Beekeeping: Sideliner Honey House | Design and Tour.
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- Опубліковано 26 бер 2022
- In this video, We take you on a tour and discuss the design of our Honey House. We use this Honey House for our 100 colony operation and it fits our needs. We discuss our design and capabilities, We also discuss the limitations of our honey house. We hope this video gives you a little insight into how we extract and process honey in our operation.
Love the setup and giving the tip about if it can make its payment, you will feel good buying it. That sticker looks awesome there. Thanks for the shoutout Craig 🤙🏼
Thanks Brother! Yes in the world of bees it helps if the equipment can pay for itself. Anytime man! Thanks for the decal. Hope your season is hopping and going well.
I like your affection for your original smoker. Looking back tells you how far you've come in your beekeeping journey. :)
So true. Yes that smoker is special
Nice Very Nice! Great you have it paid for! God Is Good!!! God Bless!!!
Thank you! We have definitely been blessed. God bless y’all also.
Thanks for the tour. I’m with you on buying and paying as you go. I’m just starting out so I’m paying for everything now with the hope of the bees reimbursing me. Lol
Our pleasure! Thanks for watching. It will definitely pay for itself in time. Keep the bees healthy and the rest will come in time. Building a little at a time really is the best way to keep overhead down.
Good and helpful video. I started my honey house last year. Poured the floor with a floor drain and added a septic for the sink drain. It's paid for. Now this spring and summer I want to get the building up and closed in. If so we'll be extracting and bottling in there in July or August.
Sounds like you are well underway. Hope you have a great season. I wish I would have spent the extra money on a slab floor.
Great video! Thanks for sharing all this great information.
Our pleasure! Thanks and thanks for watching.
First! Thanks for the tour!! Thanks Craig!!
Thanks for watching!
This is the best honey house tour. Wonderful practical tips such as the dehumidifier, entrance blower, windows to let bees out… along with doing this as debt-free as possible. Thanks again!
Thanks Karen! We are all about debt free. The house works well for our operation. Thanks for the feedback and watching.
Sweet setup there. You must not live close to a main highway since you don't sell much honey from your honey house. I have seen where people will sell their honey in an outside "Help yourself" stand. Bob Binnie says road signs were very effective for him to get customers in his store. My wife is involved with our honey operation also which is so helpful in so many ways. Have a good week.
We sell a decent amount from home, but we are a little off the beaten path. I’m sure road signs would help tremendously. My wife handsome almost all of the sales, marketing ect. She is a lifesaver. Thanks for watching.
Very nice setup! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you and thanks for watching.
Nice setup. Thanks for the tour. Take care.
Thanks for the kind words. Thanks for watching.
Looks like you are doing good. Think it's a very smart move to grow as money permits. Never a good idea to go in debt.
I couldn’t agree more. Thanks for watching.
I got a similar hose setup that I show in a video I've got waiting to go out, along with another piece of equipment you have. That hose for me for hot water makes life so easy!!! I'm cleaned and ready to store without even leaving the honey house... I have found it to work well as long as I'm careful with it. I did cold for a long time and just like the hot better. Great tour Craig!!
Thanks Mike. Our honey houses are very similar. I really like yours also. I will have to pick your brain a little on the hot water. I really like the idea of using hot water to clean. Maybe the time I tried it, the water was too hot. It would definitely work better than cold I’m sure. Just one of those things to play with. I tried it on an old 55 gallon drum that had cappings stored in it and it melted to the side. I will definitely talk to you about it and see what I was messing up lol.
Love your set up Craig! Thanks for sharing. Also love that we are similar in our business management. The hose is a great feature too.
Great minds think a like lol. Thanks! The hose really comes in handy.
I got introduced to your channel the other night on the live stream. I really enjoy your prospective on sidelining. I'm in the short rows of my Firefighting career and my plan is similar to yours when I retire. Thank you for providing this type of content.
We are glad you found us. Let us know if we can be of any help along the way. THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE!
Great setup Craig.. Thank you for pointing out the things you would have done for a better space like the flooring.
