Amazing how that machine works. Revenue made from honey extracted from the wax. Also the wax blocks. Your friend owes you more than a bottle or two of mead.
thanks so much for the info Ian I am in my second year and just pulled 25 pounds, made 7 splits that look great, your productions have helped me time and time again. Instead of giving the cappings directly to the bees I will put them into paint strainer bags and spin them, because you have clearly demonstrated just how much honey is left to harvest there.
So, if you hadn’t been there to help him, all that recovered honey would have gone to waste? He’s lucky to have a friend like you. He needs to take steps before next year if yields will run consistently high like this one. Good job 😎👍👏
Maybe some of the smaller beekeeping operators can come together to form a consortium, pool their money, choose the member with the most space and buy the equipment needed and share the proceeds from the extracted honey equally.
That was just way too cool. It is amazing how much honey and wax was recovered from the toppings. Any serious bee keeper should have such a machine. It is worth it's weight in golden honey.
It's nice you did this for your fellow beekeeper. At least now he can see the benefit of the wax melter, maybe a smaller one, but the benefits are obvious. A bottle of mead is cheap but I'm sure you got help and advice from someone as you were getting bigger in the business. Good video of the whole operation. Thanks
Absolutely, and completely fascinating. No wonder you have 200,000 views. What I found most interesting is though you are dealing with large weights of honey and wax you still treat the products gently, and your machinery with such care and patience. The world be a better place if we had more artisans / craftsmen / businessmen like you.
What an ingenious machine! Thanks for the great instructional video of how it's done in the real world. Every time I watch you harvest your hives I'm also awed at how much wax those little guys make each year to encapsulate their honey stores, they sure know what they're about. Thanks.
You need to put that melter on a pallet or something so you can lift it on your forklift, that way you don’t have to crouch all that time working the tap.
Hello Ian. Our latest purchase is a junior cappings spinner. We have several buckets ready to be processed. We only have 50 hives but as our operation grows so does our need for simplicity and effectiveness. I just had open heart surgery so I havent put the cappings spinner to work yet but I'm doing fantastic and hopefully the boss will let me process our honey/cappings next week with her help of course.
Hey Justin... I was thinking that too... I mean there is an external clear tube but it just shows the level of the heating water. Plus even if you could see inside, you'd be going through two layers of metal and then heating water. Still love the concept though of being able to see whats inside. Looks like OP monitors by the way he heats and then pours material off.
@@ceruleanfish6703 my thought process was a strip about 2 inches wide of heat resistant acrylic or glass, hell could even use 2 layers so the water can go all around it, have the acrylic or glass beside the tap so you can see the level of where the honey is and where the wax begins.
Just a thought: what would happen when you let the whole batch cool down so that the wax gets hard again while the honey would still be able to flow? This way you cloud easily separate honey from wax. Afterwards you would need to heat it up again to cook the wax. This would take some extra time
@@svenweihusen57 Exactly, it would take extra time. Seeing how this is a money-oriented process, he won't. This recovered honey is clearly not as first-class as one straight from the centrifugal extractor.
We are headed into Spring here in Chile and I am so happy that I do not have to deal with snow or ice. Just cool and wet here in the winter. This was rendering is awesome. Hard good work. Thanks Jim in Chile.
Can somebody please explain something to me ? If you're using such a huge kettle type melter, why wouldn't you use a doubled-up cheesecloth or 1-2 oil filters in the wire strainer when you're doing the tapping out ? I've seen a couple other beekeepers/honey producers channels where they do that. It obviously catches a much larger amount of the slum at the outset so there's less clean up later and the cooled wax is cleaner with fewer remeltings needed. Or maybe he has whatever technical reason for doing it this way. I appreciate any replies. I love watching these types of videos.....very relaxing and educational content.
Great video, thanks. It’s all these details that we don’t think about and how much honey beekeepers loose/waist. Makes me think I should reinvest differently.
I wholeheartedly agree.. I found it extremely an an eye-opening experience of all the Lost honey revenue.. I'm sure that stainless steel melder is expensivebut I can also see where it wouldn't be too long and it would pay for itself....
I really enjoyed watching this. Another aspect of bee keeping that should not be overlooked. i am also sure that the bee keeper will be so surprised to see what he is missing that he too will invest in a wax/honey separator. Just so you know, I was born in Wpg and worked for Modern Dairies for several years and I even made deliveries to Morden and Carman. Those were the days. I have moved to Montréal for work reasons, but my heart is still back in Manitoba. Have a great day. Tim
Wow! This is so interesting! Thank you for sharing this process, your friend is very lucky you were willing to try this. A lot to be learned from this .
