I really enjoy your bee and honey videos. My dad had a fruit and vegetable stand for years. He bought and sold a local bee keepers Honey. The bee keeper said he had to put an electric fence around the area of his hives to help keep the bears away and out of his bee hives. I love the taste of honey and think that there is nothing better to eat with buttered biscuits than some honey.
I’ve been watching your videos over and over for the past week or two- I’m autistic and bees are my special interest. Seeing you in that element has inspired me to finally become a bee keeper! Keep up the good work, love your content!
Thank you for working with natures pollinators. I remember growing up in Vermont and we had a local bee keeper (Charley Mraz) who was wonderful to the school kids. Keep up the good work.
I really like your extractor. The one I used when a kid was a 1:1 ratio to the spin and took a lot of work! Still easier than manual separation of honey and comb. We also used to pack a lot of our honey with the comb. Many people preferred it.
The electric extractors by maxant are worth every penny. Make sure you get one. It holds 9 frames or 3 deep frames. All you do is bolt it down to a piece of wood and get two tubes of sand and it’s good times my friend. If you thinking about getting it don’t think anymore get it you will be happy. I’m very happy with mine. It takes six weeks to get it though.
Probably would. It's not the extractor, it's the frames. It's tough to find 4 frames that are exactly the same weight. It wobbles because the frames throw it off. The plywood is probably more than the extractor these days.
This was the best videoed, best explained honey harvest I have ever seen!! Great job - so interesting!! I was terrified you were going to get stung!!! 🥴😆
After harvesting the honey, in 3 days the whole 5 gal bucket would have turned rock hard crystalized. Each harvest also meant grinding each batch[1200 pounds] in a Champion Juicer set to homogenize and therefore no heat was used to pour out Creamed Kiawe. With no heat used, honey was therefore Raw and sold out as soon as we had it bottled.
Doesn’t the air blower make them mad? Does the queen get blown out also? Boy I would get me a good two fingers full of honey 😂and buzz out! See, at the end you had to go put some in a small mason jar…big tease. I am enjoying watching your channel!
Wow seems a few weeks to early. I’m down here in east Texas and for the late cold 🥶 spell we had! Enjoy. Ok posted before I finished video. Mostly last fall’s honey. BUT GREAT VIDEO
Great to see that you got nice stainless honey extractor(don't really know how it's called in english). And great to see you are starting off to good season. Here in europe it's still pretty cold weather. Cherries just started to bloom here. This years first harvest will be much later than expected. Keep up doing great work.
I watched a beekeeper take a box of frames out to the bee hives and exchange finished honey frames for frames from the box. The honey frames were labled so that after extracting he returned the empty frames to the same hives and removed the space holders.
That is very early honey extraction! Probably made a difference having a good bit of darker Fall honey in there. They didn't have to fill up as much area. Fall honey is my fave!!
i think instead of that floppy knife to scrape the honey you should be a scraper that you can hold with 2 hands or something that almost has a blade on it so scrape it smoothly in one huge piece.
I wanted to mention that after watching your video on the Hogg halfcomb system, I decided to try it. Did you find that the bees took a while to figure it out and start drawing out the combs?
I really can't remember. I feel like it did take them a little while to really start the comb. I decided not to do it this year in favor of just plain cut comb in a jar. It is a good system though.
How many times did you lick your fingers??? Lol! I remember helping my uncle during the robbing process. He had over 100 hives. Nothing better than a hot biscuit with butter and honey! Thanks for videos and bringing back such good memories.
We are about to get started in beekeeping. So i have a question, where do the bees go that were in the hive and frames once you remove it to extract the honey?
Time frame of frames worked by bees? In honey forest of South Kohala each hive put out 60 pounds each 2 weeks, year round. Used deeps, Kiawe Honey Forest'. If weather changed, might also get some coconut honey as well.
It takes them about 2 weeks to fill and cap a super as long as it's a strong hive and the flow is good. I can't imagine extracting every two weeks year round.
I think it's a matter of personal preference. They have value for keeping the queen out of the supers...but she will very rarely get into a box of honey. There's just no place for her to lay eggs in there. I don't use them because it's extra equipment to deal with.
