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Seth Hill at Appalachian Bee Ranch
Добавлен 10 фев 2023
This channel will be an ongoing documentary on my growth as a sideline to commercial beekeeper, with the hopes of a lot of good content of my many successes, and predictably many failures.
A New Direction on the Ranch!!!
Hey everyone big things happening on the ranch this spring.
New hive setups and more
also available now are Appalachian Bee Ranch's first spring Nucs.
for info or questions feel free to email appalachianbeeranch22@gmail.com
New hive setups and more
also available now are Appalachian Bee Ranch's first spring Nucs.
for info or questions feel free to email appalachianbeeranch22@gmail.com
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Видео
A New To Feed Honey Bees
Просмотров 3,5 тыс.8 месяцев назад
Howdy guys! Hope everyone's season is going well, we are amping up our game for the year with a new feeding system. Mother nature shows us best bigger is better.
How to Make Bees Work Foundation
Просмотров 9 тыс.9 месяцев назад
Hello everyone busy times here on the ranch, spring has sprung for us down south. We are headed down hot and heavy with deeps ready to let the girls grow. If you are interested in getting some bees this spring you should check out our website, we will have the full line up with Nucs, Packages, Queens, and the hot ticket item, The Honey Ready Single. www.honeyholeindustries.com/live-bees
Our New Way of Moving Bees.
Просмотров 6 тыс.11 месяцев назад
Hello Everyone, hope yall can make it for the newest installment of Appalachian Bee Ranch. We have moved the entire outfit south for the next few months. for you new guys wanting to see a few different ways to get your hives moving this video is for you. If you are interested in purchasing bees in the spring. Check out our Website www.honeyholeindustries.com/shop for more info or questions feel...
Appalchian Bee Ranch is BACK!!!
Просмотров 1,8 тыс.11 месяцев назад
Took a Little High Adas to get the channel situated and ready to rock and roll.
Harvesting Queens
Просмотров 11 тыс.Год назад
Hello everyone, sorry for the late follow up but as yall can see I've been busy running these bees. this was the first round of slits made in Hahira with me and Bruce form Bruce's bees.
Moving Bees At Night
Просмотров 3,6 тыс.Год назад
Hey guys. so happy to have the hives back on the ground in north Georgia. was a long day to get them home but now the real work begins.
How Do I Split Bees?
Просмотров 14 тыс.Год назад
Hello everyone, This is one of many shots I got from my first speaking engagement talking about bees. this video covers the splitting side of things there will be a few more videos about some beekeeping basics. If you would like to contact me about bee Business you can email me with appalachianbeeranch22@gmail.com
Splitting Colonies for Queen production
Просмотров 8 тыс.Год назад
Hey guys had an awesome time with Bruce from Bruce's bees, working and splitting my Hahira colonies. was a lot of work and pre planning but the plan came together. appreciate Bruce and Wayne for helping me split and keep things moving you can check out Bruce's experience on his channel. @brucesbees here's the link for his video ruclips.net/video/vqLAKeafYlo/видео.html
Beekeeping Down South
Просмотров 18 тыс.Год назад
Hello All, I went south last weekend to make the final preparations for splitting in a few weeks feeding equalizing and such. sorry about the weird upload this video should be pretty clean and not missing half its content. still learning how to do the RUclips, and technology thing. if yall are interested in queens or colonies you can email me at appalachianbeeranch22@gmail.com
Yall Wanted Me, Here I Am.
Просмотров 7 тыс.Год назад
Hey guys Its officially official. I am starting a RUclips channel. yall are gonna get to see all the craziness and fun we have over here in southern Appalachia. Y'all might even get to learn a thing or two about beekeeping. I hope this will be as fun for me as, I'm sure its gonna be as entertaining for Y'all. @Nature’s Image farms -Greg Burns @Bob Binnie @Hillbilly Bee Keeping @Duck River Honey...
Your a Bob Binnie clone. I enjoy your vids.
Seth, I have 28 hives looking to grow to 60 next year. Do you have a good source for the 1 gallon buckets? Most I found are a bit costly. Also I have found a good source for tint plugs, what size and number of holes do you recommend? Thanks!
The best price I have found is from better be and the buckets are decent quality The tint plugs I usually use I belive it’s 5/32 or smaller and about ten to twelve holes is good
Hey i was just wondering, as i work my hive, my fingers get pretty sticky from propolis. Do yours? When i find my queen and i want to grab her, im scared that i will tear a wing or injure her in some other way. How do you work against this?
It can be challenging I usually do a quick rub on the end grain of my box before I got to grab her if I can it’s a challenge for sure
@@sethhillABR ok thank you, I'll try that next time.
I am happy to here you are okay that you have just been busy. I got Bob's last message late last night while watching the NRC. Looking forward to your next video.
What is with the black migratory hive covers? Why black?
They are a used ply wood that got damaged at a cheese factory the only down side to them is they are dark but they’re super cheap I can make a lid for like four dollars by the time it’s cut and painted or waxed dipped
That’s what I’m talking about! Thank you!
