Thank you for the sweet words of encouragement! I’m so glad you found your way to the cabin🤗. We are taking a short break from filming for health reasons but everything is great and we will be back to making videos asap. God bless you and yours ❤️
Thanks for sharing that simple but clever system of harvesting honey ,I would be interested in seeing how you’re going now with your hives,hopefully I’ll find a more recent video of yours
Thank you for the kind words of encouragement! We have two hives at the moment. One we caught by accident. Since we are buildings a new homestead the bees are kinda just living life to the fullest. We didn’t harvest this year because we simply are just too busy. They are happy and healthy tho😊
This is the best simple honey extraction system I've seen yet. We rented an extractor last time and the extractor cleanup mess made it not worthwhile. We will definitely use your method this time. Thank you.
Hello Sweetheart! Thats a very clever idea you put together to allow the honey to come. Such beautiful honey. Thankyou so much for sharing. Beautiful process! Have a good night!
Oh you will love them! If you can find a local beekeeper that can mentor you that will help you be Evan more successful. Thank you for the sweet words of encouragement and God bless y’all❤️
I'll be showing this video to my husband. We'll be extracting honey for the first time in the very near future and this seems like such a simple process. Simple clean-up too. Thanks for sharing!
Great idea! We got an extractor that we purchased second hand and love it! We have six hives and would be quite a chore to do by hand, even tho your idea is excellent if you want to extract a couple frames at a time! Harvesting honey is too labor intensive. I would not destroy the combs tho. I would just tilt the frames inside the bucket and let them drain. It may take a bit longer to empty but you can still have the drawn comb to give back to the hive to fill again in no time or give it to another colony to start with or a bee trap after the bees clean it up. It takes a lot of time and resources for the bees to built one and I feel it is wasted time while they could just work on honey production. My humble opinion. Thank you for sharing your idea with us!
Great points! I totally agree with you about the drawn out comb but at the same time I really enjoy having the wax to render. That is one reason why we don’t harvest in fall. We feel like it’s too much work for them going into winter. Thank you for the tips! We are novice beekeepers and welcome the advice. Thanks for watching and God bless y’all❤️
@@LittleCountryCabin you are welcome. If you need to wax I can see it. We don’t use much of the wax. What we clean from the cups is good enough to make some salves. We do harvest the strong hives in September but always leave them a ten frame box to feed on during the winter and we also feed them a little during that time as well. We don’t bother the younger hives. We are still learning ourselves. We had bees for the last four years. We love them! Enjoy your honey! Thanks again for the bucket tip!👍
Thank you so much for the kind words😊. We harvested last week using this method and I rendered down the wax yesterday. Such a blessing! I’d love to hear back how things went.
Oh it does taste wonderful! And yes it is a gift that we treasure🤗. Thank you for the sweet words and for watching. We really have the best subscribers on RUclips! Welcome to the cabin! God bless❤️
Be sure to use elastic top strainers...mine were not and they collapsed when sticky comb hit them...used spring clips for emergency use (sticky honey frame with collapsed/closed strainer!)
scraping back to foundation in a bucket is hard work! make it simpler. dont wire your honey frames. put just a 1inch strip of foundation along underside of top bars. the bees make all the wax and they stay within the frame still. Harvest by running a knife right round inside of frame, it all just falls in the catching bin (leave a little bit under top bar so they can go back in hive for bees to draw back down). The comb you cut out, into a bin is easier, and you get extra wax for those other things you want wax for, or swap for foundation. so you get two crops, wax and honey. In the bin crush it all like mashing potatoes, with a clean 1 inch dowel or just your bare hands, then strain it. was your wax after straining, in clean water and use that sweet wash water to make honey mead. A third crop, honey, wax and mead 😁
Oh goodness thank you so much for the great advice! I love the idea of the open frames. More wax is a good thing🤗. I use it in so many ways. Your tips are so helpful and thank you for taking time to share them. God bless ya❤️
@@LittleCountryCabin your welcome. im in a land down under. been hobby beekeeping since 1987 and about to retire and hand the remaining gear and knowledge onto a young beginner, hence searching youtube to find them some interesting sites. didnt have the web back then.
