Thanks David for your videos. It was also neat to hear your evening reminders of our earlier childhoods in the 60s. That 8 year old boy who played outside needs a hobby...Like Beekeeping. HaHa. I also grew up with a B&W Television with 3 stations. I learned to be adventurous and many times made my own toys and fun. I think that is why I am so self-sufficient and have a lot of imagination and initiative. I am on my second year of Beekeeping and have learned a lot from you and others. It is a process. To all you future aspiring Beekeepers: Just Keep Learning. Learn from other's and your own mistakes and discoveries. Keeping bees is more than a hobby. Imagine what our world would be like if we no longer had bees and other pollinators. Catastrophic! Anyway, keep up the good work y'all.
Well, Brenda, thank you so much for watching. I have so many fond memories of my past. I should share them more in my videos. I had a very colorful childhood.
“Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale…” David, I’m 68, grew up in small town Illinois, and totally identified with your Coffee Time. We had a guy who worked in a hardware/lumber store who was the TV repairman. You’d call him (four numbers), tell him what the TV was or wasn’t doing, and he’d bring ONE tube! I’m a first year beekeeper and find your videos essential. Thank you!!
Great video and Great coffee time. Your words during coffee time was wonderful such great advice. We all have had good and bad memories but we need to enjoy every day every moment. Thank you. God Bless.
Thank you so much David for your bee knowledge. I am a first year beekeeper at a young age of 68 who has had open heart surgery back in Oct. last year and was blessed to have made it. I have 2 hives, one was a nuc and the other a 3lb package. I have watched all your videos 2 or 3 times and they have really helped. Again thanks for your videos and by the way I have pumped gas and washed a lot of windows back in the 70's when gas was only 24.9 cents a gallon. Thanks David and your one of the reason i have gotten into beekeeping.
As a new beekeeper I thoroughly enjoy your videos. Your knowledge and experiences are informative and extremely helpful. I appreciate each and every video.
Thank you for making this video. You are definitely a great source of information and I really appreciate that. Your coffee time was good that reminds us of times pass. Our trials and tribulations in life should build our endurance says the Bible in the book of James. Thanks again. Bob McDougal
Loved your coffee time! I think you might have been a little bit off on the price of gas back then. I was born in 78, got my first car at 15 in 93 and gas was less than a dollar a gallon. I remember being stationed in Virginia, traveling back home to Arkansas on leave and finding gas for 60 or 70 cents and feeling like you just struck gold 😂 When gas started encroaching on 2 bucks a gallon, I remember how pissed everyone was 😡
I just recently came across your videos as I have been trying to learn more. I finally took the opportunity this year an purchased my 1st 5 frame nucleus. I added a 2nd deep box yesterday. I'm enjoying your teaching more than any other's that I've watched. I appreciate that you teach the science along with experience. The more I learn, the more I am fascinated with bees! Thank you
Thanks for all the info. Been “kind of” watching you until recently. Have more time now and watching more. My skills are increasing fast bc of you! Thanks!!!
Love your information on bees!! Taking a lot of it seriously! I also love your talks. I remember when I grew up in the '80s and '90s, I had a phone in my room,and my own TV and vcr! Crazy what 10 to 20 years can do. My mom was also a stay at home mom,and we could go to her for anything at anytime. I feel like I could be closer to her then and now for that. My kids were always in daycare and had more than one mom. I always say I miss the '80s. Innocent times. I miss Gilligan's Island too!! I watched the reruns! Loved that show. Thanks for reminiscing and reminding me of my childhood!!❤🐝
My dad just started beekeeping 2 years ago and I was able to help him harvest this last summer/fall. I think the bug has bit me and was wanting to learn more about his hobby as I am developing an interest. Thank you for your videos, they have been very informative.
I'am a new bee keeper and am interested in learning more from you. In fact I spend almost 10k local currency for queen's and tools etc. I dream honey bees and always wanted to see them every morning and evening. Thank you you inspire me so much.
You are telling the truth that's the way it was you played outside. Yes, all the toys at Christmas it was the greatest. WOW, everything you're saying I lived it. Great memories. No cell phones you played with friends all day sun up to sun down or when the street lights came on dusk dark be home. Great memories.
My name is Tim, I think we had the same childhood. I am 61 and going to be a new beekeeper but going to wait a year to learn all I can before I get my bees. So excited u are a great teacher love your videos. Would love to here from you.
I look forward to coffee time! My boyfriend said why are you listening to that guy talk about his childhood 🤣😂 I told him aside from your great and awesome knowledge of bees, your coffee time is the best!!! Thank you so much for making me feel I am enough. I will get through this day and the past is the past. I needed that.
Came here for the bee information but found I really enjoyed the “outdoors talk” Thank you for taking the time and effort of sharing. I benefited from your wisdom!
Your videos have such thoughtful, well-laid-out and useful content. They’re easy to follow and learn from. Thanks for providing all of us new-bees with your knowledge! Hopefully if our CAD dollar gets a bit better I can take your online course soon!
