Amazing how that machine works. Revenue made from honey extracted from the wax. Also the wax blocks. Your friend owes you more than a bottle or two of mead.
thanks so much for the info Ian I am in my second year and just pulled 25 pounds, made 7 splits that look great, your productions have helped me time and time again. Instead of giving the cappings directly to the bees I will put them into paint strainer bags and spin them, because you have clearly demonstrated just how much honey is left to harvest there.
That was just way too cool. It is amazing how much honey and wax was recovered from the toppings. Any serious bee keeper should have such a machine. It is worth it's weight in golden honey.
What an ingenious machine! Thanks for the great instructional video of how it's done in the real world. Every time I watch you harvest your hives I'm also awed at how much wax those little guys make each year to encapsulate their honey stores, they sure know what they're about. Thanks.
It's nice you did this for your fellow beekeeper. At least now he can see the benefit of the wax melter, maybe a smaller one, but the benefits are obvious. A bottle of mead is cheap but I'm sure you got help and advice from someone as you were getting bigger in the business. Good video of the whole operation. Thanks
Absolutely, and completely fascinating. No wonder you have 200,000 views. What I found most interesting is though you are dealing with large weights of honey and wax you still treat the products gently, and your machinery with such care and patience. The world be a better place if we had more artisans / craftsmen / businessmen like you.
Hello Ian. Our latest purchase is a junior cappings spinner. We have several buckets ready to be processed. We only have 50 hives but as our operation grows so does our need for simplicity and effectiveness. I just had open heart surgery so I havent put the cappings spinner to work yet but I'm doing fantastic and hopefully the boss will let me process our honey/cappings next week with her help of course.
We are headed into Spring here in Chile and I am so happy that I do not have to deal with snow or ice. Just cool and wet here in the winter. This was rendering is awesome. Hard good work. Thanks Jim in Chile.
Wow! This is so interesting! Thank you for sharing this process, your friend is very lucky you were willing to try this. A lot to be learned from this .
That is amazing, great job and great machine! Bottle of Mead wine is well deserved, also helping out a fellow beekeeper. Thanks for sharing, also that close up of the honey/wax layer when you were pouring was very helpful.
I wholeheartedly agree.. I found it extremely an an eye-opening experience of all the Lost honey revenue.. I'm sure that stainless steel melder is expensivebut I can also see where it wouldn't be too long and it would pay for itself....
What do you do with you "slum"? Is it good to put in the compost bin? Dose the garden like that? Do you know what kind of plants would do better with it? Would worms like it? So many questions sorry.
It usually has enough wax left in it that it can be pressed into shapes, which can be used as excellent fire starters. Considering it's composed of all the crap left on the bees' "feet" as they come crawling into the hive, it's probably mostly organic matter, so yeah, it'd probably be okay to put in the compost, too.
Great video, thanks. It’s all these details that we don’t think about and how much honey beekeepers loose/waist. Makes me think I should reinvest differently.
You need to put that melter on a pallet or something so you can lift it on your forklift, that way you don’t have to crouch all that time working the tap.
Hello i was wondering what you do with the slum. i find your videos fascinating. i'm in Perth Western Australia the weather conditions you have to contend with are quite amazing. Very informative and interesting great work.
Hey Justin... I was thinking that too... I mean there is an external clear tube but it just shows the level of the heating water. Plus even if you could see inside, you'd be going through two layers of metal and then heating water. Still love the concept though of being able to see whats inside. Looks like OP monitors by the way he heats and then pours material off.
@@ceruleanfish6703 my thought process was a strip about 2 inches wide of heat resistant acrylic or glass, hell could even use 2 layers so the water can go all around it, have the acrylic or glass beside the tap so you can see the level of where the honey is and where the wax begins.
Just a thought: what would happen when you let the whole batch cool down so that the wax gets hard again while the honey would still be able to flow? This way you cloud easily separate honey from wax. Afterwards you would need to heat it up again to cook the wax. This would take some extra time
@@svenweihusen57 Exactly, it would take extra time. Seeing how this is a money-oriented process, he won't. This recovered honey is clearly not as first-class as one straight from the centrifugal extractor.
