This Could Work!!!! SOLAR Kiln & Old Beeswax 🐝☀️
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I have been meaning to do this and hoping our "inventive" selfs have figured out a good way to render down old honeycomb!
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In the Marines, we call it, "Improvise, adapt and overcome". LOL I've really enjoyed your content so far. Thanks!
I use a solar wax melter that my hubby made. Black box, screen that filters the wax. Plexus across the top of the box. I melt the wax into a few inches of water in a pan below the screen. Wax can just be gathered from the top of the water
My motto is “you don’t know until you try”. 🙂
Bess, bees and more bees, oh you make my day, thank you so much!
My old kiln was 'cobbled up' out of a retail fridge unit thrown out of a local shop - perfect as it was well insulated and had a double glazed door. 3 filters, 1/8 inch wire cloth, very fine perforate zinc fly screen and finally a double layer fine cotton cloth. It worked very well. just keep adding any hive waste and let the sun and gravity do the work.
7:08 You’re a sketchy influence on your impressionable Mom! I’m really proud of you! 🔥🌪👍
Would totally hangout with you and you mom. So much I could learn from you both
Just had a thought. You could do a bi-weekly apothecary video where you talk the herbs you’re loving in the season and why.
Love when you have your noses in the books and are talking about stewarding the harvest and properties of different aspects of creation.
I agree!!! I definitely need to do that!
Perfect!!..👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🐝🐝🐝
I love it. You used MacGyver as an adjective! Very cool. I need to do something like this to melt some wax also. Maybe I'll MacGyver something too! =) Thanks for sharing Kaylee!
I stuffed all my old wax from last year into a five gallon bucket. STUFFED. Bugs ate all of it. There is nothing left. I gotta figure something out. I needed that wax.
Oh dear.....!!!!!😯 Nice bee
I have seen videos that they used a solar cooker which is a foil lined box with a windowpane for the lid and the sun produces the heat to melt the wax. Pretty much on the same aspect that you are using only smaller. So, it should work like you want only may take longer as you said. Really enjoy your videos.
I really need to go over some of my old frames and do this. I like the tote idea. Hope all is well out your way.
Thank you Brian! We have been doing good! Getting ready for our beekeeping workshop this weekend 🐝🐝🐝✨
@@TheHoneystead So much going on this weekend, and I'll be stuck home. Caught the 'rona on my first work trip to Colorado last week.
Ohhh noooo!!! Gosh that stinks! Hope you feel better soon!
@@TheHoneystead Thanks. I think I've turned the corner, just super tired.
You had me at McGuyver but I stayed for the wise goddesses talkin bees, art, family, n sweet sweet honey 💋 lol
This definitely will work, we do it here in South Africa. Would like to see if the foil sticks to the wax then might try foil as well... Will wait for the update 😇
I will share soon! We have had a few hot days after this so I’m due for an update!
Your muscles are ginormous! I play volleyball and basketball.
I love the smell of propolis! I have a bowl full now and it seems to clear my nose every time I smell it. Really enjoying all your videos.
Your mom is super special
I have a backyard greenhouse & do much the same thing. I cut a hole in the bottom of an old metal flower planter and put a screen across the hole. Then a 5 gallon bucket below. Once it's hot enough to melt it falls down and cools in the plastic bucket, which keeps it from overheating and turning brown. Hopefully your plastic tub will hold the heat without getting too hot.
Great idea!!!
@@TheHoneystead oh and I find it helps to put a piece of plexy glass over the planter, just so it holds the heat that much closer to the wax. Your kiln may not need it. I really like your idea of using the cheese cloth too, will have to try that next time
In the uk we have just got a tv program on the Discovery channel called Bee Cezr or something like that and they have a same solar kiln which just holds their wax tote and they use it successfully to render their wax down and I think that it’s amazing to bee 🐝 able to use they natural products being the sun to melt the wax down so saving some fossil fuel even though it’s only a small amount of fossil fuel it’s the thought that it was made by nature in the last few years and rendered by today’s nature to give use a natural product that was naturally made and there’s not much made like that today. You show us so much that we take for granted so a big big thank you to you and your lovely mother.
Depending on the sugar and oil content of your honeycomb, it should begin to soften and liquefy when your drying shed reaches 140°F - 150°F.
Runny honey makes me happy
Always heard the more propolis the bees have the healthier they are. I know it's gets messy in on the frames and really glues them down but i try to leave all i can in the box. Great video and nice way to melt wax .❤️🐝
I just melted a bunch of wax. Love the smell of the wax. Looking forward to the propolis video.
I get about 2 days a year over here for it to get hot enough to melt wax 😆😆 If rain did it then happy days 😂😂😂. Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work 🐝🐝
Left us hanging! How did this work out?
You and your momma are both so beautiful. I love the bee inspired earring. My wife and I are in our first year of beekeeping and I am so in love with it. Keep up the videos I am going to subscribe and suggest my wife to as well. Just Awesome videos.
Foundation less frames are my favorite
In Germany we use solar kilns all the time. I have one and it's great.
I accidentally "discovered" solar rendering when I got distracted and forgot some wax in the greenhouse. Though I'm not sure it would be called rendering. LOL Keep being you (Mom too)!
