Wood pellets by the pallet! For smokers!! I can't even comprehend that scale. These videos are one of my favorite part about Sunday mornings. Bob's teaching is so very good. Thank you Mr. Binnie, you are a treasure.
Always motivated to see the professionalism in your beekeeping activities. May be you should consider visiting this part of the world (Kenya) during your holiday time and experience interacting with stinging bees😂😂. I have 30 langstrath beehives since 2023 and it has been a good learning curve😊.
Thanks for the videos!The spotted lanternfly has really changed the dynamics of beekeeping for me the last couple years (eastern panhandle of WV). They start up quite heavily the end of July through the first hard frost/freeze). The bees make a dark, cloudy honeydew. Definitely not my favorite but luckily some folks like it. Have to pay close attention to not mix it with my good honey. I have to keep on supers & I’m getting swarming through August. They really focus on “Tree of Heaven”. I’d suggest getting rid of any of those if you have any in your area.
Going up North on vacation towards the end of September. We have a pellet stove. Hopefully we will be able to find some pine straw to bring back and using for our smokers. As always another interesting and fun video, Thank You!
Thanks for your videos Bob. Your information and insite is so valuable. On the topic of comb rotation i wanted to share something about that. I am currently involved in a study where i am collecting pollen this entire season and then it is then sent to a lab in europe and analyzed. The colonies im collecting from are in the middle of 3,000 acres that is privately owned and chemical free. The bees have still managed to pickup glysophate and multiple fungicides this spring. To me this really backs up why comb roatation is so important because if these bees are finding chemicals in areas that arent heavy ag then bees near ag are probably picking up even more.
Well since all my cypress trees fell in tornado I might have to try those wood pellets. Thanks for sharing Bob. Thanks john for smoker school. Hope to see yall soon.
I like your out door office Bob😁I think us beekeepers get he best job sites.👍 Randy of Tar Heel Bee Keeper. Sent me some Sourwood honey, it is the first time I have tasted that it's an interesting flavor. I liked it but I think I still haven't tasted a honey I like better then NW Blackberry. I am very interested in seeing how your propulis collection goes, my yard is in Fir trees and I also have a lot of Cedar around me. I noticed my bee make a good amount of propulis so I started some Caucasians this Spring to capitalize on it, maybe I guess we will see how well they do over Winter.
Hey Bob, I was wondering if this would be some good video content. Wondering if your water sources at your “good” yards are they ponds or creeks/rivers. And if that water has green algae or not? Let me know would you?!? Thanks for St. Joseph’s Island, Ontario Canada
@@bryanbetournay5557 The bees seem to prefer still water edges but honestly seem to have little problem using a stagnant urine and pooh filled cow footprint in a pasture filled with rain water. We have a plastic tote cut down to 12 inches near our home yard that fills with rain water which has plenty of algae in it and the bees work it constantly instead of going to a fresh running water source nearby.
@@bobbinnie9872 hummm lol my place has all of the things you listed as a great bee yard(purely by accident!) but my pond has a lot of green algae. And I’ve had really good bee with low losses, I don’t feel like I’m doing anything special?? My main reason for asking you is to see if you think this would have anything to do with a great colony. Algae would give to bees an alkaline water to work with which I think would help the overall health of the hive?!? No?
My smoker gets loaded with droppings off the square bales by my yard . I have alfalfa pellets but dont use them often . Im surprised all smokers dont have guards on them A cold spring ants and hail what a year . Now theres pasture legumes volunteer canola and an underseeded red clover thats starting to smell.and is taller than the canola nurse crop . The bugs can have whatever they collect now its going to get into the mid 80s this week so the nectar will flow . Great video 📹 🎉
I was surprised to see you putting feeders toward the outside of the pallet. I've seen other commercial beekeepers put them toward the inside so they can slide the box over to fill rather than removing it. I enjoyed the video. Thank you.
We don't slide the box over. With doubles we usually remove the first frame in the top box and put our feed nozzle into that empty space which is less disruptive. If we're wanting to have a glance at the cluster we would tilt the box up. If it's a single what you mention would be quicker. There seems to be pros and cobs to both.
The smoker with pellets are what I used when I had forty plus colonies. i could run all day, put the smoker in the metal box (prevent fires) and the next morning there would be a bit of smoke left to get started again. They are great for a lot of hives. Now that I only have a couple left I just get some pine needles and do a quick inspection and I'm done for the day. I'm actually heading out today to clean up and burn the dead outs. I'm suspecting pesticide contamination that I don't want in the hives.