That was outstanding Ian!! When you did the first video on the wax melter with very little narration, I was a bit confused in the process. With this video you showed us exactly how the wax melter works! With my 2 first year hives and 30lbs of extracted honey, I could easily see how much honey was left in the cappings! After straining the cappings for a couple of weeks, I had about 3 more lbs of honey!
So, if you hadn’t been there to help him, all that recovered honey would have gone to waste? He’s lucky to have a friend like you. He needs to take steps before next year if yields will run consistently high like this one. Good job 😎👍👏
Maybe some of the smaller beekeeping operators can come together to form a consortium, pool their money, choose the member with the most space and buy the equipment needed and share the proceeds from the extracted honey equally.
i happily did this exact thing all winter, very small scale using a slow cooker, with several big buckets of cappings that a local beekeeper gave me- they usually threw them away. got a cupboard full of beautiful raw honey, and made the rendered wax into a zillion one ounce cubes. was the most satisfying, even theraputic thing way i had ever passed a cold winter in my life. did it for several winters, until i eventually moved to a warm place.
Can somebody please explain something to me ? If you're using such a huge kettle type melter, why wouldn't you use a doubled-up cheesecloth or 1-2 oil filters in the wire strainer when you're doing the tapping out ? I've seen a couple other beekeepers/honey producers channels where they do that. It obviously catches a much larger amount of the slum at the outset so there's less clean up later and the cooled wax is cleaner with fewer remeltings needed. Or maybe he has whatever technical reason for doing it this way. I appreciate any replies. I love watching these types of videos.....very relaxing and educational content.
Way too much junk to filter, it doesn't drain fast enough and you want to reprocess what you catch (one more time) to get all the wax out. You can re-refine the wax using a better filter but once-refined wax can still be sold.
I really enjoyed watching this. Another aspect of bee keeping that should not be overlooked. i am also sure that the bee keeper will be so surprised to see what he is missing that he too will invest in a wax/honey separator. Just so you know, I was born in Wpg and worked for Modern Dairies for several years and I even made deliveries to Morden and Carman. Those were the days. I have moved to Montréal for work reasons, but my heart is still back in Manitoba. Have a great day. Tim
That was a lot of hard work and patience - I can see you being quite busy helping beekeepers from losing a lot of revenue. One question, that last product you had which had no wax but was crumbly (crumbly slum) - can you use that for something like fertilizer or soil enhancement?
whats the difference in the look of honey and wax? The light honey stage all the wax is solid right? How do you know you've hit the wax layer without letting the wax in? Is there a visual difference? Or do you keep using the tool over and over again until you see wax form?
An amazing video . I’m working to get to 125-150 colonies as that is where I plan to stay at with a 100 nuc colonies growing for the next year . I can use them or if no need put extra colonies above 150 up for sale . What is the name of your u it so I can look it up on the smaller unit .
Very curious about this; what do you do with the dried and fully processed slum at the end? If thrown out, is there any way to make use out of it? Like could it be used in garden beds, compost maybe or things like that? Or is it just basically useless that you can't do anything with it at that point?
I’m curious-once it’s gotten to this state, is it possible to process it through that spinner (you showed in another video); or is this the most efficient method?
Really well worth a bottle or even two. I did not know that there was that much honey wasted in the old fashion prosess. However, i would like to know what the very end product was, if its not honey or wax what is it and has it got a use. The interesting thing for me was the wax, as i am sure it has a whole lot of uses as well as being one of the best polishes going for woodwork. I use to make furniture polish for people which in fact is only bees wax pure turpintine and what ever and smell, like lavender,,orange and rose, and with a slab like you showed you can make a lot of tins of polish from this. Its incredible what these small insects do and the amount of work they do that most people never get to know about, so this video was very good and informative, thank you very much for taking the time to make the video.
Are those temps Celsisus? How much honey did he extract before you got involved, T ony? I didn't understand about the distinction between light, medium and dark honey - or why the dark is good for bbq sauce. At 72ºC the honey is not raw any more. So what do you do with that honey? How did you know when you had gotten to the end of the wax? And if you only filled the tank to half way up that escape hole, how did you get so much wax to drain out of it? 160 lbs. of wax was the difference between the middle of that hole and right beneath it - the point at which the liquid could not drain any more? This is fantastic btw and you are such a generous friend to show the way ... so good on you!
