400+ Pounds of Raw HONEY: How to Harvest Honey 🍯 🍯
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this video, we'll be sharing our 400+ pound raw honey harvest story! We'll be discussing tips for honey harvesting, how we did it, and what we learned along the way.
If you're looking to learn how to harvest honey yourself, then this is the video for you! We'll cover everything from removing the wax capping's, using an extractor, all the way to filtering raw honey. We hope you took a thing or two away to use for YOUR honey harvest if/when the time comes! We look forward to hearing what you learned along the way with us on our 400+ pound harvest!
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00:00 Introduction
00:34 Pulling Honey Supers
01:03 Removing Wax Cappings
03:45 Loading Frame into Extractor
04:07 Extracting Honey
04:38 Filtering Honey
05:00 Honey Taste Test!
05:11 Honey Water Percentage
08:21 Day One Summary
09:20 Day 2 Start
09:59 Removing Honey Supers
10:42 Drawing Comb
11:52 Cappings evaluation
12:28 Loading Wet Frames
12:51 Filtering Honey 2
13:09 Spring 2023 Harvest Summary
Wow! Amazing video! The honey looks great!
Thank you so much!
Brandon ive just purchased the exact same spinner here in the uk but our honey frames are maybe half as deep so ive made a perspex plate in the bottom to hold and spin 12 frames at a time with no need to turn the frame half way through.
I need to look into that then for my medium frames! Would love to save me some time on the extraction!
Hohoho😀👍, bravo, čestitke za rad
Thank you !
Hi Brandon! Enjoyed your video. Loved yellow board that frame sat in for uncapping. Got to have one. What are they called? Would love to surprise my husband with one for Christmas.
Cheers, from Perth, Australia
Hello Beth,
Glad you enjoyed the video. The yellow frame holder is called a "combcapper" on www.mannlakeltd.com . One of the best things I have purchased, and your husband will love it!
Let me know how he likes it and best wishes.
-Brandon
Good video and good information. But the capped honey is not always 18% or less. I pulled and extracted 100 lbs of 95% capped honey that measured 18.4% in the bucket. Pulled another 200 lbs and at least 80% of it tested at 19+% below the cappings. You should always test.
Thank you and yes I agree that you should always test and that different nectar has different water content! Overall you cant really go wrong with having a lower than 18% water content.
4:37 poor bee is drowning
So much honey!! How heavy are those boxes?!
The deep honey boxes can be anywhere between 70-100 lbs depending!
How much colonies and how many boxes deeps and mediums made this over 400lbs harvest?
I used a handful (about 5) of my colonies to produce this amount of honey. I cant remember exactly how many boxes it took because each had a different amount of honey... Each medium you would pull off can hold around 60 lbs and deeps hold around 80 lbs. Hope that helped a little bit!
So if I heard right you got 400 pounds of honey on your first year? Also how many hives do you have?
Just a handful of hives for honey production. The others are used to make more bees. Good question
Wow look at all that raw honey!!! ❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much!
How hot does the hot knife get? And technically aren’t you heating up a small about of honey when uncapping?
I think it can get around 100 degrees F or more but im not entirely sure on the exact temperature it needs to be minimum or the max it can reach. Yeah, technically you are heating up a small amount of honey to get the rest of the honey out of the frame.
When you had the camera in slow mo I had to still slow it to 0.25 just to see it fly out the forces that takes is actually quite mad
It's very surprising and hard to capture on camera!
What do you do with the capping after?
Great question John, I drain the honey out of it and then set the wet capping's back out for the bees to clean off. Once that is done, I melt it down to make wax blocks.
Where do you sell your honey? It is too soon to tell, but I think I'm going to have my first big harvest, too big for family and friends.
Hey Jason,
Usually, I sell by word of mouth, but I also do fairs with my local beekeeping club!
It’s called bee bread not honey bread,still a good video!!
Good catch! I was waiting for someone to say something when I listened back to it.
Great video. If i did that outside near my hives my bees would be on my ass rapid lol
Thanks Alan. Some of the big hives know they are strong and like to show it sometimes!
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