In soap making we freeze it and then pulverize it in a blender. before adding it to the mix. For our personal use we just chew on a small piece for awhile and the swallow it. I have had great experiences using like it that for oncoming colds and sore throats and such.
I don’t know your thoughts on this, but I was using the equine pellets for horses for a couple of years and they worked really well. A bag lasted me a whole year. They look very similar to the wood pellets you have here.
I do like buckets for several reasons including the chemistry that occurs when metering out thin syrup like a moderate flow. I talk about this in our video "The Chemistry Behind Feeding Bees Part 1". ruclips.net/video/aN428TJpDuw/видео.html. This year we're going to need to put on weight fast when we get started and feeding with these feeders will do that efficiently, time and labor included.
I always appreciate you pointing out and naming what's in bloom. I'm a zone colder than you and there is a lot of overlap in what grows where I live. But my hills are lower elevation here in the Ozarks. I always learn something from your videos, thank you for sharing!
Interesting to see the apigaurd card still intact so well after treatment. Mine chew up the cards pretty quickly and usually its just mostly clear plastic film left after a week or two. I have about 20 predominantly carni hives for whats its worth. Seem interesting is all, maybe something to do with a house cleaning trait?
Could be. Our colonies are highly variable with these cards. Some of our colonies have no sign of them at all or just the plastic while others (mostly Caucasian) propolis them up to the extreme. The same with the oxalic pads.
Good day Bob. That's the same way I collected propolis. I wrote you once that we use a rim with a big opening on it and l pass the yards every week to cut off the propolis. Mine are selected for it and they start to steal it from ich other, so I do a regular pass. It has to be wider than 3/8 to work good and fast.. it's a good way to use those old bees before fall. I bet this way of collecting it wasn't known before you filmed the secret.. works much better than the rubber mats
@@bobbinnie9872 yap, this way you just need to cut it off and it's clean as it can be. I'm lucky to have the same buyers my father had.. and they buy all my pollen and propolis. I tried the mats and I agree with you. And I would need to have two for every hive we use...
I use a piece of deer horn to plug my smoker it works good like a cork and most of my bees would plug the heck out of that gap in two weeks lol in no time they propilize the apiguard tin pans down like crazy I prefer formic over it because of this reason lol
Hello Bob. This has been a very odd year. My bee’s here have been bringing in a little bit of nectar from somewhere also, and it’s usually a nectar dearth here. This time of year.
Bob can you please show how clean or if your bees tear down the comb when they rob ? I tried 2 frames last week and they tore down too much or maybe yellow jackets did that, thank you
They are already wrapped up and put away for this year. They do tear them down some but there seems to be plenty of comb left when they are done. We do put out a lot of combs for them to work on though.
Not yet. We haven't actually used them yet. I think some smaller colonies would benefit from something. I've been thinking of a narrow piece of 1/4 or 1/8 inch hardware cloth the length of the tube.
@@bobbinnie9872 so what I'm understanding is that their main flight path should be to the south. ? That helps because I have mine set up so I can dri e a truck between with half facing north & half facing south, but tree line is to north & water source & more open to south
@@NancyLawson-i8x That sounds good. What we look for is full southern exposure for as much sun as possible each day. In our area the cold winter weather comes down from the north by northwest and we try to block that wind with a tree line or building on that side and wide open to the south.
Good morning Bob and I always appreciate your Sunday morning insights on beekeeping. Do you have any opinion on using switchgrass pellets or do you just prefer the hardwood? Thank you.
I see you had 7 frames in a box with that feeder which I assume is supposed to only take up 2 frames, which would equal 9 frames. Aren't those feeders supposed to be designed to allow you to run 8 frames?
I have made soybean honey on numerous occasions when we migrated around but we don't do much of that anymore and there is very little of it in our area.
@@bobbinnie9872 thanks for getting back to me Bob. Up here in Northern Ohio there is a lot of soybean crop. I assume that the Farmers get a better price than they would for corn this year.
Electric bbq bricket starter. 4 charcoal brickets. Saw dust then wood pellets. Last hrs. I run to a lot of little yards. In so a lot of travel. Get flagged over all the time someone thinking truck is on fire.
