Hi John. I’ve really enjoyed your videos, I watched them all last year during lockdown and inspired me to join a local association course and get my own first hive. I’m looking forward to following your routine in opening up the hive after winter 👍
Hi Neil, happy you have a hive, and very pleased that you enjoyed watching my Beekeeping activities, this year should be very interesting for you having a colony that will thrive this year and produce lots of honey for you, maybe you will get some Queen cells and you’ll be able to have a second colony then , it is so good that you’ve joined an association, lots of people will tell you lots of different things, regarding the best way to keep Bees, eventually you will find the way that suits you best. There’s not always a right way or a wrong way keeping bees , just someone’s opinion lol 😂 John 👍
Hi John Great tips on the honey show prep. especially the colour attributes, we've never showed but do have an awsome wildflower honey. Thank you yet again for the knowledge share. I would like to agree with your comment that the bees like to have a landing board. We have Abelo poly hives and IMO the landing board is not deep enough. Reason for the comment :- After many hours observing them, especially around hatching out times or after a rainy spell having a cleansing flight, we noticed that when the bees return to a busy entrance, lots fell off and landed on the floor. When it gets late in the afternoon and they're getting cool, they just tended to hide or would have died on the floor overnight. So we used to go out and collect them, keep them indoors in a critter tub overnight and release the next day. To fix the issue, as a trial we added a piece of carboard under the entrance and found that they tended to land on that and walk in. Ones that fell off, landed on the cardboard and walked in, instead of potentially dying overnight on the floor. Take care and keep up the good work. Hi to Lynne :-)
Hi Darren , I am very pleased with your comment as the same thing Happens to wooden national hives with no landing boards, so you have put that comment over to anyone reading very well and I thank you for it it will help somebody I am sure, Nice to know I have a like minded beekeeper out there 👍
That was a great video, don't think I'd have the patience or skill to show my honey. I agree with the feeders and the hive tools and you've given me food for thought about the excluders, we have the plastic ones as I thought easier to clean, just pour boiling water over, but I think the one you use is much better, think we'll make the change next year. Please video at the honey show and good luck
Thanks for commenting I still use some plastic excluders as I already have them , I will try and film at the honey show but it’s normally noisy there and some people don’t like being on camera, don’t think I will win anything but good fun , John
Hi John hope you're all keeping well. Just wanted to say hello and wish you great success this year with all your colonies as we approach spring and feel the eager anticipation to get to see our queen's again. Never give up & more importantly enjoy every moment !
Hi Alvin, Nice to hear from you, the spring weather is certainly making me feel happy in myself as things are not always easy, really looking forward to playing around with the Bees, hope all your beekeeping goes really good this year with lots of spring honey John
Hi John I have metal queen excluders and plastic and now prefer the plastic easy to store and transport and clean,I do have the curated scraper for the metal excluder but find it a pain.what I have found with the plastic excluders is roll a little bit of wax up in a ball and place it on top of the middle frame,place the plastic excluder down push down leaving some bee space, the bees can now run around under the excluder no problem. I have metal excluders with wood surround and they build so much wax on them,with the plastic very very little hope this is a top tip every day is a school day when it comes to bee keeping🐝🐝
Great Simon , this comment will help me and others it’s always nice to hear how other beekeepers do things , hope all is well with your bees , kind regards from John 🤓👍
Another excellent video from you John. Great tips for beginners, just love your enthusiasm. I will certainly promote your video with people I am mentoring. Good luck with youe entries in the honey show.
That was very interesting John, thank you. 👍I too have a similar old extractor given to me by the farmer where I keep the bees but alas I just use it as a beer table in the garden its rather rusty but still salvageable. I would thimk it would need grit blasting and galvanizing of some sort, so a metal treatment works would be the way to go there are plenty about generally doing bike and car parts and all sorts. As Ive never had much time Ive always let the bees raise there own queens, always a bit hit and mis. Yes I do like the landing boards and I should get some but always stick with the flat metal xcluders as easy to scrape clean. The last 3 years I have just used fondant to feed as that too seems easier than syrup and not had any problems. Thanks Kind regards.
Hi Dave , interesting comment about your extractor coming from the Farmer as many years ago that is where I got mine from the loft where he lives it was his dads originally, mine is a two frame extractor it was very helpful and easy to get the odd frame here and there of honey , i’ve had some comments regarding sending it to a factory to have it foodgrade powder coated Think I will do something with it , I think with beekeeping equipment we all use different things and as long as it works it’s fine that’s the good thing about beekeeping we all have our own preferences and that’s why it’s an art form , happy wild camping do you have fun from john
Hi John, I love to watch your videos they are so informative. My bees are just about ready for winter, it seems such a long time to the start of next season.