Superb video... very very informative instructional and useful for beekeepers. Btw, I'm based in Dubai,UAE and originally from Mumbai, India. Keep the videos coming bro, great work.
Canadians are such nice people. Because that is alot of work just to show his friend that he should invest in better wax rendering equipment. Again thats alot of work. Cuddos to Mr steppler for your hard work and patience. !!
Can’t get enough of your content! In your opinion, do you think heating the honey to 55 degrees degrades the quality of the honey? Do you put it in the same category as the honey you extract straight from the comb?
Seems like for the second melt, you could set your melter to about 65 degrees, allow the wax to fully melt and float on top of the honey, then turn the unit off and let the wax solidify. I'm guessing the wax would stick to the sides of the melter and stay in a block on top of the remaining honey. Then all the honey would then easily tap off the bottom and the wax could then be processed to completion. That would all the honey to render to the bottom without heating it to 90 degrees. Just a thought.
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog thank you for for answering . The razor blade sounds like a ( lot ) of Labor, laughing I'm afraid I would have to pull my hot water steam Jenny out ;-)
Very interesting to hear you talk about the grades of honey (ie light, medium dark). I had often thought that darker honey was more concentrated in flavor but not so. Honey is almost like olive pressing where the first extraction is the purest and has the more full taste. With honey the darker and I assume has had more heat applied honey has a different taste to it. Enjoyed your post. Regards ~
Cerulean Fish No, light med dark, meaning heat treatment, not colour grade, The light will be salvaged, the medium and dark will need to find specific markets
Excellent video! I really like your jacketed tank with the added ability to run water in the center for even heating. Would you mind sharing what model / manufacturer this is and / or where I might find a similar one? TIA
Nice one Ian: I have an Alto Shaam cook and hold oven. Radiant heat, retains the moisture. Think I'll look around for some pans and stuff. I only have two top bar hives.
Hi Ian Very interesting video showing the process involved. Do you know rough how much energy the unit uses to process one full load. I only have a few hives as a hobby but that video will help next year. I currently just spread my cappings out thin and let the bees clean them up as I hate the idea of washing the honey out to get to the wax. The ratio of waste at the end was very low and quiet surprising 👍
I have a small wax melter designed for paraffin that I use - it works exactly the same as the commercial unit except it doesn't have a top tap. I dip off the top layer of wax with ladle. Not as convenient and a bit messier, but I get the same thorough wax extraction.
Huh I really have that much honey in my cappings had no idea . What happens if I put my cappings into some kinda basket then spun it in my extractor . Does the capping spinner spin with alot more force ? . Been setting it out for the bees to clean up . Doesn't work when flows on and feeds crazy loads of yellow jackets. Like shooting myself in the foot . Because yellow jackets then start working my hives . They say no problems for strong colonys . True they start on the nucs work their way up the ladder .
I sincerely hope you did get a bit more for all your time and effort then a meager bottle of mead. I found this process very interesting to watch. Thank you for showing.
Amazing how that machine works. Revenue made from honey extracted from the wax. Also the wax blocks. Your friend owes you more than a bottle or two of mead.
From a none beekeeper, this is the most tutorial video I have seen on the web about this process, well done, 10 /10
It’s great to see somebody extract honey and render the wax very thoroughly so there’s no waste. Bravo!
Newbie here...you just opened a new unknown area in a Beekeeper’s life. Thank you so much...so educational & well instructed 🐝
This was an excellent video to show how much was there is in capping. Thank you for your time in producing all these great videos. God bless
thanks so much for the info Ian I am in my second year and just pulled 25 pounds, made 7 splits that look great, your productions have helped me time and time again. Instead of giving the cappings directly to the bees I will put them into paint strainer bags and spin them, because you have clearly demonstrated just how much honey is left to harvest there.
That was just way too cool. It is amazing how much honey and wax was recovered from the toppings. Any serious bee keeper should have such a machine. It is worth it's weight in golden honey.