That is amazing, great job and great machine! Bottle of Mead wine is well deserved, also helping out a fellow beekeeper. Thanks for sharing, also that close up of the honey/wax layer when you were pouring was very helpful.
Neighbors HELPING neighbors? Wow! That takes me back to my farm days. In the city if you say "Good morning" to your neighbor they think you're a weirdo.
Seems like for the second melt, you could set your melter to about 65 degrees, allow the wax to fully melt and float on top of the honey, then turn the unit off and let the wax solidify. I'm guessing the wax would stick to the sides of the melter and stay in a block on top of the remaining honey. Then all the honey would then easily tap off the bottom and the wax could then be processed to completion. That would all the honey to render to the bottom without heating it to 90 degrees. Just a thought.
Really well worth a bottle or even two. I did not know that there was that much honey wasted in the old fashion prosess. However, i would like to know what the very end product was, if its not honey or wax what is it and has it got a use. The interesting thing for me was the wax, as i am sure it has a whole lot of uses as well as being one of the best polishes going for woodwork. I use to make furniture polish for people which in fact is only bees wax pure turpintine and what ever and smell, like lavender,,orange and rose, and with a slab like you showed you can make a lot of tins of polish from this. Its incredible what these small insects do and the amount of work they do that most people never get to know about, so this video was very good and informative, thank you very much for taking the time to make the video.
That was outstanding Ian!! When you did the first video on the wax melter with very little narration, I was a bit confused in the process. With this video you showed us exactly how the wax melter works! With my 2 first year hives and 30lbs of extracted honey, I could easily see how much honey was left in the cappings! After straining the cappings for a couple of weeks, I had about 3 more lbs of honey!
Hello i was wondering what you do with the slum. i find your videos fascinating. i'm in Perth Western Australia the weather conditions you have to contend with are quite amazing. Very informative and interesting great work.
What do you do with you "slum"? Is it good to put in the compost bin? Dose the garden like that? Do you know what kind of plants would do better with it? Would worms like it? So many questions sorry.
It usually has enough wax left in it that it can be pressed into shapes, which can be used as excellent fire starters. Considering it's composed of all the crap left on the bees' "feet" as they come crawling into the hive, it's probably mostly organic matter, so yeah, it'd probably be okay to put in the compost, too.
i happily did this exact thing all winter, very small scale using a slow cooker, with several big buckets of cappings that a local beekeeper gave me- they usually threw them away. got a cupboard full of beautiful raw honey, and made the rendered wax into a zillion one ounce cubes. was the most satisfying, even theraputic thing way i had ever passed a cold winter in my life. did it for several winters, until i eventually moved to a warm place.
Very interesting to hear you talk about the grades of honey (ie light, medium dark). I had often thought that darker honey was more concentrated in flavor but not so. Honey is almost like olive pressing where the first extraction is the purest and has the more full taste. With honey the darker and I assume has had more heat applied honey has a different taste to it. Enjoyed your post. Regards ~
Cerulean Fish No, light med dark, meaning heat treatment, not colour grade, The light will be salvaged, the medium and dark will need to find specific markets
You should pour the melted beeswax into molds the size of soap bars and sell the wax bars. Beeswax is good for waterproofing and conditioning Knife handles and cutting boards. Among other things.
Canadians are such nice people. Because that is alot of work just to show his friend that he should invest in better wax rendering equipment. Again thats alot of work. Cuddos to Mr steppler for your hard work and patience. !!
I sincerely hope you did get a bit more for all your time and effort then a meager bottle of mead. I found this process very interesting to watch. Thank you for showing.
Even if you darken it a bit it is still good for other uses.. like one person said you can use it for Mead making..or sell to bakery's ..or feed to your hives
That was a lot of hard work and patience - I can see you being quite busy helping beekeepers from losing a lot of revenue. One question, that last product you had which had no wax but was crumbly (crumbly slum) - can you use that for something like fertilizer or soil enhancement?
Nice one Ian: I have an Alto Shaam cook and hold oven. Radiant heat, retains the moisture. Think I'll look around for some pans and stuff. I only have two top bar hives.
It might be interesting to see the friends equipment for processing slum. A couple minutes of Google searching reveals slumgum as a mediocre feed component for rabbits or chickens which implies also for cattle. Trying to decide if slum was more valuable processed for wax or as a feed for wax moth larvae for bait. It's probably too small volume to pencil out but the bait thing might be a good kid business.
