Hello Jason Peter from Australia , have ever considered sitting down and writing a book on all your knowledge about bees I have a title for it " The JC Disgest of beekeeping " be worth thinking about .
Once you use a water jacketed bottling tank with dripless valve it's like a nirvana experience. Honey on tap. Plug it in and it decrystalizes honey. Dripless does not equal drip-proof. Well worth the expense. Bottling and extracting equipment pays for itself and holds value like high dollar sports cars. Great investment.
I like it. I also just realized that you showed this bottling tank in your video on, lowering the moisture content. I usually reuse my extractor tank for bottling, but i do have a square bucket with a honey gate for smaller batches. So, do you usually have so much honey, that you leave most of it in buckets and only bottle a little at a time?
You surely have a good memory. I totally forgot I had shared this bottling tank in the video. Using the extractor as a bottler makes sense, I may have to try that for larger orders.
Okay I'm using the same gate valve but the inner nut does not want to screw into the gate valve enough to seal. I have filed and filed the threads but not much improvement. Looking for something to turn the inner nut with besides a pair of channel locks. Back to Home Depot I guess.
Actually there is a wrench for that valve but you have to 3D print it. I had a friend make me one and it only cost $5 to make. At first I thought a plastic wrench would not be strong enough to do any good but once I got it I was proved wrong, it's been very handy to have. Here is a link www.thingiverse.com/thing:2593602
I would use a similar version because I have a larger stock pot sitting in the kitchen cabinet. 👍👍👍🐝🐝 Haven’t used it in 3 years at least. I think it’s 2 gallons.
Love your videos Jason. I just wanted to say thanks again for the time you are spending with editing and uploading information to share with us. Hope your having a good day
Thanks for the kind words, it feels good to know the editing is noticed. It takes me a lot of time to edit but I am picky. At one point I wasn't sure I was going to make the dead line this week but I pulled through. 😀Thanks for watching and I hope you have a great day as well
Oh sorry about that I forgot to add a link for that. Thanks for reminding me. Here is the link and I will add it to the video description amzn.to/2uX5umP
That tank pot looks great . Keep your head above the ( Bee’s, cow’s, goats, chickens) lol . Tomorrow will be a better day. Keep up the video’s when possible.
Looks pretty efficient, nice job. I always just strain out of the extractor into five gallon buckets with gates on them then I can bottle from those or transfer to five gallon pails without the gates for bulk sale. I saw one set up in another video where the guy had a machine that was adjustable to meter out the exact amount of honey needed and it was automatic start/stop. It was slick but I'd hate to imagine how much money they had in their equipment...tens of thousands I'd imagine.
Agreed! I much rather prefer to strain the honey before it goes into the bottling tank. It makes the process soooo much easier. I have seem so of them fancy bottling tanks, they are very pricey. Mann Lake makes a decent one I'd like to have someday. If I remember correctly, it's around $1200. It has a double wall to hold water which you can heat via the controller on front of bottler (AKA water jacket). It also acts as a wax melter which I would probably never use it as. I like my solar melter too much.
That doesn't seem too bad for a price on that, the problem is that once I start considering that stuff it's one of those things that doesn't stop. Like I want this thing, I can afford it... well if I get that then I really need this thing and that thing and another thing...pretty soon I'm thinking I need a dedicated building and then one day I wake up wondering what the hell I was thinking, lol. I just got into processing my own wax this year. I had a bunch of old full plastic frames that the wax coat got too thin on from being stored and the bees wanted to build cross comb on it. I had a bunch of old sheets of thin foundation I didn't need so I melted it down along with what burr comb and old comb I'd collected this spring and recoated those frames and man did it make a difference. I'd like to get a roller/imprinter and start doing all my own foundation from my own wax.
Yes, you are correct, once you start buying fancy equipment it never stops. But if your growing equipment is almost needed to save time. How do you render your wax? I mentioned I use a solar wax melter. It works very well! Them foundation presses are very expensive, have you priced them? I had a bunch of plastic foundation I had to recoat this spring as well. It does make a huge difference.
