Hats off to Carrie. She'll be a leading voice in the bee industry one day. She has it mastered. Ian, I salute the employees you pick and the way you work alongside them. Servant leadership.
This is the first of your videos I watched and it was so straightforward and directed towards the viewer so simply, that is without any fanfare. My husband and I sit together and watch your videos. He’s a marine biologist and specializes in the study of zooplankton so he really “gets” the importance of bees. As do I. Thank you for all you do.
Thank you for all your great videos. They are really educational and I appreciate your hard work. I learned a lot from you, specially equipment stuff and single hive management. I live in Lethbridge Alberta and I wintered 20 hives last year and they all survived. Now I got 7 more and 5 of them just 5-6 frame nucleus hives for spare. I just pulled the last of my honey off today as well and going to finish extracting tomorrow. Thank you again and your ambition makes me to be more ambitious about beekeeping !!!
Love what you are doing Ian and more importantly what you are sharing. You’ve made intelligent choices in your operations, and I can see how clean and organised your working environment is. It’s wonderful to see this labour-assisted assembly line. Make sense to me. All the best from Australia.
Thanks so much for the reply! I appreciate it. My 11 yr old son and I really enjoy your videos now that we’ve discovered you! Keep up the great content! 😀👍🏼☮️
Very, very interesting!! And talk about teamwork. It was edifying seeing the process and how you both knew all the tasks and worked like a fine Swiss watch. Thank you for taking the time to make the video.
Thanks for the video Ian, love the videos you are posting. Loving seeing what beekeepers outside of South Africa are doing and see how you keep your bees. Lots of love from South Africa!
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Very well set up operation. I know a lot of thought went into how you set it up. Never understood why beekeepers feel the honey house is so secret, I know beekeepers who would never show anyone their setup. Thanks for taking us along. I know it was a lot of work but I for one have learned so much. Blessings to you.
Ben Barnes The reason no one shows their set up is because the place gets quite messy Bad impressions... but I think keeping the place neat and tidy, show case only helps improve overall product quality
Excellent teamwork! Fascinating and very soothing. I appreciate my toast with honey even more now. Your videos also help with my insomnia. ;) I have to watch them several times.
WOW! What great precision team work. Thank you all for such great videos this season. You all deserved a great honey sweet season for all the dedicated hard work you put into your passion. Thanks again!!
Wow, my parents had bees, for 18 years of my life. Lots of hives. In Florida. They had to uncap each frame one at a time, with a hot knife. Two cylinder extractors. Oh the orange blossom honey. My parents would be in awe seeing your set up. I subscribed and will enjoy watching your process.
. just finished watching the video and feel I want to make another comment.. Your equipment is amazing. You two operate it with such precision. You two make a great team! Raising, Bees, Cows, Grain, and Kids together!! Who could ask for anything more!! What a blessing you seem to be to each other!!! Thanks so much for sharing your life’s work with us here on Yiutube. May God continue to bless you and your family! PS I think Carrie was a little better at running the box lifting machine!! 😮. J/K 😊. Have fun!! Phillip Hall
phillip hall Carrie is an employee I’ve hired from Miami since she was 15. I’ve integrated her into my operation as the Farms graft queen rearer and she manages my honey house.
New this year to beekeeping, but your videos have inspired me to look at it a different way versus just a hobby...here in TX there are not many commercial guys local to me so im looking to grow...keep up the good work, yall are my virtual mentors.
Whatever she's being paid, it's not close to enough! She is an integral part of the operation. She never misses a beat, non stop. I doubt I would have wanted to arm wrestle her 30 years ago, let alone now that I'm an old man!
Hi Lytle From South Africa just wanted to thank you for your amazing and very insightful videos have really enjoyed watching them and seeing how you farm bees, quite different to how most South African bee farms farm, but looking forward to trying somethings Iv learnt from your videos on my own farm and interested to see the results.
Hi You have very informative videos and information. It is great to see such a well mechanised plant with a good team in operation. The only comment I would make is if you put industrial rubber mats down in common stand / walk areas how much better your operators would feel and last longer through the day. I have spent many years in industrial situations standing on concrete and unknowingly how much it saps energy and loads joints. Great videos, keep pumping them out as I will keep watching and learning. Thank you.
