It's an open face bolt pattern and, although it seemed standard to me, we couldn't find one in our neighborhood. We did just get a call today letting us know that it will be in tomorrow so we'll be back in business soon. That's about half of our Sourwood crop, and although it's not a lot when compared to your volume, the wholesale price of a minimum $7.50 US and up makes it really attractive. And of course a lot of it will go out of here retail which is even better.
Ha Bob Good to see you glad u are getting sourwood honey I hope u get a lot. sorry the motor broke and put u behind. I always look forward to your videos, hope you have another 1 for sunday I always sit and have coffee and look for it sunday mornings. Hope u and your crew and family have a very blessed week. Keep the videos coming they are great.
Looks good Bob! We pulled ours off a week ago. Trying to time the rain fall was a nightmare though. Just put on our Apiguard treatment though and getting the mites knocked down ASAP. Thanks for your videos!
Honey has got to be pretty expensive over there, considering all the expenses, machinery and overall bills I couldn't afford anything like that. You are truly a great beekeeper and busyness owner. Hats off to you 🎩
@@koz6670 i'm in Chile, South America. Producers here charge about 5 dollars a kg. (2 pounds aprox.) When selling directly. Half of that if they sell to a third party. It's a very small market too, nothing like the US.
You also do t know where Bob got his money he may have inherited it or just come from a wealthy family. It’s a very romantic notion of the successful businessman working his or her way from the bottom up but life isn’t like that at the end of the day who cares everyone’s journey is different
"Robbing mode..." Now isn’t that calling the kettle black! 😂 I understand but the irony wasn't lost on me. "Hurry up and wait," is another good one! I love my little black bees. Thanks Bob! ☘ 💖🙏💫
Bob, thanks for all your work on these videos. My son Marcus (13) and I are in our second year beekeeping. This spring we lost. 1 of our 2, 5 frame hives coming into spring and now have caught and maintain 10 langstroth hives. Marcus has learned graphing and we have had success re-queening our hives here in western Pennsylvania. We’re waiting to pull supers at the beginning of knotweed and are eager to have a taste of the honey. Marcus is putting a video together and I hope we can get it on TH-cam soon. We hope to see you at the show and I know my mentor Craig is eager to have you taste our (his) knotweed honey. Certainly we are looking forward to meeting you at the convention. Thanks again
Hi Bob, thanks for the midweek video. Still hoping you can get a step by step video on how to set a bear fence. I know you have a little bit, but looking for one a little more in depth. Thanks!
So pleased you ended up with a good sourwood crop Bob. Breakdowns are a pain but not so bad when you can find someone to fix things! Best wishes for more good honey pulls!! 🥳🎯😎🐝👊
Makes total sense . A loose connection gives you Low voltage and causes heat and is the worst thing for an electric motor . A VFD changes the frequency and the voltage remains the same .the frequency change speeds or slows down the motor rpm . Thats whats on Ians honey pump . Im sure you found a hundred other things to do while waiting for repairs . Great videos thank you
I hope you get up and running again soon so the honey harvest can continue. I started using the dehumidifier myself a few years ago - might have got the bright idea from watching your videos 😄 - but i tend to only use it for frames/supers with mostly uncapped honey. I know that honey can 'breathe' despite the wax cap but I imagine it would take quite a long time to make any noticeable moisture difference if most or all of the honey is capped?
Hi Bob , notice your stack job of honey supers on pallets can you explain that please, love these videos and look forward to seeing what you all are up to!
The stack is usually six or seven mediums on a standard 4-way bee pallet. It's low enough for the ceiling fans to easily push dry air through and not too high on the truck. We could go higher for more efficient transportation but this works well because we don't travel out of town for honey production anymore.
It's interesting the differences in laws state to state, we have a law in Pennsylvania that we have to have a cover over our boxes when transporting honey supers.
45% humidity in the honey room. I wish I had seen this last month. I set up a honey room and had it between 19-24% . I extracted some 13% honey and had to blend it with some 17.5% to make it usable in my bottling machine.
@@bobbinnie9872 Starting moisture was 19.5-20% as I had extracted some from uncapped comb to buckets to get supers off and back on as woodware resources were strained and backfilling the brood was occuring. All the honey was at least 18% before blending. Lesson learned!
Bob I heard something the other day I have never heard before an just like to hear your thoughts on this ANY I AM NOT IN ANY WAY SAYING ANYTHING BAD ABOUT THE PERSON THAT SAID IT. It is just I have not heard it before. They said by running the low humidity as we dry out our nectar or honey that dying it helps to kill eggs an larva I think from hive beetle and or wax moths . Have you heard or used that before. I am glad you had a good season an your sourwood honey also . Thanks for your thoughts. Thanks
I have heard that also and from reputable researchers. We have seen eggs hatch with larvae on the floor with humidity as low as 30% so they might want to take another look at that.
