This brings back memories , my dad was a bee keeper all the years I was growing up , in the fall we would get all the equipment set up in the basement and start bringing in the supers , decapping the frames then in to the extractor, then strain through cheese cloth to filter out small wax particles then into the bottles of different sizes then labeling the bottles , prior to the fall honey harvest we were out every weekend in the bee yards , we had two locations , checking the hives for wax moth and making sure the bees had enough room in there hives , we also removed swarms of bees when they would settle in someones backyard , I've never seen a commercial operation like this , its amazing , thanks .
We plan to make other videos of commercial beekeeping operations. There are a lot of hobbyist beekeeping videos but very few videos detailing commercial operations.
I used to be an employee for a producer in the 1990's. I delivered to bakeries & meat packing co.My best memory was loading and transporting the package bees from Miss. To Mich. to replenish losses from the mites that would kill off large colonies of hives.Enjoyed watching your video , things have really changed.
It is nice to see a wheelchair user in your operation. I am a wheelchair user also. I will now buy all your honey.GOD bless the owner!!! also. Good luck my brother!!
->I will now buy all your honey Thats about 20 tons of honey a day or about $400,000 a day. Sure you can afford that, and eat that much? But seriously, I picked up on the wheelchair too. +1 for Honls.
This man is especially amazing because every state gives handicapped people a complete whiff, that is, they don't have to work if they don't want to. Imagine a free and easy life, but instead, you decide to be a productive human being, helping your fellow mankind. I cannot find words to express my admiration.
hello, I'm a beekeeper in Brazil, I love bees and cough this technology, Congratulations, I have 300 hives today, I hope one day I'll be like you level
@@kubixba4393 there is a buyer in Brazil who buys my produce and from other beekeepers and exports to several countries including the USA. I still can't directly ship, there are a number of sanitary requirements to get FDA, you need power. maybe one day I can. my honey is organic. thanks see you soon.
Great learning video my grandson had to do a school project on honey and he and I learned a lot thank you . It looks like this is a family run business love seeing the young kids working
Thank God for seeing a video about beekeepers who aren't self-proclaimed experts (the hobbyists). There are so many know-it-all hobbyist beekeepers in my region (full of urban, educated yutzes) that when you start talking with them, you can tell it's all about being the glitzsiest "granola Millennial" in the land.
There is nothing worse that a person who has been beekeeping for 1-4 years. They think they know everything and when ting go working it is the fault of someone else. I have been beekeeping for 9 years and have made a considerable investment in beekeeping education and I still always learn something new.
Allah (God) says in the Noble Quran about bees theses Quranic verses: ( And your Lord inspired the bees, saying: "Take you habitations in the mountains and in the trees and in what they erect, Then, eat of all fruits, and follow the ways of your Lord made easy (for you)." There comes forth from their bellies, a drink of varying colour wherein is healing for men. Verily, in this is indeed a sign for people who think).
always fascinating to watch the processing. Never knew how honey was processed and now at least have an inkling. Thank you for sharing this because its so educational.
Nice video! Thank you. Wow! That's a lot of honey being processed each day! I'd also be interested in seeing what this plant does to clean each piece of equipment and the frequency of their cleaning.
thanks for the video! I put in protective tin sheets/panels on the slopes of my wax melter... It keeps the charcol from building up and makes cleaning the dam thing a breeze! If replaced every year also keeps a nice smooth slick surface for all the sludge to slide down.
That is correct. Honeybees are hoarders by nature and when the flow is on they will continue to store honey. That is the reason we place honey supers on top of the brood chamber. If we did not add this extra space, the bees would fill up every available cell, and then some, and the hive would become "honey fast". The queen would have no place to lay and the colony could die or possibly swarm.
Wow that's very cool, thankyou very much for sharing this video. I would really like to make a special mention to the fork operater unloading the twin axle truck at the beginning of this video, absolute perfection and maximum attention to detail that no-one has mentioned in the comments I read. I watched the unloading so carefully and that was the best and most awesome control of a fork I've ever seen. I want to say to that guy, I saw you brother and i think your awesome!! Great job mate. 👏👏👏🤘🤠
Thank you for the effort to make this video. Can I Make sugestion? The text disappears to fast for me and probably others. I had to manage the pause button. Not to much of a deal but I like to watch videos without doing that. Great work!
I think the whole point is that you keep the video shorter because the pause button is so easy to use. Instead of trying to guess the reading speed of you tube users.
We learned a lot thought he process of this video. The problem with timing was trying to video record and stay out of their way. Thanks for the comment.