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Wood pellets by the pallet! For smokers!! I can't even comprehend that scale. These videos are one of my favorite part about Sunday mornings. Bob's teaching is so very good. Thank you Mr. Binnie, you are a treasure.
Always motivated to see the professionalism in your beekeeping activities. May be you should consider visiting this part of the world (Kenya) during your holiday time and experience interacting with stinging bees😂😂. I have 30 langstrath beehives since 2023 and it has been a good learning curve😊.
Good morning Bob. Thank you as always for sharing your information. AlwaYs picking up a thing or 2
Sweet Autumn Clematis. I love this stuff. It is prolific, smells wonderful & the bees are all over it.
Thanks for the videos!The spotted lanternfly has really changed the dynamics of beekeeping for me the last couple years (eastern panhandle of WV). They start up quite heavily the end of July through the first hard frost/freeze). The bees make a dark, cloudy honeydew. Definitely not my favorite but luckily some folks like it. Have to pay close attention to not mix it with my good honey. I have to keep on supers & I’m getting swarming through August. They really focus on “Tree of Heaven”. I’d suggest getting rid of any of those if you have any in your area.
Thankyou Bob for making videos! Just love it, wanted to mention I take propolis daily and have had great results!
Going up North on vacation towards the end of September. We have a pellet stove. Hopefully we will be able to find some pine straw to bring back and using for our smokers. As always another interesting and fun video, Thank You!
Thanks for your videos Bob. Your information and insite is so valuable. On the topic of comb rotation i wanted to share something about that. I am currently involved in a study where i am collecting pollen this entire season and then it is then sent to a lab in europe and analyzed. The colonies im collecting from are in the middle of 3,000 acres that is privately owned and chemical free. The bees have still managed to pickup glysophate and multiple fungicides this spring. To me this really backs up why comb roatation is so important because if these bees are finding chemicals in areas that arent heavy ag then bees near ag are probably picking up even more.
Well since all my cypress trees fell in tornado I might have to try those wood pellets. Thanks for sharing Bob. Thanks john for smoker school. Hope to see yall soon.
I like your out door office Bob😁I think us beekeepers get he best job sites.👍
Randy of Tar Heel Bee Keeper. Sent me some Sourwood honey, it is the first time I have tasted that it's an interesting flavor. I liked it but I think I still haven't tasted a honey I like better then NW Blackberry.
I am very interested in seeing how your propulis collection goes, my yard is in Fir trees and I also have a lot of Cedar around me. I noticed my bee make a good amount of propulis so I started some Caucasians this Spring to capitalize on it, maybe I guess we will see how well they do over Winter.
Good Morning Bob and crew. Thanks for your video today. Love all your videos.
Thank you.
Hey Bob, I was wondering if this would be some good video content. Wondering if your water sources at your “good” yards are they ponds or creeks/rivers. And if that water has green algae or not? Let me know would you?!? Thanks for St. Joseph’s Island, Ontario Canada
@@bryanbetournay5557 The bees seem to prefer still water edges but honestly seem to have little problem using a stagnant urine and pooh filled cow footprint in a pasture filled with rain water. We have a plastic tote cut down to 12 inches near our home yard that fills with rain water which has plenty of algae in it and the bees work it constantly instead of going to a fresh running water source nearby.
@@bobbinnie9872 hummm lol my place has all of the things you listed as a great bee yard(purely by accident!) but my pond has a lot of green algae. And I’ve had really good bee with low losses, I don’t feel like I’m doing anything special??
My main reason for asking you is to see if you think this would have anything to do with a great colony. Algae would give to bees an alkaline water to work with which I think would help the overall health of the hive?!? No?
@@bryanbetournay5557 Could be but I don't know for sure.
Good morning sir! I enjoy the odds and ends, lots of little nuggets. Have a great week!
Thank you.
So do I!
My smoker gets loaded with droppings off the square bales by my yard . I have alfalfa pellets but dont use them often . Im surprised all smokers dont have guards on them
A cold spring ants and hail what a year . Now theres pasture legumes volunteer canola and an underseeded red clover thats starting to smell.and is taller than the canola nurse crop .
The bugs can have whatever they collect now its going to get into the mid 80s this week so the nectar will flow .
Great video 📹 🎉
I was surprised to see you putting feeders toward the outside of the pallet. I've seen other commercial beekeepers put them toward the inside so they can slide the box over to fill rather than removing it. I enjoyed the video. Thank you.