@@bobbinnie9872 ya it may be helpful but I also run mine at 30 percent an finding larva . I Think on a average season I usually lose around 20 foundations . I know for you that would not be bad at all but for me that is bad but not terrible. But any thing we lose is not good an if I have some old foundation then that is a way to make up my mine for me to go ahead an change it out . Thanks ya I just had not heard that before an ya it probably does help . Have a good week. THANKS
We actually use the same pallets our bees are on. Check out our video "Beehive Pallet Dimensions and Transportation Explained" th-cam.com/video/2Rsjh3lbDpU/w-d-xo.html
Off the subject. I'm having a lot of problems with SHB. I live on the gulf coast, it's hot and humid. I have tried traps, peppermints, swiffer sheets, even a homemade murder sauce. I think you said something very important here. The hives I seem to have problems also have older frames. The hives are very strong but will still get overwhelmed by SHB. The SHB is my main reason for a 50 percent loss. Which is too high. Can you give advice. It's also July almost August.
I'm sorry to hear of this issue. We're lucky here that the problem is not very severe. I have two friends that have had very bad problems with beetles and this is what they say has helped. One said his problem went away after he put his yard in full sun and then drenched the area around the colonies with a pyrethrin solution. The other built bottom boards with a 71 mm hole in the rear corner of the bottom board into which he glued a standard pint jar metal lid (70G), threads facing down. The lid has many nail holes in it that are large enough for a beetle to go through but not a bee. He then screws in a pint jar under the bottom board filled 1/3 full with a solution of 2/3 apple cider vinegar and 1/3 liquid dish soap. He gets a staggering number of dead beetles with this contraption. I'm sure this theme could be altered into other designs. Also, consider that the smells from very old comb, which we don't have, are undoubtedly an attractant. Good luck.
What are your thoughts on the new mite that’s gonna get hear soon enough tropie mite I wish countries would work together instead of saying well they are not in our area yet and we would have a better understanding on how we’re gonna control this new mite
Do you always dry the honey, even if its capped.. which leads me to, are these capped frames? Im assuming the offset super on the bottom is to allow the air and moisture an escape path?
We actually try to harvest supers when they are still partially uncapped. Although contrary to popular believe moisture does pass through cappings but it is extremely slow. The uncapped portion dries quickly and when it blends with the capped portion during extracting the result is fairly good.
Bob I have a question I hope you will answer but understand if you don't. In all of your years in the beekeeping industry what have you found works best controlling ants in & around a honey house/garage/outbuilding/shop?
I noticed when stacking the truck you offset the bottom row. There must be a reason for that I missed?? The old electric motor shops used to fix any motor within a few hours. Not many left now days. That looks like a lot of Sourwood honey, Maybe you will have some for sale at NAHBE??
We're using 4-way bee pallets for pulling honey supers. They have a 1-1/2 inch landing board which creates space when they face each other on the truck. If we don't group the supers together when we stack them they will shift together to fill the gap when we tie them down. I hope so at NAHBE.
Not good to have them but if need be they can be filtered out when pumping or floated to the top in a settling tank. Or you could just consider them added protein (joking).
Ya bought two right? As an old industrial maintenance guy, when you get caught without a spare you cya for the next one. I am sure it will all work out for you, thanks for all the honest good with the bad videos. It is not all roses every day.
Having all the honey in would be a good feeling.
Isn’t that motor a standard 1 1/2hp off the shelf motor?
It's an open face bolt pattern and, although it seemed standard to me, we couldn't find one in our neighborhood. We did just get a call today letting us know that it will be in tomorrow so we'll be back in business soon. That's about half of our Sourwood crop, and although it's not a lot when compared to your volume, the wholesale price of a minimum $7.50 US and up makes it really attractive. And of course a lot of it will go out of here retail which is even better.
@@bobbinnie9872 wow!! That’s a good price
Breakdowns don’t happen when the equipment isn’t being used lol
Wow! That's a lot of Sourwood. Congratulations on a good crop, Bob.
Ha Bob Good to see you glad u are getting sourwood honey I hope u get a lot. sorry the motor broke and put u behind. I always look forward to your videos, hope you have another 1 for sunday I always sit and have coffee and look for it sunday mornings. Hope u and your crew and family have a very blessed week. Keep the videos coming they are great.
Looks good Bob! We pulled ours off a week ago. Trying to time the rain fall was a nightmare though. Just put on our Apiguard treatment though and getting the mites knocked down ASAP. Thanks for your videos!