What a process! You can tell it's family owned by seeing the kids running around. Not many companies allow that unless it's one of the owners sons running around. Then you see the youngin working the machine and it's a dead giveaway! Thanks for sharing what you do and how it's done. Had no idea it was that much work with specialized equipment.
I winced so hard when the first co-owner almost got his hand crushed by the lid of the extractor. Otherwise, super cool video! I bet no one really ever has to wonder who is going to bring the honey for morning tea when you work there. ;)
9:32 What does the "Mood" joystick on the extractor do? The Load, Gates, Engage, Shift, and Brake ones are fairly obvious, but I can't figure out what Mood would be.
i actually wanted to raise bees or keep them, but my husband was against it, so it's in the very far future for me. I have a lot of respect for the beekeepers & went to the beekeepers meetings they have here in my town. I found it very interesting & found the story about the hives that hadn't been tended to for over ten years very interesting. God bless you guys/gals for what you are doing!! ty for the video! Great video!
7:26 Would the honey still be clean with all those flies and moths flying around? I've never seen bug parts inside my honey but I wouldn't be too sure looking at this
They dont they get blended together giving you your general generic honey since the vast majority of this will be from a Sweet Clover and alfalfa. Generally speaking when you see high grade individual honey it's from a smaller producer these guys are sending all of this down to Sue Bee honey probably in Sioux City and they don't really get into the whole different flavors it's just generic honey in a bear.
Some of the comb residue in the slurry from capping looked unnaturally dark as though it was discolored due to excessive age or some hive disorder or disease! Does Honl's source all of the supers it processes in-house and cycle them annually and normally screen frames entering the extraction process? If so why would brood or excessively old or other sub-standard comb get included?
Bloody hell! I had my right one plugged with earphone and left one was free till the end and I started reading the comments once after finished watching the video 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭
Very interesting, in my previous line of business which involves engineering processes of automation it seems there are lots of places and steps that could be improved upon. I love seeing these types of operations utilize automation and up production.
too much automation makes people weak. I need physical work, when comes time to get those boxes from the yard, you need to be fit. especially for that size box. those are back breakers.
Call me stupid but it seems like the extractor is spinning on the wrong axis to extract honey? I'm probably just not getting something though, the small honey extractors I've seen spin the frames on a vertical axis to force honey out of the cells by centrifugal force.
I saw that too. Dang. This operation has all the safety checks turned off, including the fork truck back up beeper. But it seems to me to be reasonable compromises, actually. The girl with the long pony tail scared me too. Hope they don't let her near spinning drive shafts.
Greetings from Russia. We are in shock, the shop is just a class, watch and envy! If not a secret, the cost of equipment for the evacuation of honey or the manufacturer. Good luck to you from me a big like!
I take it the honey lubes the drive chains....if so... what gets the fine metal particles out of the honey and wax slurry???? And if the chaines are oil lubed then what gets the oil AND metal particles out of that wax and honey slurry?? Im ready and waiting to hear this answer!!!
Why did they scrap the original soundtrack? Several times I saw a man talking but no sound came out. How do they make sure that the right frames go back in the right supers and that the right supers to back to the right beekeepers?
The soundtrack had to be omitted at certain intervals due to background noise. In regards to the frames, it does not make any difference which box they go back into and the boxes have proper ownership marking. When they do contract extraction for a 3rd party, the only frames and boxes running through the process are those that belong to the 3rd party so they do not get mixed up with theirs or any other 3rd party equipment.
I don't know if I could really take being so sticky all day!!! That good they start those kids out young learning and teaching how too work for a living
The biggest reality is that your clothes and hair smell like warm honey and wax from working in the honeyhouse for several hours. It's not a gross smell, it's just a unique scent that you can definitely smell in your shirts.
Hi Linda, There is not a video that shows how the bees are removed form the supers prior to harvesting but I can tell you that this bee company uses fume boards to safely drive the bees out of the supers. They use a chemical call butyric acid which is applied in the fume boards. It is a compound found in animal fat, plant oils, bovine milk, breastmilk, human body odor, vomit, and parmesan cheese. It smells pretty bad the bees will move out of the supers to avoid the fumes. It is harmless when properly used.
Wow! I have a couple of questions 1. Are these your own beehives you are extracting? 2. Can or do others contact you to do their hives? 3. What has happened to the bees that were with these hives? Thank you for showing how this is done in massive form!
Great video. Those girls (or anyone) with long hair, especially in ponytails, NEED to have their hair pinned up and under a cap. Everyone should have their shirts tucked in their pants and probably no long sleeves (around all that equipment and moving parts). I live in Indiana and I worked in a plant and we lost a friend because of some stupid freak accident that no one foresaw or expected. When you see someone you love die,. Have an outside professional safety guy go thru your plant and make suggestions. You don't want to live thru what we did and especially since it is family because it looks like you have a really good family there.
