What great video about two great bee keepers. Those two motor for the leveling are the same motor that are on dump trucks they roll the top tarp that covers the bed of the dump truck load . I really enjoy and learn a lot from your video’s. Thanks
Reminds me of a old boom truck we used back in the mid 80's ... with the cleats on the side of the hives... I see you have in the picture. We use to have some of the main body hives have the cleats level with the top of the super... then we could raise the second one and look without it sliding off the back... I did that once ... bizzy sings
I bought a boom for apijuneda (spain) this spring. It works hydraulic and has self-levelling. It is much more technical. A lot of parts which can brake. So far it is doing great. I hope it will last as long as the selfbuild "beast" ;) in the video.
Nice set up for this size operation. May I point out. As one who has had one of these homemade style booms and now has a large version of the ezy loader a large point of difference is the ability of the latter to "level" on the fly. Once the load is on the forks the level tends to shift downhill to the load end side. Being able to level it out on the fly is helpful. Very helpful. ( btw. Use a swinger 1k and a cat 226b also )
Hey Bob.... you ever heard of beekeeepers open feeding frames of capped honey and how would you do that...Like 300ft away and jut put frames in empty box with lid??
Was wondering about his pickup truck. He said that he used it for feeding bees. It looked like a half ton f150. So apparently it isn't a full tote he carries. Was wondering what and how he feeds.
Hi Malcolm. He takes his big truck to a sugar outlet in Charlotte, NC. and picks up three totes of sucrose syrup at a time. He then brings it home and empties them into empty totes on the ground and uses it as he needs it. He has a gasoline driven pump for moving syrup around. In late summer he dilutes it to one to one and in fall uses it straight which is approximately two to one. He does use his small truck with partial totes for feeding and gravity feeds into a bucket which is used to fill the hive top feeders.
@@bobbinnie9872 thanks, I was just wondering when he said he feed with the smaller pickup, if he used different size containers. I have really enjoyed the videos he's been in, those 4 plus the two he did for the club. I also enjoyed the mann lake guy from Pennsylvania office. I have watched them several times each. I run both singles and single & a medium here in Oklahoma. I already paid for one of your timing boxes with Brian. I ordered plugs earlier this year and I just wanted to let you know your people were very nice to do business with and helpful. As a business owner I thought you might like to hear good things about your people. See you for the 3rd Hive Live Conference. Thanks for your valuable time and May God bless your business as well as your family.
Although here in Georgia we are traditionally a 2000 colony outfit, our numbers go up and down do to colonies sold and colonies produced each year. When I was in southern Oregon (the Rogue Valley) I worked for a beekeeper for three years that ran 2200 and then went on to run 500 alone.
Bob, I have an idea. Your helper (Tommy?) that want to start out on his own some day could make some easy quick money making up a couple hundred double dividing boards and selling them at the Hive Alive conference. I know I'd like to buy a couple.
Hey Bob. This comment has nothing to do with this video although I do like it, as I do with all your videos. I was just wondering if you have footage of Chris Werner’s crew doing their paraffin dipping. I’m interested in starting that and doing it as simple as possible really appeals to me.
Hi Andrew. He has several 55 gallon drums going at one time with band heaters on low. Each one soaks for 8 minutes while he loads and unloads the rest. He gets the right number going to match the eight minute cycle.
Lots of limitations. Expensive. Slow.. It is a beekeeping technology from 70s. I have 50 y.o. Babcat 610. Receive semi on evening, unload with helper, then me alone, spread 500+ hives to the yards and finish job by morning.
@@bobbinnie9872 i used to have a same arguments like him. When he will switch to Babcat with 5th wheel and strait mast he will never think to come back to..
Always enjoy you sharing the ways of doing things up there Bob, thanks. FWIW here in Australia most guys I know load their loaders across the bed of the truck using ramps. The forks fold upwards to bring the loader within the legal max 2.5 metre width. From what I can see the Federal Limit in the US is even wider, at 2.6 metres, so putting a skid steer or articulated loader across the bed wouldn't present a problem at all. I worked for a company that ran larger loaders and we hung them off the back of the truck by their forks and sitting in a cradle. I don't know of any medium or larger operator here who would tow a trailer just for a loader. They may tow a trailer, but it's then a large trailer to increase the Combined Mass of the vehicle to carry more hives
Every beekeepers dream, a flatbed truck with a lift. Someday :)
Great stuff, Always learn something from your videos,
it so great!!!
Very surprised by the noise? I hadn’t noticed it was DIY. NOW IT MAKES SENSE
What great video about two great bee keepers. Those two motor for the leveling are the same motor that are on dump trucks they roll the top tarp that covers the bed of the dump truck load . I really enjoy and learn a lot from your video’s. Thanks
Shades of The Canadian Beekeeper.
love the loader
Excellent video
I'm a NC beekeeper also. Don't have this kind of equipment tho. Lol. Tell everyone at blue ridge honey I said hello. Love this place.
Reminds me of a old boom truck we used back in the mid 80's ... with the cleats on the side of the hives... I see you have in the picture. We use to have some of the main body hives have the cleats level with the top of the super... then we could raise the second one and look without it sliding off the back... I did that once ... bizzy sings
Thanks for sharing interesting content Bob 👍🇺🇲
Thanks Jeff. 👍🇺🇲
These videos are awesome
Good stuff, Bob!
Looks great . Those Crome motors looks just like the tarp motors on dump trucks by what I can see from here
I bought a boom for apijuneda (spain) this spring. It works hydraulic and has self-levelling. It is much more technical. A lot of parts which can brake. So far it is doing great. I hope it will last as long as the selfbuild "beast" ;) in the video.