Enjoyed the coffee time chat. Grew up in those simple times. Good to be reminded to appreciate the present. One of my present hobbies is taking care of a swarm of bees rescued out of a bulldozed tree in January. They seem to be doing fine. Clicked on this for bee info at 2am but the coffee time chat was an unexpected bonus.
Just opened up my hive for the first time, six almost seven frames filled out, was great inspecting them, I added a queen excluder and a second box..it was awesome! Thank you for your videos, I plan on taking so.e online courses soon!!!
Wow, I was born in 1960 and totally related to everything you talked about. I used to help my dad test tubes on a tester he had. We played endlessly in our back yard day and night with a big spotlight mounted off the two-story house at night. Mother May I, Red Rover Red Rover, etc. Gilligan's Island, Popeye and Bugs Bunny cartoons in the afternoons. All toys at Christmas and birthdays. Tinsel on the tree. You really did a good job of describing those days.
Here in sunny Fla. I only run with 1 deep . I do this because my personal experience shows, that bees in double deeps are a little more aggressive. Also because I am now I my late 70 s that I manage 8 frame hives, because of weight issues keep up the good work informative videos
Thanks David, I’m a first year absolute novice, still don’t have the courage to check the hive on my own, a friend pops in periodically and we check it together, I’ll get there eventually!!! Regarding 📺 I grew up in the 50s and didn’t have a tv, so we would go to my aunts house, she had a 9 inch screen with a large magnifying glass on a stand in front of. It, wasn’t the best picture in the world, but too us kids it was wonderful, happy days!!! P.S. the board game with boats either side was called Battleships if I remember correctly, keep up the good work!!
Just found your channel. I've been keeping bees for a couple years now (almost successfully thru my second winter). I appreciate your content in addition to that from my local club and some other select TH-cam content. The organizer of instructional content in my local bee club refers to queen excludes as 'the invention of the devil'. It's intended to be a comical comment, but emphasizes his distaste for these things because they are 'hard' on the worker bees. His feeling is that routine passage thru this barrier unduly wears on the wings of these dedicated workers and both subtly stresses the hive and reduces efficiency. Given that you prefer not to use queen excluders, It seems that maybe you have a similar feelings on this. I do appreciate the wiggle room you provide for noobs here.
I Luke, I do not agree that queen excluders wear out workers or that they are hard on bees. When I do use them, bees are fine. Remember bees only live 40 days. Flying is much harder on their wings, in my opinion.
I remember Christmas and not getting Christmas every day like my kids do! We played outside with our friends from the neighborhood. They had to make us come in at dark remember the porch light coming on! Time to bath and get ready for bed. We were happy with what we had. Thanks for the memories!
I am a 2nd-year BeeKeeper. My Colony fled in Nov. of year one. We are doing much better this year and ready to begin the transition out of Winter. THANK You for your guidance.
Great video thanks, just turned 61 myself, so often think of earlier times, lots of changes also here in sunny UK, best wishes from your friends over the water. Bees doing great here, after a strange spring! Peter
Your trip down memory lane brought back many memories of my childhood. Life was more local then, more community. Thank you David! p.s. I'm a Marianne fan too. :-)
My mom loved Johnny Carson too😊. We also as kids in my home got a very nice Christmas, and a few gifts at the time of our bdays. Nothing in between, until we were old enough by items with our own money. Great video ! My first watch on your channel . Now I gotta go add my super. It's sooooo hot here in Illinois 😢
I use the frames with the wax foundation. It's just what I started with and what I'm used to. They smell great and I use the paper that they put between the foundation to start the smoker.
I think you hit it when you said to put a super with a queen excluder when the second deep has five frames drawn out. Things happen fast when that second deep is half way drawn. I was taught beekeeping by a pollinator and a college professor whose big thing was beekeeping. The thought at the time was to only super up from a deep to the second deep when only two frames were left to draw out. When it was time to put the honey super on was the same thing. There was a process of moving frames from the outside to the second and ninth frame position, blah blah blah. But when the second box was drawn eight frames was when the honey super would be put on. No queen excluder because the bees wouldn't go through it. With your five frame idea I'm seeing how it might work with an excluder. I have a lot of full hives and it's only the middle of March and have already supered up for the maple nectar. But, I'm going to be doing splits to slow them down a bit. It'll be a good time to experiment with your second deep idea using queen excluders. I think I'll give it a go.
Yes it is sad to really think that we can never go back to that time in our history. It was simple and good people were caring and friendly. Summers were hot and the popsicles were cold it does hold a very special place but we have to move on God wants us to experience life.
