You've Never Seen Honey Like This!
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- Hogg Half Comb is a simple, easy way for beekeepers to produce comb honey. Comb honey is an extremely popular product and I find myself getting requests for it frequently. Comb honey is a great way to make extra money off of your bee hives.
I found this system easy to use. The bees took to it just like they do regular frames. The most fiddly thing about it was the cassette lids. If you are a beekeeper looking to produce some of the most delicious, natural honey you can imagine, give these a try.
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I recently took a tour of a museum which had artifacts from an ancient Egyptian archaeological excavation. They had honeycombs from one of the minor pyramids which they estimated to be 4500/5000 years old. Still with the honey sealed inside, as good as the day the bee capped it.
Amazing.
Honey never goes bad!
how can I order this from you?
The day I tour there my name will be forever changed to the honeycomb bandit 😂
Do you export to India
How much is the shipping costs to Europe???
Well I wasn't hungry till you started waving that honey around, then you brought out them biscuits!!!!! Thanks for sharing.
Great idea! Thank you for working so hard to give us this honey!
Why theres no spicy honey
@Winston Ku i just wanted to taste spicy honey . -.
@@olivermgaming6584 it dont exist boi
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Just an FYI!! I have been using this system off and on for about ten years. Yes this is an easy way for a beekeeper to harvest honey comb to sell or for personal use, but there is a step you want to do BEFORE packaging for selling!
Put the box in the freezer over night to kill any wax moths eggs that could be there and not seen by the naked eye...
The last thing you want to do is sell one to someone and they don't eat it right away, why I don't know, and find wax moth larvae eating there good honey!!!
Also, I find it easier to stand the box on the wide end, remove the springs and then just slide all 40 cassettes out at once.
After removing from freezer, make sure you let them come back to room temperature before putting on the lids. Otherwise you get condensation inside the honey containers. Won't hurt it , probably, but why take a chance...
Had two hives this year with them on. Harvested both boxes, but not all filled. Went through all 80 boxes, pulled out the full ones and set them back on the hive.
What a site to see here in PA where we get spring honey and very dark fall honey mixed in the same box! People were amazed at the way the bees filled up those that weren't capped and continued to fill them out and cap them!!!
Another trick is to put a box of brood on top of the Half Hogs and the bees fill them out faster to take care of the brood.
As for reusing tha cassettes.... not recommended. There is no way to sterilize them for reuse. You can have worlds of trouble is you would do that and someone got sick!!!
Is it worth the $100.00 cost to purchase a new set of cassettes where you might get sued for trying to save a little money? Not for me!!! I would use once and discard....
Regards,
A PA beekeeper
That was my first thought, if he reuses any of those people might get sick. Way too many variables in reusing stuff.
What side of pa are you from?
@@likes-yv3lj
Northeast PA Schuylkill County.
@@bbagst know any good beekeepers on the opposite side of the state? Lol
Not right now, but always willing to meet new people and backyard beekeepers anywhere....
Those would be awesome to sell in the cassette and then give people a discount if they bring the cassette back cleaned so you can use it again. Kinda like glass milk bottles.
Isn't that what he does? In thought he said he's got labels coming to make the cassette look fancy
@@astroboy5456 it sounded like he needed to buy more cassettes to reset the box. I think he was planning on just selling the cassette in a fancy wrap and not planning on getting them back 🤷🏻♀️
I do this on my farm with canning jars and pots for bedding plants also. If they bring a canning jar with them (with lid and ring), or the equivalent size (or larger) pot, they get a discount -- it's amazing how many jars and pots go to landfills annually in our "throw away" society!
the cassettes have to have the wax on the bottom. I don't think they are reusable unless he has a way to coat the bottom in wax again.
@@Sc2greenst - that's easy. All you need is to make a "foundation tool" from a square of hard plastic foundation the size of the inside of the cassette mounted on a block of wood, pour some wax into the cassette, then use the "foundation tool" to press the wax into foundation.
