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It wasn't mine, I wouldn't own one. And I will never agree to work on another one.

So how many colonies do you manage exactly? How long have you been a beekeeper that specializes in aggressive bees? I've been doing this just shy of 10 years, and manage 150-200 colonies at any given time. ALL of the colonies I manage are wild bred. "It is better to be thought an idiot, than to open your mouth and prove it." Here we are just shy of 2 weeks later and this colony is now calm enough to mow the grass on a gas powered zero turn without setting them off. Tell me again how giving bees in a honey bound hive doesn't give them so.ethi g to do besides guard duty...

Yeah that was a pretty aggressive colony for sure.

How close is it? Do you know how far it is from the 60mph highway in the background? Always has to be a know it all Karen polluting the comment section.

It's a crap shoot with chicom products. You just have to hope the slave worker running the machine that made it wasn't contemplating self deleting on that day. I will not purchase ANY products from China personally on not only a quality control standpoint... but out of morality and common human decency.

not trying to kill them...

Yes, I specialize in the spicy south texas wild variety. All my bees are from swarm collections and live removals. Some are spicier than others but nearly all are too spicy to work with unprotected.

This is typical of wild bred colonies in this area. Doubly so when the colony is honey bound. I am going to requeen this hive. I like my bees a little spicy, as the more docile they are... the more suseptible they become to small hive beetle and wax moth infiltration.

The size of the smudge pot is adequate... the issue was me experimenting with a new fuel for it. Normally I use pine straw to start it up then fill with dry manure. These wood chips will serve as a good replacement for the pine straw but need to use a longer smoldering fuel for the actual smoke production. It just gets tiresome to stink like manure smoke every time I have to fire up a smudge pot lol.

@@OccultEngineering I was actually being sarcastic with my comment .My understanding about using smoke while working bee hives is that it triggers a survival response to a forest fire causing them to be directed to filling up with honey in case the hive catches fire thus redirecting their focus from the bee keeper . That is my personal experience with working with bees for 5 years and 150 hives . Hoping a walk away split will create a calmer gene line with emergency cells and wild drones( who very well may have african genes themselves ) is a gamble . Please give us a follow up with that hive after your experiment .

@stevoklopping I have just under 10 years under my belt as a keeper/removal specialist working with these spicy south texas bees. I studied under Dr Cary Voss of Victoria during my apprenticeship. At one point we were running up to 250 Tanzanian top bar hives between several apiaries in Victoria county, the largest non commercial outfit in the region. I just returned to South Texas after spending 5 years in the middle of the Chattahoochee National forest in the North Georgia mountains and decided to run langstroth and variants here at my folks place when I dipped my toes back in the honey water. I am yet undecided if I want to try walk away, or if I want to graft brood frames from a gentler gene... or just straight buy a lab bred queen from beeweaver. It is an experiment for sure. I'd like this colony to maintain some of the behavioral traits our spicy variety carry in this region, while calming them down a bit so my pops can mow the lawn without a bee suit on. Our spicy natured bees do some interesting things beyond prolific population and honey production... they actually physically remove small hive beetles from the hive and play "bouncer" to wax moths which both plague colonies down here much worse than northern varieties. We don't typically worry about v.destructor down here. You are entirely correct about typical smoke response behavior but I'd add the end result of blocking pheromone receptors thereby limiting the colony's ability to coordinate an attack. I will shoot update videos with this hive and I'm getting better about setting up cameras for removals and swarm captures, and will be sifting through countless hours of video from before I went to Georgia of interesting bee behavior. I did not intend for my response to seem condescending, I have trouble comprehending sarcasm being "on the spectrum". Life can be challenging as a puzzle piece sometimes. I appreciate you for watching and commenting. I still don't understand why my little nothing of a channel is growing, but if anything I upload helps someone in some way, I think it makes it worth the effort.

It is possible. Try draining the old fuel, fill with fresh fuel... and maybe try adding some Bluw Star "Star Tron" fuel enzyme additive. It does not take a whole bottle, 1 bottle treats 48 gallons of fuel.

@@OccultEngineering there was just a little bit of old fuel I think, because the light was ON, then I added like 5qts of fresh Plus fuel. I'll try to let it idle for an hour tomorrow. Also I'll check the air filter. Thanks!

Not in this colony. They landed on those water pipes mid morning, and I collected them around 3:30pm. Very doubtful they would have anchored in that spot to draw comb, was just lucky enough to get to them before any scout bees came back with news of a good location to call home.

This colony has been in that wall for about 2 years. Excellent disposition and very productive with a large population. The plan is to split this colony and try making new queens to requeen some of the more aggressive colonies in the apiaries.

Still need to find a replacement tank.. but one step closer now at least lol

Did you watch the whole video? I don't think you watched the whole video...

I knew it had a fuel pump issue, but wasn't expecting a tank full of rust. Gonna try high concentration vinegar, then osfo, then por15. So far no sign of rust down in the fuel lines outside of the tank so I may have dodged the bullet of having to pull and flush the injectors.

It's a slow painstaking process. 2 steps forward, 3 steps back... at least it's good exposure to absolute chaos to force me to deal with my ocd.

Yes the old Ford tractor is alive again and dug out of the trash pile it was slumbering under. Capone is half pit and half Boxer. Both halves are 100% spoiled rotten 😆 🤣

@@OccultEngineering lol 🐶 it’s the only way, mans best friend.

It is purpose built as a long lang for frames. Top bars will work with it but that is not the intention... just a byproduct and a convenience to be able to get a cut out colony started in it.

Sometimes life has bigger priorities. This bike was originally purchased by a medical doctor in Italy where he lived and toured Europe with it. He had it shipped to the u.s. in the state of Montana when he moved here, then apparently got bored with it so it just sat. At some point he became friends with my friend and beekeeping mentor and flat out gave him the bike. My friend is not so mechanically inclined and it was nor high on the list of priorities. Life happens.

Damn you do like the random videos lol. That stove is one of the things I miss the most about that 200ish year old log cabin on the side of a mountain... I refurbished it after finding it outside. It was being used to burn trash... it was a lot of elbow grease to bring it back to life but it kept me warm, and made the best cornbread I ever had.

They seem to like the space between 2x4's in the walls of uninsulated houses.