Good video, thanks for sharing it. I thought it was interesting you weren't using IBCs. No idea what those "tote" things are, but a similar operation down here would use IBCs to the packer
That's not a honey extractor (as clearly shown in the video with text on screen!) -- that's the heating of wax cappings to separate the pure beeswax (the yellow bin) from the moisture and impurities/honey traces in the other bin (that's all watery and foamy/stinky. "Healthiness" of the capping residues inside is completely irrelevant -- this isn't the honey we eat -- it's all about rendering BEESWAX.
That may be a commercial operation but there is a whole lot of family resemblance on that line! Seeing the operator in the wheelchair was pretty exciting as I can take care of my bees now but am soon going to be full time in a chair. It’s good to know that life goes on.
On a commercial scale this business is on a medium level. So it's not that huge in terms of processing power. It's when you've got 10k and more of behives that's when you got some serious juice.
My Father Berna Johnston was the President of the National Honey Producers Association for 7 years. We live in New Mexico. He was good friends of the Smoots who I believe live in Minesota also. We had a large production business here as well. I spent many days along with my siblings extracting and going to the beeyards.
I wish I could just get raw honey in the comb, shredded and put in a jar just like that...All I can find is when they put just a piece of comb in the jar and add honey....is there something wrong with eating honey like that? Been doing it all my life but just wondering abut regulations.
What you are referring to is comb or chunk honey. It is produced by small beekeeping operations due to the labor and bee resources that are required to produce it. There is nothing wrong with comb honey, just difficult to produce. The commercial beekeepers are focused on liquid honey.
I'm not understanding the hate for the video. Want to know why they look miserable? Because they are clearly teenagers or young adults who were told to by their parents. It states at the beginning that it's a family owned operation and while the adults (who look at least content, some clearly happy) are harder to compare, the youngsters all look like cousins
Brian Dressel anything is a factory job at mass scale genius what makes bee keeping fun is doing the whole process your self not the act of just saying words makes anything true
God bless the bees. God bless all of you that work together in making a priceless product in my own humble estimation! Owning your own company is hard hard work!
Just one question: who uses that much honey at once? Except for a mead still I am drawing a blank for anything that uses that much honey. I feel like it would be a sweeter alternative to corn syrup but in the commercial world there's just no competition.
Approximately 128 million pounds of honey are produced domestically in the US but the demand is in excess of 250 million pounds per year. Honey is used in all kinds of food products. Check your labels, especially all in the health food section of your grocery store.
@@ccapiariesllc1297 Thanks I was a little concerned when all I saw was the boxes being processed and not the process of removing the honey without harming or disturbing the brood . thanks
Tell me please.! What is the difference between homogenized honey in barrels and honey after honey extraction !? Which honey is healthier? Have studies been conducted on changes in the biological structure of honey after homogenization? Please give a professional answer? Hello from Ukraine!!!
The bees are driven out using fume boards prior to removal of the honey super from the hive. There are always a few stragglers but the majority of bees remain in the colony.
Do your employees know the good they are doing??? I used to take shots for my allergies. Now I take 2-3 tablespoons of honey 3 times a day. Helps me tremendously! Might not help everybody but has helped me and several of my friends that I have told.
Please don’t attack me but why is honey so expensive if they produce so much? I know there are big cost to actually processesing it but it’s like $4 for a small bottle of honey
Supers are best if they are only loaded with 8-9 frames. This deliberately violates bee space causing the bees to draw the wax out further to hold more honey. It make the frame easier to uncap especially when automated equipment is used.
The bees are driven down into the brood chambers by use of a fume board. It uses a harmless chemical (butyric acid, used in parmesan cheese) that the bees do not like so they vacate the honey supers. They aren't moved to another colony.
@@paulgibson1032 They do though. Harvested honey supers are surplus for them and often an empty super(s) are replaced on the hives after taking the full ones. They have plenty of room.
if you watch the video properly you'll see that the co-owner is in a wheelchair and has no choice but to sit, and he is shown later on running the extraction centrifuge
I'm confused this is meant to be a Minnesota Honey Producers Association honey enterprise, but I see trucks bringing in Honey from California - Pollination & Farming, Kerman CA what gives ?