Agreed, in order for one guy to be as efficient as possible, you just have to have good equipment. There are a lot of circumstances where a person just is not capable of working hard enough to get things done without proper equipment. Yeah I have priced the presses, you're right they are unbelievably expensive...unbelievably expensive. I've often wondered why the hell they are so high, there isn't much to them. I guess it's because the mfg can get it. Still though if person does the math and handles very many hives, it will pay for itself pretty quickly. Bought sheet foundation is ridiculous as well as is the full plastic and in the case of the full plastic, if a person has to spend time and wax re-coating it to get it to work well then you almost might as well be making full wax sheets that make handling things easier to start with. It's really hard to manage queen cells on the plastic stuff without ruining them, almost have to just cull extras and swap frames around for splits and that's wasteful. Plastic is also hard to clean back up and reuse from brood chambers. @ $2-@3 per frame it wouldn't take long to cover $1200 for a press even at 20 hives. I just used a big pan with water and a smaller pan in it all sitting on top of a little Coleman gas burner. I tried using a slow cooker but it took so long for it to melt the wax I had to find an alternative. It's easy to see that the wax is probably the most valuable of all the products we get from the bees in beekeeping. It takes the most resources and time to accrue and is pretty perishable if a person doesn't take good care of it because of wax moths and hive beetles. If plain plastic foundation is worth $3+, what value should a keeper put on a drawn comb of all wax? The most valuable thing I used this year by far has been a bunch of empty deep brood frames I had put in the freezer from absconds and splits that I took half and gave back new. It's hard to catch it without brood for one thing.
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Use a 3D printer heating pad. Way cheaper than $100 and it’s programmable with a pid loop and arduino.
You are a busy man! I thank you as I will start this spring.
Nice job.
To find the hotspot in the house. Just find out where the cat takes his naps
From where you got the Stainless Steel container
Good Will
That is an awesome idea. Thank you for sharing this information
You are so welcome!
FYI... Look up BN-LINK Digital Heat Mat Thermostat Controller. It lets you heat up to 108 and turns off and on automatically.
Full disclosure, I use a $80 bucket heater with it.
Hello Jason Peter from Australia , have ever considered sitting down and writing a book on all your knowledge about bees I have a title for it " The JC Disgest of beekeeping " be worth thinking about .
Hello Peter, I have a basic beekeeping ebook that I sell. I need to do another for more advanced beekeepers though. Thanks!
Once you use a water jacketed bottling tank with dripless valve it's like a nirvana experience. Honey on tap. Plug it in and it decrystalizes honey.
Dripless does not equal drip-proof.
Well worth the expense. Bottling and extracting equipment pays for itself and holds value like high dollar sports cars. Great investment.
I'm in looking for stainless pot.
I see them a lot at our local Goodwill stores.
Good stuff! Thanks for sharing.
Do you fill pails that get dumped into the pot
I like it. I also just realized that you showed this bottling tank in your video on, lowering the moisture content. I usually reuse my extractor tank for bottling, but i do have a square bucket with a honey gate for smaller batches. So, do you usually have so much honey, that you leave most of it in buckets and only bottle a little at a time?
You surely have a good memory. I totally forgot I had shared this bottling tank in the video. Using the extractor as a bottler makes sense, I may have to try that for larger orders.
Great video! Thanks for adding the links to the items you used.
Pitoon
awesome vid. Where do i get this honey guage from
great Job keep up the good work.
Thanks for the ideas.
Jason, a 5 gallon bucket works well for me, due to living in an environment that is warm all year long.
That is great. I have used a bucket in the summer month before and they do work well.
Okay I'm using the same gate valve but the inner nut does not want to screw into the gate valve enough to seal. I have filed and filed the threads but not much improvement. Looking for something to turn the inner nut with besides a pair of channel locks. Back to Home Depot I guess.
Actually there is a wrench for that valve but you have to 3D print it. I had a friend make me one and it only cost $5 to make. At first I thought a plastic wrench would not be strong enough to do any good but once I got it I was proved wrong, it's been very handy to have. Here is a link www.thingiverse.com/thing:2593602
Same thing that Tim just said.Have a great day!
Thanks!
I would use a similar version because I have a larger stock pot sitting in the kitchen cabinet. 👍👍👍🐝🐝 Haven’t used it in 3 years at least. I think it’s 2 gallons.
Great vid Jason.I sure would like to your whole farming operation.
If your ever in Ohio, I'd surely give you a farm tour.
Hope to get up your way someday.Thanks Jason!
Love your videos Jason. I just wanted to say thanks again for the time you are spending with editing and uploading information to share with us. Hope your having a good day
Thanks for the kind words, it feels good to know the editing is noticed. It takes me a lot of time to edit but I am picky. At one point I wasn't sure I was going to make the dead line this week but I pulled through. 😀Thanks for watching and I hope you have a great day as well
Hi Jason, looks cool. Well done.Any chance of some more info or a link to the heater pad ?
Thanks.
