Me: *knows nothing about beekeeping* Also me, 7 minutes in: “ah yes, this frame looks magnificent, fully capped. We can’t take it out quite yet though since there’s brood on the other side and we want to keep the queen in this hive to keep things in order”
Great honey harvest! We used to keep bees -- we were in orange blossom country -- a 100+ miles south of here. But I developed a not-deathly allergy to bee stings and my husband passed away in 2004. Also, back in the 1970's through about 1985, we had several really hard freezes which killed a lot of the citrus trees. Without the citrus bloom, there just wasn't enough honey plants around. Added to which, we lived too close to town in a residential area where bees were restricted. So, we had to let the hives go! It's a shame, but I'm 74 years old now, and have had 4 spinal surgeries -- no way I could handle that now. Watching your videos really brings back some wonderful memories!
How can you not like this dude! He's straight forward, clear and very very informative. I'm a second year bee keeper and just learning the ropes, but this is my go-to video source for learning bee keeping. Thank you!
I’m sorry but he’s not very careful with his bees. There are others more knowledgeable and if you missed how he trimmed grass around the hives, you missed a horrible video
I don’t know about you but to me at least, a hive group that can produce over 200lbs in honey per year is far from suffering. Worker bees don’t even live longer than two weeks or so anyways before they die. Furthermore predators have been catch bees in the wild naturally for millions of years. The bees can replace the loss of a worker bee with 3 more worker bees within a day. The bees are fine
@@lukez9721 I'm 7 minutes in and already he's... -stated he mowed THE DAY that he intends to harvest. -stated that he's harvesting in a Derth. -stated that he's greedy and harvesting frames from the brood box including frames WITH BROOD... Did I miss any other unethical shit that is terrible practice?
@@copperpumpkin2648 Bees don't sting unless they feel threatened. The bees obviously got a pleasant rest, (meaning no skunk or animal bother them in the night,) and the smoker helps a lot.
In England it has long been a tradition among beekeepers to talk to the bees, telling them what was going on in the beekeeper's life. Is this common among North American beekeepers?
Every time i see a wasp i kill it if i can. Every time i see a bee I leave it alone, same with bumblebees. If i see a bee or a bumblebee in need i save it! I stopped on the highway in one of the sos spots cause i had a bumblebee on my window wiper, holding on for dear life. So i stopped, got out of the car (carefully) and gently lifted the bumblebee off the wiper and put it gently on a flower on the side of the road, where i already saw bumblebees buzzing around. I also have a shallow water dish outside in my garden for the bees when they need a drink, and give them honey and banana peel if i see a weak bee. Wasps tho... to hell with them...
@@aierune8201 First of all, there was basically no one on the road except me and second of all, we are all going to die anyway, so why not save a life once in a while :) And it was a bumble bee, which means it have a fairly large ass XD
@@Princess_Cheese That may be, but wasps are also assholes with wings, if they hadn't been so aggressive i wouldn't have anything against them. They can end up killing people for gods sake.. :(
I am totally fascinated with you techniques. I can't wait to get my first honey harvest. I had bees back in 2014 and I got so discouraged that I just couldn't get into it again. Then I started watching bee videos again and came across your channel. Love the simple way you do things. I can't wait to get back into it and put some of your techniques into practice. Thank you for your time to teach us.
You're videos are literally getting me through the Kidney Stone I am suffering from right now... Holy hell are these videos absolutely perfect to watch for someone just trying to take their mind off pain, they are so relaxing and calming!
Wonderful nectar flow, really beautifully capped off the honeycomb that's for sure. Great job with the harvest, so interesting to see that much honey in the capping alone. I watched your vid with my 4-year-old Noah, "Wow that's all the bees honey, yummy". -Kieran
Yes make a video of the wax rendering. It's so interesting to me to see that you don't shake off the bees before taking the hives. I thought you couldn't mix the boxes within different hives but that's why I enjoy educational videos like this. I have learned so much. I also didn't know the bees do such a good job of cleaning up the mess. That's unbelievable to me. Great video.
The wise old guy in my bee club that does free extractions has a gizmo he's made out of a mop squeezer for cappings. He just shovels them in there, gives it a squish and... done. 10 seconds. It all looks delicious, btw.
