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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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....
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 .
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.
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 outstanding Ian!! When you did the first video on the wax melter with very little narration, I was a bit confused in the process. With this video you showed us exactly how the wax melter works! With my 2 first year hives and 30lbs of extracted honey, I could easily see how much honey was left in the cappings! After straining the cappings for a couple of weeks, I had about 3 more lbs of honey!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Canadians are such nice people. Because that is alot of work just to show his friend that he should invest in better wax rendering equipment. Again thats alot of work. Cuddos to Mr steppler for your hard work and patience. !!
Very interesting to hear you talk about the grades of honey (ie light, medium dark). I had often thought that darker honey was more concentrated in flavor but not so. Honey is almost like olive pressing where the first extraction is the purest and has the more full taste. With honey the darker and I assume has had more heat applied honey has a different taste to it. Enjoyed your post. Regards ~
Cerulean Fish No, light med dark, meaning heat treatment, not colour grade, The light will be salvaged, the medium and dark will need to find specific markets
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.
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.
I sincerely hope you did get a bit more for all your time and effort then a meager bottle of mead. I found this process very interesting to watch. Thank you for showing.
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.
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.
Wow man i was thoroughly impressed! That was pretty awesome. I would say it will be worth it for your friend to invest in a machine like yours. Im sure he felt the same. Lol.
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.
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
What do you do with you "slum"? Is it good to put in the compost bin? Dose the garden like that? Do you know what kind of plants would do better with it? Would worms like it? So many questions sorry.
It usually has enough wax left in it that it can be pressed into shapes, which can be used as excellent fire starters. Considering it's composed of all the crap left on the bees' "feet" as they come crawling into the hive, it's probably mostly organic matter, so yeah, it'd probably be okay to put in the compost, too.
Can somebody please explain something to me ? If you're using such a huge kettle type melter, why wouldn't you use a doubled-up cheesecloth or 1-2 oil filters in the wire strainer when you're doing the tapping out ? I've seen a couple other beekeepers/honey producers channels where they do that. It obviously catches a much larger amount of the slum at the outset so there's less clean up later and the cooled wax is cleaner with fewer remeltings needed. Or maybe he has whatever technical reason for doing it this way. I appreciate any replies. I love watching these types of videos.....very relaxing and educational content.
Way too much junk to filter, it doesn't drain fast enough and you want to reprocess what you catch (one more time) to get all the wax out. You can re-refine the wax using a better filter but once-refined wax can still be sold.
That was a lot of hard work and patience - I can see you being quite busy helping beekeepers from losing a lot of revenue. One question, that last product you had which had no wax but was crumbly (crumbly slum) - can you use that for something like fertilizer or soil enhancement?
Are those temps Celsisus? How much honey did he extract before you got involved, T ony? I didn't understand about the distinction between light, medium and dark honey - or why the dark is good for bbq sauce. At 72ºC the honey is not raw any more. So what do you do with that honey? How did you know when you had gotten to the end of the wax? And if you only filled the tank to half way up that escape hole, how did you get so much wax to drain out of it? 160 lbs. of wax was the difference between the middle of that hole and right beneath it - the point at which the liquid could not drain any more? This is fantastic btw and you are such a generous friend to show the way ... so good on you!
Wow! That's a lot of time, but the results are impressive. I'm envious that your friend can make mead for himself - I'm in QC and it's - you guessed it! - illegal to make your own mead. You can only make it with a commercial licence. (Yes, I have thought of moving!)
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
It’s great to see somebody extract honey and render the wax very thoroughly so there’s no waste. Bravo!
Newbie here...you just opened a new unknown area in a Beekeeper’s life. Thank you so much...so educational & well instructed 🐝
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Another bottle of Meade, you mean a case of his good stuff!
Would of liked to have seen his reaction on what you salvaged. Cool video.
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
This is one of the coolest videos I have seen so far, thanks so much for sharing Ian
a lot longer process than i would have ever guessed. Great video...thank you!
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.
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.
Lot of work..and a great set of skills you have..tthank you for shareing.👍
Wow, you saved so much honey and beeswax! This is a good lesson for any beekeeper. I have a new appreciation for beekeepers.
Outstanding video! An incredible effort on your part! Thank you for sharing.
Somehow I missed this video four years ago. Great video and lots of good information.
Someone's having way too much fun with the new toys. 😀
Nice recovery, I'll bet your friend will be ecstatic.
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.
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 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....
It's nice to have such a good neighbor 🌻
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 .
Accepting payment in mead? It better be a barrel of mead.
Cheers Ian! Best wishes for a restful fall and winter.
Cool video. Love the streamlined process. Special props for having the splash bottle for when you drained the water into the catch basin.
This was FASCINATING to watch. Thank you so much!!
What a great video!
Very informative and interesting.
Thanks for doing this - it's given me ideas!
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.
Just subscribed, I like your helpfulness towards another Beekeeper, well done and thanks
I could watch this all day. its so relaxing and enjoyable.
You should get a case of Mead for your service. What a cool family you are part of. The way things should BEE.
Aww i so want to see his(honey guy) reaction to your awesome 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 outstanding Ian!! When you did the first video on the wax melter with very little narration, I was a bit confused in the process. With this video you showed us exactly how the wax melter works! With my 2 first year hives and 30lbs of extracted honey, I could easily see how much honey was left in the cappings! After straining the cappings for a couple of weeks, I had about 3 more lbs of honey!
That is so wonderful how you’re helping your fellow beekeeper.😃 kudos to you!
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.
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.
I'm no bee keeper but the process is interesting to me so ... great video and very informative :)
Mead?? Awesome.
Great Video, Great Editing
WIW! That was an education! Thank you for sharing!