My great-grandfather had a deal worked out with this Russian beekeeper. He let him put hives up in three areas of the ranch, in exchange for the honey harvested from one hive each year. We never lacked for both strained and jarred honey, as well as comb. I've recently picked up some land not far from where the family ranch was. I'm looking at planting as much mesquite and purple sage as I can stand, and getting in contact with a local beekeeper, see if I can work out a similar deal.
How'd it go?
how'd it go?
Well... ?
Mesquite flavored honey? I grew up in Texas and mesquite is great for BBQ, but it does not sound like it would be that good for honey.
From what I've heard, black locust trees or honey locust trees are amazing both for the tastes and quality of the honey as well as amazing quantities. Also a plant called borage really boosts honey production and most parts of the plant have medicinal uses.... also bugs and slugs avoid it.
@@WhoMe87799 fun fact, the honey, tastes like... wait for it... HONEY!
I'm absolutely in love with keeping the old ways of life alive. Thank you for being a part of it in more ways than one!!
Growing up we never had honey in a jar, I've always been skeptical of "pure honey" in jars. we always bought them in slices of cut combs. wet or dry cappings. We added honey now and then into our teas and almost every cup has a wax ring on it. I used to chew on it all day, its supposedly good for you, but its like granulated chunks that recombine in your mouth. lol
Sadly the comb is so expensive!
Dang that looks 😋. As a kid, 70+ now, that was the only honey we had🤗
I remember the little kid we should have this huge barrel in the garage and then it was all filled with honey and my brother tipped over and it fell into the barrel of course we had to get him out of the barrel left him outside but I'm sitting in the sun for a while I'm sure the bees eat him alive
I don’t know why I keep watching these it’s interesting and calming I guess. Been watching for a few months now
likewise, I use it to relax, it so satisfying. I think i will establish a honey farm too
This is how I started beekeeping. I used to watch a few beekeeping TH-camrs to help me sleep.
i actually gasped when your knife cut into that honeycomb at the end there - so gorgeous
There you go agin with them there butter milk biscuits and honey! I almost had to change the channel while you were eating but I endured. Love that honey! good video! God Bless!
That looks lovely! Need me a biscuit and a cuppa tea now
I'm impressed with how docile those bees were. You didn't even need gloves.
I was thinking the same thing. Do bees not sting?
@@muazzamshahid The ones kept by beekeepers are usually pretty docile and will only sting if they think they're actually under attack (compare this to wasps and hornets, which will generally try to sting you if they think you looked at them funny from 20 feet away). He also smoked them a bit before he removed the frame, which makes them "lazier" and even less likely to be aggressive. As long as you're careful with them, they can be gentle enough you can even just stick your hand in and scoop up a bunch of them, and they'll just crawl around on your hand.
He also had a smoker in the beginning of the video. That calms the bees down a lot.
There are stingless bees where i live
This is the dull variety
I appreciate how a different bees are reconcile in creating a perfectly shape
OMG...beautiful containers of honey...amazing how we need the honey bees...great video and thumbs up.
Your bees are so calm. I love it
I love the uncapped ones, you can see how beautiful those perfect hexagonal cells are.
Honey should be one of the wonders of the world. I mean it tastes amazing but how it’s made and looks is just something else
You amaze me. Beekeeper, woodworker, sawyer and builder. Among other things!
Wow, super interesting seeing a different type of rack/section for the bees to construct their hives in. It’s easy to forget that the shape we know honeycombs as is only because the the shape of frame we give them. In this context.
I love comb honey. I never did much of it though because it slowed down the honey production too much since the bees had to draw out the comb every time. With extraction they just have to refill the comb. When I raised bees the only time they had to draw out the comb is when I started a new hive or expanded one. I only did it for family and friends though, rather than as a business. My new hives came from collecting wild hives and swarms.i started with one hive with a brood box and 2 large supers and ended up with 7 hives with 3 large supers and 2 small supers above the brood boxes. That provided us with all the honey we could use. I finally sold all my hives for a very fair price plus 700 pounds of honey already put up in jars and gallon cans.