@@LittleCountryCabin one more tip worth knowing, which was what got me into crush and strain. one year i had a bunch of hives, a huge honey flow and not enough supers and frames. A profesional beekeeper friend gave me a bunch of old tatty full depth supers off his bonfire pile, and told me to put one of them on top each hive with no frames, just a few sticks across top so they didnt make comb on the hive mat. it worked and each super was full of curvy wild comb full of honey. I couldnt get them off the super below cause the comb was continuous onto tops of lower frames, so i used a length of frame wire between two wooden toggles and sawed that through the joint between the supers, like a cheese cutter. Then lifted it all off in one go. i have since used old wooden apple boxes, anything that will bear weight of honey, upside down bucket would do. happy beekeeping.
@@ken440 I can’t wait to try that! I’ve often wondered why we couldn’t improvise and use crates and boxes for supers. Well you have inspired me! Thank you!!
Thank you for this video, I follow this process and it works great. Curious, how to you clean up the frames after they have been scraped down? There is still a small amount of honey on them and i want to clean and store them for reuse and i don't want to be attract pests to the spent frames.
We usually set them in the wagon near the bee hive. They clean them up in no time😁. Thank you for watching and for the great question. Have a blessed day🤗
@@LittleCountryCabin Do you have 'shopping list' of what I need to purchase to put together the same setup you show here? I have one hive and this seems like a perfect fit. Blessings!
@@LittleCountryCabin Honey and open cells not capped with wax can be extracted if it is cured to see if it’s cured and assuming you are using frames with foundation versus top bar combs turn the frame with the cells facing the ground give the frame a gentle shake if honey leaks from the cells it isn’t cured and shouldn’t be extracted this stuff isn’t even honey it’s nectar and hasn’t been cured the water content is too high for it to be considered honey attempting to bottle the nectar results in a watery syrup that is likely to ferment and spoil and just to be clear if you have a top bar hive the top bar combs aren’t strong enough to tolerate a shake the comb may break off. We use a refractometer you can purchase it on Amazon for about $20 your moisture content should be 18% or less. :)
@@LittleCountryCabin you can also use a dehumidifier when you pull frames to help remove the moisture from the portions of frames with open cells when it’s not 100% capped. Enjoy
@@FishingFloridaBass I have a dehydrator so that’s doable. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with this novice bee keeper. I love learning as much as I can😊
The second bucket helps stabilize the frame while I’m scraping the honey. It takes some effort to to do the scraping and I’m afraid I’d have honey everywhere if I didn’t😂. Thank you for a great question and have a blessed day❤️
Thats dope! Its my first year harvesting honey. I have 5 frames of honey and dont want to pay for a extractor. Im going to try this
Exactly! Can’t justify the expense at this point. This set up works great for us🤗
This was very helpful to a new bee keeper. Also very peaceful to watch. Thank you for sharing. God Bless
Yay! Finally found my tribe of bee keepers. You are right up my alley with the way you teach and your faith. Thanks a bunch and God bless.
Thank you for the sweet words of encouragement! I’m so glad you found your way to the cabin🤗. We are taking a short break from filming for health reasons but everything is great and we will be back to making videos asap. God bless you and yours ❤️
@@LittleCountryCabin Pray you feel better soon! God bless.
@@tcetrada thank you!!!
Amen
Thanks for sharing that simple but clever system of harvesting honey ,I would be interested in seeing how you’re going now with your hives,hopefully I’ll find a more recent video of yours
Thank you for the kind words of encouragement! We have two hives at the moment. One we caught by accident. Since we are buildings a new homestead the bees are kinda just living life to the fullest. We didn’t harvest this year because we simply are just too busy. They are happy and healthy tho😊
This is the best simple honey extraction system I've seen yet. We rented an extractor last time and the extractor cleanup mess made it not worthwhile. We will definitely use your method this time. Thank you.
You’re quite welcome🤗. Thank you so much for watching! Have a blessed day❤️
Hello Sweetheart! Thats a very clever idea you put together to allow the honey to come. Such beautiful honey. Thankyou so much for sharing. Beautiful process! Have a good night!
Thank you sweet friend! Have a blessed week❤️
I love your idea, very beginner friendly 💖
Thank you!
Jackie that’s awesome. It works and didn’t cost an arm and leg. God bless y’all precious friends.
Thank you sweet friend🤩. Good bless ya❤️
@@LittleCountryCabin ❤️❤️🙏🙏
Wow... I'm amazed! I keep talking about bees with my husband. I think we should go for it. Thanks for sharing 👩🏾🌾😋👨🏿🌾
Oh you will love them! If you can find a local beekeeper that can mentor you that will help you be Evan more successful. Thank you for the sweet words of encouragement and God bless y’all❤️
Oh that honey looked divine!!💖 You all are very blessed indeed! Great share! God bless and have a beautiful week!🌻🌸💖
Thank you sweet friend! Hope your week is great also❤️
Thank you, Jackie. This is just what I was looking for. Bless you, my dear friend.