I would definitely do some things differently, but that’s all part of learning and growing. Our next honey house will be bigger and better 😀
You have a great setup there.
Thanks Brian 🙏
We use sailor plastics bottles also. Noticed the box, I really like them. I also got a California beekeeper sticker at the hive life conference!
We have always liked sailor plastics. Jose was very nice and let me pick his brain for a bit about almond pollination. Thanks for watching.
Very nice video gives me ideas and dreams.
Thanks 🙏! If you have any questions let us know. Happy Beekeeping
@@thesidelinebeekeeper-craig6924 What state you from. I'm from TEXAS kind of a new be here.
@@dennisbarney869 we are in NC
Your honey house is beautiful. Enjoyed seeing your setup.
Thank you and thanks for watching!
I'm in an apartment... Extracting a handful of medium supers is quite easy... But as I get more beehives I may have to rent a space somewhere. I like the fact You've shown I don't need a massive installation (well I will eventually) guess that's part of "growing with your bees) 😊
You can do a lot of work in a small space if the room flows right. Growing with your operation is best. We will eventually out grow ours, but it will be a while. Thanks for watching.
Looks like you have done very well setting up your honey house. I like your thinking on pay as you go . That is the best way to do it. What is the size on your set up ? . Thanks for all your advice on things to look at an ways to plan . Thanks
Hey Kathy! It’s 12x24! Yes pay as you go is in my opinion the best way, especially for new beekeepers. We built the whole operation a little along the way. I think it’s more satisfying and you learn more. Thanks as always and hope you and your bees are well.
Looks good! Why don’t you like hot water? You mentioned that in the video but didn’t say why. Thanks
Sorry for not explaining it better. The only reason we don’t like hot water is, it can melt cappings in the extractor, making it almost impossible to get the wax off the stainless steel. To be fair the temp could probably be adjusted down, but I just don’t want to chance it. Thanks for watching.
Hi Craig, thanks for the video. Im researching a small scale honey house machines and yours got my eyes. Can you please by any means tellbme the types of machines you got and their prices
I use Maxant bottling tanks, dadant and sons extractors and Maxant wax melters. They are all pricey, but I can’t remember what I paid. Google them and it should tell you the current prices.
Great video! What’s the approximate square footage, sorry if I missed it if you said in the video?
Im taking a pergola and walling it in. Two windows, sliding door and exterior door. Small 18ft long x 7ft wide, but only 10 hives. Clear plastic roof. Lansing, Michigan. Floor drain, water hose faucet. What did you use for floor covering? Looking at waterproof laminate, but 400 to 800$
That sounds like it will work out well for you. We used vinyl.
How did you handle the restroom requirement in the home processor handout? I am in the piedmont region of NC and looking to construct my first honey house. Thanks.
Hey Thomas! We have a farming exemption. If you shoot me an email, I will send you some information. We do however have a restroom that is accessible within 30’. Thanks for watching.
Can you please advise as a beginner what are the most and must have machines that one can get without bursting the bank
I guess it would depend on what your goal is? Bottles honey vs comb honey etc. if you were wanting to produce extracted honey, depending on how many colonies you have? I would chose an economical extractor, uncapping tub and a cold knife. Plus some buckets and your set.
Love your setup! Thank you for sharing. I have a few questions if you don't mind. Can you let me know how long your table is that holds your wax processing and bottling tanks? Would you choose to put those side by side again? Do you have a creamer too?
Thanks for watching. The table is 48" and no I don't like them side by side. I move the wax melter when in use. We don't have a creamer.
@@thesidelinebeekeeper-craig6924 Thank you! Can you also share why you would choose sealed concrete over tile next time? Really appreciate the insight!!
@@prairiesweethearthoneyapia3242 just for ease of maintenance. Our floor is wood construction with with beefed up construction and beams. Honey is heavy! The concrete floor would be better for weight and cleaning.
What size is the building? How big is the extracting side?
The extracting area is around 12x14. The total size is 12x24. Thanks for watching.