Great T-shirt!!! Just in time for me to add my first top super! First time bee Keeper this year. Im going to add my Queen excluder first. I used sugar water after 6 weeks and now I'm ready. I think I added my 2nd box too soon. Lesson learned. I think they had to work too hard to keep both boxes warm the first 6 weeks. I bought from a person just 2 months into bee keeping and I think I was advised wrong. But again I learned just like my daughter and I was under attack cause I didn't smoke AND I opened my top box AFTER INTRODUCING sugar water. SHAKE MY HEAD! Went to bed rethinking my day and LOLLOL 3 times b4 sleeping. I can definitely relate to Gillian's island-Johnny-I dream of Jeannie!!!! My 3 Sons-I relate to what you speak! Embittered your coffee talk. Thanks for teaching us so much. Christmas was the BOMB DIGGITY!!!
Just started following the page. Coffee time was great, i was born in the 90's to older parents so thats all i got to watch was gilligans island, rawhide, rifileman, bonanza, i love lucy, gunsmoke, honeymooners, you get the picture i love all of these shows i do have to say though i prefer them in black and white. My husband and i live on a small farm we have a 3 acre field of mostly red and white clover we was wondering if we get a hive if that would be a good food source them. We are trying to learn all we can before we get one your channel has been a big help.
This was very Informative and helpful for the novice or new Beekeepers. There is lots of timing ideas conflicting info on the web depending on the state.
There were eight of us, four boys four girls. We never were bored, that word never came out of our mouths. Mom quickly put us to work. I was smart enough to head outside even if it was to weed the garden. Farm life was great...I would not change my childhood for nothing. I made 75 cents an hour babysitting when I was 13 usually 9 hours a day. I was rich when the summer was over. Thanks for reminiscence about your childhood. I'm enjoying my senior years. Retirement means more time to garden, beekeeping and grandchildren.
This is great. Thanks. I am a beginning too... a couple of years... I have more than five on two boxes (each of two hives I have). I looked in yesterday and added a medium without drawn comb as layer 3 ... Soon something on the second hive. The second box has a bunch of draw, some capped honey and a good amount of nector and we haven't even had a big flow... I brought up three or four of those frames and spaced them with a non drawn frame (all mine are wood with foundation) in between. Our temps are nothing close to freezing now but between clouds and light rain.... I put un drawn frames in second box and I had about 8-10 frames 1st box and 7-8 frames second.. Oh, I did keep the bees on the frames I brought up... solid covered ... not sure if there was brood (I hope) caps are all light colored... So they are re-organizing now .. I'll look in a few weeks. Back to paused video.. I really like your info and labor of love to grow bee keepers.
Gas station ... I was one of the attendant, mechanic in the back room too... We did a hood check and check and set tire pressures with windows etc. A couple of years ago I learned about some developments and tests what they call "honeycomb" cars... which describes how people could hop into cars and punch in the location and off you go.. so wheel etc... even with less or non stop... I can explain it some too.
Amazing you had a tv we didn’t get one until I was ten. We all went to someone’s house in the crescent to watch the man walking on the moon. The whole street was in the front room.
Remember the tennis ball game? We were never allowed in the house except for dinner time as it would have been too crowded! Also it had to be cleaned without us kids in it. What a different world.
16 years ago when flat screens began to come down in price my wife and I bought a 42" plasma TV because our house was small and we needed the space. Our family grew and we added an addition but kept the TV as the only one in the house. I think it still works well. We only use it during Christmas time. When it finally dies we probably won't be replacing it. I will most likely put a nice picture up on the wall where it used to be. Maybe I'll take the family out to dinner with the money I would have spent on a new TV. There's a great sushi place we like to hit from time to time. Have a great day. Lou
Good advice Dave but with having horizontal hives, its going to be different for me as to how I take care of their needs ,its going to be a learning curve for me
Divinity Mary Ann, early 60s, 27 cents a gallon, neighbors friend’s 2 mile walk, Best Friend and companion an old yellow Dog. We drove kids into the house in an attempt to add mom the driver. The words were “sit there and shut up”migrated from “seen and not herd”. Moms mobility started a new world.
Always enjoy your videos. On the queen excluder, curious if I could use it until the first honey super is close to filled then remove the queen excluder then top super? I am not yet comfortable handling my queen but would like to produce as much honey as possible and make it easier on the bees. Thoughts?
Hey David! Just a thought on getting people to watch your videos all the way through. I’d suggest breaking your coffee talks to their own videos. I appreciate what you have to share on coffee talks, but I don’t always want to hear that topic if I am looking for bee guidance. I think your would get a lot more full watches then. Thank you for all that you do!
My queen did go up into my first honey super. There is a small amount of capped brood. A decent amount of pollent and nectar and some capped honey. My plan is to leave it an put another honey super on top of that. Hopefully when the brood hatches out of the first honey super the bees will fill the space with nectar as we progress into the spring nectar flow. I have two deep boxes below my honey supers. Your thoughts? Thx, DS
My dad owned a T.V. repair shop. In my growing up years in the 60's I worked on those things. Had the mirror, tube caddy and I have even changed out the picture tube on those sets. The "three-way-combo" (t.v./radio/stereo) was a real pain especially when you had to take them to the shop
In the 60's our family had the TV repair guy come to our house. I was maybe 10 years old. He turned on the TV and waited for it to warm up. Remember it needing to "warm up"? The repair guy was a Japanese man. As it turned out, a WW2 movie was on about the pacific theater of war. He told me he fought in WW2...for Japan! That was a bit of an awakening for me.