@@kingcurry5139 I might only be keeping bees for one year, but what you need to understand quickly is: bees dont reuse their wax. they build it once, that's it. so it is an absolutely valid question, why not to make the bees clean out the cappings. to give a useful answer: depending on how you make your bees clean out these cappings, you might train your (actually any) bees to rob other hives; in most cases, this is your own hives, so your stronger hives just start fighting your weaker hives on honey to store for winter. that way you can make sure, that your hives just dwindle in numbers and all in strength.
getting your bees to clean out the wax (not only cappings, but your comb in general, as it does not get clean from the centrifuge) takes energy from your bees. so just draining it through a sieve yields a lot of honey. what i did (just in need of combs to get my bees fed for the winter) is to wash the combs out with water, leaving the combs intact for the bees to fill them with sugar for the winter. the water i used for washing out the rest of the honey, i mixed with some yeast to produce mead for the holidays. 14 vol.-% just from that :)
Hello, I am a French Canadian and my Grandfather had also Bee Hives but he NEVER used smoke, at least I don't remember. He used a cedar boxes and cedar frames, he'd removed the honey filled frames from their boxes and add them in a cedar box. After a few honey filled frames are put in the cedar box, he'd put a cedar frame then more honey filled frames then a cedar frame and so on. He'd leaved it maybe a few hours or so because insects can't stand the smell of cedar, it stinks to them and they leave by there own accord. I don't know the specifics because I was just a child and I'm in my early 50's but just an idea to make your life easier. Great video, big fan, keep up the good work. Peace in Christ.
Pillow-case to strain the cappings. It'll take a lot of cappings, and can be hung overnight over the bucket. Best of all it to do it in stages, with mesh to start then smaller and finer materials in turn, which avoids the strainers getting clogged up.
I'm a bit jealous. Since I left Louisiana for Texas, my bees haven't done squat. They've survived, but that's been about it. Your honey and bees look good.
your videos have been keeping me sane and collected during shelter in place, I'm super happy to have found your channel! Much love and wishing good health and happiness to you and your family!
Just subscribed,love the way you just show us what your doing without too much talking, other you tubers just talk throughout the whole video, blah blah blah, it’s off putting, you on the other hand just do it, a lot like king Andrew Caramata , well done look forward to watching many more of your videos, love how you are not too greedy and leave some honey for your hard workers, it’s a two way street, Look after your bees and they will give you plenty in return
I've seen a few harvesting videos but I've never seen the clean up process. I love that the bees get to clean up any left over honey; good for them and helpful for you! And yes, I'd also like to see how you render the wax.
I had the same happen to one of my hives. One hive produced dark honey but I have no idea where they were foraging. The other hives had the regular golden comb. All very tasty. 😎
@@IAmBottle. , clover honey is light. Buckwheat honey is dark. Orange blossom honey is very light. Lightness or darkness of the honey is not a good measure of overly processed, unfortunately. If it's not your own honey, it's just best to know the beekeeper.
I was looking for a video to learn how honey is extracted and your video made my experience awesome. After watching your video I must appreciate the hard work of all bee keepers like you. You guys are doing awesome job in offering us with such a beautiful gift of nature in its purest possible form. Thank you 🙏😊👏
Wow, 1000th comment here. Your videos got me to start a hive. You always have explained things and provided so many great tips. I have notebooks full from watching all your videos, and I've rewatched so many from pure entertainment. Keep up the good work and wonderful attitude! ❤ Edit: corrections
Great video. Try putting a queen excluder under your supers to keep the brood out of your honey. Replace the excluder with a bee escape a week before harvest to get your friends out of the supers for harvest. Question: with no queen excluder and just pulling off boxes how do you know you didn't pull your queen with it?
Do you supplement your hives with sugar water during winter, or other difficult times? What percentage of the honey can you take and still leave the bees enough for the winter? Great video. I’m impressed and learned a lot.
Wow! What a harvest, and for the year in total, that's awesome! Thanks for sharing. And yes, I would be interested to see your rendering process. I have seen quite a few and would be interested to see what you prefer to do. God Bless.
With all those bees coming to your garage, do any of your family members ever get stung? I am allergic to bees, but I find this so fascinating!! Thanks for sharing! Love your channel
Just discovered your channel today; SUBSCRIBED! I saw those bees flying by, checking your work as you milled the lumber and I thought 'those are his bees, they know and trust him!" and sure enough, here you are harvesting honey. Good man! Thanks for being such a responsible steward of the Earth.
Hey, thanks a bunch for your videos. I’m a bit too young and broke to have bees, but this is definitely giving me a good picture on how it’ll be if I do want to manage bees
I just had to comment because there were 999 comments and I’m the 1000th! I’m obsessed with this content and I’m doing all I can right now so that I can retire into this lifestyle ASAP
Avoid all of the cappings work and time by using an uncapping roller. Mann Lake, Amazon, and lots of others have them. Most are less than $15 and makes all of the harvest much quicker.