Your videos should be a must watch for all beekeepers, lots to learn. What do you do with the wet frames and how do you store for the winter? Do you make your own foundation? Hope there is still lots more to come and thanks for all your time and effort.
Thanks Ian, just what I needed. My first year as a profrssional beeker, and with backbraking heavy workload need to figure out how to ease lifting or end profession. Well planned honeyhouse really do the difference.
Just a guess here, but I'm pretty sure those were not blow flies in the shed. Also like to add, the orientation of the frame in the centrifuge is interesting as well. As a kid we had a hive on the farm with an old 2 frame hand crank centrifuge. It basically had the frame in the plane of the "circle" so the honey came out parallel with the comb. It's interesting to see how your centrifuge works, both in volume and frame position.
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Ok, that means I have no idea about physics. I mean obviously it works ok, and that is all that matters, but from the location of the frames and the direction of spin, centrifugal force would be forcing the honey into the side of the cell and not out the ends as was the case with the one we had. Like I said, horses for courses, and so long as it works, who cares. It just seemed strange to me.
The centrifugal force pulls the honey out the same, if you look at cells on the comb, they are pointed upwards We take advantage of that with simple physics
Great video! Nice to see the workflow and operation. At 12.40 in the video where you're loading the full boxes. You see a hanging airline a stainless steel funnel with a black plastic bag around. Is this for blowing bees out of the box if you encounter this. Just trying to figure out the purpose of the airline and the funnel assembly.
Thank You Ian. I believe we all watch the content you produce for educational purposes and entertainment for the interest in bees. If you are looking for ideas for creating content some of us could use some basic knowledge of what you have found from 15 years ago to date. Things from growing an operation. Two years in I have a small grasp of how to manage our bees in Alabama. I personally could use some feedback or content of how to get from backyard to sideliner or commercial. Possibly a series from the best equipment/ to brood queen expansion practices. (which you have) Where we are we have taken the classes but it is taboo to really advise someone in short cuts. Its almost like they allow us to buy all the junk and make bad decisions buying, spending and mismanaging our own colonies. I know we all could use various content or a series explaining how to grow, some of what not to buy and how to scale an operation. My two cents, Thanks again for your time!
Do you have a video already about how you got started? What steps you took to expand? Your efficiency and knowledge is aspiring! Your videos have been entertaining and its a pleasant surprise to get notifications when you finish a new one.
There is a box for frames on the floor next to the uncapper. It appears to me to be for frames rejected for some reason. What would the common reasons be? I would guess brood, broken wood and broken wax would be three reasons.
A Canadian beekeeper's blog Couple of questions please . What temperature do bees prefer to keep their hive at. What temperature is too high when they start fanning. and the important one what temperature is too low that will kill him. please answer this for me I haven't been able to find it anywhere thank you. PS I know you said once that you incubate your Queens at 93 that's about all I know
There is a lift that you use to pull boxes from the pallet and put into the rail going to the unboxed. I am trying to find something similar that I can put on my trailer to work boxes in the field. I only keep 80-100 hives and need something simple and light to lift one deep at a time. Can you share the who or the where to find such a lift.
At 6:01 you removed a set of combs from the spinner and around 6:36 you moved a new set into the spinner and then pushed them right back out? Did you not intend to extract the honey or did I miss something?
Good afternoon, Ian! I watch your videos and marvel at how you and your wife manage such a big apiary !!! For this, you have great respect! 👍👏 I have 2 questions for you: 1. Why is the hive 10 frames, not 12? Could you work on the same system with 12 frame hives? 2. How much do you evaluate your production (building and equipment)? How much have you invested in your production?
@@carriemartindale-wetherup5243 Just wanted to say, Ian employing such person as you, is one lucky ... 😉. And your work ethic & skills can't be gratified enough! Please remember it!
I am disappointed Ian... I always thought you were speaking to ME! lol Thanks for all the great info you share! This is so well streamlined... It is evident a lot of thought and experience went into this working layout. Have you thought about any of the new technologies like camera-image based stuff for things like the cap chore (where comb wasn't drawn as far out)? It seems like that's something that could be better addressed with a robot as the cost of that stuff begins to drop.
