Rendering Dirty Bees Wax Into Clean Yellow Wax
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- Rendering Dirty Bees Wax Into Clean Yellow Wax is a video explaining step by step process of taking nasty dirty bees wax into top quality yellow bees wax. It's a long video, but watch from start to finish, it has alot of good information.
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Top tip for other newbies when you want to clean your sieve and pot try hot vegetable oil. The hot oil dissolves the wax and crud, then you can clean the oil off with dish detergent.
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How was your first year?
Do the last melt with the wax wrapped in an old t-shirt to get really clean wax. The t-shirt will act like a filter holding on to all the dirt while the melted wax goes right through. You then pull the t-shirt out and hang it above the pot, or bucket, and leave it to drip the last bit of wax before you discard it along with all the last dirt and debris.
As a 3rd year beekeeper I enjoyed watching this. I use an outside propane burner and a pot. boil the water. I also found using mason jars is a great way to avoid the mess. I use a sink strainer or equivalent to reprocess / boil a couple more times until its completed cleaned. I would have to say your method is how I started, and used pantyhose to strain / clean the wax. It is one heck of a nasty smell from the comb, so I process outdoors. The family appreciates that alot more as it is a messy process.
Great video, my friend. I think we’ve got you beat with the cold. -40C. 😉
@@davidhaught84 I'm awesome. it's warmed up to above freezing so the bees are much happier.
i there. I enjoyed the show and this is what I do, about 3 times. I am in canada Alberta and Jan. 14 we had about minus 43 F and a wind chill of about minus 49 F so we have a problem keeping bee,s alive so we wrap them up. I am down to one hive but I am learning(3 years in bee keeping), so buying 2 more packages and try and do better at bee keeping. Rob from Canada
Saint Paul, MN in February 2019: -40F°. My two hives; had one Italin and one Saskatrz were outside but were prepped for winter. The Italians survived for the spring.
We Minnesotans are tough, but our bees are tougher... :)
Just over 20 miles north of Detroit on the edge of both suburbs, and farmland. Normal coldest temps are single digits typically in January, & February when we get those arctic blasts (sometimes have seen minus single digits). Just a couple years ago we did hit -20...first time in my life.
Gets in low 20s here in Mariposa CA . I live in the mountains, 40 minutes from Yosemite Park. Have a good weekend David. Take care..
High Rolls, NM at about 7000 ft. we got down to 6 degrees Fahrenheit a few days ago. Thank the good Lord we have turned the corner toward spring!
A beekeeper gave us a bucket like that full of nasty wax and cappings to spread on our frame foundations......we done exactly what you done as well on the stove with an old canner pot..... I'm still scraping wax off the floor 😂....I never thought it would work....it did!! I love your videos.
Thank you so much Mizz Pretty.
Thank you. Greatly appreciate it. I'm a small farmer and like to save all I can. I just had a hive die or fly off. It's one of 2 and empty! I just brought it inside and I'm saving everything I have a jar of propolis a jar of bee pollen and I was wondering about the wax and then I came across your video. I'm so glad I can save all of it even the nasty looking stuff!!! Thank you so much!!!
Awesome video that was suggested from a very kind keeper that gifted me 12lbs of wax! Thank you for the knowledge and I will definitely be checking your site to one day start my own hives! Blessings to you and yours
Hey David. Enjoy your channel. Real envious of your weather . Coldest this year was -35C. = -24F here in Mara British Columbia. Take care of your bees David.
Very cool and educational! Lowest it has gotten down to here in Buckley, WA this year is 20 degrees at night.
We're up in Montreal and we'll get down to 0f, and maybe -10 or so for a week or two, but this winter has been pretty easy. Hardly any snow so far, and nothing colder than maybe 10f
Great channel. I've been thinking about doing this on a small scale, and you've pretty much convinced me.
Minnesota. The coldest temp on record ever in Minnesota was -67°F. This year the coldest we got to was -54. I love the North Star State, lol.
Illinois near Chicago, I remember -15 in the 1980’s. It’s near 39+ right now. Thanks for the video. Have a great week.
We had that a couple years ago as well with the Polar Vortex.
You mention making fire starters with the left over gunk. Do you have a video about this??? I've been saving mine and am looking for ideas.
I typically use a cardboard box with the inside painted black. Look for solar oven on line. Put a pot with some water in the box with a tee shirt over the pot, then stack the comb over that and let it sit in the sun. I put a piece of Plexiglas or clear plastic over the box to keep the heat in. As the wax melts, add more. All the wax will melt and the tee shirt will strain the wax and all that is left is nice clean wax and a tee shirt full of crap. The tee shirt full of crap makes a great fire starter for camp fires or for your fireplace.
You can substitute the cardboard box for an oven heated to a low temperature. What I've found is, once and your done.
BTW, we've been down in the single digits here in CT.