Your videos are great. I ordered a sawmill that won't arrive until November. We have a lot of pine trees that need to come down. Should we wait until the mill arrives or cut them down now. Will they mill ok if we take them down now? Thanks for any advice.
With pine I would wait until closer to time. Pine will get blue stain in it (which if fine if you like it) if it lays around too long. You’ll get much prettier boards if you mill them green and stack them to dry properly. Also bugs love pine logs. You can avoid bug holes by cutting fresh.
I thought of that. The spinner is pretty heavy duty and it might be rough on the drill. Plus the beauty of Maxant's electric motor is that you can set it to whatever speed you want and then walk away and do something else. I'm sure I could rig up something with a drill, but this is such a nice unit I'd rather just wait and get the proper motor for it.
Do you use queen separators? I'm new to bee keeping, just trying to get as much info as possible. I have started a berry farm (red rasp., blackberries, honeyberries, gooseberries, blueberries, and goji berries. Also cherry trees, peach, and apple trees to come. Gotta have pollinators!!!
I don't. For me it's just extra equipment to keep up with. Once the bees fill a super with nectar, she just really doesn't go up there. There's no place for her to lay eggs. However, it does make certain you're not blowing her out of the hive...and it can keep her from laying eggs repetitively in a small section that prevents you from extracting the box. So, I think it's a personal preference thing.
Ummmmm. Considering Mrs. FLR is a Belle, WHO really bought the new toy? The pretty Cracker in my pic often decides I need a new tool will just go ahead and buy it for me! Your biscuit and honey idea raised another question: When you are eating sweet corn, do y'all make corn cob jelly? THAT, amigo, is some good stuff!
When I put frames in the box, they have a piece of foundation in them. This is just a piece of plastic imprinted in a honeycomb pattern and coated with beeswax (in my case at least, there are other types). The bees build wax on that foundation and "draw out" the frame into usable comb.
It was a hand me down from my grandfather I believe. It's my understanding that he used it for the same purpose. I think it's just a bread knife or similar. It's a serrated, flexible blade. Works really well.
@@falllineridge Kelley used to sell them. I think they were even called Kelley Knives, but with the Mann Lake acquisition of Kelley they’re not available any more. I was hoping yours wasn’t old as the hills and you had a vendor. 😊
Without knowing that other channel or having read any discussions about it, the only problem I see with the blower is, smashing the bees into the frame or some other obstacle and ripping their wings.
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I went to the beekeeper to get 12 bees. He counted and gave me 13.
"Sir, you gave me an extra."
"That's a freebie."
😂😂🤦🏼♀️
I just started Beekeping this year in Mexico, is being very beautiful to manage and work along the bees
Awesome!
Very interesting! I enjoyed watching that process. My Grandfather used to keep bees. Brought back a lot of childhood memories. Thanks for sharing.
I really enjoy your bee and honey videos. My dad had a fruit and vegetable stand for years. He bought and sold a local bee keepers Honey. The bee keeper said he had to put an electric fence around the area of his hives to help keep the bears away and out of his bee hives. I love the taste of honey and think that there is nothing better to eat with buttered biscuits than some honey.
I’ve been watching your videos over and over for the past week or two- I’m autistic and bees are my special interest. Seeing you in that element has inspired me to finally become a bee keeper! Keep up the good work, love your content!
Awesome! You'll have a blast!
Thanks for the video. I like watching bees from my computer screen. That's as close as I want to get. God Bless.
Thank you for working with natures pollinators. I remember growing up in Vermont and we had a local bee keeper (Charley Mraz) who was wonderful to the school kids. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for your channel. Entertaining, educational, and relaxing. Bless you Brother!
I love your videos man don’t change a thing! well done.
Man - some good stuff right there. Thanks for walking us through your process for frame/box readiness. Hope you enjoyed those biscuits!
Oh I did!
Just found your channel this weekend and have loved watching you extract the honey.
Bet you can adapt that extractor with a power drill wether corded or battery to run it.