I would love to start this as a hobby someday
700 pounds of honey?!?! Bananaland. You should of turned it into a business. Could of made a lot of money selling honey locally. Should of paid somebody you trusted to do it for you
@@donsolos you don't have to be rude, you have no idea of why I decided to sell my hives and extractor.
@@jameshaynie4570 .... how the absolute fuck am I being rude? Lol what?
You must be in good shape jumping to conclusions all day long, now that is being rude
@@donsolos
I didn't read your comment as "rude" necessarily, but definitely presumptuous. You shouldn't be assuming what others should and shouldn't do. You don't know their circumstances and reasoning.
To boot, it's "should HAVE", not "should of". There's no "of". People get it wrong all the time simply because "should've" sounds so similar.
The nice thing about ross rounds is you can take out just the ones that are filled out. With Hog halves you have to take the entire frame out. In my area combed honey sells for 10 bucks a piece.
_I'd_ pay $10 for one.
That's a good tip!
In my experience, the bees tolerate the Hogg squares much better than the Ross rounds. Both types work best during a heavy nectar flow.
Watching you scoop the honey out at the end was sooooo satisfying
Bring me good old memories once a kid with my grandpa used to do that for a living hey we're Russian
This is so easy to do and beautiful to look at
For everyone looking for honeycomb: try your local farmers market. Just remember not all beekeepers sell honey in the comb and it sells out fast. Blessings Dot
Or just buy it at walmart
Wow, I haven't eaten honeycomb in years. I remember it when I was a kid. Sweet and chewy!
The Sue Bee company sold a jar with a fat comb stuck inside at a higher price when I was a kid. I liked chewing on it as a treat.
I'm drooling over here, it looks amazing brother!
LOL Pre-packaged honey. Awesome 👍👍👍Thanks for sharing
Beautiful. My Grandfather had 300+ been stands and sold some of the finest honey ever to be eaten. Sad that the masses of people don't appreciate this line of work. Honey that is properly harvested is the absolute best food in the world, and it didn't come from a wall street corporation.
One of the healthiest things you can eat. And nobody talks about it
@@donsolos But you have already talked about it.why complain.
What is a "wall street corporation?" And if such an entity existed, how would the honey that corporation produced be any different from this honey? Are the bees dressed in tiny pinstripe suits?
@@MessyTimes
To be fair, there's a HUGE market on fake honey. I wouldn't be surprised if they were referring to the typically diluted or fake honey sold in stores by bigger companies.
@@donsolos
It's talked about quite a lot actually. There's been fads with honey off and on since I can remember back in the 90's. Not so much with eating the comb, that I was aware of, but anything from the benefits of ingesting honey to bee stings, honestly. I feel like honey isn't nearly as overlooked as many other healthy things.
Man that looks good!!! Love me some biscuits and honey!!
Watching your video, I went made a piece of toast, got out some crunch peanut butter and some local ‘really raw’ honey and ate with you! SO GOOD!!!!!!!! Magical.
Great video and well done. The comb was beautiful. I enjoyed the end when you were spreading it. Yum Yum.
Hey, I just remembered the reason why I subscribed to you a while ago, I love beekeeping vids and I’m a huge fan of raising the honeybee population. Your a magician thankyou for protecting this part of nature from diseases and endangerment.
Thanks!
Right on!
Nice! I was really happy with the response I got from customers on my comb honey last year, and looking to expand that line a bit this year.
Your honey beekeeping technique is so different and so wonderful
I never get tired watching this vid. I will try this. Thanks for sharing!
I come for the sawmill... I stay for the bees 🐝 and honey 🍯
Glad we can keep you around, Scott!
I came for the bees... also saw the sawmill.
Lol i forgot he made those lumber with his sawmill.
