Another great video. I tried putting my cappings in my stainless steel fruit press this year. I normally use the fruit press to get seeds out of elderberries and blackberries but wanted to see what it would do with the cappings. I put the cappings in a cheese cloth bag and pressed out another 3 lbs of honey after I had already drained them. I also ended up with a solid cake of wax.
Hi from sunny South Africa! Watched all your bee vids in the last two days! Loved it! My 18 year old son has been bee farming from the age of 15 with my father. Not really comercial but big enough. They sell the honey, but also rent them to farmers like us for polination of onions for the seeds. We love LOVE bees! They are just the most interesting and soooo clever. We have the African honey bee they are not as mild mannered as your bees! Every year we get 5-6 bokses of swarm bees! This year they filled 15 bokses! Was a wet year. So we are very lucky, they don't have to catch lots of them as they just move in on their own. Keep up the good work! And may your farming prosper!
@Zelda Brits, here in the states several years back when I was a kid, the local news made poor sport of African honeybees, because they were deemed “killer” bees based off of a few unprovoked attacks. Of course as a kid you don’t know better, so I had been afraid of them during my young years. Eventually I got to understand they were not as a much of a threat as they were made out to be, though I would not want to wander near a nest.
I get really bad anxiety in big social situations so I put on your videos with both my earbuds in and watch you extract honey, it helps me calm down a LOT!! I love your channel so much!!
@@audix1516 social anxieties are a thing, if they’re severe they should consult a therapist. That being said, none of our business. It’s nice that this video helps them, it’s indeed very calming
Depends on what you want to do. It's worth it for us because we love the honey and we pay our property taxes by selling it. If you just want honey for personal consumption, you can get 2-3 hives to keep the investment low, but it will still be pricey up front.
It is if you care about the environment. Bees are kinda important to that since they, y’know, are the main pollinators of most plants, not to mention Honey can only be made by Bees.
@@fanboygamer3e they are main pollinators... but wrong bees. In the US honey bees are non native species that are out competing native species which are SIGNIFICANTLY better pollinators. But we can't get honey from blue orchard bees, so for some reason we don't care about them.
There is just something so incomparably satisfying about watching this. Makes me wish I could do this for a living myself. Seems so peaceful and productive a process, with great reward! Good, wholesome work. Great video! :)
Make a hat section steel strap drill it to match the handle mtg holes and for a half inch bolt lock the bolt with jam nuts and chuck it in a half inch frill
Where I grew up our neighbor kept honey bees. My dad always grew a garden. Those pollinating little worker bees kept our melons, cucumbers and squashes in fruit all season long.
Wow, you're into everything aren't you, LOL! Sawmilling, building, raising Hogs, raising chickens, cutting trees, Etc. And now beehives! And most of all you love the Lord and your family which I can tell. God bless you brother!
Good call to harvest the honey outside the shed, on a bright sunny day - the glistening effect off the comb after you carved off the cappings in that angle was delightful.
Angle the frames the other way when uncapping. This will help the capping to fall off on to the excluder. When spinning the extractor, leave the bottom valve open, Less chance of whipping the honey. Nice video
Great video. I love the slo-mo of the honey spinning off the frames and onto the extractor walls. You're getting so much honey from the cutting because you're frames are really well drawn out. Which is awesome!! Mean I love bees, and honey, and the entire process of raising bees. If I wasn't allergic, I would get into it on a big level. Well, not huge, but like what you've got. Plenty of hives.
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I would never thought that the honey harvesting is such a tough work. Now I understand why the honey is so expensive. Deserves every penny. God bless you and the bees!
This is fascinating i can see why my grandpa gotten into bee keeping lastyear i always wondered how he gotten the honey out of the boxes which he gifted to the family on Thanksgiving as a Christmas gift with a delicious candybar with it
some channels (i wont mention names) are too proud to ever take suggestions from the comments when often times it can make a HUGE difference. glad that worked well for you and hats off to who suggested it.
To get all the honey out spin the frames for 3 minutes then switch directions. The centrifugal force only ends up getting 2 of the 4. Best to rotate the other way after flipping them.
I went to a local Lowe’s several months ago and seen more than a single honey bee at one time in one place in the garden area, told them to install hives and they gave me a funny look. I’ve been in a city now for five or six years and I’m lucky to see any at all, it’s really really sad
glad to see you harvesting and leaving honey for the bees. Shows that you love the way God created the nature in wild-life. thanks so much for the video
It's cool seeing how honey gets extracted from the honey combs. I always did wonder how spining it did anything, so this was beautiful. Great videos, probably gonna be some great binge watching material later :)
Why do you use a knife to cut the caps off of the comb instead of something like a fork to scrape them open? It seems like the knife misses quite a few cells, especially on some of the frames where the comb is shaped irregularly.