That's the ticket...good ol' backyard engineering...
I really like your extractor. The one I used when a kid was a 1:1 ratio to the spin and took a lot of work! Still easier than manual separation of honey and comb. We also used to pack a lot of our honey with the comb. Many people preferred it.
You should try those new beehives where the honey is on tap. No smoke required. No spinning required.
That slow mo was awesome!!!!
Been waiting for this one!
really cool....My daughter just bought a hive and a queen for me and I have been learning stuff...this video came just in time to learn a bit more...
Another great video Wes! I don't like Honey, but nice to see the process. STay safe & well. 👍👍
Congratulations on some lovely early honey and that swarm, they are going to make a wonderful nice, strong bee's will do very well.
Love the bee videos . Great content!
The slow motion was awesome
I love watching the honey extraction process
Great job! I'm over in Warner Robins and your videos have inspired me to take up beekeeping. Only got three hives, but gotta learn somehow.
Awesome!
I'm a new subscriber. I enjoyed your vide! Stay safe and well. Love and prayers from Tennessee.
The electric extractors by maxant are worth every penny. Make sure you get one. It holds 9 frames or 3 deep frames. All you do is bolt it down to a piece of wood and get two tubes of sand and it’s good times my friend. If you thinking about getting it don’t think anymore get it you will be happy. I’m very happy with mine. It takes six weeks to get it though.
Everyone of those spinners I've seen on youtube, are wobbly. Maybe if you mounted it on a piece of plywood, it would take the wobble out.
Probably would. It's not the extractor, it's the frames. It's tough to find 4 frames that are exactly the same weight. It wobbles because the frames throw it off. The plywood is probably more than the extractor these days.
This was the best videoed, best explained honey harvest I have ever seen!! Great job - so interesting!! I was terrified you were going to get stung!!! 🥴😆
Thanks, Dianne! Always appreciate your comments.
@@falllineridge We appreciate your videos - you've got a lot of patience, & you're such a hard worker! God bless you & your family 💞
Very informative and interesting. Thank you for sharing. Wonderful.
That Maxant is smooth! My manual was loud and wobbly. Just got an electric to try this year.
It's a great extractor.
Thank you sir and biscuits for breakfast sounds great!!!
Excellent work👍👍👍 . Thanks for sharing
After harvesting the honey, in 3 days the whole 5 gal bucket would have turned rock hard crystalized. Each harvest also meant grinding each batch[1200 pounds] in a Champion Juicer set to homogenize and therefore no heat was used to pour out Creamed Kiawe. With no heat used, honey was therefore Raw and sold out as soon as we had it bottled.
That honey looks delicious. Nice yield.
Doesn’t the air blower make them mad? Does the queen get blown out also? Boy I would get me a good two fingers full of honey 😂and buzz out! See, at the end you had to go put some in a small mason jar…big tease. I am enjoying watching your channel!
Very interesting. I never realized the process to get honey.
Always look forward to the bee videos
Great videos keep up the great work
Love the extractor. We boys love our toys.
Biscuits & fresh comb honey; also goes good on wheatberry toast.
question: how do you ensure that when you take an entire box and blow the bees away, you don't accidentally blow away the queen?
Glorious!!
From bees to beer STAT. pouring out the bottom of that spinner into the wort all in one step. LOL, thanks bees
I would have liked to have seen what the frames looked like after the honey was extracted. Thanks for the vids.
Wow seems a few weeks to early. I’m down here in east Texas and for the late cold 🥶 spell we had! Enjoy. Ok posted before I finished video. Mostly last fall’s honey. BUT GREAT VIDEO
Great to see that you got nice stainless honey extractor(don't really know how it's called in english). And great to see you are starting off to good season. Here in europe it's still pretty cold weather. Cherries just started to bloom here. This years first harvest will be much later than expected. Keep up doing great work.
You got it. Stainless steel. Thanks and happy beekeeping!
The bees’ favourite guns?
BeeBee guns, I suppose.
I watched a beekeeper take a box of frames out to the bee hives and exchange finished honey frames for frames from the box. The honey frames were labled so that after extracting he returned the empty frames to the same hives and removed the space holders.
