Hi Jason, Thanks for the clarification on the use of this product (I just bought mine today from C-Cell :)), As it is more efficient to put the new super under the full one with the escape board between, i may do it this way instead but thanks for the fundamentals!
I have never used an escape board of any kind until this one and I was very impressed. So your triangle escape board did not work too well? How long did you wait? Was there possible an entrance above it?
Jason Chrisman I waited about 36 hours and there was no available entrance for them above the escape board. I think the trouble came for two reasons. First, the weather was pretty warm the night I had mine on, so the bees had no great incentive to travel down to the cluster, and my two hives have tons of bees, so they probably didn’t have enough room to move down even if they wanted to. In the past I’ve just done the shake and brush method, which is tedious, but effective. I only have two hives at this point, so it isn’t that bad. I might try a fume board next year and see how I like that method.
Hey JC, Mary. I make my own double triangle escapes. They work about the same as the Ceracell it would appear. This would be a great alternative if you couldn't make your own though. Mary get some Fischers bee quick, lay a old t-shirt on top of the uppermost super. Spray it with Fischers. The Fischers is all natural essential oils and won't harm your bees or honey but it does help them get to moving out. Thanks for the review JC
It would be interesting to see this tested on a hot summer day. Closing off the top of the hive to air flow will the hive over heat? Might need to put a screened top vent to keep it cool?
Good points but I don't think the bee escape stopped much air flow, it's very well vented. Did you see the slits in it? I think if there was any resistance the bees would just beard or do more fanning at the entrance.
Sorry I was not clear with my comment. Do you happen to know if the manufacturer tested this under worse case scenario? Worse case a new beekeeper with a new hive (well sealed to air currents) and owner painted the hive dark colors. His hive is in direct sunlight all day, he puts the bee escape on in the morning closing off the top and plans on coming back in 24 hours. And of course it gets super hot that day and clear skies! Can the hive get hot enough to harm the bees, does it need a screened vented top? Or maybe the manufacture did test this and perhaps they found the bees are not harmed and the escape even works better in hot weather because the heat pushes the bees down in the hive? Any mention of any of this in the instruction manual that came with it?
I'm doing the same thing kind of getting away from the honey and focus on queens and nuc this year I'll keep a few for honey just for the people that has been buying it for the past 10 years. Look forward to next spring
I still had 200 pounds of honey left from last year so I didn't harvest the first drop this year. It was nice not buying sugar to feed before winter due to not harvesting. In the future though, I will do like you and keep a couple to pull honey from. Have you started to sell nucs yet?
Jason Chrisman no not yet on the Nucs but I did sell a few queens to a local guy this year. I'm focusing on queens mostly but I will sale a few Nucs . I left the fall honey on them last year and I'm doing the same this year. I got a phone call last Saturday from a guy wanting sale out so I'm going look at all of it next weekend that should give me enough to do a lot of nuc but i got to go check it out
Nice! Have you ever bought used equipment before? I would avoid and thing that is painted or torched on the inside. That is a sign of AFB. Best of luck!
I actually met his mother at an antique festival on Saturday. She noticed I had a Cabarrus County Beekeepers Association hat on. We struck up a little conversation about her son and he called me on Monday.
Hey buddy i live in nky. And it got cold all of sudden but what do you recommend i do to get my bees ready for winter. Cause were basically in the same zone. This is my first year. And i have two brood boxs on there but they dont really fill it should i take it from them or will they be alright with the extra space
Hello JC! Can u say where i can buy nice and good beehive without bees? I made yesterday a Swarm trap and i will put it in the next summer so i will need a new hive for them
Hello, Glad to hear your interested in keeping bees. Now do you realize the percentage rate of actually catching a swarm is low? If you have a lot of feral honey bees, then that will slightly increase your chances. Another way to increase the odds is more traps and a good lure. Where are you located? What kinda of a hive would you like?
Thanks for sharing, like the looks of that. Do you have Small Hive Beetles? wonder if they would take advantage of the bees being gone form the suppers? I know its only 24 hours but they work fast in hot weather.
Hey Ronald, My opinion of any products discussed in my videos is not persuaded regardless if there is freebies or a payment is involved, I am sharing my honest thoughts. If you seen my video on the top nuc feeder, you may have noticed I pointed out some things I would like to see added. I speak about the products the way I see them and I hope it's helpful to everyone who follows and uses them.
No worries. I believe you. Just noticed a recent increase in beekeeping supply companies using folks that post videos to sample their products. It is a clever way to get products in front of a pretty select demographic.