Eagle River Alaska -28F low. Been 2 weeks with negative F temps. Bees are all cozy and doing great.
Hi ! Newbie here in Hong Kong working with Apis cerana as a hobby. Going into my second year and gonna render the comb as per your video. Thank you so much for your work . Helps me a lot. Here in the sun tropics we get down to 4 c/39f in winter. Our dearth is starting now - summer through to fall.
I have found that, if you put all the frames with wax moth damage in a plastic tub of water, hold them down with a rock. After they soak all the wax cocoons and damaged comb falls off so easy. No scrapping at all. The just set out the frame to dry
Wow! Great video, I'm not a bee keeper but love to watch your videos. Oh by the way, I live in western New York. Mild winter this year, 40 degrees today. LOL
So glad I came across your channel!!! I'm looking to start beekeeping after I move, and all your videos answer all my questions!! Thank you so much!
Hi David. Lowest 29 fer. Central texas... I can't wait to see how to make foundations.
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Hi Angeles here, lowest 28 Hayward California.
I think the coldest was -9° Celsius in Ljubljana, Slovenia.Thank you for the videos, they really helped me a lot in my first year of beekeeping! :)
Thanks dude man I sure do love your videos I don’t know if people tell you how much they appreciate your videos but I do really do thank you so much
-60(not counting wind chill) up in Minnesota
I'm glad I don't live there anymore
I'm loving this educational stuff.
I have family in Minneapolis, and have spent time in Northern MN. The lowest I experienced then was -40. Glad I don't have to deal with temps that low here in PA. 😊
David that's a down right balmy day, I would love to be there. It gets a bit colder here, we measure temp in Celsius now but I was raised with Fahrenheit; it normally gets to be about -20F this time of year. As I am writing this its -26.
On the plus side when you are baking in the summer heat we will still be nice and cool, and hey we have central heating lol. All the same it would be great to spend the winters there and the summers here.
Low of 7 f here in central Pennsylvania. We've been lucky last two winters with nothing too harsh. Crossing fingers so no polar vortex systems move through this winter.. About 6 more weeks to go to be safe.
I'm in Manassas, VA, about 40 minutes from D.C., and the coldest we've seen, without a RealFeel accounting of humidity or wind chill, was -7 degrees (F).
Wow how did I miss this video, I've thrown away a fortune, thanks.
-24, wasilla alaska. Apimaye hives holding strong. Overwintered last year with one super of sugar water that was fed to them, and a 25lbs sugar patty. Long winters here.
Give the wax back to the bees. With clean bees wax , melt it and dip paint brush in wax and paint the wax on new fountain and honey frames.
It helps bees to be better producers.
Central Florida has been frigid this year..39°/40°.. its been a difficult winter this year..looking forward to summer..
Just saw a video that used 5 gallon paint strainer bags to line the pot before dropping in the wax. Picks up most of the nastiness in one go. Your wife might like that.
Northern Illinois along the Mississippi River. Not much this year so far but last February when I was out of town it got to -33F. When I got home and checked the bees I found that the plastic cardboard closers on my screened bottom boards had either blown out or were pulled out by critters. I wanted to see what a hive with wall to wall bees looked like after they froze to death. Both hives were wall to wall live bees looking very unconcerned with outside temps. I'm pretty sure they appreciated the extra ventilation... I had four hives that died and they were dripping wet. Yes, I'm a rookie beekeeper and not very sure of what I'm doing yet.
Thank you so much for producing this video. I don't know if it is because I am in my sixties and thus have done MUCH cleaning in my life, but I did essentially the same as you showed before even seeking a how-to video. I will now look into how to make candles. Again, thank you. It is July 2022, and I write to you from Alberta Canada. The coldest it got here this past winter was -40 Celsius, which, I believe is -40 Fahrenheit -- the two temperature measurements eventually catch up to each other. Sadly, my bees did not survive, but it may have been due to mites more than to the temperatures. Cheers
South of Kcmo 20 miles, 4 degrees has been the coldest so far. Really like the videos never looked into this stuff before until I came across one of your videos. Oh and go Chiefs!
You were asking what's the coldest it's been iin my area? I would have to wonder if you mean ever or this year. I think this year the coldest it's been is about 20 degrees. there have been some winters where we had is as cold as 4 above however.
Knoxville, Tn and I think we got down to 11 or 12. We haven't hit single digits. We have had a mild Winter.
Starting to watch all the beekeeping vids I can find as I'm finally getting a colony started this spring. Not for some time yet though- you mention lows, currently we're having a cold snap here and it got down to -38C the other day, with windchill to -51C!
Hi David, I am in the interior of British Columbia, a little place called 100 Mile House. We had temperatures as low as -40 celcius for 2 days a little over 2 weeks ago. This is my first winter with my bees, I am a little worried because the wind chill was quite a bit lower. My hive is wrapped and I did feed sugar cakes I made in November, so I am worried but hopeful. i really enjoy your channel, and I use a lot of your information. Thank you.