I have a question... I just started keeping bees the end of April brand-new hives and yesterday I finally added my second. Even though I should have added it sooner. Seeing that it only took a month-and-a-half for them to draw like home and have a bunch of nectar and larvae do you think it would be wise of the super in the next month-and-a-half and will I be able to extract honey from it?
Hi David i have national hives here in the ukas im in my second year of beekeeping i put a super with new wax foundation on 3 weeks ago that had 8 frames of bees but they have not even touched the super any ideas thanks
Really enjoy your videos. Also, I got a lot of useful information from your online beekeeping classes. You said something in this video I wish you would talk a little more about. You said you leave your supers on all the time. I never heard this done before or maybe I just missed it. So in July and August before the goldenrod blooms and we are in a dearth do you have issues with these supers and hive beetles and wax moth. I have had to deal with both from time to time and what a mess. I understand it the hive is strong the bees take care of them and there should not be a problem. What are the pros and cons leaving them on all the time. I am asking to learn as this is most interesting to me. By the way I have one hive that has one of your queen and this hive in now working on its 3rd super. I plan to harvest honey in about 10 days. Putting the supers back on with confidence would be a big help tome.
David I'm new to bee keeping, I'm 57 and I've always been interested. I have a new hive. I have one deep box, the queen separate, then another deep, and then a super, I don't know if this is right or not. I introduced my colony 5 weeks ago and I've been giving them a bee supplement and my question is when can I put them on straight water?
Very familiar memories! We grew up on the farm in Central IL, so I was driving the truck on the roads between farms by age 12 and operating tractors and farm equipment in the fields even younger than that. Couldn’t do that today! We were expected to work as kids and summers especially were a lot of hard work. I usually couldn’t wait to go back to school in the Fall! Wouldn’t trade that childhood for anything though.
Dave your gas price is off slightly. In 1973 I could fill up my motorcycle which held about 1 1/2 gallons for fifty cents. I think gas was about .49 per gallon. I think around 1979 it was .89 per gallon. I remember when I got a raise to $10 per hour, I was rich. I figured I could live forever on that amount. Good video.
Why do you now prefer the wood frame with plastic foundation? When you have new waxed foundation do you think it needs to have an additional coat of wax? Have you ever tried using plastic drone (green) frame/foundation for your supers? The larger cells allow the honey to extract easier.
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Thanks David for your videos. It was also neat to hear your evening reminders of our earlier childhoods in the 60s. That 8 year old boy who played outside needs a hobby...Like Beekeeping. HaHa. I also grew up with a B&W Television with 3 stations. I learned to be adventurous and many times made my own toys and fun. I think that is why I am so self-sufficient and have a lot of imagination and initiative. I am on my second year of Beekeeping and have learned a lot from you and others. It is a process. To all you future aspiring Beekeepers: Just Keep Learning. Learn from other's and your own mistakes and discoveries.
Keeping bees is more than a hobby. Imagine what our world would be like if we no longer had bees and other pollinators. Catastrophic! Anyway, keep up the good work y'all.
Great video.. thanks for sharing memories of our past... And for all the good advice.
Well, Brenda, thank you so much for watching. I have so many fond memories of my past. I should share them more in my videos. I had a very colorful childhood.
Fun! Such a sweet stroll down Memory Lane! How lucky we were! I enjoy your wisdom. Thanks David. 🙏
“Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale…”
David, I’m 68, grew up in small town Illinois, and totally identified with your Coffee Time. We had a guy who worked in a hardware/lumber store who was the TV repairman. You’d call him (four numbers), tell him what the TV was or wasn’t doing, and he’d bring ONE tube!
I’m a first year beekeeper and find your videos essential. Thank you!!
It was great growing up in the 60's & 70's, my dad was a TV repairman, I learned so much from him, I even helped him by working on radios.
Wow, that is so cool, and that's not to mention Radio Shack!
Thank you David for being a part of my mornings! I love drinking my coffee and learning about beekeeping before going to work!
Great video and Great coffee time. Your words during coffee time was wonderful such great advice. We all have had good and bad memories but we need to enjoy every day every moment. Thank you. God Bless.
Thank you so much David for your bee knowledge. I am a first year beekeeper at a young age of 68 who has had open heart surgery back in Oct. last year and was blessed to have made it. I have 2 hives, one was a nuc and the other a 3lb package. I have watched all your videos 2 or 3 times and they have really helped. Again thanks for your videos and by the way I have pumped gas and washed a lot of windows back in the 70's when gas was only 24.9 cents a gallon. Thanks David and your one of the reason i have gotten into beekeeping.
