Taking Spring Honey from the Hives - Fast and Easy
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- Jeromy and I had a great time taking honey from the hives for the spring honey harvest. We used fume boards, a fast and easy method to remove the bees from the honey supers in a safe and efficient way. It was a beautiful day in what is turning out to be a wonderful beekeeping season!
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Thanks for another great video! I am a second year beekeeper and I am learning a lot from your videos.
Thank you for the support. Beekeeping is one of the coolest things I have ever done. Both because of the bees and the people I have met! Best of luck to you and your bees!
I enjoy your videos Bruce! I'm in Indiana where I've ran up to 150 hives for 34 years now. Our two daughters and their families have lived in Graceville Florida for several years and I'm at least a little familiar with the area where you keep bees. Of course many nectar plants are different than ours, I'm sure some are common. I've always used fume boards and the blower from a 16 gallon Craftsman shop vac to remove bees. I've been considering a cordless blower so I don't have to haul around a generator. Have a great early harvest and God bless you all!
Oh yes! You need one of these blowers. So simple, lightweight and efficient. It’s convenient for me too because I already have the batteries that I use for my Instantvap vaporizer.
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Thanks Bruce, I'll check it out!
I just finished sterilising my jars and equipment and Im almost ready for collecting and filling my jars and tubs, as I have recently commented, this year is going to be my most successful harvest.
I only have 16 colonies this year having made quite a lot of nucs and packages for new bee club members but when I first started I thought I would have a maximum of 3 to 4 colonies LOL
Hey that is great. I wish you the best of luck!
63 boxes of honey. I don’t have that many boxes in my whole apiary. Lol.
Great video Bruce. Can’t wait to see what the real flow is gonna do for ya.
It is a going up to be unreal!
Nice! Our tallow flow has been on for about 2 weeks or so. I'm almost out of supers already!! Turning out to be a great year so far. Should get about 2000lbs this year.
Man that awesome. Always growing and getting better. Congratulations my friend!
Very cool I enjoy your videos Im pulling honey boxes this weekend our chinaberry trees have been going for about 2 weeks so far I’m south of Houston Texas
Very nice! Hope you are able to have a good harvest!
New beekeeper in Pike County. Great content. I’m sad now that I cut down the popcorn trees last year before I got my bees 😢. Maybe some will sprout back up around our two ponds.
Ha! I am sure there are plenty around your area and you should be in good shape. The only folks that like tallow are beekeepers. Most others despise them.
I use one of the small dewalt blowers on my job sites, and they work surprisingly well, they are powerful.
Yes! Game changer. My wife loves it too!!!
Wow that's staying busy for sure
Yup. Always something to do.
Great harvest so far Bruce. Great explanation. I really like that uncapper. Can't wait to see how it did for you guys. I put my boxes back on after extraction and I looked in one 9 days later and they almost had it filled back up and the tallow hadn't even started yet. It has started now though and when the rain finally clears out this week, it should be on for sure. Great video Bruce!!
Yeah man a couple of my yards are unbelievable. Not sure how we are going to stay ahead of them.
Neat video Bruce, thanks for the time and effort you putin filming Especially at such a busy time
It is a lot of work but I do enjoy it. Just frustrated I can’t get it produced more quickly and I still have not hit the quality I want to hit in my videos. But hopefully folks will continue to come along for the ride.
Looking GREAT Bruce. Can't wait to see how the tallow flows!!!! Afraid the rain has washed the end of our flow away early up here but can't complain...a great spring for me. Time for you to get to spinning!!!!! Take care.
So far this year has been great. And we ended up with a nice spring harvest. 34 buckets. Now they are hopefully filling everything up again! After last year it is nice to see the bees packing it in.
Ha Bruce so glad for u I get to pull honey next month looking forward to it.. my location is not as good as yours but I do ok. being in the city. I have a talow tree in yard that is cool I did not know what it was till Mike berry showed it in his vedio. mine should bloom soon . we a re behine you a couple of weeks. anyway again I enjoyed your video.
Yep there will be bees and all kinds of pollinators on the blooms. They love it !