We don't slide the box over. With doubles we usually remove the first frame in the top box and put our feed nozzle into that empty space which is less disruptive. If we're wanting to have a glance at the cluster we would tilt the box up. If it's a single what you mention would be quicker. There seems to be pros and cobs to both.
Hola Bob usted es un Maestro me gusta mucho sus videos es un gusto de poder ver sus trabajos 🐝🐝👏👏👏👍👏
The smoker with pellets are what I used when I had forty plus colonies. i could run all day, put the smoker in the metal box (prevent fires) and the next morning there would be a bit of smoke left to get started again. They are great for a lot of hives.
Now that I only have a couple left I just get some pine needles and do a quick inspection and I'm done for the day. I'm actually heading out today to clean up and burn the dead outs. I'm suspecting pesticide contamination that I don't want in the hives.
Hey Bob, that is a C-130 Air Force plane. Got to ride on one in Kuwait.
Those hives look packed! Seeing 8 frames of brood has me nervous I won't be able to get enough food capped for winter in NC.
It's one of the drawbacks to these prolific brood laying lines. They don't know when to slow down in our area.
Funny, in NJ we've got sweet autumn clematis everywhere and I pretty much never see a bee on it
Silicone wine corks work great for plugging the smoker, when you are traveling from one yard to another.
Please share how you prepare and use propolis. We learn so much from your videos! Thank you for sharing
In soap making we freeze it and then pulverize it in a blender. before adding it to the mix. For our personal use we just chew on a small piece for awhile and the swallow it. I have had great experiences using like it that for oncoming colds and sore throats and such.
I don’t know your thoughts on this, but I was using the equine pellets for horses for a couple of years and they worked really well. A bag lasted me a whole year. They look very similar to the wood pellets you have here.
Morning Mr Bob, would you clarify why you use feeders in the box as well as buckets?
I do like buckets for several reasons including the chemistry that occurs when metering out thin syrup like a moderate flow. I talk about this in our video "The Chemistry Behind Feeding Bees Part 1". ruclips.net/video/aN428TJpDuw/видео.html. This year we're going to need to put on weight fast when we get started and feeding with these feeders will do that efficiently, time and labor included.
Mr. Binnie; either you are up far too early; or, I'm up far too late. Maybe a little of both :) Thank you for the great videos!
Hey, Bob. Do you think you would be able to ship any of your HDO lids before next spring?
We have them now depending on the quantity. If interested call the store at 706 782 6722.
I always appreciate you pointing out and naming what's in bloom. I'm a zone colder than you and there is a lot of overlap in what grows where I live. But my hills are lower elevation here in the Ozarks. I always learn something from your videos, thank you for sharing!
Even though I'm in the north east I like the identification lessons too
I'm at the Nantahala, that is the plane that buzzes my home, and my shop. I guess they head down the little t to Fontana, then go up the Nantahala.
Interesting to see the apigaurd card still intact so well after treatment. Mine chew up the cards pretty quickly and usually its just mostly clear plastic film left after a week or two. I have about 20 predominantly carni hives for whats its worth. Seem interesting is all, maybe something to do with a house cleaning trait?
Could be. Our colonies are highly variable with these cards. Some of our colonies have no sign of them at all or just the plastic while others (mostly Caucasian) propolis them up to the extreme. The same with the oxalic pads.
Good day Bob. That's the same way I collected propolis. I wrote you once that we use a rim with a big opening on it and l pass the yards every week to cut off the propolis. Mine are selected for it and they start to steal it from ich other, so I do a regular pass. It has to be wider than 3/8 to work good and fast.. it's a good way to use those old bees before fall.
I bet this way of collecting it wasn't known before you filmed the secret.. works much better than the rubber mats
I have a bunch of mats which I consider a big hassle. 👍
@@bobbinnie9872 I tried those mats years ago and don't like them at all. If I rebuild my apiary I'll give your idea a try
@@bobbinnie9872 yap, this way you just need to cut it off and it's clean as it can be. I'm lucky to have the same buyers my father had.. and they buy all my pollen and propolis.
I tried the mats and I agree with you. And I would need to have two for every hive we use...
Bob, how do you process or utilize the propolis for colds and such?