The wife said she's gonna kneecap you if she sees you!!! You blew up her weight loss diet with honey and biscuits...her kryptonite.
Ha! Tell her that honey calories don't count.
Dieting note: get your wife fructose honey, one void of glucose. By doing so she will burn fat caused weight . Drinking more water also raises metabolism and burns weight, too.
@@falllineridge, she said she likes the way you think!
😂😂😂
Honey , pure and liquid is 2 kinds of sugars, but once Kiawe Honey 'crystalizes', the 2 types of sugars are easy to part from each other. Glucose turns into a crystal, Fruitose remains a liquid trapped inside the Glucose crystal. Crush the crystal and let the liquid settle to the bottom, scoop away the crushed crystals and you now have the Fruitose and if your wife want to lose weight this is the way to do it:
To consume the Fruitose without the Glucose 'kicks' your body into overdrive. It will make your body draw more Glucose from your body's tissues that have been stored away for later use, but since continuing to eat fruitose without the glucose, the body is forced to consume its own fat reserves, she will lose weight.
Increasing 'water intake' will also 'burn up ' more weight of those that are stuck behind a desk all day. An addition intake above your normal water needs of just 1 1/2 liters is equal to non-stop walking for 8 hours.
What I cost of this bees super colony ?
Dang guy, you totally made my mouth water with that warm biskets & honey. Very interesting!
This is super cool!!! 🐝
How is this guy so calm with bees if I stood two metres away I would scream
Because he's not afraid of his bees!🙄
@@elrikk3419 what makes you think I care?🙄😱
I think I will try them on my hives. Looks so good and easy to package. Thanks for the info.
I think you'll be happy with it.
My Grandpa kept bees. This makes me feel nostalgic. Thank you.
🌸 7:25 oh wow look at how dark and rich the bottom one is. I can see different colours showing different varieties of flowers they gathered pollen from to make the honey. Looks so delicious 😋 I don’t have sugar anymore or anything sweet, however it’s a treat in itself getting to see the fruits of your bees hard labour. I love your trays they look so posh
I just bought a comb in a case that was 1/4th that size for $12.99 and it's absolutely worth it because it's by far the best, pure, and delicious honey I have ever had. I originally started buying the actual comb capped honey as a mere novelty, but once you try it there is no going back to the blended with fillers types that come from mass production companies that use silly containers shaped like bears and what not.
I saw a test done on ten chinese honey brands...they were all at least 50% sugar water
I have a couple of big 2 pound stock pails at any time. They can crystallize but no problem, either scoop it out or warm gently.
@@T0tenkampf Wasn't it Business Insider or a similar channel that was talking about the fake honey market? Like basically 80% of the product or whatever was just sugary filler. Some of them didn't even have any actual honey mixed in, either.
I do remember seeing a maple syrup episode on a similar channel that was very much like the honey one haha.
I buy pure unfiltered honey from a local bee apiary. Awesome honey. Since I've managed to catch a cold, I think I'll have hot tea with honey tomorrow.
They're so beautifully formed. I want some! 😄
That was very very impressive you can actually sell these for a lot higher than you can all the others the reason being is sanitary you don’t have to worry about cross-contamination with an employee getting sick by touching the honey and transferring from bucket to bucket to drum to bucket machine this is from the hive directly to the customer . When I get rolling I will think about this system when I’m ready to sell honey but that’s down the road several years down the road lol God bless you and thank you for showing us this system I think it’s a winner ✝️✝️✝️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Wow that’s looks delicious cutting into the comb
That's not fair! Having to watch a biscuit being doused with pure honey !👍👌😊
my father have bee farm in here pakistan, , unfortunately we are not used to such techniques. this is amazing
You are a dirty bastard.
Johnny Smallcock and his vile tasting toffees 💀
Wounder if you guys could get it. It would be a quality of life improvement.
@@Noodlepunk of course but climate change hit us hard. Strong wind from so many day it dry up flowers from necter. Nothing left to bees
@@abdulsalam-xb3sq you don't use auger syrup to feed them during difficult time?