From Utah David. Right now in late Aug 2020 the days are in the 90s and nights are in the 50s. In the winter we will have most days in the 20s or 30s. We will generally have one week where we get REALLY cold days that are below zero. We are preparing to move to Maine which I imagine will be significantly colder . It will likely make beekeeping a whole new venture! I hope Iwill be able to work it out and bee successful . I want to have huge garden and about 10 hives in about 3 yrs. That's my goal !!!
In southern Quebec, Canada, we have winters that can reach -40C at times, that hover around -10 to -20C on average
California, Low 30's. It's typically in the low 40's and wet. I haven't seen moths on the side of the wooden frames or even in the hives! This is very interesting.
Such a pretty cat!! Also great video!
It can also be used as one of the ingredients in a fixative for the edges of a leather project where they need to be polished.
Here in Wisconsin lowest temp this year was -17
I have enjoyed many of your videos. I am just starting my first hive this year. The low temperature this year was -45 here in the interior of Alaska.
O.o How do you even survive that much of a low?
San Francisco California- we got down to 40 degrees last winter- it rarely gets that cold here as the climate is very mild all year- between 47- 71 degrees all year.
It gets down to -40 here quite regularly in the winter. It's tough overwintering bees here. They need lots of insulation & try to keep them dry too.
Newbie here. I got stung by a bee while taking the wax out of a bag. Just fyi if there are any new newbies here. I guess some bees get boiled in the process? Thank you for your tips. Greatly appreciated ❤
So far for 2020, it was in the low 30's for a couple of hours overnight here in southern Florida. Cold enough to make iguana's fall out of trees, LOL!! Great video David... Have fun with those bees !!! ✌️🐝🐝🐝
In the Anchorage Alaska area, we got down to -20 F and yes the minus in front is correct.
Excellent video. Thanks for the advise. I noticed on the last time in the pot you put the dirty side of the wax down. I'm curious if it would help to flip the dirty side up to bring more crap to the surface. Seems like the dirt being on the bottom of the wax slab would allow it to mix with the wax more readily. I figure every little thing helps.
The main problem is that there is some debris that's lighter than water, and heavier than wax. That will always end up on the bottom layer of the wax. The only way to get rid of it is to scrape it off between meltings. To speed up the process a bit more and get cleaner wax, you could probably scrape off a thicker layer, which would get rid of that debris quicker. You could even save the scrapings to melt with a new batch of wax.
I live in Tullahoma Tn. (South central, near Jack Daniels) the lowest has been 17 deg.
I render my wax much like you. Outside with a propane gas cooker. I get my water to a slow boil (pail about half full) and then put my wax in until near full. with a filter material like cheese cloth pour wax and water into a cooling pot. I do this several times until clean as I would like. works pretty good.
Thanks for this, I haven't tried melting wax yet but I've been saving it up... Heading out to the used to pick up the stuff I left on ground...😹
Coldest it will get for me is ~2C (~35F). Current daytime temps are sitting about 33C (~91F), though we have had a few 40C+ days (104F) which have caused problems for hives in poorly insulated or direct sun hives where the whole comb has melted out. Brisbane Australia
Hi there! I live in scotland and I think so far this year we’ve hit lows of about -4 Degrees Celsius (24 f)
me a chemistry student wondering if the melting point of wax lowers significant enough under a vacuum in order to get an optimal wax quality. One could olso use a solvent of sorts and then push it all through a filsters and then evaporate the solvent at low temp.
For the past few days up until recently it got down into the 20's at night here in Central North Carolina. Zone 8. Before it got cold, my bees were bringing in pollen, and likely nectar from Red Maples. Fortunately, because I only have one hive, I had a small heating pad for emergency temperatures, and only put the heat pad on once it got a little below freezing. I turned it off once it get above freezing. My bees seem to be doing all right so far.
PNW - 0 at times then it can shoot up to almost 40 degrees the same day. Any suggestion on wintering our bees?
-22 F here in Northern, NY that was back in November...January has been unseasonably warm and my 12 hives are burning through feed reserves.
The coldest it has ever gotten here in Pennsylvania was -42F and that was in Smethport, PA back in January 5, 1904. On average in the winter temps are always in the 20s but drop to below 0 on cold nights. On the day you uploaded this, January 24, 2020, it was a Friday and was a Lo. of 28 that day, and the the day before that it was a Lo of 16F. 20F is cold to people around here.. but not all of them. Some think 30 is cold.. some think 10 is cold. There are times its in the low 30s and didnt even realize it. I built house in 20s with a foot of snow lugging 2x6 back n forth through it while its snowing. Pennsylvanians like the cold. We're one of those few states in America that own the best snowmobiles.
from my understanding, the crud you scooped out can be useful as all get out. let it cool, divide into small portions, and it makes a great fire starter.
interior alaska -48 F was coldest we saw this year
We hit about -20 with the wind chill this past winter, here in my part of PA.