This brings back memories , my dad was a bee keeper all the years I was growing up , in the fall we would get all the equipment set up in the basement and start bringing in the supers , decapping the frames then in to the extractor, then strain through cheese cloth to filter out small wax particles then into the bottles of different sizes then labeling the bottles , prior to the fall honey harvest we were out every weekend in the bee yards , we had two locations , checking the hives for wax moth and making sure the bees had enough room in there hives , we also removed swarms of bees when they would settle in someones backyard , I've never seen a commercial operation like this , its amazing , thanks .
You a very welcome
The next video will be filmed in March in southern Mississippi. It will show a commercial queen rearing operation owned by one of the MHPA members.
We plan to make other videos of commercial beekeeping operations. There are a lot of hobbyist beekeeping videos but very few videos detailing commercial operations.
so how would they learn if they have to learn first? It sound like - I want someone with experience, how do you get experience - BY DOING IT.
Everyone's a critic. Smh
I used to be an employee for a producer in the 1990's. I delivered to bakeries & meat packing co.My best memory was loading and transporting the package bees from Miss. To Mich. to replenish losses from the mites that would kill off large colonies of hives.Enjoyed watching your video , things have really changed.
Varroa is still a big problem for overwintering.
It is nice to see a wheelchair user in your operation. I am a wheelchair user also. I will now buy all your honey.GOD bless the owner!!! also. Good luck my brother!!
->I will now buy all your honey
Thats about 20 tons of honey a day or about $400,000 a day. Sure you can afford that, and eat that much?
But seriously, I picked up on the wheelchair too. +1 for Honls.
I also was impressed, very few companies think about giving people a chance. This man is amazing
This man is especially amazing because every state gives handicapped people a complete whiff, that is, they don't have to work if they don't want to. Imagine a free and easy life, but instead, you decide to be a productive human being, helping your fellow mankind.
I cannot find words to express my admiration.
Was watching the video thinking about what I could do there from my wheelchair. Then, voila, I was shown. Great video!❤
I feel like it would be a worthwhile investment to paint the forklifts to look like bees.
That would be a good idea 😁
And maybe individual bee mascots as work attire.
and for good measure, they should call the operator of said forklift 'Buzz'
@@aap71 And when they get robots to take over the jobs formerly performed by humans, they'll call them "drones". hehe
How would that be a "good investment" ?? 😂😂
hello, I'm a beekeeper in Brazil, I love bees and cough this technology, Congratulations, I have 300 hives today, I hope one day I'll be like you level
Do you also export the honey in barrels to EU?
Hallo brasil
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@@kubixba4393 there is a buyer in Brazil who buys my produce and from other beekeepers and exports to several countries including the USA. I still can't directly ship, there are a number of sanitary requirements to get FDA, you need power. maybe one day I can. my honey is organic. thanks see you soon.
@@pcelarstvohabibovic hello !🐝
Post videos of your beekeeping methods if you can.
Great learning video my grandson had to do a school project on honey and he and I learned a lot thank you . It looks like this is a family run business love seeing the young kids working
Thank God for seeing a video about beekeepers who aren't self-proclaimed experts (the hobbyists). There are so many know-it-all hobbyist beekeepers in my region (full of urban, educated yutzes) that when you start talking with them, you can tell it's all about being the glitzsiest "granola Millennial" in the land.
There is nothing worse that a person who has been beekeeping for 1-4 years. They think they know everything and when ting go working it is the fault of someone else. I have been beekeeping for 9 years and have made a considerable investment in beekeeping education and I still always learn something new.
I feel like anything you touch in that building would be sticky.
No, it is kept very clean.
Sticky as the floor in an “adult” theater.
This business will definitely have to have.. A good Floor drainage System.... Also A commercial hot water Pressure washer.. Have a great day
Allah (God) says in the Noble Quran about bees theses Quranic verses: ( And your Lord inspired the bees, saying: "Take you habitations in the mountains and in the trees and in what they erect, Then, eat of all fruits, and follow the ways of your Lord made easy (for you)." There comes forth from their bellies, a drink of varying colour wherein is healing for men. Verily, in this is indeed a sign for people who think).
always fascinating to watch the processing. Never knew how honey was processed and now at least have an inkling. Thank you for sharing this because its so educational.
Nice video! Thank you.
Wow! That's a lot of honey being processed each day! I'd also be interested in seeing what this plant does to clean each piece of equipment and the frequency of their cleaning.
Cleaning is done everyday use steam and hot water.
... and the steam and hot water washdown is packaged and sold to Wal-Mart as "honey". 😂
thanks for the video! I put in protective tin sheets/panels on the slopes of my wax melter... It keeps the charcol from building up and makes cleaning the dam thing a breeze! If replaced every year also keeps a nice smooth slick surface for all the sludge to slide down.
You guys are amazing. Can't imagine the amount of work if everything has to be done entirely manual.