Oh sorry about that I forgot to add a link for that. Thanks for reminding me. Here is the link and I will add it to the video description amzn.to/2uX5umP
Hi Jason, new beeker here in CT, little over a year, thanks for the vids and the education
+John Bergman Glad to hear you enjoy the videos. Thanks for watching them.
Such a terrific idea! Thanks for sharing and please keep making videos. :)
Cool, glad you like it!
I just built an air pressurized bottling tank with an in line air drier using a plastic 5 gal. bucket with a screw on lid. No need to heat the honey.
Does that work for crystallized honey?
Wow Jason, You are so versatile! I like the idea a lot Thanks!!! Rick in Pa.
Thanks for all the practical cost saving ideas and projects.
That tank pot looks great . Keep your head above the ( Bee’s, cow’s, goats, chickens) lol . Tomorrow will be a better day. Keep up the video’s when possible.
Sometimes things get so busy I forget which direction I should be going. lol Have a good weekend!
Great ideas! Thanks for sharing.
Looks pretty efficient, nice job.
I always just strain out of the extractor into five gallon buckets with gates on them then I can bottle from those or transfer to five gallon pails without the gates for bulk sale. I saw one set up in another video where the guy had a machine that was adjustable to meter out the exact amount of honey needed and it was automatic start/stop. It was slick but I'd hate to imagine how much money they had in their equipment...tens of thousands I'd imagine.
Agreed! I much rather prefer to strain the honey before it goes into the bottling tank. It makes the process soooo much easier.
I have seem so of them fancy bottling tanks, they are very pricey. Mann Lake makes a decent one I'd like to have someday. If I remember correctly, it's around $1200. It has a double wall to hold water which you can heat via the controller on front of bottler (AKA water jacket). It also acts as a wax melter which I would probably never use it as. I like my solar melter too much.
That doesn't seem too bad for a price on that, the problem is that once I start considering that stuff it's one of those things that doesn't stop. Like I want this thing, I can afford it... well if I get that then I really need this thing and that thing and another thing...pretty soon I'm thinking I need a dedicated building and then one day I wake up wondering what the hell I was thinking, lol.
I just got into processing my own wax this year. I had a bunch of old full plastic frames that the wax coat got too thin on from being stored and the bees wanted to build cross comb on it. I had a bunch of old sheets of thin foundation I didn't need so I melted it down along with what burr comb and old comb I'd collected this spring and recoated those frames and man did it make a difference. I'd like to get a roller/imprinter and start doing all my own foundation from my own wax.
Yes, you are correct, once you start buying fancy equipment it never stops. But if your growing equipment is almost needed to save time.
How do you render your wax? I mentioned I use a solar wax melter. It works very well! Them foundation presses are very expensive, have you priced them? I had a bunch of plastic foundation I had to recoat this spring as well. It does make a huge difference.
Agreed, in order for one guy to be as efficient as possible, you just have to have good equipment. There are a lot of circumstances where a person just is not capable of working hard enough to get things done without proper equipment.
Yeah I have priced the presses, you're right they are unbelievably expensive...unbelievably expensive. I've often wondered why the hell they are so high, there isn't much to them. I guess it's because the mfg can get it. Still though if person does the math and handles very many hives, it will pay for itself pretty quickly. Bought sheet foundation is ridiculous as well as is the full plastic and in the case of the full plastic, if a person has to spend time and wax re-coating it to get it to work well then you almost might as well be making full wax sheets that make handling things easier to start with. It's really hard to manage queen cells on the plastic stuff without ruining them, almost have to just cull extras and swap frames around for splits and that's wasteful. Plastic is also hard to clean back up and reuse from brood chambers. @ $2-@3 per frame it wouldn't take long to cover $1200 for a press even at 20 hives.
I just used a big pan with water and a smaller pan in it all sitting on top of a little Coleman gas burner. I tried using a slow cooker but it took so long for it to melt the wax I had to find an alternative. It's easy to see that the wax is probably the most valuable of all the products we get from the bees in beekeeping. It takes the most resources and time to accrue and is pretty perishable if a person doesn't take good care of it because of wax moths and hive beetles. If plain plastic foundation is worth $3+, what value should a keeper put on a drawn comb of all wax? The most valuable thing I used this year by far has been a bunch of empty deep brood frames I had put in the freezer from absconds and splits that I took half and gave back new. It's hard to catch it without brood for one thing.
hi quick question why do you scale your honey?
To make sure I get them all to weight. I don't want unhappy customers.
Brilliant idea and execution! Thank you for sharing