Robot honey decapper. Kewl. Who is going to clean the robot and get it going again once it gets goofed up with a little propolis on its frame grabber (hand) ? Another robot?
@@mikeries8549 No... design it self-cleaning - a little heat and a "wipe" cycle could fix most of that... Was just a thought for efficiency.. labor is not cheap!
Not to sound stupid, but how do you store the empties to be sure to keep spiders and bugs out of it? For use for next year do you run them throughout a freezer to kill any larvae?
Thanks for another enjoyable video Ian. After managing 2 hives into the ground last year, I have a lot of respect for your work here. Far flung api biology question for you... What would happen if you fed invert sugar instead of syrup? I know this probably a bad idea as you would negate the invertase production. But- wouldn't this also free the bees from an extra chemical they have to produce, and potentially increase the foragers ability to work?
I know that's not exactly a direct correlation- but if there were fewer bees required in the chain to convert the feed inside of the hive, could it possibly stimulate earlier conversion of workers to foragers....?
You know what would be a great series or season if you wil, is to teach us from start to finish. The complete prosses of what you must and must not do from buying a nuke to what to watch out for, sickneses, dead queen, everything you has to know if you want to start beekeeping. I can only find one youtuber that did such a season over a year and would like to get more information and see how someone else does it
a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog Good golly. If you have 1400 hives, then that’s like 17 gallons of honey per hive. I’m just a two-hive hobbyist and I was ecstatic with my 5 gallons per hive! WOW, Ian.
Have you ever had issues with the centrifuge separator mixing air into the honey? I have read this may happen and am curious for first hand experiences
1. moving empty boxes from where frames are removed to down where the frames are reinserted: how about a using a box rolling track attached to the wall like track used to move the boxes from the pallet to the decapper? 2. woman scrapes comb off the top of the frames prior to removing frames is that wax saved? got to be 10 to 20 pounds per shift
Are you heating up the honey with steam in that centrifuge? My grandpa learned me with chrystalized honey how to get it back to liquid by warming it up. But warning me to stay below 35dgr C (about 92dgr F) to keep the antiseptic function alive
I worked on a bee farm many years ago. The bee keeper and myself and did this on a much smaller scale. Most of the honey was sold to Nabisco for honey grahamcrackers. I worked there for 3 years.
Mark Epping 3-4 guy crew will send 300 plus boxes, roughly 18-20 barrel of honey per day. More boxes with less honey, less boxes with more honey and the same with staffing
There is not taking a break. Bee Keeping is a lot of work from making sure the bees don't have any invaders to the queen is healthy. I don't know how many hives they have but it must be a lot.
Hats off to Carrie. She'll be a leading voice in the bee industry one day. She has it mastered. Ian, I salute the employees you pick and the way you work alongside them. Servant leadership.
This is a class act! As an engineer I have been inside and seen many food processes but I never imagined one like this. Thank you for sharing!
And I thought our two hives and 20 frames of honey each year was a chore. Love how you two work as one, little wasted motions and no injuries. :)
This is the first of your videos I watched and it was so straightforward and directed towards the viewer so simply, that is without any fanfare. My husband and I sit together and watch your videos. He’s a marine biologist and specializes in the study of zooplankton so he really “gets” the importance of bees. As do I. Thank you for all you do.
Thank you for all your great videos. They are really educational and I appreciate your hard work. I learned a lot from you, specially equipment stuff and single hive management. I live in Lethbridge Alberta and I wintered 20 hives last year and they all survived. Now I got 7 more and 5 of them just 5-6 frame nucleus hives for spare. I just pulled the last of my honey off today as well and going to finish extracting tomorrow. Thank you again and your ambition makes me to be more ambitious about beekeeping !!!
Love what you are doing Ian and more importantly what you are sharing.
You’ve made intelligent choices in your operations, and I can see how clean and organised your working environment is.
It’s wonderful to see this labour-assisted assembly line. Make sense to me.
All the best from Australia.
I like how they both moved around doing all the different jobs
Thanks so much for posting this. It was an education for me! Carrie is awesome!!