OMG!!! So beautifully work done!!!!!!!
That looks yummy! You are a man of many hats. God Bless!
I have seen honey like that...60 years ago! Dad used to bring home honey combs about the same size as those, only difference was they were in wooden boxes instead of plastic.
Hmm... that gives me an idea... 🤔
Same here in Scotland!
You could use the questionable one as a taste test when go to sell the others
The ending looks so darn good.
This takes me back. I used to buy honey in this form when I was a kid.
That looks really interesting. Would love to get one of those to actually see and taste a honeycomb myself.
Honeycomb is the best. Try with icecream. Blessings, Dot
bobsmontanabees@gmail.com
we have them.
Winnie the pooh would be jealous.
Really enjoying the Bee videos. Bee’s are truly a wonder of the world. I just love those cones. I also enjoy Your milling videos. Thank You for sharing.
Absolutely Beautiful!
We called it comb sections. My father always said you needed a good strong hive to work these sections and that the bee's didn't like working them and of course a good honey flow, so he never used them. These are different from the sections that were available 40 plus years ago.
But you have done well or rather that hive has, must be a good colony you have and a good honey flow for the bee's to have filled them so well and make all the comb needed. You will certainly get a premium price for each.
That has to be the coolest thing I’ve seen in a while! Where do I get that?
I got this kit from Betterbee. Link is in the description.
@@falllineridge great thanks! I'm in Canada... but I found it here too.
bobsmontanabees@gmail.com
we have them
very unique and uniform way of selling honey you are brilliant
MAN that just looks delicious keep up the great work ridge!
Edit: I want that magnificent honey!!!
Looks like a really convenient system. It does produce a lot of plastic waste tho if customers don't return the boxes for reuse.
I doubt if the USDA or FDA would allow reuse of the containers for resale.
watched this with my bird and he loved the song at the end just sayin. cool little boxes.
I remember seeing the hog commercial about those years ago here on TH-cam and I was amazed by it. It's so easy to do all the work you put on a cap and sell it by the ounce if it's not as full as the other ones it's just not as expensive can't get much better than that
I've never seen anything like this before! I'm going to have to look and see if anyone sells them like this. Thank you for the knowledge
I run these cassette supers. Easy to clean, pop the lid and labels on and they display nicely. People really like buying these and will pay a premium for them verses the standard comb squares.
There is a reason you call your loved one Honey.
Cause they’re sweet like honey :)
Mysteryboi_ Lol
I call her honey because kings would gorge themselves with honey and feel mighty being a male.
it because you can sell them and keep one for your self
I know I sound stupid when I say this but username checks out
Tried that here in the UK. Found that I need to have a good honey flow for the bees to fill the cassettes . Glad to see, you had better luck. Now off to raid the larder to find the jar of honey hiding in it. Watching you made my mouth water.
I have a company who puts Bees on my property and I love the bees hundreds come in my yard for water have never got bit only once when I accidently put my hand on one total joy to watch this I've been surrounded by Bees for 5 yrs now cant imagine life with out Bees🐝〰️🌼
At the end of the season I get 12 qts of honey which I have now I want a biscuit 🍯tho
That looked sooooooooooooooo GOOD !!!
Satisfaction on 12:02
I'm actually not a big fan of honey, too sweet for my taste. But I gotta say.. My jaw literally dropped when the knife went into the comb...
Yea, its just tok sweet but u love the look and feel if honeycomb
Bee's are simply amazing
Absolutely amazing....wonderful. Thanks for this.
Vomit never tasted so good...
Honey is Not honeybee vomit! Do your reading from Honeybee lessons rather than falsehoods of crazed ill informed ones.
I understood the humor and actual meaning of bee “vomit”. I’m good.
it's just as 'dumb' as the people who were happy to find 'beeswax' droppings on their cars and were rubbing them into their car's finish, from being near a wild hive[ it was actually bee poo on their cars, I couldn't tell them.]