Wow David, good for you! Glad I was instrumental in helping you get started.
You are awesome too David 😎
Thank you for your bee lessons 🐝🐝🐝
As a new beekeeper I thoroughly enjoy your videos. Your knowledge and experiences are informative and extremely helpful. I appreciate each and every video.
Thank you for making this video. You are definitely a great source of information and I really appreciate that. Your coffee time was good that reminds us of times pass. Our trials and tribulations in life should build our endurance says the Bible in the book of James. Thanks again.
Bob McDougal
Thanks for sharing
Loved your coffee time! I think you might have been a little bit off on the price of gas back then. I was born in 78, got my first car at 15 in 93 and gas was less than a dollar a gallon. I remember being stationed in Virginia, traveling back home to Arkansas on leave and finding gas for 60 or 70 cents and feeling like you just struck gold 😂
When gas started encroaching on 2 bucks a gallon, I remember how pissed everyone was 😡
I just recently came across your videos as I have been trying to learn more. I finally took the opportunity this year an purchased my 1st 5 frame nucleus. I added a 2nd deep box yesterday. I'm enjoying your teaching more than any other's that I've watched. I appreciate that you teach the science along with experience. The more I learn, the more I am fascinated with bees!
Thank you
Thanks for all the info. Been “kind of” watching you until recently. Have more time now and watching more. My skills are increasing fast bc of you! Thanks!!!
That is so nice of you to say!
David. .... I love your videos! You are a wealth of information! You have made my first year of bee keeping a real joy!
Love your reminiscing, that's exactly the way we were and that's the way it was ,thanks for the coffee time ,always enjoy it
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Love your information on bees!! Taking a lot of it seriously! I also love your talks. I remember when I grew up in the '80s and '90s, I had a phone in my room,and my own TV and vcr! Crazy what 10 to 20 years can do. My mom was also a stay at home mom,and we could go to her for anything at anytime. I feel like I could be closer to her then and now for that. My kids were always in daycare and had more than one mom. I always say I miss the '80s. Innocent times. I miss Gilligan's Island too!! I watched the reruns! Loved that show. Thanks for reminiscing and reminding me of my childhood!!❤🐝
My dad just started beekeeping 2 years ago and I was able to help him harvest this last summer/fall. I think the bug has bit me and was wanting to learn more about his hobby as I am developing an interest. Thank you for your videos, they have been very informative.
Nice, and I hope you can enjoy the hobby with you dad.
I am learning so much. I can’t wait until spring!
Thank you for videos! So informative, and your coffee talk was really encouraging.
So glad to hear thank you
Thank you for all the help your giving me!!!!
Those were the good golden days!!😊
Thank you! Very informative. By the time I start class I’ll be wayyyy ahead of the game.
Came here for bees stayed for some life advice thanks for the quality videos
Glad to help
I'am a new bee keeper and am interested in learning more from you. In fact I spend almost 10k local currency for queen's and tools etc. I dream honey bees and always wanted to see them every morning and evening. Thank you you inspire me so much.
You are telling the truth that's the way it was you played outside. Yes, all the toys at Christmas it was the greatest. WOW, everything you're saying I lived it. Great memories. No cell phones you played with friends all day sun up to sun down or when the street lights came on dusk dark be home. Great memories.
Great info! Really learning good stuff 👏
Great video very helpful to me as a new beekeeper. 👍
Thank you David for reminiscing with us.
It was pretty cool times
My name is Tim, I think we had the same childhood. I am 61 and going to be a new beekeeper but going to wait a year to learn all I can before I get my bees. So excited u are a great teacher love your videos. Would love to here from you.
Thanks Tim, growing up was very unique for folks our age. Good to hear from you.
I look forward to coffee time! My boyfriend said why are you listening to that guy talk about his childhood 🤣😂 I told him aside from your great and awesome knowledge of bees, your coffee time is the best!!! Thank you so much for making me feel I am enough. I will get through this day and the past is the past. I needed that.
Wow, so awesome of you to say
Came here for the bee information but found I really enjoyed the “outdoors talk”
Thank you for taking the time and effort of sharing. I benefited from your wisdom!
Sure appreciate your videos!
Love you.your video is great I don't have bees yet but I'm going too .
Your videos have such thoughtful, well-laid-out and useful content. They’re easy to follow and learn from. Thanks for providing all of us new-bees with your knowledge! Hopefully if our CAD dollar gets a bit better I can take your online course soon!
Enjoyed the coffee time chat. Grew up in those simple times. Good to be reminded to appreciate the present. One of my present hobbies is taking care of a swarm of bees rescued out of a bulldozed tree in January. They seem to be doing fine. Clicked on this for bee info at 2am but the coffee time chat was an unexpected bonus.
That is awesome!