Sounds like it would work great! Very organized.
Looks so good
I love thees videos and bees I find it interesting
I am in south east pa i dont even know if a nectar flow started, i put a 5 gal bucket. Of sugar water out and they cleaned it up in about a week
That is very early honey extraction! Probably made a difference having a good bit of darker Fall honey in there. They didn't have to fill up as much area. Fall honey is my fave!!
Interesting! Spring is my favorite.
👍 From Cadillac Michigan
Wow..where are you? I'm in NE Oklahoma and I don't have a full honey frame in my small apiary.
Good looking setup and extraction.
Wes is in Georgia.
i think instead of that floppy knife to scrape the honey you should be a scraper that you can hold with 2 hands or something that almost has a blade on it so scrape it smoothly in one huge piece.
I wanted to mention that after watching your video on the Hogg halfcomb system, I decided to try it. Did you find that the bees took a while to figure it out and start drawing out the combs?
I really can't remember. I feel like it did take them a little while to really start the comb. I decided not to do it this year in favor of just plain cut comb in a jar. It is a good system though.
Only kept 20 hives down in Kiawe Honey Forest' as a 'control feature' to keep wild bees out of hotel grounds.
Great video! Why did you have three streams of honey at the end?
The bucket I was using has a junky honey gate on it.
Can you show us how you clean the tools and the extractor ?
How many times did you lick your fingers??? Lol! I remember helping my uncle during the robbing process. He had over 100 hives. Nothing better than a hot biscuit with butter and honey! Thanks for videos and bringing back such good memories.
Ha! I keep it clean with this honey! Not trying to sell honey and spit mixed up.
IS IT ONE QUEEN PER BOX OR ONE QUEEN FOR THE WHOLE LOT< LOVE THE WORK YOU DO 👍👍👍👍👍👍🇨🇦🇨🇦
1 per hive no matter how many boxes.
Normally one queen per hive. Sometimes there are two when the mother queen is being replaced by the daughter queen...but this is rare.
Nice
We are about to get started in beekeeping. So i have a question, where do the bees go that were in the hive and frames once you remove it to extract the honey?
They simply fly back to the hive. They know which one to go to.
@@falllineridge That is so interesting. We are up here in Canada so I have to make sure i have everything set for the cold winters.
@@falllineridge The honey looks good
Young man I can taste your honey 🍯 on my biscuits right now! Mmmm looking tasty making me hungry. Thanks for sharing your videos with us and God bless
It was delicious!
The honey you produce does the final product contain any bees bread? Doesn’t look like there’s much in there.
Very interesting regards N Ireland .
amazing
Time frame of frames worked by bees?
In honey forest of South Kohala each hive put out 60 pounds each 2 weeks, year round. Used deeps, Kiawe Honey Forest'. If weather changed, might also get some coconut honey as well.
It takes them about 2 weeks to fill and cap a super as long as it's a strong hive and the flow is good. I can't imagine extracting every two weeks year round.
wow so nice...
Very satisfying walking the extraction of honey!
Awesome bees with awesome man
Jeff from north Fl why don't you use queen excluders ? Just started a few hives myself
I think it's a matter of personal preference. They have value for keeping the queen out of the supers...but she will very rarely get into a box of honey. There's just no place for her to lay eggs in there. I don't use them because it's extra equipment to deal with.
Your videos are great. I ordered a sawmill that won't arrive until November. We have a lot of pine trees that need to come down. Should we wait until the mill arrives or cut them down now. Will they mill ok if we take them down now? Thanks for any advice.
With pine I would wait until closer to time. Pine will get blue stain in it (which if fine if you like it) if it lays around too long. You’ll get much prettier boards if you mill them green and stack them to dry properly. Also bugs love pine logs. You can avoid bug holes by cutting fresh.
@@falllineridge Thank you so much for the advice. We will wait until November
Would it be possible to add your drill trick to the spinner, like you did to the Wood Mizer loader winch?
That's what I was thinking!!