Curious thing about goldenrod honey is that it really mellows a couple months after harvesting it. I agree that right after harvesting it has a bitter taste for sure!
Wow. Impressed you did this outside. I always heat up my shop and do it in there. Bee free. Also I freeze my entire honey super for at least a week to kill any random thing off. Doesn't hurt the honey.
@@biggtrux besides getting the bees off, what would a bee brush do? I freeze because you never know where the random small hive beetle is or anything like that. Plus I'm not in a hurry.
I’m gaining the confidence to try beekeeping. I have 300 questions, though. I’m hoping to do it at home as a hobby. Do you have any videos to help someone get started right? Your jeep makes me miss my Commando. Great videos!
Really interesting video. Thank you. You should buy a Chinois for finer straining. Also using your tractor there are belt systems you can buy or make pretty easy that you connect a belt to the tractor and another to the centrifuge to give a motorized spin. You can also buy kitchen strainers that are rectangular and deep that would fit in that plastic tote. They would work much better than the refrigerator shelf. Easier clean up and less waste.
Thanks for sharing this insightful video. What do you do with the cappings after the remaining honey is extracted? Do you return it to the hives or is it melted and saved for its wax? Wishing you and your family a blessed week, gentle autumn weather and restful evenings. Peace brother
I live in the central valley in Ca. and know some people who rent out beehives to farmers who grow bee friendly crops. With your sawmill, you could build hives and rent them out for cash or part of the honey every year. Your investment would be minimal and the returns good. Just something to think about.
I really miss having beehives. I had to give it up in the middle 80's traveling with work and the having two back surgeries. I would do it again now that I am retired but don't have the stuff to get started and can't afford it anymore. I go thru about a pint or two a month. I don't use sugar, instead I sweeten everything with honey.
If you put a glass bowl into boiling water and melt the wax-honey capings. The honey and wax will separate giving you clean wax and pure honey. Completely bypassing the time waiting for the honey to leak from the caps naturally
I have a question. That stuff you mash up and let drain. Isn't that more impure due to the black stuff, dust etc, that is stuck to it from the bee's feet as you mention earlier?
Can’t help but wonder if it’s feasible to replace the knob and arm on that spinning machine with a straight shaft to hook a cordless drill to it. May make that part of the job easier.
the Tangential Extractor is really cool! I just want to ask a few questions.. 1. I'm rather curious of if its easy to clean or not? 2. do you squeegee the sides of it to get that last bit of honey, just let it drip all down, or just ignore what's left on the sides entirely? 3. I've seen some people make wax candles and such with the wax cappings, is that common practice among many/all bee keepers? or just a select few? 4. how do you know how much honey you should leave for the bees for the winter? is there some sort of math involved, or by general feel?
All you have to do is leave the items that have honey on them near the bees and they will clean it for you and even put it back into the hive that can be harvested again. The rule of thumb is to only take a slide if it is 80% full. Even if they don't have honey left you can still feed them manually, but as he said honey is the best for them. So I assume he just knows his bees well and knows how much to leave them based on intuition
Came to your channel for the beekeeping videos and stayed for everything else. I feel like your bee keeping videos are the most digestible and enjoyable. Hoping for some new bee videos soon 🤞🏼
Hi there son from Los Angeles,California!!! I want to say thank you for sharing a video of you and how you make magic with being a forger of honey as well as how great it is to see a bee collector in an georgious community and area. You have something unique, rare, and awesome that you do with your time. We enjoyed seeing you at your best. Thank you for sharing and caring for honey bees. May I ask Which region county and state is this?
Try using silk fence as a plastic mulch under your hive stands and you won't have to weed eat. Also seemed to help with hive beetles... Just a thought.
I'm sure there is a way to hook a drill to the centrifuge. You mention that the cappings in the older frames are from the bees dirty feet. Do you wash those cappings before you process the frames / mash up the cappings so you don't get dirty honey?
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It´s been 2 years since i started watching your videos, and i´m proud to tell you that last sunday was my first honey harvest. Got nearly 240 pounds!
jeez i wouldnt know what to do with that much honey
That is awesome! Congrats!
Wow!
Good things
@@alexthegreat5269 mead
Another great video. I tried putting my cappings in my stainless steel fruit press this year. I normally use the fruit press to get seeds out of elderberries and blackberries but wanted to see what it would do with the cappings. I put the cappings in a cheese cloth bag and pressed out another 3 lbs of honey after I had already drained them. I also ended up with a solid cake of wax.