Thank you David, love your channel.
Just opened up my hive for the first time, six almost seven frames filled out, was great inspecting them, I added a queen excluder and a second box..it was awesome! Thank you for your videos, I plan on taking so.e online courses soon!!!
you should take them, they’re all very informative
Wow, I was born in 1960 and totally related to everything you talked about. I used to help my dad test tubes on a tester he had. We played endlessly in our back yard day and night with a big spotlight mounted off the two-story house at night. Mother May I, Red Rover Red Rover, etc. Gilligan's Island, Popeye and Bugs Bunny cartoons in the afternoons. All toys at Christmas and birthdays. Tinsel on the tree. You really did a good job of describing those days.
Your bees are so calm. Mine act like they want to kill me 😂. They are well on the aggressive side.
Very informative thank you..I'm aspiring to be a new honeybee keeper from my backyard and I'm in an urban setting..your videos are very helpful
Here in sunny Fla. I only run with 1 deep . I do this because my personal experience shows, that bees in double deeps are a little more aggressive. Also because I am now I my late 70 s that I manage 8 frame hives, because of weight issues
keep up the good work informative videos
Thanks David, I’m a first year absolute novice, still don’t have the courage to check the hive on my own, a friend pops in periodically and we check it together, I’ll get there eventually!!!
Regarding 📺 I grew up in the 50s and didn’t have a tv, so we would go to my aunts house, she had a 9 inch screen with a large magnifying glass on a stand in front of. It, wasn’t the best picture in the world, but too us kids it was wonderful, happy days!!!
P.S. the board game with boats either side was called Battleships if I remember correctly, keep up the good work!!
Just found your channel. I've been keeping bees for a couple years now (almost successfully thru my second winter). I appreciate your content in addition to that from my local club and some other select TH-cam content. The organizer of instructional content in my local bee club refers to queen excludes as 'the invention of the devil'. It's intended to be a comical comment, but emphasizes his distaste for these things because they are 'hard' on the worker bees. His feeling is that routine passage thru this barrier unduly wears on the wings of these dedicated workers and both subtly stresses the hive and reduces efficiency. Given that you prefer not to use queen excluders, It seems that maybe you have a similar feelings on this. I do appreciate the wiggle room you provide for noobs here.
I Luke, I do not agree that queen excluders wear out workers or that they are hard on bees. When I do use them, bees are fine. Remember bees only live 40 days. Flying is much harder on their wings, in my opinion.
I remember Christmas and not getting Christmas every day like my kids do! We played outside with our friends from the neighborhood. They had to make us come in at dark remember the porch light coming on! Time to bath and get ready for bed. We were happy with what we had.
Thanks for the memories!
I am a 2nd-year BeeKeeper. My Colony fled in Nov. of year one. We are doing much better this year and ready to begin the transition out of Winter. THANK You for your guidance.
Good to hear.
Great video thanks, just turned 61 myself, so often think of earlier times, lots of changes also here in sunny UK, best wishes from your friends over the water. Bees doing great here, after a strange spring! Peter
So cool to hear!!
Thanks David! This was very helpful!! 😁
Your trip down memory lane brought back many memories of my childhood. Life was more local then, more community. Thank you David! p.s. I'm a Marianne fan too. :-)
I’m a 1970 baby, but close enough to have all the same memories. I miss those days 😢
Me too! Great times.
My mom loved Johnny Carson too😊. We also as kids in my home got a very nice Christmas, and a few gifts at the time of our bdays. Nothing in between, until we were old enough by items with our own money.
Great video ! My first watch on your channel .
Now I gotta go add my super. It's sooooo hot here in Illinois 😢
I use the frames with the wax foundation. It's just what I started with and what I'm used to. They smell great and I use the paper that they put between the foundation to start the smoker.
I love watching Skep Beekeeping in the Heathland 1978 you can find on TH-cam. Fun watch!
I think you hit it when you said to put a super with a queen excluder when the second deep has five frames drawn out. Things happen fast when that second deep is half way drawn.
I was taught beekeeping by a pollinator and a college professor whose big thing was beekeeping. The thought at the time was to only super up from a deep to the second deep when only two frames were left to draw out. When it was time to put the honey super on was the same thing. There was a process of moving frames from the outside to the second and ninth frame position, blah blah blah. But when the second box was drawn eight frames was when the honey super would be put on. No queen excluder because the bees wouldn't go through it.
With your five frame idea I'm seeing how it might work with an excluder. I have a lot of full hives and it's only the middle of March and have already supered up for the maple nectar. But, I'm going to be doing splits to slow them down a bit.
It'll be a good time to experiment with your second deep idea using queen excluders. I think I'll give it a go.
You are on point with the Christmas toy thing. I broke that tradition with my kids and grandkids. Kids are much different now.
David you're awesome! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
So nice of you to say
Banana Splits; the Monkees and so on. Ahhh, they were the days :)
I loved the Monkees...I had their playing cards....so cool.