We loved that insight in to the preparation for the honey show, I am looking forward to see how the honey in those jars is judged , I know it’s very special. The little bee hive candles reminded me of an episode of Jack Hargreaves, he showed this particular hive being made from straw and hazel bark, it was in two parts , the bottom and the top for the honey retrieval, as I’m very sure you already know. We enjoyed watching this video, see you soon.
Hi, another informative video. I have nit entered any honey shows yet. I agree with all your recommendations as well, I do prefer the maismore nuc, as I find bees build comb in the Payne’s feeder. Also thorns now make a plastic queen excluder with bee space on one side, Xp plus I think it’s called.
Thanks for the video, I hope the bosses eyes are on the mend still! Your old extractor is very nice, you would need to confirm but I think if you had it stove enamelled it would be fine. A lot of camping crockery is enamelled and I believe is maybe still done in England.
Brilliant thanks for the information so help, I have looked on the web now re-enamelling it also says powder coating is good as well, there is a company near me that does foodgrade powder covering what a surprise I’ll get onto it soon as possible thanks again John
What a great video very informative,Dom from the repair shop is a beekeeper and has a channel on here, I remember an episode where he had an ice-cream maker re coated if you message him he might be able to help you.
Loved those candles you made. I thought I saw some creamed honey there also. What is the best temperature for curing the creamed honey? Do you do any flavored creamed honey? I agree with rwdkai that enamel would be a great way to extend the usefulness of the extractor. How many years have you kept bees? This is only my third year so I am a rookie still learning. Thanks for the video John. Give Lin my best and hope her vision is still improving.
Hi Russel, The honey on the side in the video was crystallised honey not creamed, I can’t help you with your question on creamed honey as I’ve only attempted to do it myself once , my customers seem to be happy with granulated so I stick with that now I looked on the web now for enamelling remy extractor apparently I can also get it powder coated Foodgrade thanks for your comment and help it was very helpful , I see you’ve been beekeeping now for three years congratulations those are the most difficult I believe as many people pack in beekeeping on the second or third year, It will only become easier and easier from now on I hope that all your bees make it through the winter and you have a fantastic time with them next year, kind regards from John
Okay thanks 😊 the weather has been very wet and windy here I will be checking again tomorrow to see if they have enough stores left to last until end of next month 👍 hope you have a lovely beekeeping hear 2022 from John
Hi John, Thanks for making the videos very inspirational. My bees have finally made enough honey this year for me to get a honey house. What are the dimensions of your honey house? Looks very impressive! Thanks, Chris.
Hi Chris, my honey house is basically a shed, it’s all I could afford, dimensions are 10 x 14‘ feet , I must say it’s been a lot easier extracting honey in the shed / honey house rather than in our kitchen, I did keep the door shut to stop any Bees coming in, so some kind of vent in the shed is a good idea for air et cetera John
Hi Alan, sorry for the delay in answering your email, I am fine and so is my wife thank you, we have been away travelling for almost a year , I did sell quite a few of my beehives as I would not be about much, I would never give up beekeeping I do have some Hives still, also decided best not to do so many videos and spend my time with my wife as much as possible travelling enjoying my life , I will be about a bit more this year so may do some more videos, happy beekeeping to you john
Hi John. I’ve really enjoyed your videos, I watched them all last year during lockdown and inspired me to join a local association course and get my own first hive. I’m looking forward to following your routine in opening up the hive after winter 👍
Hi Neil, happy you have a hive, and very pleased that you enjoyed watching my Beekeeping activities, this year should be very interesting for you having a colony that will thrive this year and produce lots of honey for you, maybe you will get some Queen cells and you’ll be able to have a second colony then , it is so good that you’ve joined an association, lots of people will tell you lots of different things, regarding the best way to keep Bees, eventually you will find the way that suits you best. There’s not always a right way or a wrong way keeping bees , just someone’s opinion lol 😂 John 👍
Thank you. Have a honey show Thursday night. Your tips are helpful!
Great hope you do well , 🤓👍
Hi John I hope that you and Linn are well and your bees are surviving the winter.
Yes thanks Ken . Bees okay so far, looking forward to spring hope you are well also 🤓👌
Very interesting bee keeping. Thank you. John. Fantastic info, to me!
Thanks Robert , pleased you liked it , thanks for commenting, John
Hi John
Great tips on the honey show prep. especially the colour attributes, we've never showed but do have an awsome wildflower honey.
Thank you yet again for the knowledge share.
I would like to agree with your comment that the bees like to have a landing board.