Hi from sunny South Africa! Watched all your bee vids in the last two days! Loved it! My 18 year old son has been bee farming from the age of 15 with my father. Not really comercial but big enough. They sell the honey, but also rent them to farmers like us for polination of onions for the seeds. We love LOVE bees! They are just the most interesting and soooo clever. We have the African honey bee they are not as mild mannered as your bees! Every year we get 5-6 bokses of swarm bees! This year they filled 15 bokses! Was a wet year. So we are very lucky, they don't have to catch lots of them as they just move in on their own. Keep up the good work! And may your farming prosper!
for your a farmer in south Africa i pray for your safety, I heard they are killing the white farmers in SA
Waar is julle Zelda?
Ek stel baie belang in beekeeping.
@Zelda Brits, here in the states several years back when I was a kid, the local news made poor sport of African honeybees, because they were deemed “killer” bees based off of a few unprovoked attacks. Of course as a kid you don’t know better, so I had been afraid of them during my young years. Eventually I got to understand they were not as a much of a threat as they were made out to be, though I would not want to wander near a nest.
@@stormyaudio9969 That not true thats just Neo Nazi propaganda
@@stormyaudio9969 also pray for the black abused farmworkers while you at it
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Seeing how hard you work on the farm is truly inspiring
Hats off to that one bee watching all of that honey being poured out, he was PISSED
I get really bad anxiety in big social situations so I put on your videos with both my earbuds in and watch you extract honey, it helps me calm down a LOT!! I love your channel so much!!
take the headphones out and stop looking at your phone in public and you wont be so anxious
@@audix1516 not how that works dunce
@@audix1516 social anxieties are a thing, if they’re severe they should consult a therapist. That being said, none of our business. It’s nice that this video helps them, it’s indeed very calming
Beekeeping looks like a lot of hard work and a lot of capital invested is it worth it
Depends on what you want to do. It's worth it for us because we love the honey and we pay our property taxes by selling it. If you just want honey for personal consumption, you can get 2-3 hives to keep the investment low, but it will still be pricey up front.
It is if you care about the environment. Bees are kinda important to that since they, y’know, are the main pollinators of most plants, not to mention Honey can only be made by Bees.
Understatement of the century fanboygamer
@@fanboygamer3e honeybees didn't even exist in the Americas before they were brought over from Europe. They are Not the main pollinators.
@@fanboygamer3e they are main pollinators... but wrong bees. In the US honey bees are non native species that are out competing native species which are SIGNIFICANTLY better pollinators. But we can't get honey from blue orchard bees, so for some reason we don't care about them.
A moment of silence for all the bees lost @15:43
Absolutely love these vids btw. Been binge watching the whole honeybee playlist
And at 5:00 to any who might not have gotten out between the frames... can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs...
and at 19:57 when he was pouring out the capping honey
@@samvalentine3206 mother of all omelettes here jack, can’t fret over every egg
@@vbgvbg1133 the exact phrase i thought of
thank you
There is just something so incomparably satisfying about watching this. Makes me wish I could do this for a living myself. Seems so peaceful and productive a process, with great reward! Good, wholesome work. Great video! :)
I couldn’t agree more!
No matter how many times i've watched you harvest honey, they're still my fav videos on this channel
The slow-mo watching the honey get slung out of the combs is a cool shot.
I love all your videos, but it is the bee updates are my most favorite. It is what brought me to your channel years ago.
Cool! Thanks for watching!
So mesmerizing watching someone extract honey!
Make a hat section steel strap drill it to match the handle mtg holes and for a half inch bolt lock the bolt with jam nuts and chuck it in a half inch frill
i like your words, magic man
Where I grew up our neighbor kept honey bees. My dad always grew a garden. Those pollinating little worker bees kept our melons, cucumbers and squashes in fruit all season long.
Watching the cappings being cut off is so satisfying!
I was wondering a few videos back if you were still beekeeping - glad to see so.
Thank you that was very informative and captivating process to observe.
Wow, you're into everything aren't you, LOL! Sawmilling, building, raising Hogs, raising chickens, cutting trees, Etc. And now beehives! And most of all you love the Lord and your family which I can tell. God bless you brother!
I always feel bad when boxes are being re-stacked, knowing some bees will have been squashed. :(
Those bees are stupid. They'll fly into anything and get themselves stuck.
Have you seen the wax video?
Their fault for not getting out of the way
Such is life
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few
Good call to harvest the honey outside the shed, on a bright sunny day - the glistening effect off the comb after you carved off the cappings in that angle was delightful.
The slow mo of the honey being spun out was so rad to watch.
The Beeeez. This seems like a wildly relaxing and satisfying endeavor.
