Beekeeping - Our First Harvest From the Top Bar Hive
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- Beekeeping - Our First Harvest From the Top Bar Hive
This is the second season with this top bar hive, which has been going absolutely gangbusters lately. I've strained most of the honey from the wax and from six top bars I got about 10kg (22lb) of honey.
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Very nice! I love seeing what Sam and Angela do! Very informative! This spurs so many questions. Thanks for showing life at the shack!
Very awesome! It is always fascinating how many different hive configurations can be used successfully (Langstroth, Warre, top-hive, AZ, etc.). There is a style for every beekeeper. We are presently running mostly Langstroth, but that is mostly because we picked most of them up for free. We want to add the AZ/Slovenian style in the next year or so and place that in the areas that are prone to bears. Great videos. I hope you keep posting.
Nice Video! Helps me to prepare for the work with my new top bar hives. Thank you very much! Greetings from germany
That comb and honey was BEEutiful...
Thanks again for sharing your videos
Thanks for watching.
Thanks so much for this video. I now finally got my head around what top bar beekeeping looks like now. That one hive provides way more honey than a family needs: fantastic!
Since it looks so easy and cheap to use a top bar, I’m wondering why you prefer a Langstroth style hive?
I prefer the Langstroth hive because I have several and it's easier to extract the honey and reuse the comb.
That looks so beautiful!
Thank you.
Please watch this video from BeeLanding "Extracting honey from a top bar hive". It just kills my soul watching folks cut that drawn comb off like everybody mistakenly does.
Nice harvest.
This brings the season total to about 75kg of honey and ROUGHLY 25kg of cut comb.
And we still have more to harvest but I'm not in a huge rush for that.
@@PopsShack Yes no need to rush. You can only eat so much at one time anyway
Why not keep the bucket right next to you thanks for sharing
Because that's where the bees are.
Depending on the temperature I would never allow someone who is allergic to bee stings near bees even if they're dresssed for the occasion.. Bees can get in anywhere and the anafilactic shock is not worth the gamble.
Nice
great product (honey)
Hi Sam & Angela, what are the advantages of this type of hive over the traditional style?
They're cheap and easy to build and you don't need special equipment for extraction.
Where are you based Pop? Noticed your top bars have ventilation floors.
NSW, Australia.
Hey Sam ,what width are your top bars ? I am using 32mm but have to use 6mm spacers strategically to reduce cross comeing .
I think most are at 35mm. Some are a bit narrower. I don't have a lot of problems with cross combing.
Where are you beekeeping?
The Sapphire Coast of NSW.
@@PopsShack I am in SE Queensland near Killarney.
Good camera work ,
what do you use in your smoker so it keeps smoking like that
Pine needles.
Are top bar hives really worth the trouble?
They're not a whole lot of trouble. You won't get as much honey as you would from a Langstroth hive but it's also a lot less trouble and expense.
Any chance of a apariy update miss the bee vidz
Sorry, things have been SUPER busy for the last six months. We're starting back up with the videos shortly, I'll get a beekeeping update in the next couple of weeks.
Thanks.
@@PopsShack yep np just thought I'd post I did enjoy them along with other people cheers
@@geej6273 I haven't worked since February and I've never been so damn busy!
how wide are your bars? 1 1/2?
From memory about 35mm.
@@PopsShack thank you! i start to wonder if my 38mm (1 1/2 inch) are too wide for noting then
@@ragimundvonwallat8961 They should be fine.
Manuka honey is HIGHLY over rated so the hyperbole can artificially drive up the price of an Australian honey.
Manuka honey isn't from Australia.
WHY WOULD YOU CRUSH AND STRAIN? THAT'S PERFECT COMB HONEY IT TASTE BETTER IN THE COMB🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
I shallow frames for cut comb production. I harvested about 25kg of cut comb just after Christmas and I'll probably harvest that much again before the season is done. I got about 11kg of honey from these six bars and a kilo of wax. That's almost $250 from just SIX top bars.
@@PopsShack comb honey here is $20USD like a 11cmx11cm piece😉 how do you like the topbar compared to the langstroth?
@@RippleAffect - Honestly, I prefer the Langstroth but I can see why so many people like top bar hives.
Apologies for the late reply.
All I can say is 20$ for a 11cm x 11cm piece of Combe is high way robbery , I wouldn’t pay it , I’d buy honey else where or get my own bees .
what up with the solar system
I'll have an update on the solar system in the next few weeks.
cool