I thought of that. The spinner is pretty heavy duty and it might be rough on the drill. Plus the beauty of Maxant's electric motor is that you can set it to whatever speed you want and then walk away and do something else. I'm sure I could rig up something with a drill, but this is such a nice unit I'd rather just wait and get the proper motor for it.
Do you use queen separators? I'm new to bee keeping, just trying to get as much info as possible. I have started a berry farm (red rasp., blackberries, honeyberries, gooseberries, blueberries, and goji berries. Also cherry trees, peach, and apple trees to come. Gotta have pollinators!!!
I don't. For me it's just extra equipment to keep up with. Once the bees fill a super with nectar, she just really doesn't go up there. There's no place for her to lay eggs. However, it does make certain you're not blowing her out of the hive...and it can keep her from laying eggs repetitively in a small section that prevents you from extracting the box. So, I think it's a personal preference thing.
@@falllineridge I'm finding that a lot of bee keeping is personal preference. Thank you Sir!!!
I trust that blowing the bees off the boxes doesn't hurt them, but it really must tick them off no end!
Enjoyed watching. Hope your little boy likes honey. Where did the bees go that were blown away? Did they return to same hive? M. Belinda Davis in NC
Yes, they will fly back to the hive the came from. No harm done. He does enjoy honey. Thanks for watching!
I remember eating honey on my grandma's homemade bread and biscuits. Hmm, hmm, good!
nice harvest, got anything planned for the wax?
Candles.
@@falllineridge would love to see a short video if you got time 👍 always love the content keep up the good work
Blow some Bees.
I love the gals. 🥰
My that looks delicious!.
Ummmmm. Considering Mrs. FLR is a Belle, WHO really bought the new toy? The pretty Cracker in my pic often decides I need a new tool will just go ahead and buy it for me! Your biscuit and honey idea raised another question: When you are eating sweet corn, do y'all make corn cob jelly? THAT, amigo, is some good stuff!
She approved the purchase! Never heard of corn cob jelly, what does it taste like?
Could you not attach your power drill to it like you did on the Woodmizer?
Can you explain what it means when you say the bees have drawn out the frame?
Made wax comb
When I put frames in the box, they have a piece of foundation in them. This is just a piece of plastic imprinted in a honeycomb pattern and coated with beeswax (in my case at least, there are other types). The bees build wax on that foundation and "draw out" the frame into usable comb.
I learn something today. Do you sell to locals?
Beautiful
hey man! just a quick question, when did you start beekeeping?
2012
WOW THE SOUND OF BEES < HAPPY YOUR THERE NOT ME < THANKS FOR A REAL NICE VIDEO> AND WOW LOVE THE HONEY > 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦😣
You don’t use a queen excluder to keep the queen out of the supers?
No, it's just more stuff to keep up with. The queen doesn't normally venture up into the supers. I'll admit it is a bit of a risk.
how about a cordless drill, just a thought. gives you variable speeds.
I’ve been looking for knives like you’re using for uncapping. Where did you get the one you’re using?
It was a hand me down from my grandfather I believe. It's my understanding that he used it for the same purpose. I think it's just a bread knife or similar. It's a serrated, flexible blade. Works really well.
@@falllineridge Kelley used to sell them. I think they were even called Kelley Knives, but with the Mann Lake acquisition of Kelley they’re not available any more. I was hoping yours wasn’t old as the hills and you had a vendor. 😊
Sorry about that...it's older than me I'm sure.
I would love to get into bee keeping what's the best way to go about it and is it expensive
Bees are working on making honey and they are safe on my property!
Ever use piano wire to cut the caps?
No, but that sounds like a good idea.
Sweet
just curious as to if you sell any of your honey?
what did you do to get those fire ants well away from your hive area
Actually nothing, still need to do that.
@@falllineridge Make a video of that :0D
It seems as th you need to brace the extractor.
Remove hanndle and fix with cordless drill.
If you can get the handle off of that extractor an electric drill would save you some arm work
try a dewalt battery operated blower.
Without knowing that other channel or having read any discussions about it, the only problem I see with the blower is, smashing the bees into the frame or some other obstacle and ripping their wings.