What an ingenious machine! Thanks for the great instructional video of how it's done in the real world. Every time I watch you harvest your hives I'm also awed at how much wax those little guys make each year to encapsulate their honey stores, they sure know what they're about. Thanks.
It's nice you did this for your fellow beekeeper. At least now he can see the benefit of the wax melter, maybe a smaller one, but the benefits are obvious. A bottle of mead is cheap but I'm sure you got help and advice from someone as you were getting bigger in the business. Good video of the whole operation. Thanks
Absolutely, and completely fascinating. No wonder you have 200,000 views. What I found most interesting is though you are dealing with large weights of honey and wax you still treat the products gently, and your machinery with such care and patience. The world be a better place if we had more artisans / craftsmen / businessmen like you.
This is one of the coolest videos I have seen so far, thanks so much for sharing Ian
Lot of work..and a great set of skills you have..tthank you for shareing.👍
a lot longer process than i would have ever guessed. Great video...thank you!
Another bottle of Meade, you mean a case of his good stuff!
Thank you for helping a peer with extraction as well as clearly explaining the process.
Wow, you saved so much honey and beeswax! This is a good lesson for any beekeeper. I have a new appreciation for beekeepers.
Outstanding video! An incredible effort on your part! Thank you for sharing.
Hello Ian. Our latest purchase is a junior cappings spinner. We have several buckets ready to be processed. We only have 50 hives but as our operation grows so does our need for simplicity and effectiveness. I just had open heart surgery so I havent put the cappings spinner to work yet but I'm doing fantastic and hopefully the boss will let me process our honey/cappings next week with her help of course.
I enjoyed watching the new machine at work. I'm gonna say your friend is going to be pretty stoked on the honey and wax haul
We are headed into Spring here in Chile and I am so happy that I do not have to deal with snow or ice. Just cool and wet here in the winter. This was rendering is awesome. Hard good work. Thanks Jim in Chile.
This was FASCINATING to watch. Thank you so much!!
Wow! This is so interesting! Thank you for sharing this process, your friend is very lucky you were willing to try this. A lot to be learned from this .
I could watch this all day. its so relaxing and enjoyable.
It's nice to have such a good neighbor 🌻
That is amazing, great job and great machine! Bottle of Mead wine is well deserved, also helping out a fellow beekeeper. Thanks for sharing, also that close up of the honey/wax layer when you were pouring was very helpful.
That is so wonderful how you’re helping your fellow beekeeper.😃 kudos to you!
This was fun to watch. I hope theirs more like it in the future,
I wholeheartedly agree.. I found it extremely an an eye-opening experience of all the Lost honey revenue.. I'm sure that stainless steel melder is expensivebut I can also see where it wouldn't be too long and it would pay for itself....
Someone's having way too much fun with the new toys. 😀
Nice recovery, I'll bet your friend will be ecstatic.
What a great video!
Very informative and interesting.
Thanks for doing this - it's given me ideas!
What do you do with you "slum"? Is it good to put in the compost bin? Dose the garden like that? Do you know what kind of plants would do better with it? Would worms like it? So many questions sorry.
I would think it wouldn’t have any nutrients in it
some use it for fire starters i have heard and yeah you can just put in into compost bin. quite good for that too. for plants.. no idea
It usually has enough wax left in it that it can be pressed into shapes, which can be used as excellent fire starters. Considering it's composed of all the crap left on the bees' "feet" as they come crawling into the hive, it's probably mostly organic matter, so yeah, it'd probably be okay to put in the compost, too.
Some of the smaller bee keepers that I know use the "slum" for compost. It does have nutrients in there for the plants.
Mix it with saw dust and/or dryer lint and press it into blocks to use for starting fires.
Would of liked to have seen his reaction on what you salvaged. Cool video.
Great video, thanks. It’s all these details that we don’t think about and how much honey beekeepers loose/waist. Makes me think I should reinvest differently.
Cheers Ian! Best wishes for a restful fall and winter.
Somehow I missed this video four years ago. Great video and lots of good information.
Just subscribed, I like your helpfulness towards another Beekeeper, well done and thanks
Cool video. Love the streamlined process. Special props for having the splash bottle for when you drained the water into the catch basin.
You need to put that melter on a pallet or something so you can lift it on your forklift, that way you don’t have to crouch all that time working the tap.