Wow Bruce, looking Good!! That’s a good amount of honey! Looks like you are up for a good year. This year has been much better than last year, good to see the bees packing honey! Hoping we have a great tallow flow to help my supers get drawn out, and have to rewax them In the next couple of days. Good stuff Bruce! Enjoyed watching the video 😁👍🐝😎
Have a great weekend 🤙
Thanks for checking in Grayson
Hello Bruce I know for you an a lot of people down your way this year is starting to look a lot better than last years cold weather. Hope the best for you all . How many colonies did you end up running this season after all your splits an upgrading . Your yards look so good specially the one at the pond . Good luck. Thanks
I am not even sure but over 100. I should actually count them haha.
Thanks for sharing Bruce
Awesome! So glad this year is better so far.
Me too. It’s been a fun year up to this point. Looking forward to a large harvest in a month or so. Hopefully.
Thanks Bruce !
Thanks as always for checking in!
Looks like you may be up for a record breaking year!
Looks like it will be if things contiene on the current course.
You have your sweet work in front of you. Looks like you will make up for your short year last year. What kind of moisture did you get? Last year my early honey came off at 16.5%.
I don’t have any idea what the moisture content is but I imagine it was pretty dry. It was very thick.
Bruce, I really enjoy your videos and appreciate you putting forth the effort to share your journey. I have a question about staggering the boxes-is this a method to provide an upper entrance or is there more to this method?
If you watch my last video I talk a bit about it. Not sure if it is more for the upper entrance or for ventilation. But the bees love it. If only one box above the queen excluder then I put a stick under the corner of the lid. Same effect.
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Cool. you are harvesting honey and I'm here in N. Idaho and waiting to put on my first honey super. But the bees are coming on strong for me at my new location just south of Sandpoint.
I hear ya. But soon you will be enjoying the heart of bee season and we will be fighting heat, humidity, dearth and hive beetles. Haha. But certainly has been a fun couple of months. And we have about another month of beekeeping fun left before it starts to get tough again. Hope you have a great year!
@@brucesbees Luckily, no SHB int this area, just loads of hornets and such.
Yep. I hate hive beetles but am convinced that every location has its share of challenges.
Oh man you’re making me wanna harvest honey!
Hopefully you will be able to have a nice harvest soon!
Those 8 frame spacers make for some fat honey frames with alot more wax cappings too
I love them. I definitely like 8 and 9 frame spacing with drawn comb but you have to use 10 to draw out foundation or it will get all kinds of wonky!
@@brucesbees yeah they will..
Does tallow flowers open befor black locust or after in your zone and in how much time between, i am realy coreous to see how it grow in romania, if it gows it wil be a very good nectar source especial after black locust flow, thank you, see next time
It’s considered an invasive species here- as it takes over native plants and changes the microbes in the soils. It was brought here in the southeastern US by Benjamin Franklin back in the 1700s. Not sure about Romania.
I honestly do not know. But they are open now. Saw the first couple of bees in them this afternoon after our big rain!
@michaelshelnutt3534 yes tallow is definitely an invasive species.
How do you keep bugs out of the honey supers?
The bees tend to them and defend them
Do we have Tallow trees in north Alabama? Thanks !
I don’t think so but not sure.
Great video. What is the dimensions of your honey house?
I really don’t even know. It is at my friend Rusty’s place. You could ask him @Herding Bees with Rusty and Mike
It is a multipurpose facility so there is quite a bit of prep involved for each honey extraction. We. Have combined our efforts and it has worked out well for the last few years.
If you don’t have a fume board what is the best way to get the bees out of a super?
Escape boards work well. If I didn’t have a lot of colonies that is probably what I would do. If just a few colonies could take the frames out one by one and bump the bees on the ground in front of the hive or brush them off with a bee brush. That gets a little wild if lots of bees around. Or is you have Honey B Gone you another bee repellant you can fold up a towel the size of the box and lay it on top of the super. It will have the same effect as the fume boards. I have done that before with good success.
Ok the towel method sounds good. I harvested today and ended up doing the shake and brush method and got the job done. I’ll try the towel next time. Thank you.
Wish I had a UA-cam beekeeper nearby that I could work with
Where are you located?
@@brucesbees Blackstock, SC