Ha Seth glad to see you, do you still work for Bob how is your wife and baby doing hope you have a blessed week
Keep packing Seth
What about Buckfast.... Hearing nothing but good things. Soon trying them. We currently only got wild ones. Gosh darnit, they're good though. Little bit feisty but not bad.
Hey Seth, do yall run your hive bottom gaps @ ⅜in. Gap all year round? Or flip em to the ¾in. In Summer? I copied yalls design and changed all my bottom boards and have them on ⅜in side , but my stronger hives are already bearding even though they have a super added with foundations. I've been checking regularly and keeping them from swarming, and we're wide open with blackberry and tulip poplar so I'm hoping they're not still in swarm mode. Thanks for any advice
Are you still selling bees?
Do your 2 hive pallets leave air gap between next row of pallets.
Great video Seth. I enjoy your "common sense" approach to most everything....something that's way too rare these days!!! 😉 FYI...A good grinder will make you a much "better" welder!!! Ask me how I know!! 😆 Take care!!!
hi Seth, i remember your comment about maybe having to wear gloves when you switch to italian genetics. i watched a video from a guy in Europe, not sure where, but he said that if you wash your hands and wrists in apple cider vinegar the bees will leave your hands alone as they don't like the smell. I will try it this weekend and hope it works great. Something maybe you can try and share with your subs if it does in fact work great.
that is interesting I hope they hate it more than I do LOL. Thank you for the information.
I really like your dolly. I wish my welding skills were better. I’d like to have one.
a welder at a local shop might not charge to much to make one it would probably be a lot tougher than mine. but you'd be surprised it only takes burning a rod or two to really get the hang of it. are you in the states?
@@sethhillABR I’m in SE Texas with an outyard in SW Louisiana. I plan to have more out yards by the time I retire.
I like your video and your personality but hearing you snort and belch is old.
God is real in Jesus's too. Someday you'll learn that it's true whether you believe it or not.
Deep and a medium works really well for me size wise, but: I hate having different size brood frames. Im bad about letting hives get to close to swarming (or swarming) and it’s a pain to split ‘em up when some of the brood is in medium frames. I think it would be easier if everything was interchangeable. I’m in this boat because I’m not made of money and have mostly second hand equipment.
I completely understand. it'll be an interesting learning curve to see how it works out.
I suggest you become a body builder and toss the dolly and then you won’t need a gym for your body building.
using bobs big blue one I did notice my 12 oz curls got alot easier LOL
@@sethhillABR 😂😂
Congratulations on your newest little beekeeper! Rockin' yellow is great but don't give up on your gloveless style.
I hope I'm gonna find a gentle strain somewhere that has most of the characteristics that I's like to have.
Good luck Seth ..I too would like for my bees to build up quicker ..is there a queen breeder you could recommend to me that has the cordovan breed ..I currently have some of bobs stock I grafted from last year mixed with Italian ..
I am not sure of cordovan. they are around though I will look into that and give an update.
Nice intro Seth. Congratulations on the new born.
thank you sir been a fun sleepless three weeks
I like it! Good stuff Seth!
thank ya bruce well have to get together and do another bee working video sometime.
Congratulations on the new little one!! The hand truck looks like it works good. The queens I got from you last spring, made it thru our Illinois winter and are looking great. Keep the videos coming!
Very good! they are living up to their name being easy to overwinter.
I wanta see the New-BaBee pic? Wonder about that axel bar getting too much of a workout over time... maybe add a pipe back there to use as foot leverage instead of the axel?
I wanted to find a bar that was 3/4 which is plenty stout enough however the 5/8 I'm curious about after a brief conversation with bob he wondered why he did not think of it sooner but to put a piece of channel iron and the back to use like a step which makes lifting almost twice as easy.
Congrats, and how wide is it?
I belive 16/34 let me get back to ya on that 👍🏻
@sethhillABR 10 4, what's the width of the hand truck frame? Been thinking of making one myself
You ever plan on doing any work in Florida?
Possibly the further south the better
@@sethhillABR yes sir that makes sense. I’m in the Ocala national forest area. I got 50 hives at the moment but if you’re ever in the area and need a hand I would love to help out. I’ll Soak up some of that Georgia knowledge 😂😎. Plus if you ever need a place to top off and take a break, I’m 25 minutes from 441 💪🏼
Good luck with your bees👍
Thanks, you too!
Love the videos Seth. Keep em coming
Would having a deep and medium make it harder to split out nucs to sell later? Some areas i know have a higher demand for medium nucs, others not so much.
We don’t have to much demand for a medium come splitting time I hope to run the medium on the bottom and pull resources for splits out of the top
Gorilla welds, ugly but strong
Hahahahahahah yessir
Ambitious hive count with little equipment, you've gonna earn every dollar, rightfully so. Love the grinch impression.