This brings back so many memories. Bees also clean up the wax capings if you want to render the wax later. One thing everyone has avoided so far that I have seen is the cleaning up. There is always a big mess no matter how careful you are. Do not do this in your kitchen. Thanks again for an excellent video.
Use a queen excluder on top of the bottom box and keep here down there and you don't have to worry about getting her along with the others. Bee (see what I did there?...LOL) a bit more careful about the uncapping and don't dig so deep and you'll have less honey to have to get out of the cappings. Before health issues made me unable to deal with the weight of full supers I had 66 hives (north Georgia) and was pulling a super (a medium) a week from each hive during the summer, or about 12 pounds per week per hive.
It's always good to see a bountiful harvest like this, enjoying the fruits of their labor. (And yours as well!) Two questions though. First, would having a Queen Excluder between your brood boxes and honey boxes help or hinder your efforts? Second, would heating up your cappings until they melt allow for an easier time in separating the honey, wax and debris? Someday hopefully soon I would love to take on the hobby of beekeeping and so I appreciate the advice and the different views of those who are actively involved in the process. Thanks for your input and thank you so much for sharing your time and effort in this and other videos!
When moving the boxes around, do you accidentally crush some bees or is something like that common? It just seems like some bees will get in the way and get squished in between boxes when placing them on top of each other.
Some times it does happen, but most of the time bees are either out of the hive or in the hive rarely do they get crushed. (Coming from me who has absolutely no knowledge about bees just gussing!)
So you were talking about creating a bigger rig for the cappings. Wouldn't cutting off the bottom of one bucket (sanding the sharp edges) and then adding a screen to the bottom and just have a similar system to what u have just on a larger scale work? (Using a smaller bucket for the cappings, as long as the mouth of the capping bucket is the same as the circumference of the drained bucket)
I wonder if you covered the cappings with parchment paper and then a weight if that would aid that process? shouldn't stick to parchment paper very much?
Smoke masks alarm pheromones which include various chemicals, e.g., isopentyl acetate that are released by guard bees or bees that are injured during a beekeeper's inspection. In addition, smoke initiates a feeding response in anticipation of possible hive abandonment due to fire.
This has been really interesting. The time went by so fast since you had so much content. I like it a lot. Maybe in the future, you can get an electric extractor just to make the comparison. That's easy for me to say because it's not costing me, but it's interesting again. I always wondered why beekeepers don't add a little heat to the cappings just to loosen it up and possibly kill the Beetles though it might detract from the nutrients. Very enjoyable
Me: omg! I want to be a beekeeper and harvest my own honey!! So cool!! This is my calling!! Man on the vid: be careful of black widow spiders. Me: nahh, nvm. I’ll just buy honey , watch YT and chill.
That knife must love its life. I know I would if I was the knife. Looks delicious. Your videos actually inspired me to try honey in my coffee. Its delicious! Thank you for inspiring me to discover new things :)
I get a lot of enjoyment watching your videos with the bees and of course your saw milling. Curious how much land you have on your place since you seem to get quite a few trees to cut up? Keep up the great and entertaining work. Terry
Harvests 188 pounds of honey, after a restock harvest of 30 pounds of honey: "We keep most of it for ourselves". How do you eat that much honey haha. Edit: any suggested recipes?
I notice some of your hives have deep brood boxes but it looks like most have a series of mediums. Is this intentional, or just because you had a bunch of medium boxes you needed to use?
Your frames seem so much tighter than mine. Is that just due to having older frames will a lot of drawn out comb on them? I'm a first time beekeeper. My first installed package is only about 12 days old.
18:00 I’d like to suggest, when making the bucket with a screened bottom, leave a couple of mm of the base around the edge for support! Or maybe even leave an x shape of base, I imagine capping full of honey will be heavy, I’ve made screened tubs for my worm farms and found making screened bottoms can be a game changer! An heating tool can help with the actual cutting, but be sure to do it outside and protect yourself.
When you were allowing the honeybees to clean up; do you have any trouble with wasps? Thank you for the video. We are getting ready to get our honeybees so you are a big help in giving us the education we will need.
@@manicolearmel7190 Do you own bees? If you let the harvested combs outside, you will cause robbery. The bees clean out the honey combs if you put it back into the hive.