What amazes me is the fact that the honey they have here is basically surplus. The bees do NOT need this much, but store excess anyway.
That is correct. Honeybees are hoarders by nature and when the flow is on they will continue to store honey. That is the reason we place honey supers on top of the brood chamber. If we did not add this extra space, the bees would fill up every available cell, and then some, and the hive would become "honey fast". The queen would have no place to lay and the colony could die or possibly swarm.
Wow that's very cool, thankyou very much for sharing this video. I would really like to make a special mention to the fork operater unloading the twin axle truck at the beginning of this video, absolute perfection and maximum attention to detail that no-one has mentioned in the comments I read. I watched the unloading so carefully and that was the best and most awesome control of a fork I've ever seen. I want to say to that guy, I saw you brother and i think your awesome!! Great job mate. 👏👏👏🤘🤠
Wheelchair guy is the man. I'm a t12 para since 08 and would love to work at a honey operation like this.
rookie question - where do the bees go/stay when their hives are being processed?
They stay in their original hive.
Only surplus boxes of honey are taken off each hive.
Very interesting video. This is the first footage I've seen of a major commercial-scale operation in this industry.
Thank you for the effort to make this video. Can I Make sugestion? The text disappears to fast for me and probably others. I had to manage the pause button. Not to much of a deal but I like to watch videos without doing that. Great work!
Thanks for the input. This was our first production and the learning curve was quite steep.
I think the whole point is that you keep the video shorter because the pause button is so easy to use. Instead of trying to guess the reading speed of you tube users.
@Will Roberts That is a rude statement. Different people read at different speeds. Set your playback to whatever speed works for you and your devices.
@Will Roberts Well said.
We learned a lot thought he process of this video. The problem with timing was trying to video record and stay out of their way. Thanks for the comment.
What a process! You can tell it's family owned by seeing the kids running around. Not many companies allow that unless it's one of the owners sons running around. Then you see the youngin working the machine and it's a dead giveaway! Thanks for sharing what you do and how it's done. Had no idea it was that much work with specialized equipment.
Thank you
That's like working in chocolate factory, you get home and you don't want nothing to do with it, you smell it, you feel it, and you taste it all day.
Fascinating I never really thought about how honey was extracted in large scales!
I winced so hard when the first co-owner almost got his hand crushed by the lid of the extractor. Otherwise, super cool video! I bet no one really ever has to wonder who is going to bring the honey for morning tea when you work there. ;)
9:32 What does the "Mood" joystick on the extractor do? The Load, Gates, Engage, Shift, and Brake ones are fairly obvious, but I can't figure out what Mood would be.
That john cena brother... guy in the wheel chair
Are you sure or just some butthurt dude?!
JOHN CENA!!!
@rizzo69ca Agreed, that was just uncalled for. Man in a wheel chair and shows how cold-hearted soo many people in this world is.
@@j.cephas584 being crippled doesn't preclude you from having someone say you look like someone else. Jiminy Christmas.
@@davereeves1967 ikr why take it as an insult.
i actually wanted to raise bees or keep them, but my husband was against it, so it's in the very far future for me. I have a lot of respect for the beekeepers & went to the beekeepers meetings they have here in my town. I found it very interesting & found the story about the hives that hadn't been tended to for over ten years very interesting. God bless you guys/gals for what you are doing!! ty for the video! Great video!
Thank you
Tell your husband to get bent and raise they anyway.
I'm a four-hive twenty acre beekeeper in central....this is VERY impressive , thanks!!!
How confused are those bees that came along for the ride?
Why aren't they wearing gloves?
Liz P why should they?
Bees also aren’t wearing gloves. And honey is just nectar that a bee spit out and is concentrated.
@@noudlindeman1931 Thanks a lot. Now, I'm never eating honey again.
Dave Depilot honey is 80+% sugar, which makes it sterile because nothing can survive in such a high concentration of sugar
7:26
Would the honey still be clean with all those flies and moths flying around?
I've never seen bug parts inside my honey but I wouldn't be too sure looking at this
Man, it's really really really amazing... I've never seen this before.
Some of the comb appears almost black, like at 6:08. Is that just older comb? Or do certain plants cause bees to make darker comb?
They just get dirty over time.
A simple voice over describing the closed caption text would have made a very good video much better.
This was our first video and we learned a lot. Thank you for the comment.
@@ccapiariesllc1297 hey if you need a voice over, I've got the announcer voice and I can do it for you. 😁
C&C Apiaries, LLC Your video was fine!
How do you keep track of the different flavors of honey, since bees get pollen from different flowers?