Vegan, right?
@@markbaker9459 its not that deep ☺
Winne the Pooh's dream tupper ware.
😂😂👍
That honey looks fantastic. And so convenient compared to most alternative approaches.
Great clip. thank you.
Peace.
i love this video. honey looks like gold.
Put the uncapped ones back in the hive 👍
I only eat honeycomb. Try slicing it from the side rather than digging at it, also keep it in the fridge
Troy P you only eat honeycomb? Are you Winnie the Pooh?
Sherri no I’m lucky that’s all
akumma with honeycomb refrigeration maintains the shape and keeps more honey in the honeycomb. If not refrigerated the honey has a tendency to drain from cut comb
I didn't know someone could survive eating only honeycomb. How long since you've eaten anything else?
Joey Vindictive it’s been so long
We had bees when I was younger and it was a LOT of work robbing 27 hives, extracting, placing in jars, etc. This is a piece of cake! I would sure like to know what the replacement costs are and how much you plan to sell them for when you work up a price. Thanks.
www.betterbee.com/hogg-halfcomb-system/hhsp-hogg-halfcomb-superpack.asp Replacement $91.25. Cannot speak for his sale price but I'm also curious, probably easy profit since its local can sell higher. I dont like honey and I'd be tempted. 🤭
🐝🍯 you gotta love their progress
Thanks for sharing this. We appreciate your time and goodwill. God bless you
You can put the uncapped ones back so the bees can finish them off. Next time you open it, it will probably be done. Also, you need to leave some for the bees too.
Expelliarmus 👍
@@brianbrian8342 Crucio!
@@AvadaKedavra943 apparating...😂
@@brianbrian8342 Jokes on you, can’t do that inside Hogwarts castle
@@AvadaKedavra943 ho
Pretty stuff. I used to do some cut comb back when I was into selling honey but I never got much calls for it and usually only got rid of it when I ran out of liquid. People around here were clueless about it really. Much of the old ways is completely lost around the city dwellers.
The boxes are embossed at the factory with wax. The bees build it out to the full cell. Afterwards they fill and cap them.
I had put 2 sets on separate hives one year. After checking both, I pulled them off and went through both set up, removed all of them, and rebuilt the ones that weren't complete.
Put that back on the hive, and when pulled in the fall was really surprised that I had both spring light honey and dark fall honey mixed in the same boxes!!!
Very different to see the mixed flavors and colors interspersed in the boxes...
Very unique flavor!!!!
The Honey Bee....One of Gods greatest creations .
What would the world be without them...Really ?
Looks SO sweeeeet!!!
That would be good even on a flip flop.😄🤣😁👍🇺🇸✌🐝
I haven’t been teased this much since I was 16 years old, show me this comb honey and then tell me you want sell me any!!!
bobsmontanabees@gmail.com
we have them
Wow this is an amazing new kind of honey harvest
I enjoy your commentary, it’s very informative too.
I'd also be interested in what you decide to sell them for.
He should sell it minimum 12 dollars each
DUDE, where can I order one or 10 of those? I want honey comb so bad.
I buy it any qnt. U gave
bobsmontanabees@gmail.com
we have some of these
That's the sweetest thing I ever seen :)
That’s amazing! Wow. How easy to get comb honey. Nice, cut and neatly packaged, straight out of the hive.
can i buy a cassette i would love to try one
bobsmontanabees@gmail.com
we have them
Yes, you can!
how much will you sell them for?
The store by me sells them for a little over $14. They seem to move every one.
@@thezfunk 14$ for a little square?
@@Francois_Dupont yes. That is at the grocery store so the beekeeper wouldn't get that. I know a local keeper that does the rounds and he sells them to me for $10 each.
Wow, everything is good, tidy and clean. I hope you will soon be the best video I have seen
I want honey and biscuits NOW!
Looks so good😋