We have Abelo poly hives and IMO the landing board is not deep enough.
Reason for the comment :- After many hours observing them, especially around hatching out times or after a rainy spell having a cleansing flight, we noticed that when the bees return to a busy entrance, lots fell off and landed on the floor. When it gets late in the afternoon and they're getting cool, they just tended to hide or would have died on the floor overnight. So we used to go out and collect them, keep them indoors in a critter tub overnight and release the next day. To fix the issue, as a trial we added a piece of carboard under the entrance and found that they tended to land on that and walk in. Ones that fell off, landed on the cardboard and walked in, instead of potentially dying overnight on the floor.
Take care and keep up the good work. Hi to Lynne :-)
Hi Darren , I am very pleased with your comment as the same thing Happens to wooden national hives with no landing boards, so you have put that comment over to anyone reading very well and I thank you for it it will help somebody I am sure, Nice to know I have a like minded beekeeper out there 👍
@@johnbeemansaunders6567 hi John
Thank you for your kind words.
Take care
Darren
That was a great video, don't think I'd have the patience or skill to show my honey. I agree with the feeders and the hive tools and you've given me food for thought about the excluders, we have the plastic ones as I thought easier to clean, just pour boiling water over, but I think the one you use is much better, think we'll make the change next year. Please video at the honey show and good luck
Thanks for commenting I still use some plastic excluders as I already have them , I will try and film at the honey show but it’s normally noisy there and some people don’t like being on camera, don’t think I will win anything but good fun , John
Hi John hope you're all keeping well. Just wanted to say hello and wish you great success this year with all your colonies as we approach spring and feel the eager anticipation to get to see our queen's again. Never give up & more importantly enjoy every moment !
Hi Alvin, Nice to hear from you, the spring weather is certainly making me feel happy in myself as things are not always easy, really looking forward to playing around with the Bees, hope all your beekeeping goes really good this year with lots of spring honey John
Hi John I have metal queen excluders and plastic and now prefer the plastic easy to store and transport and clean,I do have the curated scraper for the metal excluder but find it a pain.what I have found with the plastic excluders is roll a little bit of wax up in a ball and place it on top of the middle frame,place the plastic excluder down push down leaving some bee space, the bees can now run around under the excluder no problem. I have metal excluders with wood surround and they build so much wax on them,with the plastic very very little hope this is a top tip every day is a school day when it comes to bee keeping🐝🐝
Great Simon , this comment will help me and others it’s always nice to hear how other beekeepers do things , hope all is well with your bees , kind regards from John 🤓👍
Another excellent video from you John. Great tips for beginners, just love your enthusiasm. I will certainly promote your video with people I am mentoring. Good luck with youe entries in the honey show.
Thanks Andy, I managed to get first place in the candles but not the honey next year I’ll have a go 🤓👍
That was very interesting John, thank you. 👍I too have a similar old extractor given to me by the farmer where I keep the bees but alas I just use it as a beer table in the garden its rather rusty but still salvageable. I would thimk it would need grit blasting and galvanizing of some sort, so a metal treatment works would be the way to go there are plenty about generally doing bike and car parts and all sorts. As Ive never had much time Ive always let the bees raise there own queens, always a bit hit and mis.
Yes I do like the landing boards and I should get some but always stick with the flat metal xcluders as easy to scrape clean. The last 3 years I have just used fondant to feed as that too seems easier than syrup and not had any problems.
Thanks
Kind regards.
Hi Dave , interesting comment about your extractor coming from the Farmer as many years ago that is where I got mine from the loft where he lives it was his dads originally, mine is a two frame extractor it was very helpful and easy to get the odd frame here and there of honey , i’ve had some comments regarding sending it to a factory to have it foodgrade powder coated Think I will do something with it , I think with beekeeping equipment we all use different things and as long as it works it’s fine that’s the good thing about beekeeping we all have our own preferences and that’s why it’s an art form , happy wild camping do you have fun from john
@@johnbeemansaunders6567 Cheers John
Hi John, I love to watch your videos they are so informative. My bees are just about ready for winter, it seems such a long time to the start of next season.
Hi Ken it makes me happy you liked the video, we both look forward to next year beekeeping 👍
We loved that insight in to the preparation for the honey show, I am looking forward to see how the honey in those jars is judged , I know it’s very special.
The little bee hive candles reminded me of an episode of Jack Hargreaves, he showed this particular hive being made from straw and hazel bark, it was in two parts , the bottom and the top for the honey retrieval, as I’m very sure you already know.
We enjoyed watching this video, see you soon.