Would a queen excluder on the bottom box stop the brood from laying where the honey boxes are on top? You would leave the bottom completely and harvest the top 2...am i wrong in anyway here? Any response is appreciated.
Just curious, do you ever accidentally kill the bees when processing the honey and removing the frames and what not? And if so, does it hurt the rest of the hive to have a few bees missing, or does it not make much of a difference?
Me: *knows nothing about beekeeping*
Also me, 7 minutes in: “ah yes, this frame looks magnificent, fully capped. We can’t take it out quite yet though since there’s brood on the other side and we want to keep the queen in this hive to keep things in order”
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Literally me right now
LOL
Unnecessary Artwork lol same here but still I have 2 IQ now
Lol
Hilarious, you've come a long way watching you tube 😂
Great honey harvest! We used to keep bees -- we were in orange blossom country -- a 100+ miles south of here. But I developed a not-deathly allergy to bee stings and my husband passed away in 2004. Also, back in the 1970's through about 1985, we had several really hard freezes which killed a lot of the citrus trees. Without the citrus bloom, there just wasn't enough honey plants around. Added to which, we lived too close to town in a residential area where bees were restricted. So, we had to let the hives go! It's a shame, but I'm 74 years old now, and have had 4 spinal surgeries -- no way I could handle that now. Watching your videos really brings back some wonderful memories!
the memories will always be there honey.........
@@noori3507 or is it that
the memories of honey will always be there
r/wooosh
So sorry you cannot still raise bees. But you still have your memories. That is something that can never be taken away from you. Good luck too.
@@nandex9757 stop it get some help.
Me: Has AP Biology Exam coming up but knows nothing
Also me: Knows how to harvest 188lbs of honey
I love your name 💜😂
Don't worry for ap bio, just take the ecology version. Or use the review book
Btssssss
meeee, my exam is in like 3 weeks and i know nothing but now i’m a master bee keeper
Ap bio test is now online.
I am an 18 year old girl, in college, with no interest in bees or honey at all, but here I am and I want more
Never too young to start getting interested in honey and pollinating bees. 😎
he-he !
transsexual
There is no beekeeping age.
I guess you find the guy cute!
No one:
Me,with a fatal bee allergy: ah yes. I crave to be a beekeeper.
Me deathly afraid of bees:I also crave to be a beekeeper living in a little cottage in the woods.
Guys we hit 3 mil! #coronavirus
Beekeeper suit
Corona
I do have a fatal ber alargy, and I am a beekeeper. If your careful it can be done.
How can you not like this dude! He's straight forward, clear and very very informative. I'm a second year bee keeper and just learning the ropes, but this is my go-to video source for learning bee keeping. Thank you!
OnCenterline Solutions Wow! Appreciate it! Hope you do great with your bees!
I’m sorry but he’s not very careful with his bees. There are others more knowledgeable and if you missed how he trimmed grass around the hives, you missed a horrible video
I don’t know about you but to me at least, a hive group that can produce over 200lbs in honey per year is far from suffering. Worker bees don’t even live longer than two weeks or so anyways before they die. Furthermore predators have been catch bees in the wild naturally for millions of years. The bees can replace the loss of a worker bee with 3 more worker bees within a day. The bees are fine
@@lukez9721 I'm 7 minutes in and already he's...
-stated he mowed THE DAY that he intends to harvest.
-stated that he's harvesting in a Derth.
-stated that he's greedy and harvesting frames from the brood box including frames WITH BROOD...
Did I miss any other unethical shit that is terrible practice?
@@CrazyIvan865 wha when did he say he was harvesting frames with brood in them?
All of those dislikes are from the bees that got shaked off of their frames
rip
Best comment on the video! XD
shaken
and a few wasps too that never got honey
Him: "These bees were very aggressive yesterday."
Also him: *extracts the honey with bare hands*
Also him: Shakes a frame filled with bees.
Also also him: slaps frame
I'm rather surprised he didn't get stung, I guess the bees trust him for whatever reason, weird
@@copperpumpkin2648 8:54
@@copperpumpkin2648 Bees don't sting unless they feel threatened. The bees obviously got a pleasant rest, (meaning no skunk or animal bother them in the night,) and the smoker helps a lot.
In England it has long been a tradition among beekeepers to talk to the bees, telling them what was going on in the beekeeper's life.
Is this common among North American beekeepers?