That honey glistens so nicely in the sun.
This is back-breaking work. Kudos to you.
Best bee keeping channel and u take great care of your bees 😊
Angle the frames the other way when uncapping. This will help the capping to fall off on to the excluder. When spinning the extractor, leave the bottom valve open, Less chance of whipping the honey. Nice video
I'm not sure why, but I find watching this very soothing.
It's amazing how much honey comes from the cappings. 🍯
Great video. I love the slo-mo of the honey spinning off the frames and onto the extractor walls.
You're getting so much honey from the cutting because you're frames are really well drawn out. Which is awesome!!
Mean I love bees, and honey, and the entire process of raising bees. If I wasn't allergic, I would get into it on a big level. Well, not huge, but like what you've got. Plenty of hives.
I find it very entertaining listening to bees ram into the camera for some reason
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I would never thought that the honey harvesting is such a tough work. Now I understand why the honey is so expensive. Deserves every penny. God bless you and the bees!
All that honey out of those castings...that was amazing. Nice video
This is fascinating i can see why my grandpa gotten into bee keeping lastyear i always wondered how he gotten the honey out of the boxes which he gifted to the family on Thanksgiving as a Christmas gift with a delicious candybar with it
some channels (i wont mention names) are too proud to ever take suggestions from the comments when often times it can make a HUGE difference. glad that worked well for you and hats off to who suggested it.
Sometimes I get great suggestions! Thanks for watching.
@@falllineridge i read so many smart ideas and have learned a PLETHORA of things in watching youtube alone..this is my go to for anything "how to"
I was just thinking about your bees!
To get all the honey out spin the frames for 3 minutes then switch directions. The centrifugal force only ends up getting 2 of the 4. Best to rotate the other way after flipping them.
I went to a local Lowe’s several months ago and seen more than a single honey bee at one time in one place in the garden area, told them to install hives and they gave me a funny look. I’ve been in a city now for five or six years and I’m lucky to see any at all, it’s really really sad
Nice reward from the bees 🐝 !! I love honey on buttered 🧈 waffles 🧇 😋 and pancakes 🥞 😋 😍
Beekeeping is so cool. You care for them, they care for you
I think it’s so funny that you can actually hear the bees bumping into & hitting the mic/camera
glad to see you harvesting and leaving honey for the bees. Shows that you love the way God created the nature in wild-life. thanks so much for the video
YUMMMY!!!!!! liquid gold. Well done 👍👍👍. Thank you for sharing. Be safe 🇨🇦
It's cool seeing how honey gets extracted from the honey combs. I always did wonder how spining it did anything, so this was beautiful. Great videos, probably gonna be some great binge watching material later :)
Well I'm happy to see that someone else catch weeds and grass around their hives as I do
Love just the lil thumping sounds of the bees bumping into the camera
I've been watching videos about harvesting honey and I never grown tired of it, Great video, Great Job 👍.
Why do you use a knife to cut the caps off of the comb instead of something like a fork to scrape them open? It seems like the knife misses quite a few cells, especially on some of the frames where the comb is shaped irregularly.
Nice haul! You really are lucky that didn't turn into a robbing frenzy spinning it outdoors. 😊
VERY lucky and irresponsible.
Excellent content
Curious thing about goldenrod honey is that it really mellows a couple months after harvesting it. I agree that right after harvesting it has a bitter taste for sure!
Hello
Wow. Impressed you did this outside. I always heat up my shop and do it in there. Bee free. Also I freeze my entire honey super for at least a week to kill any random thing off. Doesn't hurt the honey.
Save yourself the wait and just use a bee brush.
@@biggtrux besides getting the bees off, what would a bee brush do? I freeze because you never know where the random small hive beetle is or anything like that. Plus I'm not in a hurry.
I’m gaining the confidence to try beekeeping. I have 300 questions, though. I’m hoping to do it at home as a hobby. Do you have any videos to help someone get started right? Your jeep makes me miss my Commando. Great videos!
The leaf blower usage is genius!
All I can think about is the honey trials from Bee Movie ever time I see bee keeping videos.
An exciting harvest from those hives there.
I think it sounds cool with all the bees and banging on the mic and all hahaha. That Amber honey is going to be good
Really interesting video. Thank you.
You should buy a Chinois for finer straining. Also using your tractor there are belt systems you can buy or make pretty easy that you connect a belt to the tractor and another to the centrifuge to give a motorized spin. You can also buy kitchen strainers that are rectangular and deep that would fit in that plastic tote. They would work much better than the refrigerator shelf. Easier clean up and less waste.
I'm so glad I found this vid I was always curious how people got honey from bee hives
Honey videos are my fave! 👍
Looks like you got some new queens coming your way.