Sounds like we're both on the same 👍
Great Sourwood pull, Bob!!! It was a good Sourwood season this year for us over in Hiawassee as well!
Mid week video treat. Glad your harvest is a good one.
Honey has got to be pretty expensive over there, considering all the expenses, machinery and overall bills
I couldn't afford anything like that. You are truly a great beekeeper and busyness owner. Hats off to you 🎩
As compared to where?
@@koz6670 i'm in Chile, South America. Producers here charge about 5 dollars a kg. (2 pounds aprox.) When selling directly. Half of that if they sell to a third party. It's a very small market too, nothing like the US.
You also do t know where Bob got his money he may have inherited it or just come from a wealthy family. It’s a very romantic notion of the successful businessman working his or her way from the bottom up but life isn’t like that at the end of the day who cares everyone’s journey is different
"Robbing mode..." Now isn’t that calling the kettle black! 😂 I understand but the irony wasn't lost on me.
"Hurry up and wait," is another good one!
I love my little black bees.
Thanks Bob!
☘
💖🙏💫
Bob, thanks for all your work on these videos. My son Marcus (13) and I are in our second year beekeeping. This spring we lost. 1 of our 2, 5 frame hives coming into spring and now have caught and maintain 10 langstroth hives. Marcus has learned graphing and we have had success re-queening our hives here in western Pennsylvania. We’re waiting to pull supers at the beginning of knotweed and are eager to have a taste of the honey. Marcus is putting a video together and I hope we can get it on TH-cam soon. We hope to see you at the show and I know my mentor Craig is eager to have you taste our (his) knotweed honey.
Certainly we are looking forward to meeting you at the convention. Thanks again
Look forward to it.
2:38 love the drying room.
Sorry you’re having issues Bob but this is awesome that your sourwood tear wasn’t a bust!!
Hi Bob, thanks for the midweek video. Still hoping you can get a step by step video on how to set a bear fence. I know you have a little bit, but looking for one a little more in depth. Thanks!
They are surprising smart little bugs. Thanks for sharing, Blessed Days Bob...
So pleased you ended up with a good sourwood crop Bob. Breakdowns are a pain but not so bad when you can find someone to fix things!
Best wishes for more good honey pulls!! 🥳🎯😎🐝👊
Makes total sense .
A loose connection gives you Low voltage and causes heat and is the worst thing for an electric motor .
A VFD changes the frequency and the voltage remains the same .the frequency change speeds or slows down the motor rpm .
Thats whats on Ians honey pump .
Im sure you found a hundred other things to do while waiting for repairs .
Great videos thank you
200 things!
Thank you Bob always great info!😁
Thanks for the video. Great information
I hope you get up and running again soon so the honey harvest can continue. I started using the dehumidifier myself a few years ago - might have got the bright idea from watching your videos 😄 - but i tend to only use it for frames/supers with mostly uncapped honey. I know that honey can 'breathe' despite the wax cap but I imagine it would take quite a long time to make any noticeable moisture difference if most or all of the honey is capped?
I hope all works out for you my friend
Hi Bob , notice your stack job of honey supers on pallets can you explain that please, love these videos and look forward to seeing what you all are up to!
The stack is usually six or seven mediums on a standard 4-way bee pallet. It's low enough for the ceiling fans to easily push dry air through and not too high on the truck. We could go higher for more efficient transportation but this works well because we don't travel out of town for honey production anymore.
It's interesting the differences in laws state to state, we have a law in Pennsylvania that we have to have a cover over our boxes when transporting honey supers.
45% humidity in the honey room. I wish I had seen this last month. I set up a honey room and had it between 19-24% . I extracted some 13% honey and had to blend it with some 17.5% to make it usable in my bottling machine.
That low number could be OK if the honey wasn't exposed very long. It could also depend on what you started with.
@@bobbinnie9872 Starting moisture was 19.5-20% as I had extracted some from uncapped comb to buckets to get supers off and back on as woodware resources were strained and backfilling the brood was occuring. All the honey was at least 18% before blending. Lesson learned!
Good Morning Bob !
Good morning sir!
Bob I heard something the other day I have never heard before an just like to hear your thoughts on this ANY I AM NOT IN ANY WAY SAYING ANYTHING BAD ABOUT THE PERSON THAT SAID IT. It is just I have not heard it before. They said by running the low humidity as we dry out our nectar or honey that dying it helps to kill eggs an larva I think from hive beetle and or wax moths . Have you heard or used that before. I am glad you had a good season an your sourwood honey also . Thanks for your thoughts. Thanks
I have heard that also and from reputable researchers. We have seen eggs hatch with larvae on the floor with humidity as low as 30% so they might want to take another look at that.