I double pot mine. I put all the unmelted wax into a large vinyl muslin bag and add glass weight to the bag. The bag gets submerged in water into the inner pot and water added to the outer pot. The muslin bag will let all the melted wax leave to float while the detritus stays behind, inside the bag. The reason for double boiling is to ensure the direct heat doesn't damage the muslin bag.
A bit late to the party, but January 15 this year, 2020 in Northern BC, Canada, we hit -45°C or -49°F. I checked the temp at about 7am and went outside to feel the hairs on my arms instantly begin freezing. Car was plugged in but still didn't start, so waited til it warmed up to about -37 at 10:30am and she started. Have a friend in Fort St. John BC who keeps bees. It's his hobby, he's got about 4 hives now, he doesn't collect much honey but we've gotten really nice honey from him and use it sparingly because it's something special :D.
Hello David , Peter from Australia , today is going to be 109.4 f , bloody hot , and in winter down to 6 c = 42.9 f .
Lowest temp last year in our bee yard for us in Central West NSW Australia was -10’C/14F we also had quite a bit of snow
28°F
Austin, TX
and that was only for 1 day.
We've had a super mild winter both this year and last year.
Gateshead UK, coldest this winter was -15 degrees Celsius, summer temperature here never gets above 20 degrees Celsius.
It got down to 27 recently in south Alabama.
I live in Wasilla Alaska and we got down to -35 below, it's been down lower than that here before but I think this last winter hit -35 to -45 so it gets a bit chilly!
Our low here in central Mississippi was just a couple days ago and I think it reached 17*
Thanks for sharing this video, but is it worth doing all this hard work?
Just got sent to this channel by Frederick Dunn - he's in like, Penn or something, so I'm a bit surprised you're in my neck of the woods. I've got some catching up to do, in this video list, I think.
Such a great set of informational videos, I have looked at a LOT over the years but you HAVE IT and I really trust your knowledge on this. Do you offer mated queens to California? UPS Next day?
I live in Northeastern Illinois and so far, the low was -8F the night of 15 Jan.
The coldest it was last winter here in extreme western NC was about 10 degrees with wind chill.
I like filtering it through paper towels in the oven and then using the paper towels as fire starters it takes out every bit of the trash turns out really nice
I’d say the lowest average temperature at night for here, Las Vegas, in 2019 fall through winter was in the low 30’s for a short time.
The average low during the day in that same span was low to mid 40’s, and has steadily increased.
Looking at 50’s-60’s at night currently, and reaching 70 this next week.
My bees didn’t “sleep” all winter, and I’ve had to feed them the whole time !!!!!🐝🐝
The coldest temperature near Topeka, Kansas this year was 5°F. That was earlier in January.
if you poured the melted wax into a more narrow container to cool, you would have less dirty surface to deal with.
Here in upstate NY it got to -4* F but we've had colder in my lifetime.
Although this video is a few years old, I wonder if you changed methods since then. One very old method is to put the dirty wax in a bag, like a muslin or linen bag, and weight it down in boiling water with a stone. All the dirt and much stays in it, but the wax comes out in the water. After the first boiling round, getting most of the crud out, you get that slab out. Would breaking it up and bagging it be easier than scraping it and trying to strain it? Then having to do it 2-3 times and clean that pot real well?
We got -8 degrees this week but it is not a regular occurrence for sure. We are in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia.
It was around -5 F here in Mid MO.
-43C a week ago. In Edmonton Alberta Canada. Checked my hive's on the weekend at - 4C and they are all OK.
what are doing in the polar bear neighbourhood ?
Waiting on the (false) promise of global warming. I live in Alberta too. +33°C right now. Last week it was hovering around +40°C. I saw +43°C. Better than winter for sure.
Hi Tilly,, it didn't get very cold here in northern Virginia.
Great video! What kind of medicinal salve do you make with beeswax? What recipe do you use? Thank you!!
we have frames with plastic foundation, comb is dark and cruddy we stripped and are rolling fresh wax from our cappings
Love watching this. Good job! With proper gloves you can use a cheese cloth to strain because you can get more water and wax out initially by squeezing it. And for the last render I’d love to recommend a metal brush ;-)
New hampshire low was -55 where I am and -108 about 2 hours north of me.
crazy question wouldn't it bee easier to put a screen over another kettle and pour the wax threw it after its warm? and 35 degrees here in ohio
Thank you for this video! Very interesting!
Does this make your house smell bad? Would it be better to do it outside underneath a cover or something to keep the smell out of the house?
I quite enjoy the smell, the nasty stuff doesn't seem to smell for some reason, so you just make the house smell like beeswax