What a great video! Educational and wonderful. You should get a case of meade
That was amazing to watch, educational and really emphasizes the importance of the machine in large scale extraction!
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.
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.
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.
That was a great video. Very interesting. Thanks
I love how beaker helps each other out
Well? How was the mead? Getting every last drop of wax and honey. Love it.
You are a great neighbor to do that for him. It must be a solid friendship
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.
Another great video that wax melted is a slick rig. Apparently it dont just melt wax, thanks for that video
I just started but was unaware there was honey in the wax. These videos always amaze me.
Wow, i mean, just wow.
Good work. Love you'r vids.
Canadians are such nice people. Because that is alot of work just to show his friend that he should invest in better wax rendering equipment. Again thats alot of work. Cuddos to Mr steppler for your hard work and patience. !!
Good video. Amazing how much honey is left in the cappings. You just needed an excuse to play with the new toy.
Amazing how much honey you captured without darkening it!
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!
Very interesting to hear you talk about the grades of honey (ie light, medium dark). I had often thought that darker honey was more concentrated in flavor but not so. Honey is almost like olive pressing where the first extraction is the purest and has the more full taste. With honey the darker and I assume has had more heat applied honey has a different taste to it. Enjoyed your post. Regards ~
Cerulean Fish
No, light med dark, meaning heat treatment, not colour grade,
The light will be salvaged, the medium and dark will need to find specific markets
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog mead is where I’d put it🤣🍶
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 was awesome. thanks for sharing your knowledge and work.
This is so freaking cool. So what can you do with the left over black stuff? Garden compost use maybe
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 interesting and informative, thank you!
I sincerely hope you did get a bit more for all your time and effort then a meager bottle of mead. I found this process very interesting to watch. Thank you for showing.
Very interesting. I never knew that you could get that much honey from the wax. Amazing process.
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.
Good to see that process Ian
Thanks again
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 a lot of honey left on the table as you said. As hard as you guys work it’s well worth the effort.
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
It is great that it works out for both parties. Everyone works together
Wow man i was thoroughly impressed! That was pretty awesome. I would say it will be worth it for your friend to invest in a machine like yours. Im sure he felt the same. Lol.
Definitely due more than another bottle of mead for all that work! Sold me on purchasing that machine if I ever get that big!
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.
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.
Honey moonshine from the sugar rich waste water and cooked honey 👍👍👍 looking forward to seeing the mead and moonshine video 👍👍👍
Wow , that was incredible. So much honey. I was guessing maybe one 5 gallon bucket.
i enjoyed watching thanks, from a 3rd year beekeeper
As always-awsome video-seen for the second 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
What do you do with you "slum"? Is it good to put in the compost bin? Dose the garden like that? Do you know what kind of plants would do better with it? Would worms like it? So many questions sorry.
I would think it wouldn’t have any nutrients in it
some use it for fire starters i have heard and yeah you can just put in into compost bin. quite good for that too. for plants.. no idea
It usually has enough wax left in it that it can be pressed into shapes, which can be used as excellent fire starters. Considering it's composed of all the crap left on the bees' "feet" as they come crawling into the hive, it's probably mostly organic matter, so yeah, it'd probably be okay to put in the compost, too.
Some of the smaller bee keepers that I know use the "slum" for compost. It does have nutrients in there for the plants.
Mix it with saw dust and/or dryer lint and press it into blocks to use for starting fires.
I’d say he needs to give you several bottles!!!! Wow that was a lot of work.
Can somebody please explain something to me ? If you're using such a huge kettle type melter, why wouldn't you use a doubled-up cheesecloth or 1-2 oil filters in the wire strainer when you're doing the tapping out ? I've seen a couple other beekeepers/honey producers channels where they do that. It obviously catches a much larger amount of the slum at the outset so there's less clean up later and the cooled wax is cleaner with fewer remeltings needed. Or maybe he has whatever technical reason for doing it this way. I appreciate any replies. I love watching these types of videos.....very relaxing and educational content.
Way too much junk to filter, it doesn't drain fast enough and you want to reprocess what you catch (one more time) to get all the wax out. You can re-refine the wax using a better filter but once-refined wax can still be sold.
That was a lot of hard work and patience - I can see you being quite busy helping beekeepers from losing a lot of revenue. One question, that last product you had which had no wax but was crumbly (crumbly slum) - can you use that for something like fertilizer or soil enhancement?
It is mostly cocoons, with bit if propolis and debris. No idea if it would have any value as fertilizer.
What a nice neighbor 👍🏻
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
You are a hard worker man I wish you all the best
Thanks for sharing! Great video. When I have more hives I will look into getting a wax melter.
It's amazing what can be extracted with gravity and just letting it sit in a vessel with a drain spigot.
How generous, nice work
I am impressed with how much you got from all of that...🐝
Are those temps Celsisus? How much honey did he extract before you got involved, T
ony? I didn't understand about the distinction between light, medium and dark honey - or why the dark is good for bbq sauce.
At 72ºC the honey is not raw any more. So what do you do with that honey?
How did you know when you had gotten to the end of the wax? And if you only filled the tank to half way up that escape hole, how did you get so much wax to drain out of it? 160 lbs. of wax was the difference between the middle of that hole and right beneath it - the point at which the liquid could not drain any more?
This is fantastic btw and you are such a generous friend to show the way ... so good on you!
Kimi Wei @13:00 it shows Celsius
It has to be gratifying to reach such a extreme skill level, did it take all 10,000 hours?
Wow! That's a lot of time, but the results are impressive. I'm envious that your friend can make mead for himself - I'm in QC and it's - you guessed it! - illegal to make your own mead. You can only make it with a commercial licence. (Yes, I have thought of moving!)