Thanks so much for the reply! I appreciate it. My 11 yr old son and I really enjoy your videos now that we’ve discovered you! Keep up the great content! 😀👍🏼☮️
Very, very interesting!! And talk about teamwork. It was edifying seeing the process and how you both knew all the tasks and worked like a fine Swiss watch. Thank you for taking the time to make the video.
Thanks for the video Ian, love the videos you are posting. Loving seeing what beekeepers outside of South Africa are doing and see how you keep your bees. Lots of love from South Africa!
Thank you. Your talking to me. I watch every video you post. Very valuable information. Cheers
Thank you so much for this continuous blog.. So appreciated...... Phillip Hall
That's amazing to see on such a large scale like that, how each little step is set up. I love the lift arm so nobody is throwing out their back.
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Very well set up operation. I know a lot of thought went into how you set it up. Never understood why beekeepers feel the honey house is so secret, I know beekeepers who would never show anyone their setup. Thanks for taking us along. I know it was a lot of work but I for one have learned so much. Blessings to you.
Ben Barnes
The reason no one shows their set up is because the place gets quite messy
Bad impressions... but I think keeping the place neat and tidy, show case only helps improve overall product quality
And from govt. agencies standpoint, it's a food factory. So hygenic environment is crucial. Not everyone likes to show his :D
I’m glad that impression shows through.
Great video ! I could watch this work all day !!
Nice to see an occasional bee flying around on “quality control” duty to make sure the product of their labors is being properly handled.
Excellent teamwork! Fascinating and very soothing. I appreciate my toast with honey even more now. Your videos also help with my insomnia. ;) I have to watch them several times.
The best part of the video was watching your employee and how well she worked.
WOW! What great precision team work. Thank you all for such great videos this season. You all deserved a great honey sweet season for all the dedicated hard work you put into your passion. Thanks again!!
You 2 are very inspiring. Great video. My gal and I spent 2 hours in our spin room tonight processing medium supers. Thanks again for sharing.
Wow, my parents had bees, for 18 years of my life. Lots of hives. In Florida. They had to uncap each frame one at a time, with a hot knife. Two cylinder extractors. Oh the orange blossom honey. My parents would be in awe seeing your set up. I subscribed and will enjoy watching your process.
. just finished watching the video and feel I want to make another comment.. Your equipment is amazing. You two operate it with such precision. You two make a great team! Raising, Bees, Cows, Grain, and Kids together!! Who could ask for anything more!! What a blessing you seem to be to each other!!! Thanks so much for sharing your life’s work with us here on Yiutube. May God continue to bless you and your family!
PS I think Carrie was a little better at running the box lifting machine!! 😮. J/K 😊. Have fun!! Phillip Hall
phillip hall
Carrie is an employee I’ve hired from Miami since she was 15. I’ve integrated her into my operation as the Farms graft queen rearer and she manages my honey house.
I thought the whole thing she was your wife oops! 😊 She is a hard worker and a true asset.
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog 15 years old ? ，2011 hire Carrie ? i thank Carrie is a luck guys running beekeeper business.
I just found him ...this is amazing.😀😀🐝❤️
Having done this by hand its extremely interesting to see a commercial scale operation. Keep up the great vids!
You guys are very efficient. And work good together.
Best of luck
Hello from Chicago! This has just been great, from beginning to end. I learned so much and thank you!
New this year to beekeeping, but your videos have inspired me to look at it a different way versus just a hobby...here in TX there are not many commercial guys local to me so im looking to grow...keep up the good work, yall are my virtual mentors.
My, what a hard worker that young lady is. You are fortunate to have her. Great job, both of you. Thanks!
Whatever she's being paid, it's not close to enough! She is an integral part of the operation. She never misses a beat, non stop. I doubt I would have wanted to arm wrestle her 30 years ago, let alone now that I'm an old man!
@@mark-wn5ek I wouldn't mess with her and I'm fearless!