They dont they get blended together giving you your general generic honey since the vast majority of this will be from a Sweet Clover and alfalfa. Generally speaking when you see high grade individual honey it's from a smaller producer these guys are sending all of this down to Sue Bee honey probably in Sioux City and they don't really get into the whole different flavors it's just generic honey in a bear.
wow, in one day you guys can produce enough honey to hold me over for two whole days!
Some of the comb residue in the slurry from capping looked unnaturally dark as though it was discolored due to excessive age or some hive disorder or disease!
Does Honl's source all of the supers it processes in-house and cycle them annually and normally screen frames entering the extraction process?
If so why would brood or excessively old or other sub-standard comb get included?
My left ear really enjoyed the video
Bloody hell! I had my right one plugged with earphone and left one was free till the end and I started reading the comments once after finished watching the video 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭
Thank you
Dang it, I had the wrong ear bud placed in my ear apparently. Ugh...
When that happens, just slightly pull the earphone jack about 1/16". I don't know why this happens sometimes but it worked for me with this video.
@@DavesTreeFarm Well I'm using wireless headphones, so I can't do that. It was just the quality of the video in some portions. Weird.
Very interesting, in my previous line of business which involves engineering processes of automation it seems there are lots of places and steps that could be improved upon. I love seeing these types of operations utilize automation and up production.
too much automation makes people weak. I need physical work, when comes time to get those boxes from the yard, you need to be fit. especially for that size box. those are back breakers.
I watch subbed anime so reading lots of text fast comes with the territory but it was quite fast for these big blocks of text.
Call me stupid but it seems like the extractor is spinning on the wrong axis to extract honey? I'm probably just not getting something though, the small honey extractors I've seen spin the frames on a vertical axis to force honey out of the cells by centrifugal force.
9:04 my guy almost lost his fingers.
For real his ass already can’t walk 🤣🤣😭
I saw that too. Dang. This operation has all the safety checks turned off, including the fork truck back up beeper. But it seems to me to be reasonable compromises, actually. The girl with the long pony tail scared me too. Hope they don't let her near spinning drive shafts.
It looked like there was debris and the odd bee in the mix in the beginning. How do they clear out the impurities?
Greetings from Russia. We are in shock, the shop is just a class, watch and envy! If not a secret, the cost of equipment for the evacuation of honey or the manufacturer. Good luck to you from me a big like!
I am sorry but the investment in equipment is confidential.
And contacts of the firm, its name and address?
Contact Rand or Bert Honl, Honl's Bees Inc., 100 South Main Street, Winthrop, MN 55396 +1 (507) 647-2545.
Thank You! Let's wait for new video!
Just a random guess of at least a million
I take it the honey lubes the drive chains....if so... what gets the fine metal particles out of the honey and wax slurry???? And if the chaines are oil lubed then what gets the oil AND metal particles out of that wax and honey slurry?? Im ready and waiting to hear this answer!!!
The chains are made of food grade stainless steel and lubricated with food grade lubricants if required.
Please start recording in stereo, I can't watch this with a headset in 1 ear.
Why did they scrap the original soundtrack? Several times I saw a man talking but no sound came out.
How do they make sure that the right frames go back in the right supers and that the right supers to back to the right beekeepers?
The soundtrack had to be omitted at certain intervals due to background noise. In regards to the frames, it does not make any difference which box they go back into and the boxes have proper ownership marking. When they do contract extraction for a 3rd party, the only frames and boxes running through the process are those that belong to the 3rd party so they do not get mixed up with theirs or any other 3rd party equipment.
I don't know if I could really take being so sticky all day!!! That good they start those kids out young learning and teaching how too work for a living
The biggest reality is that your clothes and hair smell like warm honey and wax from working in the honeyhouse for several hours. It's not a gross smell, it's just a unique scent that you can definitely smell in your shirts.
@@brynnkohler4084 yay make money working in the factory and save money not needing deodorant due to all the honey.
Honey is one of the best skin treatments you can use.
Tommy 2Guns and hopefully money management
I agree its great putting youngsters into work so they can start earning a living and keeping away from drugs and crime
Beginner question. Is there a part one that shows what happens to the bees when they remove the hives?
Hi Linda, There is not a video that shows how the bees are removed form the supers prior to harvesting but I can tell you that this bee company uses fume boards to safely drive the bees out of the supers. They use a chemical call butyric acid which is applied in the fume boards. It is a compound found in animal fat, plant oils, bovine milk, breastmilk, human body odor, vomit, and parmesan cheese. It smells pretty bad the bees will move out of the supers to avoid the fumes. It is harmless when properly used.