You’re quite welcome! Have a blessed and peaceful weekend❤️
Such a simple and practical idea. Thanks for sharing xx Cathi xx
Thank you for watching and for the wonderful feedback! God bless!❤️
Thanks so much for this video! We are about to embark on bee keeping and this is super helpful!
You are quite welcome! Glad you found value in the video. You will love having bees and all the goodness they provide. God bless y’all❤️
I'll be showing this video to my husband. We'll be extracting honey for the first time in the very near future and this seems like such a simple process. Simple clean-up too. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for watching! Have a blessed week!❤️
Beautiful liquid gold! Great passive method of extracting honey.
Thank you so much!
Great idea! We got an extractor that we purchased second hand and love it! We have six hives and would be quite a chore to do by hand, even tho your idea is excellent if you want to extract a couple frames at a time! Harvesting honey is too labor intensive. I would not destroy the combs tho. I would just tilt the frames inside the bucket and let them drain. It may take a bit longer to empty but you can still have the drawn comb to give back to the hive to fill again in no time or give it to another colony to start with or a bee trap after the bees clean it up. It takes a lot of time and resources for the bees to built one and I feel it is wasted time while they could just work on honey production. My humble opinion. Thank you for sharing your idea with us!
Great points! I totally agree with you about the drawn out comb but at the same time I really enjoy having the wax to render. That is one reason why we don’t harvest in fall. We feel like it’s too much work for them going into winter. Thank you for the tips! We are novice beekeepers and welcome the advice. Thanks for watching and God bless y’all❤️
@@LittleCountryCabin you are welcome. If you need to wax I can see it. We don’t use much of the wax. What we clean from the cups is good enough to make some salves. We do harvest the strong hives in September but always leave them a ten frame box to feed on during the winter and we also feed them a little during that time as well. We don’t bother the younger hives. We are still learning ourselves. We had bees for the last four years. We love them! Enjoy your honey! Thanks again for the bucket tip!👍
@@theheritagehousesc Love you tips! Thanks for sharing🤗
Thank you for sharing this! We are extracting honey for the first time tomorrow. I certainly feel better equipped now that I've watched your video 😊
Thank you so much for the kind words😊. We harvested last week using this method and I rendered down the wax yesterday. Such a blessing! I’d love to hear back how things went.
@@LittleCountryCabin I will let you know! Also wondering what tool you used to scrape the honey/wax down into the bucket?
@@katrinasaffarek4212 I used a scraper I found in my kitchen junk drawer😂. A plastic putty knife works great and is inexpensive🤗.
Hello dear friend, excellent and very cool technic to extract honey I Love it
Thank you for the sweet words! What a blessing they are❤️
Thanks
You’re quite welcome 🤗
Beautiful honey, what a gift to have it straight from the source. I bet it tastes absolutely heavenly! New friends here from canada :) ~erinn
Oh it does taste wonderful! And yes it is a gift that we treasure🤗. Thank you for the sweet words and for watching. We really have the best subscribers on RUclips! Welcome to the cabin! God bless❤️
Great video thanks for sharing :) always interesting to see how different people do this job :) hope you and your bees are well :)
Thank you for the kind compliment😀. We are blessed with very happy bees and am sure you are as well. God bless y’all!❤️
@@LittleCountryCabin that's great to hear and I believe I am too. All the best to you :)
That is amazing!!! You're a genius Jackie! I'll need to remember your method for extracting honey.
Well, I’m not sure about genius. Jerry says I’m an airhead🤣🤣. Thanks for watching Stan and God bless ya!!
Be sure to use elastic top strainers...mine were not and they collapsed
when sticky comb hit them...used spring clips for emergency use (sticky
honey frame with collapsed/closed strainer!)
Very good advice. Thank you!
God bless you too!
Thank you🤗
Awesome ❣️
Thank you🤗
Genius !!!! Pure genius !!!!
🤣 Thank you for the inspiring comment! God bless ya friend ❤️
@@LittleCountryCabin
scraping back to foundation in a bucket is hard work! make it simpler. dont wire your honey frames. put just a 1inch strip of foundation along underside of top bars. the bees make all the wax and they stay within the frame still. Harvest by running a knife right round inside of frame, it all just falls in the catching bin (leave a little bit under top bar so they can go back in hive for bees to draw back down).