I think the melter should have a hopper type bottom to drain more efficiently.
Learned that from a house painter I assisted... Work smarter, not harder whenever possible.
its got wheels.... maybe je could extended that wheels but than he would need to lift all the wax higher...
@@ceruleanfish6703 I agree. Here is an efficient and smarter way to eliminate cappings all together. ruclips.net/video/Eym8rxYeLTc/видео.html
crgaillee but he would still need to separate the melted cappings from the honey.
Hello i was wondering what you do with the slum. i find your videos fascinating. i'm in Perth Western Australia the weather conditions you have to contend with are quite amazing. Very informative and interesting great work.
WIW! That was an education! Thank you for sharing!
Its a shame that there isnt some sort of clear section so you can see where the levels are
Hey Justin... I was thinking that too... I mean there is an external clear tube but it just shows the level of the heating water. Plus even if you could see inside, you'd be going through two layers of metal and then heating water. Still love the concept though of being able to see whats inside. Looks like OP monitors by the way he heats and then pours material off.
@@ceruleanfish6703 my thought process was a strip about 2 inches wide of heat resistant acrylic or glass, hell could even use 2 layers so the water can go all around it, have the acrylic or glass beside the tap so you can see the level of where the honey is and where the wax begins.
Just a thought: what would happen when you let the whole batch cool down so that the wax gets hard again while the honey would still be able to flow? This way you cloud easily separate honey from wax. Afterwards you would need to heat it up again to cook the wax. This would take some extra time
@@svenweihusen57 Exactly, it would take extra time. Seeing how this is a money-oriented process, he won't. This recovered honey is clearly not as first-class as one straight from the centrifugal extractor.
Accepting payment in mead? It better be a barrel of mead.
That was outstanding Ian!! When you did the first video on the wax melter with very little narration, I was a bit confused in the process. With this video you showed us exactly how the wax melter works! With my 2 first year hives and 30lbs of extracted honey, I could easily see how much honey was left in the cappings! After straining the cappings for a couple of weeks, I had about 3 more lbs of honey!
So, if you hadn’t been there to help him, all that recovered honey would have gone to waste? He’s lucky to have a friend like you. He needs to take steps before next year if yields will run consistently high like this one. Good job 😎👍👏
Joe Romanak Looked like a lot of work ... I hope the guy pays him or at least returns the favor somehow...
@@TheBulldoggboy21 He returned the favor with gods drink.
Yep, that was close to 65% by volume of honey recovered. By weight, that is probably closer to 75%.
Nothing would waste because it can all be fed back to the bees. They will clean up every drop
Maybe some of the smaller beekeeping operators can come together to form a consortium, pool their money, choose the member with the most space and buy the equipment needed and share the proceeds from the extracted honey equally.
i happily did this exact thing all winter, very small scale using a slow cooker, with several big buckets of cappings that a local beekeeper gave me- they usually threw them away. got a cupboard full of beautiful raw honey, and made the rendered wax into a zillion one ounce cubes.
was the most satisfying, even theraputic thing way i had ever passed a cold winter in my life. did it for several winters, until i eventually moved to a warm place.
That was amazing to watch, educational and really emphasizes the importance of the machine in large scale extraction!
that was awesome. thanks for sharing your knowledge and work.
Can somebody please explain something to me ? If you're using such a huge kettle type melter, why wouldn't you use a doubled-up cheesecloth or 1-2 oil filters in the wire strainer when you're doing the tapping out ? I've seen a couple other beekeepers/honey producers channels where they do that. It obviously catches a much larger amount of the slum at the outset so there's less clean up later and the cooled wax is cleaner with fewer remeltings needed. Or maybe he has whatever technical reason for doing it this way. I appreciate any replies. I love watching these types of videos.....very relaxing and educational content.
Way too much junk to filter, it doesn't drain fast enough and you want to reprocess what you catch (one more time) to get all the wax out. You can re-refine the wax using a better filter but once-refined wax can still be sold.