That was fascinating! I never knew there were machines for all of that. Thanks for sharing it. 😲👍
I have the exact same Cowan 60, minus the powered extractor door lift. Love the white metal on the walls,too!
she rocks!!!well done carrie
Hi Lytle From South Africa just wanted to thank you for your amazing and very insightful videos have really enjoyed watching them and seeing how you farm bees, quite different to how most South African bee farms farm, but looking forward to trying somethings Iv learnt from your videos on my own farm and interested to see the results.
Awesome Video 📹 Clip working like clockwork!
Thanks for Us how your production line works, & is laid out! 👍🏼 👍🏼 👍🏼
That was very interesting, loved the way you all work as a team.
Hi
You have very informative videos and information. It is great to see such a well mechanised plant with a good team in operation. The only comment I would make is if you put industrial rubber mats down in common stand / walk areas how much better your operators would feel and last longer through the day. I have spent many years in industrial situations standing on concrete and unknowingly how much it saps energy and loads joints. Great videos, keep pumping them out as I will keep watching and learning. Thank you.
surfingsumner
Good idea
I was very pleased to see you!
Your videos should be a must watch for all beekeepers, lots to learn. What do you do with the wet frames and how do you store for the winter? Do you make your own foundation? Hope there is still lots more to come and thanks for all your time and effort.
Thanks Ian, just what I needed. My first year as a profrssional beeker, and with backbraking heavy workload need to figure out how to ease lifting or end profession. Well planned honeyhouse really do the difference.
Raising hat to the working hard's lady, best wishes from IRAQ.
That gal is very efficient. Every move has a purpose. No wasted effort. Impressive.
Wow this is quite impressive! Great job, guys!
Just a guess here, but I'm pretty sure those were not blow flies in the shed.
Also like to add, the orientation of the frame in the centrifuge is interesting as well. As a kid we had a hive on the farm with an old 2 frame hand crank centrifuge. It basically had the frame in the plane of the "circle" so the honey came out parallel with the comb. It's interesting to see how your centrifuge works, both in volume and frame position.
Peter T
We take advantage of simple physics
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Ok, that means I have no idea about physics. I mean obviously it works ok, and that is all that matters, but from the location of the frames and the direction of spin, centrifugal force would be forcing the honey into the side of the cell and not out the ends as was the case with the one we had.
Like I said, horses for courses, and so long as it works, who cares. It just seemed strange to me.
The centrifugal force pulls the honey out the same, if you look at cells on the comb, they are pointed upwards
We take advantage of that with simple physics
She is such an amazing worker. You are lucky to have her.
Great video! Nice to see the workflow and operation. At 12.40 in the video where you're loading the full boxes. You see a hanging airline a stainless steel funnel with a black plastic bag around. Is this for blowing bees out of the box if you encounter this. Just trying to figure out the purpose of the airline and the funnel assembly.
Yes, we will blow pocket of bees out of boxes into Pail
This was so fun to watch thanks for shairing.
Awesome job I watched the video where you took 10 pals and separated out to 6 or 8 pals of honey 🍯 or something like that. Great videos!
Thank You Ian. I believe we all watch the content you produce for educational purposes and entertainment for the interest in bees. If you are looking for ideas for creating content some of us could use some basic knowledge of what you have found from 15 years ago to date. Things from growing an operation.
Two years in I have a small grasp of how to manage our bees in Alabama. I personally could use some feedback or content of how to get from backyard to sideliner or commercial. Possibly a series from the best equipment/ to brood queen expansion practices. (which you have) Where we are we have taken the classes but it is taboo to really advise someone in short cuts. Its almost like they allow us to buy all the junk and make bad decisions buying, spending and mismanaging our own colonies. I know we all could use various content or a series explaining how to grow, some of what not to buy and how to scale an operation. My two cents, Thanks again for your time!
BamaFishn keep watching all Ian’s videos
Seriously great 👍🏻
You’ll learn so much
Do you have a video already about how you got started? What steps you took to expand? Your efficiency and knowledge is aspiring! Your videos have been entertaining and its a pleasant surprise to get notifications when you finish a new one.
jdeereyellow
Look up a Beekeeping Journey
There is a box for frames on the floor next to the uncapper. It appears to me to be for frames rejected for some reason. What would the common reasons be? I would guess brood, broken wood and broken wax would be three reasons.