Don't forget to NOT call me when it's time to clean the equipment and floors. : )
have no idea how this came on my feed, but love to learn and love that the family all involved.
I've watched this before and enjoyed watching it again!
Wow! I have a couple of questions
1. Are these your own beehives you are extracting?
2. Can or do others contact you to do their hives?
3. What has happened to the bees that were with these hives?
Thank you for showing how this is done in massive form!
Oh one more question... Where can I get some of that honey? ✌️❤️😎🐝🐝🐝
They do contract extraction for other beekeepers. However the volume must be enough o warrant running the size of an operation.
How very interesting to see how it is all done. Thanks for sharing this video (am seeing it for the first time - 9/30/18).
Honest question: how does 55 gallon barrel at 660 lbs. (12 lbs per gallon) turn into 3300 lbs. in the 235 gallon totes when 235x12=2820?
Great video. Those girls (or anyone) with long hair, especially in ponytails, NEED to have their hair pinned up and under a cap. Everyone should have their shirts tucked in their pants and probably no long sleeves (around all that equipment and moving parts). I live in Indiana and I worked in a plant and we lost a friend because of some stupid freak accident that no one foresaw or expected. When you see someone you love die,. Have an outside professional safety guy go thru your plant and make suggestions. You don't want to live thru what we did and especially since it is family because it looks like you have a really good family there.
Good video, thanks for sharing it.
I thought it was interesting you weren't using IBCs. No idea what those "tote" things are, but a similar operation down here would use IBCs to the packer
Great video, Thank you so much for letting me watch your operation. it was very nice .
That extractor machine at 12:30 looks filthy when you open it, is that healthy ??
That's not a honey extractor (as clearly shown in the video with text on screen!) -- that's the heating of wax cappings to separate the pure beeswax (the yellow bin) from the moisture and impurities/honey traces in the other bin (that's all watery and foamy/stinky. "Healthiness" of the capping residues inside is completely irrelevant -- this isn't the honey we eat -- it's all about rendering BEESWAX.
What a sticky job. Must be a job cleaning those machines. I love honey
jaqua2 _99 sticky and looks like are workers are just scraping by
They use steam and hot water to clean the equipment. This easily removes wax and honey.
How do they get the bees out of the supers when they're collecting them?
they probably use a wind blower
i dont know why im here but im happy i am. thank you for the video and informaiton!
That may be a commercial operation but there is a whole lot of family resemblance on that line! Seeing the operator in the wheelchair was pretty exciting as I can take care of my bees now but am soon going to be full time in a chair. It’s good to know that life goes on.
29tonnes of shifting and lifting between 2/3 persons a day? ARE YOU MAD!
On a commercial scale this business is on a medium level. So it's not that huge in terms of processing power. It's when you've got 10k and more of behives that's when you got some serious juice.
I was told to keep honey at no more than 75 degrees or the natural properties of the raw honey will die. Is this true?
My left ear enjoyed the video a lot xD
My Father Berna Johnston was the President of the National Honey Producers Association for 7 years. We live in New Mexico. He was good friends of the Smoots who I believe live in Minesota also. We had a large production business here as well. I spent many days along with my siblings extracting and going to the beeyards.
I thought this was a weed extraction video 🤣
I'll watch anyways !🙌🏼awesome little bugs
I wish I could just get raw honey in the comb, shredded and put in a jar just like that...All I can find is when they put just a piece of comb in the jar and add honey....is there something wrong with eating honey like that? Been doing it all my life but just wondering abut regulations.
What you are referring to is comb or chunk honey. It is produced by small beekeeping operations due to the labor and bee resources that are required to produce it. There is nothing wrong with comb honey, just difficult to produce. The commercial beekeepers are focused on liquid honey.
I’d be absolutely miserable doing this. Takes a fun experience of bee keeping and turns it into just another factory job.
which is what makes honey affordable and available for more people though
I'm not understanding the hate for the video. Want to know why they look miserable? Because they are clearly teenagers or young adults who were told to by their parents. It states at the beginning that it's a family owned operation and while the adults (who look at least content, some clearly happy) are harder to compare, the youngsters all look like cousins
Even private bee keepers in Germany sell sometimes 500 grams honey for 3.5$. Not very steep.
Brian Dressel anything is a factory job at mass scale genius what makes bee keeping fun is doing the whole process your self not the act of just saying words makes anything true
I'd do it. Doesn't seem like an everyday thing.
God bless the bees. God bless all of you that work together in making a priceless product in my own humble estimation! Owning your own company is hard hard work!
That factory's injury central jesus christ. Especially with all the kids working machines with exposed chains, belts, etc leaning in to scrape stuff.