@@bobbinnie9872 ya it may be helpful but I also run mine at 30 percent an finding larva . I
Think on a average season I usually lose around 20 foundations . I know for you that would not be bad at all but for me that is bad but not terrible. But any thing we lose is not good an if I have some old foundation then that is a way to make up my mine for me to go ahead an change it out . Thanks ya I just had not heard that before an ya it probably does help . Have a good week. THANKS
Do a video on your pallets that you pull honey with.
We actually use the same pallets our bees are on. Check out our video "Beehive Pallet Dimensions and Transportation Explained" th-cam.com/video/2Rsjh3lbDpU/w-d-xo.html
Off the subject. I'm having a lot of problems with SHB. I live on the gulf coast, it's hot and humid. I have tried traps, peppermints, swiffer sheets, even a homemade murder sauce. I think you said something very important here. The hives I seem to have problems also have older frames. The hives are very strong but will still get overwhelmed by SHB. The SHB is my main reason for a 50 percent loss. Which is too high. Can you give advice. It's also July almost August.
I'm sorry to hear of this issue. We're lucky here that the problem is not very severe.
I have two friends that have had very bad problems with beetles and this is what they say has helped. One said his problem went away after he put his yard in full sun and then drenched the area around the colonies with a pyrethrin solution. The other built bottom boards with a 71 mm hole in the rear corner of the bottom board into which he glued a standard pint jar metal lid (70G), threads facing down. The lid has many nail holes in it that are large enough for a beetle to go through but not a bee. He then screws in a pint jar under the bottom board filled 1/3 full with a solution of 2/3 apple cider vinegar and 1/3 liquid dish soap. He gets a staggering number of dead beetles with this contraption. I'm sure this theme could be altered into other designs. Also, consider that the smells from very old comb, which we don't have, are undoubtedly an attractant. Good luck.
It’s probably hard to take a nap in that room
What are your thoughts on the new mite that’s gonna get hear soon enough tropie mite I wish countries would work together instead of saying well they are not in our area yet and we would have a better understanding on how we’re gonna control this new mite
I don't think it's a question of if but of when. May possibly come through Canada because of the bees they import. I'm not sure of how it will go.
Do you always dry the honey, even if its capped.. which leads me to, are these capped frames?
Im assuming the offset super on the bottom is to allow the air and moisture an escape path?
We actually try to harvest supers when they are still partially uncapped. Although contrary to popular believe moisture does pass through cappings but it is extremely slow. The uncapped portion dries quickly and when it blends with the capped portion during extracting the result is fairly good.
Hola colega 👏👏👏👏👏😀😀🍯🍯🍯🍯💪💪💪💪🇦🇷. De diez
Bob I have a question I hope you will answer but understand if you don't. In all of your years in the beekeeping industry what have you found works best controlling ants in & around a honey house/garage/outbuilding/shop?
Something I don't like to use. Granular ant bait/poison.
@@bobbinnie9872 Thank you
Bob, what your thoughts on using drone frames in your honey supers? It this a good or bad idea?
I don't think it matters.
I noticed when stacking the truck you offset the bottom row. There must be a reason for that I missed??
The old electric motor shops used to fix any motor within a few hours. Not many left now days. That looks like a lot of Sourwood honey, Maybe you will have some for sale at NAHBE??
We're using 4-way bee pallets for pulling honey supers. They have a 1-1/2 inch landing board which creates space when they face each other on the truck. If we don't group the supers together when we stack them they will shift together to fill the gap when we tie them down. I hope so at NAHBE.
So those fans dont mind running horizontally?
We've had those in that position for ten years without any problems so far.
24 to a pallet how many pallets do you have in there?
I think there was 40 to 45. It's about half of our Sourwood crop.
@@bobbinnie9872 beautiful . Thanks for all you do. I ordered some sourwood and can’t wait to compare to Black Sage I got at NAHBE this past year!
Ever felt the need to put a bug zapper in your drying room? Thinking wax moths.
It could work on a smaller scale. We tried it once a long time ago but it got full of bees too fast.
What happens if you extract combs with some wax moth larvae?
Not good to have them but if need be they can be filtered out when pumping or floated to the top in a settling tank. Or you could just consider them added protein (joking).
Well welll well isn't this a surprise at midnight!!!
Ya bought two right? As an old industrial maintenance guy, when you get caught without a spare you cya for the next one. I am sure it will all work out for you, thanks for all the honest good with the bad videos. It is not all roses every day.
Beekeepers should have two of everything but in this case we did not. 🤔
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Awesome