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Thanks for sharing! 😊

Come on up and clean mine next Mike. That is always my winter chore, clean the building up. You are spot on regarding quality of equipment, competition is good. Cya soon.

Hey Mike great video. I was wondering how big is your honey warming bottler.

' ;ll;' ';Mike thanks for reminding me.... had trouble getting out of my own way, maybe it's just getting old.... Mug up! It's raining today at 35 F...it's an inside day. Take care

We ordered an extractor. They sent to. We’re obviously sending one back.

lol the saying is “ never put off tomorrow what can be done today “ my saying is:: ( winter is coming an I need something to do inside when it’s zero outside 😂😂😂) I had a 20 by 20 climate control building that I raised pedigree and meat rabbits for 24 years . I converted it to my honey house has heat air conditioning humidity control 🤷🏻‍♂️ couldn’t see building a new one when this one Was just a matter of ripping the cages an shot trays out an a spray down of the Stainless walls. All ready had a 6” drain set up. But I finished up Dec 5th cleaning the honey house an covered everything untill 2025 . Now I am spending the winter days in the woodshop turning out hive boxes and frames. I figured on popping the lids an adding feed spacers a dumping “doctored” sugar mid January ( during our January thaw) before the fridge late January a February Michigan weather comes back..usually around late March I slap on pollen patties, too excite her highness 😁

Hot water is key....bee blessed,

Hi Mike, I took your advice on your thoughts on 9 frames or 10 frames in the honey super, Well it worked, I put 9 frames in my honey super and i got very fat frames of honey, Thankyou for your advice ❤😂😊

Even with screen bottom boards, I still lean the boxes forward, asbi use Ashforth feeders, which have their access area on one side, which is where I lean the hive towards, that way any syrup can still be collected OK.

I’m curious what you use for flooring in your honey house. I have to honey proof my floor as it is the original osb and yep it’s had to meet up with a few gallons of honey 😩

To true Mike!

See you in a few weeks!

Hello Hello Mr. Mike . The newer bee keepers remember when the season is over the bee work is by far is not over . If you are expanding much at all the winter work can be just as time consuming as the summer responsibilities. On my nine frame maxant I let the bees have first choice in it an that helps out a lot then I do wash it out outside but not up on the motor part just to get maybe wax that may be on the basket. In taking it all apart I keep all together motor and basket then it really doesn’t need a lot of water washing . It mostly just finding little bits of wax that I could not see with it together. You talking about your maxant when I ordered this last one it did not even come with a honey drain valve it came with a plastic pipe cap to screw on it . This new bee barn I am building I am going to put in a shower floor pan to be able to wash things like the extractor etc . Hope all is well an have a good week. Thanks

It is nice to see some “ real time “ information about how different companies’ equipped works !😄👍👍

Hey Mike, you and your wife so sell a lot of honey. It seems the longer you sell honey the more repeat customers you can have. I agree, clean up the last time when it's slower times, that's what I do also.

Mike, I'm glad I took your advice this spring. Built my honey house 16' x 24'. Even at that, it filled up fast.

Great stuff Mike. As usual. Tedious stuff. But it has to be done.

MAXANT HAS SOME GOOD STUFF BUT THEY ALSO VERY PRICEY. THANKS FOR SHARING MIKE.

Thanks for the honey house tour. I’m on the verge of setting up a new honey house. Your experience will save me from numerous mistakes. See you at the expo!

Enjoyed your cleaning video Mike

I love my HillCo extractor. I'm basically doing the same stuff. Cleaning all the gunk off my supers and old hive bodies. Building new boxes and frames and painting. Building new hive stands. Busy busy busy.. On a side note, I was going to buy my first apimaye this coming year, now I'm going to wait for hillcos version of it. It looks like it'll be a great hive and I'm sure at a much better price

The drudges of beekeeping.

I wish my honey house was that clean right now. 😁

Hey Mike. I got my ultra max last year and I love it. It’s little bigger what I need now but I didn’t want to buy another one when I expanded. Great video my friend and can’t wait to see you at the expo

I agree, im replacing all my screens with solids. Hope to puck up some of Bob B HDO boards at NAHBE.

00:21:25 * Down to the last drop! It's funny that the design hasn't changed for years!😮

Thanks for sharing Mike

Hey there. First comment, hurray...

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Hey Mike. Thanks for the video. I'm finishing my 4th year. i'm feeling the same as you. Questioning did I do enough. Im in SE PA, just north of Philadelphia. My hives are closed up d]for the Winter. All have Hive Alive Fondant on them. I lost two hives this Fall. One due to mites - I was too late with my treatment. The other absconded - I think that was due to a failing queen. Hoping for the best for the Winter.

Thats a lot of honey!

Your the reason i bought a seven frame apimaye last year at nahbe.Ive got two now and one is empty and one has bees im overwintering in.17 degrees here tonight in Danville ,Ky.Im sure those girls are reaping the benefits of the insulation in the apimaye.Great video again Mike and hope to see you in louisville.

Love it!

Great video

I drill holes in each end of reducers for screws. This lets me just put against box, start screw and that locks them in place.

Thanks for the instructional on the Apimaye Hive. I just ordered 2 of the 7framers to pickup at NAHBE on your recommendation of the product.

How’s that particular bee bonet working for you ?

Thanks for the update MIke, I'm sure glad you didn't harm any bugs on this video. So you plan to retire and cut back on hives or increase the number of hives??

Finally!.... A Beekeeper that lets us observe the majestic beauty of the smaller hive beetle. Instead of that one fella that savagely and brutally un-alived them on his channel. It's so upsetting we're not gonna mention Joey's name at all!

Dream Big brother 🙏

Hey Barry, love watching your videos! Thank you for taking the time to explain your system 😊 I have noticed that the bottleneck in your process is filtering. Have you considered having the honey flow straight into a bucket from your extractor, tipping that into your wax cappings in the uncapping tank and then filtering from that tank only?

The weather looks nice. Here in Michigan it is 23 Degs. Just about Christmas Time and Snow

Great video Mike. I agree 100% about NOT messing with the hive in the Fall/Winter. Risk vs reward is WAY too high!! Heading for the teens later this week up here. Brrrr..... Take care and see you soon!!

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving as well.

great video Mike...i run D.E. in the bottom tray and small hive beetles have a tough time

Beetle watching. 😆🤣

Is this 1:1 or 2:1 syrup?

Hey Mike! I’m glad that no beetles were harmed in the making of this video 😜😂

All those Beatles 😮. Lol.

Hello Mike glad to see that one colony is still kicking along . I think it will be just fine now . Ya I had five colonies that the queen didn’t get back but I am sure they did not get mated because it was so late in the season with just a very few drones around so I combined them to save what I had left. I am glad we are finally getting some colder weather but it is going to be lows is upper 10’s -lower 20’s an highs in the mid 40’s . I am going to have to find somewhere else to get my Nucs from. The nucs I was getting I am just having tooooooo much trouble with the bees . I will do a bunch of splits this year but I would like to get a faster build up this year. After losing so many from one yard from poison an then having to combine those five . That has hit hard this season. Thanks Mike have a great week. Thanks