Ron, You are very right about companies going through video creators to reach a new crowd but it's not limited to beekeeping. It's a really good idea on the companies part and it helps the creator expand into new things. I really don't see any down sides to it as along as the creators are honest with their demonstrations. I know it's funny to get a package and not know what it contains except it's bee related.
Am I missing something?Evertime I looked into their stuff the shipping is ten times more than the product, I got a quote for feeders and it was over $100 shipping,am I going about it all wrong?The feeders were like $7.99 each if I remember right ,they got cool stuff ,but....
You must be going to Ceracell toget quotes? There is a few places in the US that sells their products. Check with BlyTheWood Beekeeping Supply, Amazon and Pierco. I know the shipping is crazy from over the pond. Best of luck!
Raw honey with source information, videos etc can make a tidy sum. People are becoming more conscious of where their food is coming from and how it is being produced.
Nice work Ceracell...cheers from NZ and happy beekeeping
Hi Jason, Thanks for the clarification on the use of this product (I just bought mine today from C-Cell :)), As it is more efficient to put the new super under the full one with the escape board between, i may do it this way instead but thanks for the fundamentals!
That is pretty slick! When Ceracell products are more readily available this would be a nice tool to add to my operation.
I think you'd like it for sure. It definitely made removing supers very easy.
I am impressed I would just want to buy just the little escape cone say two hundred
Good one Jason. I really like the idea and principal on how these escapes work. thanks, and Bee Safe. Tim
These Ceracell escape board and feeders can ordered here in the states. Just bought mine at Blythewood Bee Company
Looks good!
Looks like it worked a little better than the triangle escape I used this fall. Thanks for the video!
I have never used an escape board of any kind until this one and I was very impressed. So your triangle escape board did not work too well? How long did you wait? Was there possible an entrance above it?
Jason Chrisman I waited about 36 hours and there was no available entrance for them above the escape board. I think the trouble came for two reasons. First, the weather was pretty warm the night I had mine on, so the bees had no great incentive to travel down to the cluster, and my two hives have tons of bees, so they probably didn’t have enough room to move down even if they wanted to. In the past I’ve just done the shake and brush method, which is tedious, but effective. I only have two hives at this point, so it isn’t that bad. I might try a fume board next year and see how I like that method.
Hey JC, Mary. I make my own double triangle escapes. They work about the same as the Ceracell it would appear. This would be a great alternative if you couldn't make your own though. Mary get some Fischers bee quick, lay a old t-shirt on top of the uppermost super. Spray it with Fischers. The Fischers is all natural essential oils and won't harm your bees or honey but it does help them get to moving out. Thanks for the review JC
Loving the new products
Awesome video though i love all your videos you always explain everything really good
What a great idea to use cattle ear tags on your hives
Yes, I've been using them for years and they work great.
It would be interesting to see this tested on a hot summer day. Closing off the top of the hive to air flow will the hive over heat? Might need to put a screened top vent to keep it cool?
Good points but I don't think the bee escape stopped much air flow, it's very well vented. Did you see the slits in it? I think if there was any resistance the bees would just beard or do more fanning at the entrance.
Sorry I was not clear with my comment. Do you happen to know if the manufacturer tested this under worse case scenario? Worse case a new beekeeper with a new hive (well sealed to air currents) and owner painted the hive dark colors. His hive is in direct sunlight all day, he puts the bee escape on in the morning closing off the top and plans on coming back in 24 hours. And of course it gets super hot that day and clear skies! Can the hive get hot enough to harm the bees, does it need a screened vented top? Or maybe the manufacture did test this and perhaps they found the bees are not harmed and the escape even works better in hot weather because the heat pushes the bees down in the hive? Any mention of any of this in the instruction manual that came with it?
Very interesting, educational.
I'm doing the same thing kind of getting away from the honey and focus on queens and nuc this year I'll keep a few for honey just for the people that has been buying it for the past 10 years. Look forward to next spring
I still had 200 pounds of honey left from last year so I didn't harvest the first drop this year. It was nice not buying sugar to feed before winter due to not harvesting. In the future though, I will do like you and keep a couple to pull honey from.
Have you started to sell nucs yet?
Jason Chrisman no not yet on the Nucs but I did sell a few queens to a local guy this year. I'm focusing on queens mostly but I will sale a few Nucs . I left the fall honey on them last year and I'm doing the same this year. I got a phone call last Saturday from a guy wanting sale out so I'm going look at all of it next weekend that should give me enough to do a lot of nuc but i got to go check it out
Nice! Have you ever bought used equipment before? I would avoid and thing that is painted or torched on the inside. That is a sign of AFB. Best of luck!