Jack Hargreaves was a lovely man and thanks for associating me with him he certainly inspired me and you as we were going up, 👍
Hi, another informative video.
I have nit entered any honey shows yet.
I agree with all your recommendations as well, I do prefer the maismore nuc, as I find bees build comb in the Payne’s feeder.
Also thorns now make a plastic queen excluder with bee space on one side, Xp plus I think it’s called.
Hi Barry, thank you so much for your helpful comment, I will look into getting one of the thorns plastic queen excluders myself 👍
Lovely video, some stunning items you've put together there :D
Glad you enjoyed! happy beekeeping from John
Thanks for the video, I hope the bosses eyes are on the mend still! Your old extractor is very nice, you would need to confirm but I think if you had it stove enamelled it would be fine. A lot of camping crockery is enamelled and I believe is maybe still done in England.
Brilliant thanks for the information so help, I have looked on the web now re-enamelling it also says powder coating is good as well, there is a company near me that does foodgrade powder covering what a surprise I’ll get onto it soon as possible thanks again John
Great information, thank you 😊
Please will you do a little video on how you make your own wax bee cups for grafting into?
Hi Ben , okay will do one soon 👍
What a great video very informative,Dom from the repair shop is a beekeeper and has a channel on here, I remember an episode where he had an ice-cream maker re coated if you message him he might be able to help you.
Thanks Paul , could you give me the name of his channel 👍
@@johnbeemansaunders6567 hi it's Dominic chinea
thanks for the tips - helpful
Great thank you too, 🤓👍
Loved those candles you made.
I thought I saw some creamed honey there also. What is the best temperature for curing the creamed honey? Do you do any flavored creamed honey?
I agree with rwdkai that enamel would be a great way to extend the usefulness of the extractor. How many years have you kept bees? This is only my third year so I am a rookie still learning.
Thanks for the video John. Give Lin my best and hope her vision is still improving.
Hi Russel, The honey on the side in the video was crystallised honey not creamed, I can’t help you with your question on creamed honey as I’ve only attempted to do it myself once , my customers seem to be happy with granulated so I stick with that now
I looked on the web now for enamelling remy extractor apparently I can also get it powder coated Foodgrade thanks for your comment and help it was very helpful ,
I see you’ve been beekeeping now for three years congratulations those are the most difficult I believe as many people pack in beekeeping on the second or third year,
It will only become easier and easier from now on I hope that all your bees make it through the winter and you have a fantastic time with them next year, kind regards from John
How are you hives doing? Our four have been out flying so hopefully have survived the winter🤞
Okay thanks 😊 the weather has been very wet and windy here I will be checking again tomorrow to see if they have enough stores left to last until end of next month 👍 hope you have a lovely beekeeping hear 2022 from John
Hi John, Thanks for making the videos very inspirational. My bees have finally made enough honey this year for me to get a honey house. What are the dimensions of your honey house? Looks very impressive! Thanks, Chris.
Hi Chris, my honey house is basically a shed, it’s all I could afford, dimensions are 10 x 14‘ feet , I must say it’s been a lot easier extracting honey in the shed / honey house rather than in our kitchen, I did keep the door shut to stop any Bees coming in, so some kind of vent in the shed is a good idea for air et cetera John
Hi John, hope you are ok, could you please let me know how you are, I notice you haven’t been on here much lately. Alan
Hi Alan, sorry for the delay in answering your email, I am fine and so is my wife thank you, we have been away travelling for almost a year , I did sell quite a few of my beehives as I would not be about much, I would never give up beekeeping I do have some Hives still, also decided best not to do so many videos and spend my time with my wife as much as possible travelling enjoying my life , I will be about a bit more this year so may do some more videos, happy beekeeping to you john
John,I haven't seen any videos ,from you for awhile, have you been doing any new videos lately cheers Keith ☺️
Hi Keith, no new videos at the moment I will start again soon had a winter break 👍🤓
Thank you John stay safe , we in Australia are still in middle of our honey season Autumn is a month off cheers Keith 🙂🙂❤️
@@keithsteele5580 really cold hear and raining two months to spring can’t wait 😛
I've looked at the results can't see your name anywhere did you win anything I know it's so difficult when the so many entries.
thanks our local honey show is on 30th October so two more days regards John
Hi Jess, i managed to get a first place with my candles but not my honey next time maybe, regards John.
How did the honey show go?
Could of been better but I did manage to get first place with my candles , honey 🍯 unfortunately didn’t get any prises always next year 👍
@@johnbeemansaunders6567 well done on the candles, you know how good your honey is, you don't need a prize to tell you that. 😉
J’peg tool! 😂
Pleased we both like them, 🤓👍