Nah, American beekeepers aren't as lonely
@@tonightsbiggestloser6571 ouch on behalf of 'merican keepers
Yet more ignorant comment that Americans are bad people
If you're a schizo
@@RedMoonsEcho See? Whenever they have a chance. They haven't been out of their house, but yet, they come up with conclusions, by listening to others.
One thing I like about this man......
His voice
They sound like the cowboys
It’s like a soothing cowboy explaining why you need to care for the bees. I love it.
Thought you mean the bees sounded like cowboys and for some reason I just accepted it
Every time i see a wasp i kill it if i can.
Every time i see a bee I leave it alone, same with bumblebees.
If i see a bee or a bumblebee in need i save it!
I stopped on the highway in one of the sos spots cause i had a bumblebee on my window wiper, holding on for dear life.
So i stopped, got out of the car (carefully) and gently lifted the bumblebee off the wiper and put it gently on a flower on the side of the road, where i already saw bumblebees buzzing around.
I also have a shallow water dish outside in my garden for the bees when they need a drink, and give them honey and banana peel if i see a weak bee.
Wasps tho... to hell with them...
I'm proud of ya
@@aierune8201 First of all, there was basically no one on the road except me and second of all, we are all going to die anyway, so why not save a life once in a while :)
And it was a bumble bee, which means it have a fairly large ass XD
Wasps are also pollinators
@@Princess_Cheese That may be, but wasps are also assholes with wings, if they hadn't been so aggressive i wouldn't have anything against them.
They can end up killing people for gods sake.. :(
it probably ended up dying shortly after anyways, since it was probably a long way off from it's hive.
I could listen to this guy talk for days. Thanks for showing the bees cleaning up. Incredible!
I am totally fascinated with you techniques. I can't wait to get my first honey harvest. I had bees back in 2014 and I got so discouraged that I just couldn't get into it again. Then I started watching bee videos again and came across your channel. Love the simple way you do things. I can't wait to get back into it and put some of your techniques into practice. Thank you for your time to teach us.
You're videos are literally getting me through the Kidney Stone I am suffering from right now... Holy hell are these videos absolutely perfect to watch for someone just trying to take their mind off pain, they are so relaxing and calming!
anybody else feel sticky when watching the honey extraction? lol
SirWhiteCrayon yeah just had a shower now I feel like I need another one
SirWhiteCrayon teehee that’s funny 😆
I felt like I was tasting it and I was drooling 🤤
@@Shargon25 same
I want honeyT^T
I’d like to see the wax being rendered..very interesting so far bud!
i agree!
Lol wax
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My daughter and I are just starting bee keeping. We received our first hive 2 wks ago. So far so good. We both watch your videos.
Sounds great, how is it going ?
How's it going three years later ?
i like this guy cause he sounds like he dosent go for views or likes, but just to teach people and make it fun!
Are you alive
Wonderful nectar flow, really beautifully capped off the honeycomb that's for sure. Great job with the harvest, so interesting to see that much honey in the capping alone. I watched your vid with my 4-year-old Noah, "Wow that's all the bees honey, yummy". -Kieran
Yes make a video of the wax rendering. It's so interesting to me to see that you don't shake off the bees before taking the hives. I thought you couldn't mix the boxes within different hives but that's why I enjoy educational videos like this. I have learned so much. I also didn't know the bees do such a good job of cleaning up the mess. That's unbelievable to me. Great video.
The wise old guy in my bee club that does free extractions has a gizmo he's made out of a mop squeezer for cappings. He just shovels them in there, gives it a squish and... done. 10 seconds. It all looks delicious, btw.
Can I have out of wood not bad and use it put bees in it
Why didn't you make the bees clean out the wax cappings instead of putting it in the freezer
Because the bees would chew the wax and re use it for their hive instead of just cleaning it.
Wayne's Jamaican Dream House the bees did their job, we have to do ours
@@kingcurry5139 I might only be keeping bees for one year, but what you need to understand quickly is: bees dont reuse their wax. they build it once, that's it.
so it is an absolutely valid question, why not to make the bees clean out the cappings.
to give a useful answer: depending on how you make your bees clean out these cappings, you might train your (actually any) bees to rob other hives; in most cases, this is your own hives, so your stronger hives just start fighting your weaker hives on honey to store for winter. that way you can make sure, that your hives just dwindle in numbers and all in strength.
getting your bees to clean out the wax (not only cappings, but your comb in general, as it does not get clean from the centrifuge) takes energy from your bees. so just draining it through a sieve yields a lot of honey.
what i did (just in need of combs to get my bees fed for the winter) is to wash the combs out with water, leaving the combs intact for the bees to fill them with sugar for the winter.
the water i used for washing out the rest of the honey, i mixed with some yeast to produce mead for the holidays. 14 vol.-% just from that :)
@@kingcurry5139 Bees don't reuse wax.