I love how beaker helps each other out
I really enjoyed watching this. Another aspect of bee keeping that should not be overlooked. i am also sure that the bee keeper will be so surprised to see what he is missing that he too will invest in a wax/honey separator. Just so you know, I was born in Wpg and worked for Modern Dairies for several years and I even made deliveries to Morden and Carman. Those were the days. I have moved to Montréal for work reasons, but my heart is still back in Manitoba. Have a great day. Tim
This is so freaking cool. So what can you do with the left over black stuff? Garden compost use maybe
That was a lot of hard work and patience - I can see you being quite busy helping beekeepers from losing a lot of revenue. One question, that last product you had which had no wax but was crumbly (crumbly slum) - can you use that for something like fertilizer or soil enhancement?
It is mostly cocoons, with bit if propolis and debris. No idea if it would have any value as fertilizer.
Very interesting and informative, thank you!
Aww i so want to see his(honey guy) reaction to your awesome work.....
That was a great video. Very interesting. Thanks
That was interesting to watch, thanks for posting. The slum? could that be used for a soil mix or some other use?
Project: Zip Tied
Earth to earth
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slumgum
So what do you do with the slum any use for it, like adding it to fertilizer??
I'm no bee keeper but the process is interesting to me so ... great video and very informative :)
What happened with the mead , were you able to walk the next morning ?????
Good to see that process Ian
Thanks again
whats the difference in the look of honey and wax? The light honey stage all the wax is solid right? How do you know you've hit the wax layer without letting the wax in? Is there a visual difference? Or do you keep using the tool over and over again until you see wax form?
An amazing video . I’m working to get to 125-150 colonies as that is where I plan to stay at with a 100 nuc colonies growing for the next year . I can use them or if no need put extra colonies above 150 up for sale . What is the name of your u it so I can look it up on the smaller unit .
Crystal Twork
tonylalondesales.ca/product-category/wax-rendering/
Very curious about this; what do you do with the dried and fully processed slum at the end?
If thrown out, is there any way to make use out of it? Like could it be used in garden beds, compost maybe or things like that? Or is it just basically useless that you can't do anything with it at that point?
so educational & well instructed 🐝
I’m curious-once it’s gotten to this state, is it possible to process it through that spinner (you showed in another video); or is this the most efficient method?
Really well worth a bottle or even two.
I did not know that there was that much honey wasted in the old fashion prosess.
However, i would like to know what the very end product was, if its not honey or wax what is it and has it got a use.
The interesting thing for me was the wax, as i am sure it has a whole lot of uses as well as being one of the best polishes going for woodwork.
I use to make furniture polish for people which in fact is only bees wax pure turpintine and what ever and smell, like lavender,,orange and rose, and with a slab like you showed you can make a lot of tins of polish from this.
Its incredible what these small insects do and the amount of work they do that most people never get to know about, so this video was very good and informative, thank you very much for taking the time to make the video.
Are those temps Celsisus? How much honey did he extract before you got involved, T
ony? I didn't understand about the distinction between light, medium and dark honey - or why the dark is good for bbq sauce.
At 72ºC the honey is not raw any more. So what do you do with that honey?
How did you know when you had gotten to the end of the wax? And if you only filled the tank to half way up that escape hole, how did you get so much wax to drain out of it? 160 lbs. of wax was the difference between the middle of that hole and right beneath it - the point at which the liquid could not drain any more?
This is fantastic btw and you are such a generous friend to show the way ... so good on you!
Kimi Wei @13:00 it shows Celsius
Wow, i mean, just wow.
Good work. Love you'r vids.
What a great video! Educational and wonderful. You should get a case of meade
Superb video... very very informative instructional and useful for beekeepers. Btw, I'm based in Dubai,UAE and originally from Mumbai, India. Keep the videos coming bro, great work.
It is great that it works out for both parties. Everyone works together
Canadians are such nice people. Because that is alot of work just to show his friend that he should invest in better wax rendering equipment. Again thats alot of work. Cuddos to Mr steppler for your hard work and patience. !!
As always-awsome video-seen for the second time
Is there anything that can be done with the slush powder at the end? Or is that useless?
Can’t get enough of your content! In your opinion, do you think heating the honey to 55 degrees degrades the quality of the honey? Do you put it in the same category as the honey you extract straight from the comb?