Thanks Bob! very interesting...
Top Job Bob 🐝🐝🐝💪 Thank you
Thanks a bunch for this video. Hopefully by mid January I am done with mine.
Great job !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like Gregs truck that’s smart
Looks great
I've been looking at different versions of hive lifts and this is my pick up to now. The gearbox looks like a differential from a car.
Thanks for sharing
Thank you.
I like your smoker
Nice set up for this size operation.
May I point out. As one who has had one of these homemade style booms and now has a large version of the ezy loader a large point of difference is the ability of the latter to "level" on the fly.
Once the load is on the forks the level tends to shift downhill to the load end side. Being able to level it out on the fly is helpful. Very helpful.
( btw. Use a swinger 1k and a cat 226b also )
Great information for a beginner🚧 commercial beekeeper. Great show ✍️🚂 Bob 🛢🛢🛢🛢🛢 looking forward to learning about honey barrels. Thanks for Sharing 📡
Thanks 🙏🏻
You could cut some pieces of 2" RHS drill a hole and pack the whole unit up by 2", seems to me an easy way to fix the one box issue.
Bob could be a spares supplier for ezyloader lol, yet another job for Bob. lol
Hey Bob lost candler man made video of the hives I got from you it’s under Albee the bee man just a great day see you at the conference hopefully
You could place hydraulic stabilizers on the corner of truck to level
I am building a loader for my trailer and that is what I am going to do. I should have it done in January, I will be posting videos of it
The complicated thing is the price of other guys from Australia/Canada who practices big price. I will build one for me.
Hey Bob.... you ever heard of beekeeepers open feeding frames of capped honey and how would you do that...Like 300ft away and jut put frames in empty box with lid??
Was wondering about his pickup truck. He said that he used it for feeding bees. It looked like a half ton f150. So apparently it isn't a full tote he carries. Was wondering what and how he feeds.
Hi Malcolm. He takes his big truck to a sugar outlet in Charlotte, NC. and picks up three totes of sucrose syrup at a time. He then brings it home and empties them into empty totes on the ground and uses it as he needs it. He has a gasoline driven pump for moving syrup around. In late summer he dilutes it to one to one and in fall uses it straight which is approximately two to one. He does use his small truck with partial totes for feeding and gravity feeds into a bucket which is used to fill the hive top feeders.
@@bobbinnie9872 thanks, I was just wondering when he said he feed with the smaller pickup, if he used different size containers.
I have really enjoyed the videos he's been in, those 4 plus the two he did for the club. I also enjoyed the mann lake guy from Pennsylvania office. I have watched them several times each.
I run both singles and single & a medium here in Oklahoma. I already paid for one of your timing boxes with Brian.
I ordered plugs earlier this year and I just wanted to let you know your people were very nice to do business with and helpful. As a business owner I thought you might like to hear good things about your people.
See you for the 3rd Hive Live Conference. Thanks for your valuable time and May God bless your business as well as your family.
Ha Bob I enjoyed the video Thank you does he have you tube videos as well have a blessed day
Hi Frances. He does not.
Is it possible to know the material size of the boom on Greg's crane. It will get really expensive to guess wrong.
You might search for "Haw Creek Honey" and email Greg directly for that.
BOB ROCK ON 😎😎😎
I will have to say, Greg has some good tempered bees!!!
How many hives do you work? Interesting I am in southern oregon. What do you use in the smoker?
Although here in Georgia we are traditionally a 2000 colony outfit, our numbers go up and down do to colonies sold and colonies produced each year. When I was in southern Oregon (the Rogue Valley) I worked for a beekeeper for three years that ran 2200 and then went on to run 500 alone.
Hello Bob. 500 hives would be a lot of work for 1 person.
That was my size when I worked alone. I went to 700 one year but it proved to be too much.
Bob, I have an idea. Your helper (Tommy?) that want to start out on his own some day could make some easy quick money making up a couple hundred double dividing boards and selling them at the Hive Alive conference. I know I'd like to buy a couple.
Hi Russell. I believe Byran Farris is going to have some there.
Hey Bob. This comment has nothing to do with this video although I do like it, as I do with all your videos. I was just wondering if you have footage of Chris Werner’s crew doing their paraffin dipping. I’m interested in starting that and doing it as simple as possible really appeals to me.
Hi Andrew. He has several 55 gallon drums going at one time with band heaters on low. Each one soaks for 8 minutes while he loads and unloads the rest. He gets the right number going to match the eight minute cycle.
@@bobbinnie9872 thanks Bob. Really appreciate that!
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Lots of limitations. Expensive. Slow..
It is a beekeeping technology from 70s.
I have 50 y.o. Babcat 610. Receive semi on evening, unload with helper, then me alone, spread 500+ hives to the yards and finish job by morning.
In the video he explains why a Bobcat and trailer wouldn't work well for him.
@@bobbinnie9872 i used to have a same arguments like him.
When he will switch to Babcat with 5th wheel and strait mast he will never think to come back to..
Always enjoy you sharing the ways of doing things up there Bob, thanks.
FWIW here in Australia most guys I know load their loaders across the bed of the truck using ramps. The forks fold upwards to bring the loader within the legal max 2.5 metre width. From what I can see the Federal Limit in the US is even wider, at 2.6 metres, so putting a skid steer or articulated loader across the bed wouldn't present a problem at all. I worked for a company that ran larger loaders and we hung them off the back of the truck by their forks and sitting in a cradle. I don't know of any medium or larger operator here who would tow a trailer just for a loader. They may tow a trailer, but it's then a large trailer to increase the Combined Mass of the vehicle to carry more hives
Although not as common here, I know of several guys that load their forklift across the bed. Thanks.