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I will be on the next round. I’d like some of our nucs to be a little bigger and without plugging out the brood nest.

Hi, yes it’s a Honda 1” 4 stroke. To be totally honest it is amazing for the feeding of the syrup but it does struggle a little bit with the mixing, especially when adding the granular sugar. I’m looking to get myself a 4” pump for the mixing in future.

Hi 👋. Yes I’ll try and get it recorded to show at some point. My content is usually a week behind when I upload it but I’ll keep it in mind to state when I’m recording 😁

I built it from a refrigerated truck body/container. The idea is once we out grow it (soon) we can then sell it on as a ready to go self contained extraction unit.

@SimplyBeeutifulHoney I'm impressed. Great initiative. I'm some way off that scale, yet. I hope you'll have plenty of keen potential buyers.

Hi 👋. Yes I will be there Friday and Saturday. I’ll either be on the techtron uk stand or you will find me mooching around 😁

Hi pal. buybuckets.co.uk are reasonably priced if you’re buying a few. 👍

It’s a hand crank labelling machine. Available on eBay at reasonable cost.

I’ve just seen that reduced from a normal £33. Price wars 😁

@@SimplyBeeutifulHoney I got mine July and August 27.50 free postage because I had a lot

We were like you, me and the Mrs. 150 hives 100 Nucs The Mrs. Love the life showed the honey. At the big shows bruth Wells, Yorkshire et cetera. Winning many supreme champion got lots of big outlets for the honey. She died of cancer last year ovarian cancer i’m finding it lot of hard work without her help.

So sorry for your loss. We started it from scratch together and both experience the roller coaster that a small business is. I rely on Vicky so much not only with the work load but also emotionally and having her there to bounce ideas off. I can only imagine what your going through now 😔

We’d Only been running the channel a month and the wife through me under the bus and persuaded me to go and interview Lawrence, Gruff and Richard. 🤣 They must have thought WTF is this random 😂 I am a big fan of Richard and it was the right thing to do talking to them and getting the content. If your dreams don’t scare you then they aren’t big enough 😉

@@SimplyBeeutifulHoney totally agree mate. I said hello to all three on that day too. Hadn’t even thought about doing my own you tube channel then mate

Hi. Yes we did a video on how to make them earlier this year. All made from scrap timber and are great to have around when you want to make extra splits. We mostly use them as mating nucs.

Checked them this week and none the worse for the tumble. Yes it could be turned into soft set but I’d still be concerned about the smell in the jar. It is quite pungent. Wondering if I can sell it 🤔

😂😂 we try and show as much as we can but even that would be a push for me to make happen 😆

I allow them to sit overnight in our Techtron uncapping tank. It has a perforated floor which drains almost all the honey off.

Looking at the coming forecast it’s likely to bring even our season to a close and we will be getting treatments on.

The first thing I noticed was the lovely smell of it 😁

I love your analogy 😂😂

Thank you !

Thank you !

Sounds like they could be on it then. The smell will give it away 😆

Noted 😆😂👍

Unbelievable sound !

I like the idea of them for our migratory hives too 👍

Noted 👍🐸

I didn’t mind the taste 🤣🤷‍♂️ but I’ll be extracting it separate just in case 😁

A strong split in August with a new mated queen will still have time to build up ready for winter.

I couldn’t smell any off odours from the supers nor did I mind the taste. I’ve read info saying if left to crystallise then the smell and taste improves ?

@@SimplyBeeutifulHoney wait until the extraction

Removed it this week, It does have a distinct smell.

Maybe to horses but generally not considered dangerous to humans.

I’ve had a few people comment and say it’s a horrible honey, personally I liked the taste 🤣🤷‍♂️ We will start treating our nucs in the next week or two and then our production colonies in September.

We try to make it as varied as possible to show our viewers all the ins and outs of our little operation 😁.

I’m planning on doing some more build videos over the winter months.

@@SimplyBeeutifulHoney thanks for replying. Look forward to seeing those 👍

I love the Langstroth as a hive and it would make much more sense as a commercial beekeeper but unfortunately my digits just don't get along with them. I'm back at L1 this week to run the gauntlet 😂

Maybe they know what's coming ?? 😮 It's my first season of giving the barrow a go... but up to now I'm really impressed with it. It makes my life so much easier moving hives around as I'm usually on my own. The hives on the ground will be raised up on a stand once I take some concrete blocks to site, I keep forgetting. Other than slugs and mice we don't really have any "Critters" that would bother the bees/hives. A strong hive of bees will always be able to control ants etc.

It feels great having honey in the boxes as anything could have happened really. It's a stunning part of the country but I'm happy to have the hives back home 😁

The roof is full of KFC bones.

I'll do a review of it in the near future 😃

Hi ya, Its just bubble insulation, Its usually used in loft conversions etc. I just order mine from eBay in large rolls and cut it to size.

Cheers Stu, well played

@@sadiehawkins2294 Hi Sadie. Vicky’s suit is actually also a defender but mine is a one off a local manufacturer made for me but I believe Gruff has very similar ones on his website. gwenyngruffydd.co.uk/collections/bee-suits/products/vented-apix-air-beekeeping-suit-by-thomas-apiculture

@@SimplyBeeutifulHoney. Thanks for that, I’ll have a look x

@@lynnerousseau9676 I’ll do a dedicated video just on them 😁

We make them ourself, I'll be doing a video on how we make them 😁

Where do you BUY the mesh Thank you Keep the videos coming 👍

I'll be doing a "how to" video on them at some point 😁

How do you cope ? I'm ginger so my natural habitat is in the shade 😂 Do you inspect at certain times of day or use any cooling aids ? or just simply crack on ?