Dustin Mastro
It has seen heat, a test of it would be in order but by the loom of it, that first stiff is fine
Seems like for the second melt, you could set your melter to about 65 degrees, allow the wax to fully melt and float on top of the honey, then turn the unit off and let the wax solidify. I'm guessing the wax would stick to the sides of the melter and stay in a block on top of the remaining honey. Then all the honey would then easily tap off the bottom and the wax could then be processed to completion. That would all the honey to render to the bottom without heating it to 90 degrees. Just a thought.
Heat treated honey is no good.
Where is the heat element?
Pipe in the middle?
Very interesting. I never knew that you could get that much honey from the wax. Amazing process.
Very informative, thanks. How much do you charge per lb of beeswax?
Question? What do you do with sludge that is leftover? An how do you clean everything back to clean? Steam Jenny? Hot Steam cleaned?
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog thank you for for answering . The razor blade sounds like a ( lot ) of Labor, laughing I'm afraid I would have to pull my hot water steam Jenny out ;-)
That would work too!
thanks for showing that whole process so well!
What do you do with the "slum"? What is it good for? feed for pigs or maybe fertilizer?
Very interesting to hear you talk about the grades of honey (ie light, medium dark). I had often thought that darker honey was more concentrated in flavor but not so. Honey is almost like olive pressing where the first extraction is the purest and has the more full taste. With honey the darker and I assume has had more heat applied honey has a different taste to it. Enjoyed your post. Regards ~
Cerulean Fish
No, light med dark, meaning heat treatment, not colour grade,
The light will be salvaged, the medium and dark will need to find specific markets
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog mead is where I’d put it🤣🍶
Affective. The bees do all that work and we waste a lot of their honey. Good to see someone who has that covered.
I just started but was unaware there was honey in the wax. These videos always amaze me.
great video, thanks so much for posting this. So can you put the slum in your compost or garden?
lyn smith
Yep
Excellent video! Thank you so much.
Have you ever had the "slum" tested to see if it can be useful as fertilizer or anything else?
It's mostly dirt, chitin and bee poop. So not much to it.
Excellent video! I really like your jacketed tank with the added ability to run water in the center for even heating. Would you mind sharing what model / manufacturer this is and / or where I might find a similar one? TIA
How generous, nice work
Nice one Ian:
I have an Alto Shaam cook and hold oven.
Radiant heat, retains the moisture.
Think I'll look around for some pans and stuff.
I only have two top bar hives.
Hi Ian
Very interesting video showing the process involved. Do you know rough how much energy the unit uses to process one full load.
I only have a few hives as a hobby but that video will help next year. I currently just spread my cappings out thin and let the bees clean them up as I hate the idea of washing the honey out to get to the wax. The ratio of waste at the end was very low and quiet surprising 👍
I have a small wax melter designed for paraffin that I use - it works exactly the same as the commercial unit except it doesn't have a top tap. I dip off the top layer of wax with ladle. Not as convenient and a bit messier, but I get the same thorough wax extraction.
Mead?? Awesome.
Great Video, Great Editing
Do you use the slumgum for anything or is it tossed out as waste?
Greg McKay
Onto the garden
Another great video that wax melted is a slick rig. Apparently it dont just melt wax, thanks for that video
Huh I really have that much honey in my cappings had no idea . What happens if I put my cappings into some kinda basket then spun it in my extractor . Does the capping spinner spin with alot more force ? . Been setting it out for the bees to clean up . Doesn't work when flows on and feeds crazy loads of yellow jackets. Like shooting myself in the foot . Because yellow jackets then start working my hives . They say no problems for strong colonys . True they start on the nucs work their way up the ladder .
I suspect you would have balance problems. Plus, the honey does not flow well through the cappings.
awesome what is slum ?
You should get a case of Mead for your service. What a cool family you are part of. The way things should BEE.
Am I correct by saying that slum can be used as compost?
Connor Moore
Yep
I sincerely hope you did get a bit more for all your time and effort then a meager bottle of mead. I found this process very interesting to watch. Thank you for showing.
I am impressed with how much you got from all of that...🐝
Well? How was the mead? Getting every last drop of wax and honey. Love it.
You are a great neighbor to do that for him. It must be a solid friendship