Yes it is sad to really think that we can never go back to that time in our history. It was simple and good people were caring and friendly. Summers were hot and the popsicles were cold it does hold a very special place but we have to move on God wants us to experience life.
Awesome to reminisce with you
Great video. Im a brand new beekeeper, ive had my colony for 9 days. Im headed out to add a second broodboox.
I was told not to keep the queen excluder on during the winter? As a new beekeeper, I've really gotten a lot of help from your videos! Thanks
We all loved Gilligan's Island!
Indeed!
Mary Ann is my choice too. Thanks for sharing David!
That's funny
Great T-shirt!!! Just in time for me to add my first top super! First time bee Keeper this year. Im going to add my Queen excluder first. I used sugar water after 6 weeks and now I'm ready. I think I added my 2nd box too soon. Lesson learned. I think they had to work too hard to keep both boxes warm the first 6 weeks. I bought from a person just 2 months into bee keeping and I think I was advised wrong. But again I learned just like my daughter and I was under attack cause I didn't smoke AND I opened my top box AFTER INTRODUCING sugar water. SHAKE MY HEAD! Went to bed rethinking my day and LOLLOL 3 times b4 sleeping. I can definitely relate to Gillian's island-Johnny-I dream of Jeannie!!!! My 3 Sons-I relate to what you speak! Embittered your coffee talk. Thanks for teaching us so much. Christmas was the BOMB DIGGITY!!!
So cool
Great Video DAVID you have a friend here....
Excellent
Thank you for your videos they are very helpful I had known ideal what it took to care for beekeeping
Just started following the page. Coffee time was great, i was born in the 90's to older parents so thats all i got to watch was gilligans island, rawhide, rifileman, bonanza, i love lucy, gunsmoke, honeymooners, you get the picture i love all of these shows i do have to say though i prefer them in black and white. My husband and i live on a small farm we have a 3 acre field of mostly red and white clover we was wondering if we get a hive if that would be a good food source them. We are trying to learn all we can before we get one your channel has been a big help.
Thanks Kathy!
Very wholesome
This was very Informative and helpful for the novice or new Beekeepers. There is lots of timing ideas conflicting info on the web depending on the state.
Awesome. Absolutely brilliant.
I appreciate it!!
There were eight of us, four boys four girls. We never were bored, that word never came out of our mouths. Mom quickly put us to work. I was smart enough to head outside even if it was to weed the garden. Farm life was great...I would not change my childhood for nothing.
I made 75 cents an hour babysitting when I was 13 usually 9 hours a day. I was rich when the summer was over. Thanks for reminiscence about your childhood.
I'm enjoying my senior years. Retirement means more time to garden, beekeeping and grandchildren.
So true!!
Wow. Your fireside chat was amazing!!! Thank you!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
Nice work David!
Thank you David
This is great. Thanks. I am a beginning too... a couple of years... I have more than five on two boxes (each of two hives I have). I looked in yesterday and added a medium without drawn comb as layer 3 ... Soon something on the second hive. The second box has a bunch of draw, some capped honey and a good amount of nector and we haven't even had a big flow... I brought up three or four of those frames and spaced them with a non drawn frame (all mine are wood with foundation) in between. Our temps are nothing close to freezing now but between clouds and light rain.... I put un drawn frames in second box and I had about 8-10 frames 1st box and 7-8 frames second.. Oh, I did keep the bees on the frames I brought up... solid covered ... not sure if there was brood (I hope) caps are all light colored... So they are re-organizing now .. I'll look in a few weeks. Back to paused video.. I really like your info and labor of love to grow bee keepers.
Gas station ... I was one of the attendant, mechanic in the back room too... We did a hood check and check and set tire pressures with windows etc. A couple of years ago I learned about some developments and tests what they call "honeycomb" cars... which describes how people could hop into cars and punch in the location and off you go.. so wheel etc... even with less or non stop... I can explain it some too.
Love the bee keeping stuff! Played it all the way through for the youtube ratings
Thanks Kevin for supporting my efforts by watching it all the way through. Makes TH-cam rank my video higher.
Amazing you had a tv we didn’t get one until I was ten. We all went to someone’s house in the crescent to watch the man walking on the moon. The whole street was in the front room.
Remember the tennis ball game? We were never allowed in the house except for dinner time as it would have been too crowded! Also it had to be cleaned without us kids in it. What a different world.
16 years ago when flat screens began to come down in price my wife and I bought a 42" plasma TV because our house was small and we needed the space. Our family grew and we added an addition but kept the TV as the only one in the house. I think it still works well. We only use it during Christmas time. When it finally dies we probably won't be replacing it. I will most likely put a nice picture up on the wall where it used to be. Maybe I'll take the family out to dinner with the money I would have spent on a new TV. There's a great sushi place we like to hit from time to time.
Have a great day.