Yeah all this is new and the state inspector is coming out to check everything
Does it also act as a queen excluder
No. It's only to remove bees from honey supers so the beekeeper can harvest the honey in them.
Great video. What a coincidence that I spoke to Kyle Harmon Ceracell North America Manager today. He lives close to me.
Thanks! Did you speak to Kyle before this video was released? Just curious.
I actually met his mother at an antique festival on Saturday. She noticed I had a Cabarrus County Beekeepers Association hat on. We struck up a little conversation about her son and he called me on Monday.
Boy that is a coincidence! lol Small world!
I buy some of my stuff from Ceracell, I live in Auckland New Zealand.
Hey buddy i live in nky. And it got cold all of sudden but what do you recommend i do to get my bees ready for winter. Cause were basically in the same zone. This is my first year. And i have two brood boxs on there but they dont really fill it should i take it from them or will they be alright with the extra space
When you doing the video of the homemade pro vap 110?
Not until over winter. I know a lot of people are excited about it but just bee patient.
Can you go ahead and post the pars we will need so we can have it ready to build when video hits!
The parts are in my Amazon store. Link to store is in all my recent videos.
Hello JC! Can u say where i can buy nice and good beehive without bees? I made yesterday a Swarm trap and i will put it in the next summer so i will need a new hive for them
Hello, Glad to hear your interested in keeping bees. Now do you realize the percentage rate of actually catching a swarm is low? If you have a lot of feral honey bees, then that will slightly increase your chances. Another way to increase the odds is more traps and a good lure. Where are you located? What kinda of a hive would you like?
@@JCsBees i live in Latvia.. its small country in Europa, i have 1hive
Thanks for sharing, like the looks of that. Do you have Small Hive Beetles? wonder if they would take advantage of the bees being gone form the suppers? I know its only 24 hours but they work fast in hot weather.
Great video man. Hey are those hives by a persimmon tree? Mine make the same peanut butter looking propolis.
Did you get paid for this Jason...or were these given to you or discounted?
Hey Ronald,
My opinion of any products discussed in my videos is not persuaded regardless if there is freebies or a payment is involved, I am sharing my honest thoughts. If you seen my video on the top nuc feeder, you may have noticed I pointed out some things I would like to see added. I speak about the products the way I see them and I hope it's helpful to everyone who follows and uses them.
No worries. I believe you. Just noticed a recent increase in beekeeping supply companies using folks that post videos to sample their products. It is a clever way to get products in front of a pretty select demographic.
Ron,
You are very right about companies going through video creators to reach a new crowd but it's not limited to beekeeping. It's a really good idea on the companies part and it helps the creator expand into new things. I really don't see any down sides to it as along as the creators are honest with their demonstrations. I know it's funny to get a package and not know what it contains except it's bee related.
I’m in the Griveport / Obetz area. Could I get some hands on experience with ya? Maybe even hold the camera?
I'm 50 miles away but if your whiling to drive that far then sure, let's do it!
Jason Chrisman I just got out of the hospital with 3 infections in my blood. Give me time to heal up. 614-506-6190
Am I missing something?Evertime I looked into their stuff the shipping is ten times more than the product, I got a quote for feeders and it was over $100 shipping,am I going about it all wrong?The feeders were like $7.99 each if I remember right ,they got cool stuff ,but....
You must be going to Ceracell toget quotes? There is a few places in the US that sells their products. Check with BlyTheWood Beekeeping Supply, Amazon and Pierco. I know the shipping is crazy from over the pond. Best of luck!
@@JCsBees thanks, I got a SWEET hive from Blythewood I'll check it out
Hmmm....theres a lot of money in beekeeping. I just gotta figure out how to get some of it back. Maybe invest some in Ceracell...thanks for the video.
Raw honey with source information, videos etc can make a tidy sum. People are becoming more conscious of where their food is coming from and how it is being produced.
Now I gotta spend more money. :)
Well you don't have too but I think you would be happy with the purchase. You do like your top hive feeders, right?
Thanks JC for a "plain english" report.
Didn't have much choice.......it's the only language I know. 😃
Glad you enjoyed it!
Leaf blower or whatever starts a feeding frenzy at times ... bee escape doesn't do that .... the empty super should go under the escape board id think
How can the bees think that you are a bear, if the bees never seen a bear?
30 bucks each dude...whew