Apparently you’ve never been in a food processing plant
How Do you ensure that each beekeeper gets his own supers and frames back?
These all belong to this operation.
Oh.... we are gonna have ants....!!!!! 🤣😂
Not an issue. The floor is kept wet to prevent wax and honey build-up and is pressure washed every day.
I think hog was just joking. It's also a reference to a tv show line.
Handyman's secret weapon Hehe, a Family Guy fan also? Lol
I assume that after collecting the bee hives, you replace them with others so the bees have somewhere to come home to ?
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Your point being?
Just one question: who uses that much honey at once? Except for a mead still I am drawing a blank for anything that uses that much honey. I feel like it would be a sweeter alternative to corn syrup but in the commercial world there's just no competition.
Approximately 128 million pounds of honey are produced domestically in the US but the demand is in excess of 250 million pounds per year. Honey is used in all kinds of food products. Check your labels, especially all in the health food section of your grocery store.
At 12:51. Unless you buy this stuff, it’s none of your bees wax. 😂😂
What happens to all those Bees when you collect those boxes intact ?
They are forced out of the supers using fume boards and they stay with the hive.
@@ccapiariesllc1297 Thanks I was a little concerned when all I saw was the boxes being processed and not the process of removing the honey without harming or disturbing the brood . thanks
Tell me please.! What is the difference between homogenized honey in barrels and honey after honey extraction !? Which honey is healthier? Have studies been conducted on changes in the biological structure of honey after homogenization? Please give a professional answer? Hello from Ukraine!!!
Where was the ESD mounted on the uncapper with the chain drive. Possible for a hand to enter.
How do you guys keep the bees out of the hot room? I’m sure there are stragglers, but there seems to be none in there.
The bees are driven out of the supers in the field using fume boards.
Dirty job or sticky rather but does the chains have oil on them that the honey comes in contact with?
Food Grade Lubricants are used on all moving parts.
N o steem cleaning of frames and boxes .. how d o you guys cope with the veroa parasite?
Put the wet empties back in the field and the bees will clean them up good.
I'd like to know, what happens to the bees while the frames are being processed?
The bees are driven out using fume boards prior to removal of the honey super from the hive. There are always a few stragglers but the majority of bees remain in the colony.
Do your employees know the good they are doing??? I used to take shots for my allergies. Now I take 2-3 tablespoons of honey 3 times a day. Helps me tremendously! Might not help everybody but has helped me and several of my friends that I have told.
Would like to know how they get all the bees out of the boxes. I've never been fully successful at this.
Does ( Honls Bees, Inc.) have website?
Do they export out US ?
What part of mn you from i grew up in a little town called swan river mn about 20 miles from grand rapids
Please don’t attack me but why is honey so expensive if they produce so much? I know there are big cost to actually processesing it but it’s like $4 for a small bottle of honey
How much does such a factory cost ? and is it possible to visit you guys to gain more knowledge about the business?
You can list the Honls' facility. You would have to ask them about the cost if they are willing to share that information.
Why only eight frames per each super? Even Dadant is known to me as equipped with at least 10, if not up to 12 frames.
Supers are best if they are only loaded with 8-9 frames. This deliberately violates bee space causing the bees to draw the wax out further to hold more honey. It make the frame easier to uncap especially when automated equipment is used.
Do they ever wash these frames? This is very nice of them to let us see this process.
I'm mesmerised by the whole operation, who is the manufacturer of your equipment?
I don't want to sound negative, but this production is lacking basic food safety procedures...
Watch the whole video, moron.
What happened to all the bees? Were relocated to new hives?
The bees are driven down into the brood chambers by use of a fume board. It uses a harmless chemical (butyric acid, used in parmesan cheese) that the bees do not like so they vacate the honey supers. They aren't moved to another colony.
@@ccapiariesllc1297 I can't imagine how all the bees displaced from the supers would fit in the brood boxes.
@@paulgibson1032 They do though. Harvested honey supers are surplus for them and often an empty super(s) are replaced on the hives after taking the full ones. They have plenty of room.
Can you put the weight and temp to celcius degrees also?
Also does the 'co-owner' just sit there all day, watching the workers? He should help also. 10:11 Child labour got caught on camera. Hehe
if you watch the video properly you'll see that the co-owner is in a wheelchair and has no choice but to sit, and he is shown later on running the extraction centrifuge
@@spaaggetii did you not see the wheels? Marroon
I'm confused this is meant to be a Minnesota Honey Producers Association honey enterprise, but I see trucks bringing in Honey from California - Pollination & Farming, Kerman CA what gives ?
Do you have to clean those machines every day?