I’m curious do any bees end up getting squished while removing or replacing the layers? Or do they mostly end up moving to where they’re safe?
I thought this too
Fascinating !
Thanks for sharing this insightful video. What do you do with the cappings after the remaining honey is extracted? Do you return it to the hives or is it melted and saved for its wax? Wishing you and your family a blessed week, gentle autumn weather and restful evenings. Peace brother
I'll probably render it into wax and my wife will make candles.
@@falllineridge awesome
6:13 Bee 🐝 screaming on Mic 😂😂
I live in the central valley in Ca. and know some people who rent out beehives to farmers who grow bee friendly crops. With your sawmill, you could build hives and rent them out for cash or part of the honey every year. Your investment would be minimal and the returns good. Just something to think about.
Maybe, but I'm pretty happy with my current setup.
19:43 caused me so much anxiety thinking it was about to spill 😂
I really miss having beehives. I had to give it up in the middle 80's traveling with work and the having two back surgeries. I would do it again now that I am retired but don't have the stuff to get started and can't afford it anymore. I go thru about a pint or two a month. I don't use sugar, instead I sweeten everything with honey.
When looking for honey in the hives, would a beekeeper normally check just one frame or every frame in a given box?
If you put a glass bowl into boiling water and melt the wax-honey capings. The honey and wax will separate giving you clean wax and pure honey. Completely bypassing the time waiting for the honey to leak from the caps naturally
Very Cool! I've never seen this done before. You could probably use a salad spinner to extract from your capping's.
Oof, they all sounded extremely aggressive. I'm just glad you understand bee language better than I do.
I have a question. That stuff you mash up and let drain. Isn't that more impure due to the black stuff, dust etc, that is stuck to it from the bee's feet as you mention earlier?
Thanks for sharing!
Was kinda funny hearing all of the bees hit the mic and make the little bonk noise
Can’t help but wonder if it’s feasible to replace the knob and arm on that spinning machine with a straight shaft to hook a cordless drill to it. May make that part of the job easier.
That honey looks so good!
the Tangential Extractor is really cool! I just want to ask a few questions..
1. I'm rather curious of if its easy to clean or not?
2. do you squeegee the sides of it to get that last bit of honey, just let it drip all down, or just ignore what's left on the sides entirely?
3. I've seen some people make wax candles and such with the wax cappings, is that common practice among many/all bee keepers? or just a select few?
4. how do you know how much honey you should leave for the bees for the winter? is there some sort of math involved, or by general feel?
All you have to do is leave the items that have honey on them near the bees and they will clean it for you and even put it back into the hive that can be harvested again. The rule of thumb is to only take a slide if it is 80% full. Even if they don't have honey left you can still feed them manually, but as he said honey is the best for them. So I assume he just knows his bees well and knows how much to leave them based on intuition
You could probably make a metal frame to put your cappings into so that you can spin them at the end and extract the honey.
If you spin a little slower the comb doesnt break down meaning less repairs for bees to do before storing honey. Equals more time for honey
Came to your channel for the beekeeping videos and stayed for everything else. I feel like your bee keeping videos are the most digestible and enjoyable. Hoping for some new bee videos soon 🤞🏼
Thanks!
This is amazing, great work !
That’s a lot of honey
I wish I was a bee. It seems so cozy
Hi there son from Los Angeles,California!!! I want to say thank you for sharing a video of you and how you make magic with being a forger of honey as well as how great it is to see a bee collector in an georgious community and area. You have something unique, rare, and awesome that you do with your time. We enjoyed seeing you at your best. Thank you for sharing and caring for honey bees. May I ask Which region county and state is this?
Try using silk fence as a plastic mulch under your hive stands and you won't have to weed eat. Also seemed to help with hive beetles... Just a thought.
Slowmo string trimming...truly an artform.
Nice harvest of honey.
The have repairs should be ASMR videos ngl. The bee sounds are so calming.
That was a tasty and very informative episode. Yummmm.
I took off the hand crank and attached my cordless drill on low it works great!
Never seen this process, thanks very interesting...from so cal.
Very well spoken
Any suggestions on cleaning wax from strainer after use? Water hose didn’t do much.
I'm sure there is a way to hook a drill to the centrifuge. You mention that the cappings in the older frames are from the bees dirty feet. Do you wash those cappings before you process the frames / mash up the cappings so you don't get dirty honey?
Tranks! Nice haul!
Do you have a video where you show how you reset a frame after harvesting the honey from it?
Sweet Gold, Love the honey harvest vids
Nice looking honey, it made my mouth water.
The little donks when they hit the mic are everything to me.