Wes. Reminds me helping my grand dad 70 years ago! Thanks.
Hello, I am a French Canadian and my Grandfather had also Bee Hives but he NEVER used smoke, at least I don't remember. He used a cedar boxes and cedar frames, he'd removed the honey filled frames from their boxes and add them in a cedar box. After a few honey filled frames are put in the cedar box, he'd put a cedar frame then more honey filled frames then a cedar frame and so on. He'd leaved it maybe a few hours or so because insects can't stand the smell of cedar, it stinks to them and they leave by there own accord. I don't know the specifics because I was just a child and I'm in my early 50's but just an idea to make your life easier. Great video, big fan, keep up the good work. Peace in Christ.
Pillow-case to strain the cappings.
It'll take a lot of cappings, and can be hung overnight over the bucket.
Best of all it to do it in stages, with mesh to start then smaller and finer materials in turn, which avoids the strainers getting clogged up.
These videos are so relaxing and informative. I could watch for hours, honestly.
I'm a bit jealous. Since I left Louisiana for Texas, my bees haven't done squat. They've survived, but that's been about it. Your honey and bees look good.
So unfortunate...not.
@@Derek2k why not?
your videos have been keeping me sane and collected during shelter in place, I'm super happy to have found your channel! Much love and wishing good health and happiness to you and your family!
Ugh,when he cuts the caps off its so satisfying
Are you alive
Just subscribed,love the way you just show us what your doing without too much talking, other you tubers just talk throughout the whole video, blah blah blah, it’s off putting, you on the other hand just do it, a lot like king Andrew Caramata , well done look forward to watching many more of your videos, love how you are not too greedy and leave some honey for your hard workers, it’s a two way street, Look after your bees and they will give you plenty in return
I've seen a few harvesting videos but I've never seen the clean up process. I love that the bees get to clean up any left over honey; good for them and helpful for you! And yes, I'd also like to see how you render the wax.
Nice to see how fellow beekeepers in other countries are working. Greetings from the Netherlands
Just an observation; I noticed that the honey was very dark. Are you privy to exactly from what plant they're bringing nectar from?
Gene Summers, honey is supposed to be dark. Overly processed/sugary honey is usually lighter and more translucent. I understand your concern though.
I had the same happen to one of my hives. One hive produced dark honey but I have no idea where they were foraging. The other hives had the regular golden comb. All very tasty. 😎
@@IAmBottle. , clover honey is light. Buckwheat honey is dark. Orange blossom honey is very light. Lightness or darkness of the honey is not a good measure of overly processed, unfortunately. If it's not your own honey, it's just best to know the beekeeper.
Randy Felts - Great to know, thanks!
Mediocre Gaming you’re so far wrong, honey is light during spring, it depends on seasons and plants of course
I was looking for a video to learn how honey is extracted and your video made my experience awesome. After watching your video I must appreciate the hard work of all bee keepers like you. You guys are doing awesome job in offering us with such a beautiful gift of nature in its purest possible form. Thank you 🙏😊👏
When he shakes off the bees off a frame it sounds like when you throw water on a hot pan lol
Wow, 1000th comment here. Your videos got me to start a hive. You always have explained things and provided so many great tips. I have notebooks full from watching all your videos, and I've rewatched so many from pure entertainment. Keep up the good work and wonderful attitude! ❤
Edit: corrections
My therapy during quarintine has been watching bee videos 😌
Same
Great video. Try putting a queen excluder under your supers to keep the brood out of your honey. Replace the excluder with a bee escape a week before harvest to get your friends out of the supers for harvest. Question: with no queen excluder and just pulling off boxes how do you know you didn't pull your queen with it?
I’m a 20 year old boy laying in my dorm learning about formulas that is my class so laying watching your videos
Aamir Rogers nah you a MAN
Are you alive
Do you supplement your hives with sugar water during winter, or other difficult times? What percentage of the honey can you take and still leave the bees enough for the winter? Great video. I’m impressed and learned a lot.
Wow! What a harvest, and for the year in total, that's awesome! Thanks for sharing. And yes, I would be interested to see your rendering process. I have seen quite a few and would be interested to see what you prefer to do. God Bless.
Man that ending,you don’t waste nothing,love it.
