottom and the wax could then be processed to completion. That would all the honey to render to the bottom without heating it to 90 degrees. Just a thought.
Heat treated honey is no good.
Where is the heat element?
Pipe in the middle?
That's pretty amazing!
Awesome video, I really enjoyed it!👍👍
It is great that it works out for both parties. Everyone works together
Definitely due more than another bottle of mead for all that work! Sold me on purchasing that machine if I ever get that big!
This was so intriguing
I just started but was unaware there was honey in the wax. These videos always amaze me.
That was cool never seen that before thank you 👍👍👍
Nice one Ian:
I have an Alto Shaam cook and hold oven.
Radiant heat, retains the moisture.
Think I'll look around for some pans and stuff.
I only have two top bar hives.
i happily did this exact thing all winter, very small scale using a slow cooker, with several big buckets of cappings that a local beekeeper gave me- they usually threw them away. got a cupboard full of beautiful raw honey, and made the rendered wax into a zillion one ounce cubes.
was the most satisfying, even theraputic thing way i had ever passed a cold winter in my life. did it for several winters, until i eventually moved to a warm place.
Thanks for sharing! Great video. When I have more hives I will look into getting a wax melter.
Superb video
And if the mead is any good it should be like a fine liqueur
Nice trade
And thanks as always for the video!
That was really interesting!
What a great video! Educational and wonderful. You should get a case of meade
Fascinating!! Thanks for sharing!
Excellent video.
I am impressed with how much you got from all of that...🐝
Melter honey is used for feeding the bees in the winter
nikolaos stavrou thanks for that info I never knew that fascinating
You mean the dark honey? What if it solidifies due to cold?
You can make it in to suroup for the bees to eat
you can heat it up
iirc honey that goes over 60c becomes toxic for bees
i enjoyed watching thanks, from a 3rd year beekeeper
Superb video... very very informative instructional and useful for beekeepers. Btw, I'm based in Dubai,UAE and originally from Mumbai, India. Keep the videos coming bro, great work.
Really well worth a bottle or even two.
I did not know that there was that much honey wasted in the old fashion prosess.
However, i would like to know what the very end product was, if its not honey or wax what is it and has it got a use.
The interesting thing for me was the wax, as i am sure it has a whole lot of uses as well as being one of the best polishes going for woodwork.
I use to make furniture polish for people which in fact is only bees wax pure turpintine and what ever and smell, like lavender,,orange and rose, and with a slab like you showed you can make a lot of tins of polish from this.
Its incredible what these small insects do and the amount of work they do that most people never get to know about, so this video was very good and informative, thank you very much for taking the time to make the video.
Very enlightening video.
Ian awesome unit, love videos. My suggestion make sure brass draw off is lead free or change it to Stainless. Residual lead will appear in the honey over time.
Steve Lawrence
Yes , lead free
You should be getting a few cases of mead for all that work. Mead is easy to make.
mead is easy to make, very hard to make well.
Also some of the most expensive sugar inputs in all of fermentation
Awesome job!
What a nice neighbor 👍🏻
Good show and information
Even if you darken it a bit it is still good for other uses.. like one person said you can use it for Mead making..or sell to bakery's ..or feed to your hives
Hello i was wondering what you do with the slum. i find your videos fascinating. i'm in Perth Western Australia the weather conditions you have to contend with are quite amazing. Very informative and interesting great work.
Must be nice to be able to see some rain...and wear a jacket! Looking forward to both here in GA lol
Ian has had so much rain and cold he can't farm if he wanted. That's why he has had time to help out his friend. We have had rain and more rain all year and lately it's been 10-15 degrees below normal. 48 degrees for a high today here in central MN. where did summer go. LOL We only hit 90 once or twice all year and not many days up to 80 - cold wet year - wettest year ever for MN.
Very cool. I hope you got a few bottles of mead. You spent a few work hours and a decent amount of electric power to do this project.