When you are prepared, able and have everything on a Homestead that you do, it is not MacGyvering. It is being prepared. 😎Yes, I have purchased a Full Hive frame and four hangers from Alex. 🤗Beautiful Artwork, with a number of other pieces on order for the Holiday Season. 😁
She does some beautiful art for sure!! Such an honor to share our frames and honeycomb with everyone!
@@TheHoneystead Alex was going to be in Alaska the Month of June...
I think it’s gonna work can’t wait to see when you post the next video on it
I can’t wait to share!
I’m keen to see how the wax melted in your wood kiln. Did you do an update?
I hope we get a "reaction" video from when Hubs finds the McGyver Wax Tote
Good luck
I once saw "MacGyver" bring his very expensive mountain bike into a bike shop in Brentwood to have a flat tire repaired......(for the uninitiated, any decent mountain biker in those days before tubeless tires - early 1990's) was fixing flats on a regular basis and it's easier to fix than the time it would take to go the the shop)
Your local Metal Recycle Center will have a supply of old Ovens / Stoves coming in on a continuous bases... You can harvest the glass window from the oven door with very simple hand tools.... I used a tube of 100% silicone calk to seat the glass onto my melter box's door which i cut a large square hole in to allow the sun shine through and to do its work.
Silk Screening companies have sheets of aluminum large enough to cover the lid of a hive,,
once they finish a job, the sheets are set aside as used and recycled later.
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The captions told me the black comb to be used in artwork is from Arby's 😂😭
Lol….our bees….Arby’s
If this works, I might have to try it too. We get really hot in south Louisiana
Hey it isonday June 14th. How is the honey in the wood kiln going. Haven't heard anything back.
I wouldn't put foil on top if you want it to melt down. The foil would reflect the light away, and you want to capture the heat, right?
It will definitely work out believe me
I'm looking for the second video. Did the kiln work?
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Parchment paper works better than aluminum foil
Keep in mind, if the wax is exposed to the sun it will bleach it. Other than that, solar is the easiest way we could figure to render old wax. Makes a mess though.
What do you have instead of foundation? what is left when you scrape the wax off the frame? where can i read and see?
Completely off topic but I work maintenance at some apartments in hattiesburg ms.... We've got a hive of honey bees ina wall I've asked and asked people to come get them.... Would there be a way to bait them out or something? Owner and our renters want it gone but I have no one to get them so my option is poison.... I would definitely like to get them gone but not kill
There probably is a way to get them with a colony cut out but it does not go with out saying that there can be significant cosmetic damage to the room or even the building in even doing a minor cut out….it does depend where the colony has settled in on and of course finding out where they are getting in. Most of the cutouts that we have done have at least needed drywall repaired or replaced and of course repainting.
I have 2 beehive questions maybe you can answer for me I live in Virginia somebody told me to harvest my honey on 4th of July is that a good time? Second I was thinking since I was already in there I could do a split on a new hive is it too late in the season to do a split?
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that nasty old comb works great in your swarm traps.
I forgot to mention....put water in the bottom of your wax melter. It will keep the wax from sticking to the aluminum.
saran rap on top
Hows that wax doing?
Please is this plastic wax and from which site can I buy it?
How’d you rip that tin foil so smooth like that?
Possibly make it more like a solar oven with tin foil reflecting back down on to it???? (on an angle)
Great idea!
You said the wax comes from Arby's.
Lol
I checked for this comment 🐝cause I heard it too lol
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So how did it turn out? And what did your husband say??? lol
wanna know something ...my whole life honey bees ..land on mee...i put a feeder nn they would all come to it...when it would go empty..they would find ware i was..nn a bunch land on mee..like they wanted something....i cheak the feeder n some bees got stuck in it..nn i would let them out before they drowned..or the feeder was empty....i just put up 2 swarm traps nn two hives...i cant wait...i hope i ketch a swarm...im disabled..nn home all the time...the wife left nn i never had children...so i have no one but this little farm i got goin...covid scared mee..nn i thaught oh no...my food..so i started farming...i bought 2 goats 2 pigs..4 chickens ..5 rabbits..and 4 turkeys...i love it...they get bossy..but got use to mee not getting up early to feed them..my back is bad nn i aint as fast as i was..have to do as my back says...nn the animals..know..its funny...there like medical dogs..but not dogs....i got use to dispatching them..nn they even try to chear mee up..after...they get cuddly..nn stay at my feet after..like there saying its ok...you need to eat...nn then they breed again..like saying see we kin make more....
You really watch mcgiver
kin i ask you something...i just started farming nn my animals speek ...i got 2 pigs that ask for food..say i love you..tell jokes nn so on..i got a terkey that fallowes me around nn tells everyone on the farm what im doin..she even tells me what im gonna do next..so i do something else nn she goes oh i forgot nn says what i did next to all the other animals..i got chickens that argue nn you kin understand them they say your walcome..these animals even sing with the radio nn everything..they even help you remember what your gonna do...there even helpfull...im single nn i would rather hang out with them than people...there kind... funny and even funner to watch than tv...is this normal nn happens to you...its like im dr do little...i dont even dare tell my dr...scared he will put mee on meds...is this normal or do i have a gift
I see GIANT WAX MELTER 👍 I see no kiln that you speak of.🥷That stuff 🤠
Lol
The propolis and wax ideas are interesting… waiting for next video lol
I can’t wait to share and update!