With all those bees coming to your garage, do any of your family members ever get stung? I am allergic to bees, but I find this so fascinating!! Thanks for sharing! Love your channel
He is probably the only one who goes out there
@@abbeymaloy4704
Bees compare to wasps are not that hurry to stung. However for flying insects are merciless XD
6862211 they usually avoid stinging due to it taking their life but they’re not too fussed
Just discovered your channel today; SUBSCRIBED! I saw those bees flying by, checking your work as you milled the lumber and I thought 'those are his bees, they know and trust him!" and sure enough, here you are harvesting honey. Good man! Thanks for being such a responsible steward of the Earth.
I would love to see how you render your wax and I am curious just how much wax you get from all those cappings.
What happens if you accidentally put a frame in the wrong box? Will the bees get mad?
bees are exceedingly organized creatures . they dont even like frames being put back in the same box but the wrong order
Yes, please, would like to see your wax rendering, and what kind of critters were in there before the freeze.
Hey, thanks a bunch for your videos. I’m a bit too young and broke to have bees, but this is definitely giving me a good picture on how it’ll be if I do want to manage bees
You're my favorite to watch. The whole process is very interesting
Kerin Fowler Thank you, Kerin!
I just had to comment because there were 999 comments and I’m the 1000th! I’m obsessed with this content and I’m doing all I can right now so that I can retire into this lifestyle ASAP
Avoid all of the cappings work and time by using an uncapping roller. Mann Lake, Amazon, and lots of others have them. Most are less than $15 and makes all of the harvest much quicker.
I love hearing you speak! Thanks for an informative and exciting video!👍🏽👍🏽
Two questions when do you know if you have all the honey extracted and can you show us up close a empty one up close
This brings back so many memories. Bees also clean up the wax capings if you want to render the wax later. One thing everyone has avoided so far that I have seen is the cleaning up. There is always a big mess no matter how careful you are. Do not do this in your kitchen. Thanks again for an excellent video.
Use a queen excluder on top of the bottom box and keep here down there and you don't have to worry about getting her along with the others.
Bee (see what I did there?...LOL) a bit more careful about the uncapping and don't dig so deep and you'll have less honey to have to get out of the cappings.
Before health issues made me unable to deal with the weight of full supers I had 66 hives (north Georgia) and was pulling a super (a medium) a week from each hive during the summer, or about 12 pounds per week per hive.
It's always good to see a bountiful harvest like this, enjoying the fruits of their labor. (And yours as well!) Two questions though. First, would having a Queen Excluder between your brood boxes and honey boxes help or hinder your efforts? Second, would heating up your cappings until they melt allow for an easier time in separating the honey, wax and debris? Someday hopefully soon I would love to take on the hobby of beekeeping and so I appreciate the advice and the different views of those who are actively involved in the process. Thanks for your input and thank you so much for sharing your time and effort in this and other videos!
That is amazing I cannot wait to start my own hive small when it first cuz I'm still learning
still learn and hive fun!
When moving the boxes around, do you accidentally crush some bees or is something like that common? It just seems like some bees will get in the way and get squished in between boxes when placing them on top of each other.
Some times it does happen, but most of the time bees are either out of the hive or in the hive rarely do they get crushed. (Coming from me who has absolutely no knowledge about bees just gussing!)
When you shake the hives
Me:bug abuse
Oh wow!
What a sweet surprise!
I love to see you cutting those los and...l love to see honey harvesting and you do it also!
how are your hands not just swollen from the bees?
So you were talking about creating a bigger rig for the cappings. Wouldn't cutting off the bottom of one bucket (sanding the sharp edges) and then adding a screen to the bottom and just have a similar system to what u have just on a larger scale work? (Using a smaller bucket for the cappings, as long as the mouth of the capping bucket is the same as the circumference of the drained bucket)
And for the screen using something thats similar to cheesecloth but wont break under the weight of the cappings and raw honey
Thats pretty cool the bees clean up for you
I like your lids; very simple. I quit using telescoping lids several years ago.
Learned a lot from this video thanks
I wonder if you covered the cappings with parchment paper and then a weight if that would aid that process? shouldn't stick to parchment paper very much?
watching this ,I got a strange craving for toast and honey , lol
Ye me to
The sound of the knife cutting through the caps...👏🏼
Smoke masks alarm pheromones which include various chemicals, e.g., isopentyl acetate that are released by guard bees or bees that are injured during a beekeeper's inspection. In addition, smoke initiates a feeding response in anticipation of possible hive abandonment due to fire.