I use a piece of deer horn to plug my smoker it works good like a cork and most of my bees would plug the heck out of that gap in two weeks lol in no time they propilize the apiguard tin pans down like crazy I prefer formic over it because of this reason lol
Hello Bob. This has been a very odd year. My bee’s here have been bringing in a little bit of nectar from somewhere also, and it’s usually a nectar dearth here. This time of year.
I think it's fence post honey.😉
Did you give up on the propolis traps?
We still have them but this seems much easier for our purposes. Want to buy some used propolis traps?
@@bobbinnie9872 ha ha ha. Mine worked well for me this year, I still have it in the freezer though, need to get on that.
Good Morning Bob !
Good morning sir!
Bob can you please show how clean or if your bees tear down the comb when they rob ? I tried 2 frames last week and they tore down too much or maybe yellow jackets did that, thank you
They are already wrapped up and put away for this year. They do tear them down some but there seems to be plenty of comb left when they are done. We do put out a lot of combs for them to work on though.
What are the white strips laying on top of the frames
They are oxalic acid extended release pads. I talked about them in our recent video "Varroa Mite Treatments". ruclips.net/video/NvyKo8JiZs4/видео.html
@@bobbinnie9872 does the video have the recipe in it? I would like you to make some
@@NevadaBeeMan-nq3po We're close to Randy Oliver's. scientificbeekeeping.com/instructions-for-extended-release-oxalic-acid/
@@bobbinnie9872 thank you Bob!!
@@bobbinnie9872 Bob I have one more question who makes the best bee suits? I want to buy a good ventilated one
Did you get a chance to try the ladder floats in your div feeders ??
Not yet. We haven't actually used them yet. I think some smaller colonies would benefit from something. I've been thinking of a narrow piece of 1/4 or 1/8 inch hardware cloth the length of the tube.
I'm confused about "south-facing". Since it's a 4 way pallet, aren't they in 4 directions?
Although it's helpful to have each hive facing south, here was referring to the location itself. I could have explained better.
@@bobbinnie9872 so what I'm understanding is that their main flight path should be to the south. ? That helps because I have mine set up so I can dri e a truck between with half facing north & half facing south, but tree line is to north & water source & more open to south
@@NancyLawson-i8x That sounds good. What we look for is full southern exposure for as much sun as possible each day. In our area the cold winter weather comes down from the north by northwest and we try to block that wind with a tree line or building on that side and wide open to the south.
@bobbinnie9872 thanks! That makes sense. I'm in SE Texas, so we don't know what winter is.
Good morning Bob and I always appreciate your Sunday morning insights on beekeeping. Do you have any opinion on using switchgrass pellets or do you just prefer the hardwood? Thank you.
I'm not familiar with switchgrass pellets. What can you tell us about them?
treating Pol line? what's the point of having them? and how do you prove anything when you just treated them? curious
Stay tuned.😉 (hint: we want to start with a level playing field in the spring).
I cut my sponges in half is there a reason you cut them in quarters just more edge surface area ?
Yes. I hope to have a video out with data on this in early October. Surprisingly, it works better.
@@bobbinnie9872 thank you I’ll check it out
Was that OA strips on the top of that deep? If so, I’m a fan!
Yes, I talked about them in our video "Varroa Mite Treatments". ruclips.net/video/NvyKo8JiZs4/видео.html
i like to throw in a few pine cones and gum balls too. They say green gum balls have an anti-viral property to them.
I see you had 7 frames in a box with that feeder which I assume is supposed to only take up 2 frames, which would equal 9 frames. Aren't those feeders supposed to be designed to allow you to run 8 frames?
It's a 1-1/2 gallon feeder and yes we do that in all of our boxes. Without the feeder we run ten frames.
I have a pellet grill so I use the pellets from that works good
A variety called Sweet Autumn Clematis. We sell here in NH.
Thanks and good morning.
Hey Bob, do honeybees work soybean fields?
I have made soybean honey on numerous occasions when we migrated around but we don't do much of that anymore and there is very little of it in our area.
@@bobbinnie9872 thanks for getting back to me Bob. Up here in Northern Ohio there is a lot of soybean crop. I assume that the Farmers get a better price than they would for corn this year.
Electric bbq bricket starter. 4 charcoal brickets. Saw dust then wood pellets. Last hrs.
I run to a lot of little yards. In so a lot of travel.
Get flagged over all the time someone thinking truck is on fire.
Thats a C-130
Airborne!