This is the final day of extracting, empty boxes are in the mix. Those are frames without honey
Your operation is fasinateing thank you for showing this to all of us.
Videos like this is what makes UA-cam great.
A Canadian beekeeper's blog Couple of questions please . What temperature do bees prefer to keep their hive at. What temperature is too high when they start fanning. and the important one what temperature is too low that will kill him. please answer this for me I haven't been able to find it anywhere thank you. PS I know you said once that you incubate your Queens at 93 that's about all I know
let the bees figure that out , yes, about 90-94F
I attended a bee keeping class where the lecturer stated you should leave the bees some honey to survive on. I'm curious how much you leave the bees.
HiTechDiver
They probably have some
There is a lift that you use to pull boxes from the pallet and put into the rail going to the unboxed. I am trying to find something similar that I can put on my trailer to work boxes in the field. I only keep 80-100 hives and need something simple and light to lift one deep at a time. Can you share the who or the where to find such a lift.
Justin Landrum
Look up Cowen
At 6:01 you removed a set of combs from the spinner and around 6:36 you moved a new set into the spinner and then pushed them right back out? Did you not intend to extract the honey or did I miss something?
Busy as a bee harvester.
I hope my life runs as well as the lady working in this vid!!!!
I always wondered what happens to the wondering bees 🐝 do they get out of the warehouse ?
Heather Sutton
Shook into new hives
Good afternoon, Ian! I watch your videos and marvel at how you and your wife manage such a big apiary !!! For this, you have great respect! 👍👏
I have 2 questions for you: 1. Why is the hive 10 frames, not 12? Could you work on the same system with 12 frame hives? 2. How much do you evaluate your production (building and equipment)? How much have you invested in your production?
ua-cam.com/video/yMVWBbyadqw/v-deo.html the lovely lady in the linked video is Ians wife, I am just a workerbee.
@@carriemartindale-wetherup5243 Just wanted to say, Ian employing such person as you, is one lucky ... 😉. And your work ethic & skills can't be gratified enough! Please remember it!
@@HeartPumper I will, Thank You so much!
🙋🏻♂️Question in the back row....is there any specific reason for the noticeable variation in color of the frames? Thanks!
What do you do with the by product that scrap off? What were? you doing when you where using the shovel
Greg Jeppson
Melted and sold to BeeMaid
How do you clean the floor with ground in wax and honey?? Presumably epoxy coated and the flushed with a hose.
This is popcorn and glass of ice tea kind of video... Love it...
Was interesting but didn't really understand what the machines are and what they do
I am disappointed Ian... I always thought you were speaking to ME! lol Thanks for all the great info you share! This is so well streamlined... It is evident a lot of thought and experience went into this working layout. Have you thought about any of the new technologies like camera-image based stuff for things like the cap chore (where comb wasn't drawn as far out)? It seems like that's something that could be better addressed with a robot as the cost of that stuff begins to drop.
Hiring a kids is simpler :)
...I’m speaking to you if you are listening lol
Robot honey decapper. Kewl.
Who is going to clean the robot and get it going again once it gets goofed up with a little propolis on its frame grabber (hand) ?
Another robot?
@@mikeries8549 No... design it self-cleaning - a little heat and a "wipe" cycle could fix most of that... Was just a thought for efficiency.. labor is not cheap!
Thanks for sharing I did not find boring at all.
Not to sound stupid, but how do you store the empties to be sure to keep spiders and bugs out of it? For use for next year do you run them throughout a freezer to kill any larvae?
Joe Harry
Inna shed for cold storage
What is the last machine? The one with the wax coils. Is that squeezing the honey out of the cappings?
HobbyPCB
Wax press, it removes the honey from damaged frames, tank skimming and clean out
Nice.!!Get you a chain decapper .Mann Lake got some ,very nice and they do a very good job.
Thanks for another enjoyable video Ian. After managing 2 hives into the ground last year, I have a lot of respect for your work here.
Far flung api biology question for you...
What would happen if you fed invert sugar instead of syrup? I know this probably a bad idea as you would negate the invertase production. But- wouldn't this also free the bees from an extra chemical they have to produce, and potentially increase the foragers ability to work?