This has been really interesting. The time went by so fast since you had so much content. I like it a lot.
Maybe in the future, you can get an electric extractor just to make the comparison. That's easy for me to say because it's not costing me, but it's interesting again.
I always wondered why beekeepers don't add a little heat to the cappings just to loosen it up and possibly kill the Beetles though it might detract from the nutrients. Very enjoyable
Me: omg! I want to be a beekeeper and harvest my own honey!! So cool!! This is my calling!!
Man on the vid: be careful of black widow spiders.
Me: nahh, nvm. I’ll just buy honey , watch YT and chill.
ive never seen a black widow spider before but he lives in georgia i think so thats why he says to be careful
Very low risk, high reward. Join us comrade
Great video. How long (months, etc.) does it take the bees to make this much honey? Great channel.
That knife must love its life. I know I would if I was the knife. Looks delicious. Your videos actually inspired me to try honey in my coffee. Its delicious! Thank you for inspiring me to discover new things :)
Haha wonderfull. The cleanup by the bees themselves left me in awe
I would like to see the wax process.
You should do some videos on cooking/working with honey. I like using it in coffee and tea, but would like to see how you get use out of it!
He probably selling it
Imagine how sticky the floor would be
I get a lot of enjoyment watching your videos with the bees and of course your saw milling. Curious how much land you have on your place since you seem to get quite a few trees to cut up? Keep up the great and entertaining work. Terry
That is pretty amazing, I buy honey from a local guy in GA but he does not share how he does it.
Get yourself a hive and next year you can cut the comb and honey straight from the frame and onto your toast. 😎
my favorite part is the slicing of the comb
How many supers was that? No better to know the number of frames.
Harvests 188 pounds of honey, after a restock harvest of 30 pounds of honey: "We keep most of it for ourselves". How do you eat that much honey haha. Edit: any suggested recipes?
We use it in our coffee and tea as well as whatever recipe might call for it. Delicious!
The only way I know how to use that much honey is mead making. Perhaps they don't use any other kind of sugar in their cooking and baking.
I notice some of your hives have deep brood boxes but it looks like most have a series of mediums. Is this intentional, or just because you had a bunch of medium boxes you needed to use?
The bees look like they're boppin to nature at the beginning xD
Its called a bee dance and boi do they vibe... 😎
Your frames seem so much tighter than mine. Is that just due to having older frames will a lot of drawn out comb on them? I'm a first time beekeeper. My first installed package is only about 12 days old.
I sure enjoyed your video and we are ready to extract our first honey this weekend! Wish us luck! (This is our third season raising bees)
18:00 I’d like to suggest, when making the bucket with a screened bottom, leave a couple of mm of the base around the edge for support! Or maybe even leave an x shape of base, I imagine capping full of honey will be heavy, I’ve made screened tubs for my worm farms and found making screened bottoms can be a game changer! An heating tool can help with the actual cutting, but be sure to do it outside and protect yourself.
Great harvest. You're about due for an electric extractor .
I would love a wax video! I dont keep bees (yet) but I love watching harvest videos, I figure its educational and incredibly satisfying
I would like to see a video of the wax being rendered.
When you were allowing the honeybees to clean up; do you have any trouble with wasps? Thank you for the video. We are getting ready to get our honeybees so you are a big help in giving us the education we will need.
That'll cover alot of Biscuits!
i love your videos, they're so wholesome and are making my sick day so much better :))
Anybody else love the way this guys says, "honey?"
I didn't skip a single time in this video out of respect for what you do.
Don't let the harvested combs stand outside - this is the way bee robbery is caused...
Facts
bro he let the harvested combs outside on purpose, he explained that they clean it out for him, and then he puts it back in the hive
@@manicolearmel7190 Do you own bees? If you let the harvested combs outside, you will cause robbery. The bees clean out the honey combs if you put it back into the hive.
Would a queen excluder on the bottom box stop the brood from laying where the honey boxes are on top? You would leave the bottom completely and harvest the top 2...am i wrong in anyway here? Any response is appreciated.
Why don’t the bees get irritated when you throw them off like you do in the video
David Campbell he used smoke 3:46
Just curious, do you ever accidentally kill the bees when processing the honey and removing the frames and what not? And if so, does it hurt the rest of the hive to have a few bees missing, or does it not make much of a difference?
There are bee's who are flying out so no🍯
I have learned alot from you thank you so muchis it possible to buy honey from u guys