Haha I’m glad you got it 👍🏻
Nice trailor, m gona make myself one , hy from romania
Hello hope all is well with your bees
@@sethhillABR hello to you also, no it is not ,, mites, i am down to 53 from 80 hives and the seasson is at least 2 weeks ahead this year so litel to no honey this spring, hope yoa have a better year than mine, all the best
Nice vid! Thanks.
Love your intro, best on RUclips
Thank you it took a minute to get it just right
🤔Seth I think that maybe the cleanest shaved I have ever seen ya.🤨You look like you might even have gotten a hair or two cut.😂See even those 🐝girls 🐝buzzen ya think ya smell pretty. 2nd Hand Brand New Buddy.👍 Thanks for sharing your time with us Seth, have a great weekend. Blessed Days...
Thanks DC it’s a refreshing feeling on the face this spring
Those are called booger welds…. Lol
And congrats on new born, Gods greatest miracle.
Thank you sir
I just saw one of my new queens, shes a "black queen" any idea what she might be? And i am also transitioning;as of winter; to go with 1 ½ due to bad back , and double deeps are a pain when half honey half brood and definitely too heavy when filling with honey. I think i heard Kaymon say he is putting out a video soon on single brood management , ive run double deeps 8yrs , hope to figure best way of producing maximum honey production with single deep and medium supers .And if your ever traveling through or near taft,tn and need something welded holler and ill fix it for you
I’ll keep that in mind thank you singles make a load of honey for sure
Could you do a video on the pros and cons of 1.5
Hey boss, i found the stuff to put on tip of sticks for dragonfly catching "CATCHMASTER GOOP" in a gsllon pale....I'll let you know how successful it goes and you can tell frank:) i appreciate you and Bob doing these videos more than you'll ever know, its because of yall,Kaymon and the others that i don't buy bees anymore. Y'all taught me how to actually take care of bees and with Gods faithfulness in answering prayers i now let the bees provide more hives by splitting. Please keep videos coming, yall help me stay on top of next move. Im so glad your comment last night about starvation is a great swarm prevention, i have two of the hives packed with bees and 1:1 nectar/honey so im gonna put them on restriction tomorrow and rob their storehouse for a few days while equalizing hives. Yalls methods have been tested and proven very trustworthy. Thanks bro
We’re happy to help that’s why we do it I’m glad our methods are working for you
I'd think ATV with fork lift work best in those hills .. wouldn't cost much.. line up some pecan orchards for next winter will bring down the truffle dogs pay you twice your wages.. or cut of the profits or both maybe.. Appalachian truffle ends in December we will have cash falling out the truck doors after that plenty to go around
Interesting they got pecans out the ears down south what part of Appalachia you hit for truffles
Thanks Seth! This is the direction I'm moving for my small outfit
Very interesting we’ll have to stay in touch and see how we end up this fall
Great Video. Nice design on the hand truck. I'm still running double deeps and have had a heck of a time this spring. I split all my hives in mid March all the way to a single and they all still swarmed.... really weird spring. Please keep making videos.
this spring and last spring have both been really off not experienced enough to explain it
Seth I have always run the deep an a medium brood boxes . There is a few things that I am not totally happy about with that but it is not bad enough so I can live with it. I will keep running them . Thanks for the update
Good to know!
@@sethhillABR Hello Seth really the only thing about the deep & medium is the rotation in the spring when the bees have moved up BUT because of my age an health I use eight frame equipment. For me I have never really had a problem with the bees going back down so it is not really a problem I usually just have a few that sometimes they are a little stubborn about going down. . I have had the best spring flow this spring that I have had in probably seven or eight years but my out yard they just about eat every single bit of it up . I had three supers on about fifteen colonies that was close to being capped an that was great for my early spring flow . Thanks I enjoy your videos. Thanks
You might want to try some side frames on your trailer young man👍
Yessir my long trailer I did weld some I’ve not gotten to the smaller ones yet coming soon
Bee barrels are bad
What do you mean bee barrel?
My italian is at least 4 times as big a hive as the caucasian carnis i have . And bred with carni caicasian the italian is just as gentle .
I have a question for you Seth . How many flood warnings in the last month ?? It seems you dont want the spring or early summer there ..
Ih hahira i mean I get steady flood warnings about there
Not to many I think bout two this past month
We get severe weather ( 🌪) And blizzard but not floods .
Thanks Seth! I am Switching from a 2 deep to a 1 1/2 per Mr Rodger. My doubles definitely have more bees this spring than the 1 1/2s. Wishing you the Best!
Wishing you the best of luck with that
Is that a gun in your belt? I'm in Queensland I don't think I know anyone who has a gun.
yeah I have to smell burnt gunpowder every so often or I get a little squirrely LOL mainly for snakes in close proximity to the bees and when I'm out fishing
I like the 1.5 hives in 8 frames… If you mate a lot of queens have medium mating nucs made and use brood frames from the .5 to fill the mating nucs!