Lou
Good advice Dave but with having horizontal hives, its going to be different for me as to how I take care of their needs ,its going to be a learning curve for me
God bless you
Divinity Mary Ann, early 60s, 27 cents a gallon, neighbors friend’s 2 mile walk, Best Friend and companion an old yellow Dog. We drove kids into the house in an attempt to add mom the driver. The words were “sit there and shut up”migrated from “seen and not herd”. Moms mobility started a new world.
Always enjoy your videos. On the queen excluder, curious if I could use it until the first honey super is close to filled then remove the queen excluder then top super? I am not yet comfortable handling my queen but would like to produce as much honey as possible and make it easier on the bees. Thoughts?
Hey David! Just a thought on getting people to watch your videos all the way through. I’d suggest breaking your coffee talks to their own videos. I appreciate what you have to share on coffee talks, but I don’t always want to hear that topic if I am looking for bee guidance. I think your would get a lot more full watches then. Thank you for all that you do!
Thanks for the suggestion
My queen did go up into my first honey super. There is a small amount of capped brood. A decent amount of pollent and nectar and some capped honey. My plan is to leave it an put another honey super on top of that. Hopefully when the brood hatches out of the first honey super the bees will fill the space with nectar as we progress into the spring nectar flow. I have two deep boxes below my honey supers. Your thoughts?
Thx,
DS
My dad owned a T.V. repair shop. In my growing up years in the 60's I worked on those things. Had the mirror, tube caddy and I have even changed out the picture tube on those sets. The "three-way-combo" (t.v./radio/stereo) was a real pain especially when you had to take them to the shop
Please please do a video about how to clean your plastic frame inserts!!!
Loved Gilligan’d Island! I have a fun picture I can send you relating to this cast.
Awesome
No sir you are awesome 😎
In the 60's our family had the TV repair guy come to our house. I was maybe 10 years old. He turned on the TV and waited for it to warm up. Remember it needing to "warm up"? The repair guy was a Japanese man. As it turned out, a WW2 movie was on about the pacific theater of war. He told me he fought in WW2...for Japan! That was a bit of an awakening for me.
Your a wealth of knowledge thank you. God bless
I appreciate that!
Thank you for the videos New to beeekeeping. Wjy is it wrong to just use one deep and a super? You mentioned 2 deeps only in this video. Thanks
I have a question... I just started keeping bees the end of April brand-new hives and yesterday I finally added my second. Even though I should have added it sooner. Seeing that it only took a month-and-a-half for them to draw like home and have a bunch of nectar and larvae do you think it would be wise of the super in the next month-and-a-half and will I be able to extract honey from it?
Hi David
i have national hives here in the ukas im in my second year of beekeeping i put a super with new wax foundation on 3 weeks ago that had 8 frames of bees but they have not even touched the super any ideas thanks
Really enjoy your videos. Also, I got a lot of useful information from your online beekeeping classes. You said something in this video I wish you would talk a little more about. You said you leave your supers on all the time. I never heard this done before or maybe I just missed it. So in July and August before the goldenrod blooms and we are in a dearth do you have issues with these supers and hive beetles and wax moth. I have had to deal with both from time to time and what a mess. I understand it the hive is strong the bees take care of them and there should not be a problem. What are the pros and cons leaving them on all the time. I am asking to learn as this is most interesting to me. By the way I have one hive that has one of your queen and this hive in now working on its 3rd super. I plan to harvest honey in about 10 days. Putting the supers back on with confidence would be a big help tome.
David I'm new to bee keeping, I'm 57 and I've always been interested. I have a new hive. I have one deep box, the queen separate, then another deep, and then a super, I don't know if this is right or not. I introduced my colony 5 weeks ago and I've been giving them a bee supplement and my question is when can I put them on straight water?
Very familiar memories! We grew up on the farm in Central IL, so I was driving the truck on the roads between farms by age 12 and operating tractors and farm equipment in the fields even younger than that. Couldn’t do that today! We were expected to work as kids and summers especially were a lot of hard work. I usually couldn’t wait to go back to school in the Fall! Wouldn’t trade that childhood for anything though.
When our parents gave us chores, we couldn't complain or backtalk or we would get more chores.
Lived on a farm too. Drove around the acreage at 12 . On the roads at 14. My mother and father were like Ozzy and Harriet.
Dave your gas price is off slightly. In 1973 I could fill up my motorcycle which held about 1 1/2 gallons for fifty cents. I think gas was about .49 per gallon. I think around 1979 it was .89 per gallon.
I remember when I got a raise to $10 per hour, I was rich. I figured I could live forever on that amount.
Good video.
That makes better sense, I knew I had to be off
Thank you for the great info as always!
So good to hear
Why do you now prefer the wood frame with plastic foundation?
When you have new waxed foundation do you think it needs to have an additional coat of wax?
Have you ever tried using plastic drone (green) frame/foundation for your supers? The larger cells allow the honey to extract easier.