The comb you cut out, into a bin is easier, and you get extra wax for those other things you want wax for, or swap for foundation. so you get two crops, wax and honey.
In the bin crush it all like mashing potatoes, with a clean 1 inch dowel or just your bare hands, then strain it.
was your wax after straining, in clean water and use that sweet wash water to make honey mead. A third crop, honey, wax and mead 😁
Oh goodness thank you so much for the great advice! I love the idea of the open frames. More wax is a good thing🤗. I use it in so many ways. Your tips are so helpful and thank you for taking time to share them. God bless ya❤️
@@LittleCountryCabin your welcome. im in a land down under. been hobby beekeeping since 1987 and about to retire and hand the remaining gear and knowledge onto a young beginner, hence searching youtube to find them some interesting sites. didnt have the web back then.
@@LittleCountryCabin one more tip worth knowing, which was what got me into crush and strain.
one year i had a bunch of hives, a huge honey flow and not enough supers and frames.
A profesional beekeeper friend gave me a bunch of old tatty full depth supers off his bonfire pile, and told me to put one of them on top each hive with no frames, just a few sticks across top so they didnt make comb on the hive mat.
it worked and each super was full of curvy wild comb full of honey.
I couldnt get them off the super below cause the comb was continuous onto tops of lower frames, so i used a length of frame wire between two wooden toggles and sawed that through the joint between the supers, like a cheese cutter. Then lifted it all off in one go. i have since used old wooden apple boxes, anything that will bear weight of honey, upside down bucket would do.
happy beekeeping.
@@ken440 I can’t wait to try that! I’ve often wondered why we couldn’t improvise and use crates and boxes for supers. Well you have inspired me! Thank you!!
Thank you for this video, I follow this process and it works great. Curious, how to you clean up the frames after they have been scraped down? There is still a small amount of honey on them and i want to clean and store them for reuse and i don't want to be attract pests to the spent frames.
We usually set them in the wagon near the bee hive. They clean them up in no time😁. Thank you for watching and for the great question. Have a blessed day🤗
Nice video. Thanks
Thank you!
@@LittleCountryCabin Do you have 'shopping list' of what I need to purchase to put together the same setup you show here? I have one hive and this seems like a perfect fit. Blessings!
Thank you!
You’re quite welcome! Thanks so much for watching❤️
After you scrape the frames do you return those frames to the hive?
We sure do. Great question! Thanks for asking and have a wonderful day❤️
Did you use a refractometer to check your moisture content?
I did not but would like to know more about that😊. What are your thoughts?
@@LittleCountryCabin Honey and open cells not capped with wax can be extracted if it is cured to see if it’s cured and assuming you are using frames with foundation versus top bar combs turn the frame with the cells facing the ground give the frame a gentle shake if honey leaks from the cells it isn’t cured and shouldn’t be extracted this stuff isn’t even honey it’s nectar and hasn’t been cured the water content is too high for it to be considered honey attempting to bottle the nectar results in a watery syrup that is likely to ferment and spoil and just to be clear if you have a top bar hive the top bar combs aren’t strong enough to tolerate a shake the comb may break off. We use a refractometer you can purchase it on Amazon for about $20 your moisture content should be 18% or less. :)
@@FishingFloridaBass Thank you for the great info! We need to add this to our bee tool box for sure🤗
@@LittleCountryCabin you can also use a dehumidifier when you pull frames to help remove the moisture from the portions of frames with open cells when it’s not 100% capped. Enjoy
@@FishingFloridaBass I have a dehydrator so that’s doable. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with this novice bee keeper. I love learning as much as I can😊
How many frames can I scrap in to it at once
I think we’ve done as many as five if my memory is correct🤗
@@LittleCountryCabin thx for quick response appreciate it
@@donlafontaine9901 you’re quite welcome 🤗
I’m not sure why you need the second bucket. Can’t you just use the bag in the honey bucket and hang it over the honey bucket?
The second bucket helps stabilize the frame while I’m scraping the honey. It takes some effort to to do the scraping and I’m afraid I’d have honey everywhere if I didn’t😂. Thank you for a great question and have a blessed day❤️
did you make your honey bucket? or you can get it somewhere?
I found mine at our local co op feed store. Thanks for the great feedback and have a blessed day!