I know that's not exactly a direct correlation- but if there were fewer bees required in the chain to convert the feed inside of the hive, could it possibly stimulate earlier conversion of workers to foragers....?
We feed HFCS and sucrose syrup to the hives
Cool machine! Greetings from Russian beekeeper!
You are a legend.
Hats off.
Appreciate your valuable work.
Salam
Класс! Приятно смотреть на слаженную работу!
You know what would be a great series or season if you wil, is to teach us from start to finish. The complete prosses of what you must and must not do from buying a nuke to what to watch out for, sickneses, dead queen, everything you has to know if you want to start beekeeping. I can only find one youtuber that did such a season over a year and would like to get more information and see how someone else does it
What was your (approximate) total pull this year?
Russell Moore
437 drums
Ahhhh. Now we can calculate the elusive bee factor.( $/bee earned)
The wife and I joke and call our bees our 'employees'. ; )
On how many colonies was that pull here in the USA we kept hearing about a drought in Canada effecting the crop
a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog Good golly. If you have 1400 hives, then that’s like 17 gallons of honey per hive. I’m just a two-hive hobbyist and I was ecstatic with my 5 gallons per hive! WOW, Ian.
I wonder if the chain uncapper like Mr Ed has would work better
please do more :) I would higher her in my restaurant any day of the week!!! seems like a solid workhorse backbone if you so must say!
Have you ever had issues with the centrifuge separator mixing air into the honey? I have read this may happen and am curious for first hand experiences
William Hammond
I never have
I´m amazed at how big this whole operation must be. How many bees do they keep?
At 18:11 , what is the machine compressing stuff into a big spiral?
That would be the wax press. It squeeses out any remaining honey from the cappings and scrapings we get off the frames.
this is like an episode of How It's Made
How do you store your empty boxes, to prevent wax moth/ hive beetle damage?
Its called winter.
Cold weather kills the up here
Superb muti-tasking TEAMWORK!
1. moving empty boxes from where frames are removed to down where the frames are reinserted:
how about a using a box rolling track attached to the wall like track used to move the boxes from the pallet to the decapper?
2. woman scrapes comb off the top of the frames prior to removing frames
is that wax saved? got to be 10 to 20 pounds per shift
No space for a rolling rack, and it would add more to clean later so not really wprth it. As much wax as possible is saved to be sold later.
Are you heating up the honey with steam in that centrifuge?
My grandpa learned me with chrystalized honey how to get it back to liquid by warming it up.
But warning me to stay below 35dgr C (about 92dgr F) to keep the antiseptic function alive
I worked on a bee farm many years ago. The bee keeper and myself and did this on a much smaller scale. Most of the honey was sold to Nabisco for honey grahamcrackers. I worked there for 3 years.
Have you ever seen the flow bee hives?
Floww hive system better using for countries have no snow.
👏😁😀😉🌳🌲🌴🌻 I congratulate you friends, very good work, they are professionals, I am empirical, greetings from Colombia
Do you have any videos on how you clean all of your equipment? I am new to your channel. Thanks!
Do you store boxes as 10 frame vs. coming in as 9 frame?
Tom Zuppan
9 frames supers
just how much honey did you pull from all that effort?
I got tired 😴 just watching. Even with the equipment this is certainly a workout 💪.
OMG!!! Where can I get that machine?
Hello Ian how many boxes can u and carrie run per hour
Mark Epping
3-4 guy crew will send 300 plus boxes, roughly 18-20 barrel of honey per day.
More boxes with less honey, less boxes with more honey and the same with staffing
Thanks for the feedback
Как у нас говорят "МУЖИК"! С большой буквы!!!
There is not taking a break. Bee Keeping is a lot of work from making sure the bees don't have any invaders to the queen is healthy.
I don't know how many hives they have but it must be a lot.
How do you get all the bees out of the boxes?
Escape boards. Ian has a few videos explaining the use of them.
That’s a lot of movin and groovin. A lot of work.
I enjoyed the video, You have a good working helper are they family
Flipping awesome 👍 kind of makes me wanna start bee keeping 🇨🇦🚜⏳😎
Is everything sticky in there.?