Can’t get enough of your content! In your opinion, do you think heating the honey to 55 degrees degrades the quality of the honey? Do you put it in the same category as the honey you extract straight from the comb?
Bees can carry 0.6gm/ml nectar in their crop.Water content reduction is about 30%. 6 x 20L pails /0.6/70% is 300,000 flights. So throwing away 300,00 flights would have been a waste of energy i.e. actually used other honey to make the flight.
Superb video... very very informative instructional and useful for beekeepers. Btw, I'm based in Dubai,UAE and originally from Mumbai, India. Keep the videos coming bro, great work.
Hi. I hope and trust that the financial reward for completing this process is more than the cost of your labour and of the electricity used in it. Seems like a lot of work
Ian awesome unit, love videos. My suggestion make sure brass draw off is lead free or change it to Stainless. Residual lead will appear in the honey over time.
Amazing how that machine works. Revenue made from honey extracted from the wax. Also the wax blocks. Your friend owes you more than a bottle or two of mead.
From a none beekeeper, this is the most tutorial video I have seen on the web about this process, well done, 10 /10
It’s great to see somebody extract honey and render the wax very thoroughly so there’s no waste. Bravo!
Newbie here...you just opened a new unknown area in a Beekeeper’s life. Thank you so much...so educational & well instructed 🐝
Accepting payment in mead? It better be a barrel of mead.
This was an excellent video to show how much was there is in capping. Thank you for your time in producing all these great videos. God bless
thanks so much for the info Ian I am in my second year and just pulled 25 pounds, made 7 splits that look great, your productions have helped me time and time again. Instead of giving the cappings directly to the bees I will put them into paint strainer bags and spin them, because you have clearly demonstrated just how much honey is left to harvest there.
So, if you hadn’t been there to help him, all that recovered honey would have gone to waste? He’s lucky to have a friend like you. He needs to take steps before next year if yields will run consistently high like this one. Good job 😎👍👏
Joe Romanak Looked like a lot of work ... I hope the guy pays him or at least returns the favor somehow...
@@TheBulldoggboy21 He returned the favor with gods drink.
Yep, that was close to 65% by volume of honey recovered. By weight, that is probably closer to 75%.
Nothing would waste because it can all be fed back to the bees. They will clean up every drop
Maybe some of the smaller beekeeping operators can come together to form a consortium, pool their money, choose the member with the most space and buy the equipment needed and share the proceeds from the extracted honey equally.
Another bottle of Meade, you mean a case of his good stuff!
That was just way too cool. It is amazing how much honey and wax was recovered from the toppings. Any serious bee keeper should have such a machine. It is worth it's weight in golden honey.
It's nice you did this for your fellow beekeeper. At least now he can see the benefit of the wax melter, maybe a smaller one, but the benefits are obvious. A bottle of mead is cheap but I'm sure you got help and advice from someone as you were getting bigger in the business. Good video of the whole operation. Thanks
a lot longer process than i would have ever guessed. Great video...thank you!
Absolutely, and completely fascinating. No wonder you have 200,000 views. What I found most interesting is though you are dealing with large weights of honey and wax you still treat the products gently, and your machinery with such care and patience. The world be a better place if we had more artisans / craftsmen / businessmen like you.
What an ingenious machine! Thanks for the great instructional video of how it's done in the real world. Every time I watch you harvest your hives I'm also awed at how much wax those little guys make each year to encapsulate their honey stores, they sure know what they're about. Thanks.
You need to put that melter on a pallet or something so you can lift it on your forklift, that way you don’t have to crouch all that time working the tap.
I think the melter should have a hopper type bottom to drain more efficiently.
Learned that from a house painter I assisted... Work smarter, not harder whenever possible.
its got wheels.... maybe je could extended that wheels but than he would need to lift all the wax higher...
@@ceruleanfish6703 I agree. Here is an efficient and smarter way to eliminate cappings all together. ua-cam.com/video/Eym8rxYeLTc/v-deo.html
crgaillee but he would still need to separate the melted cappings from the honey.
Hello Ian. Our latest purchase is a junior cappings spinner. We have several buckets ready to be processed. We only have 50 hives but as our operation grows so does our need for simplicity and effectiveness. I just had open heart surgery so I havent put the cappings spinner to work yet but I'm doing fantastic and hopefully the boss will let me process our honey/cappings next week with her help of course.
It's nice to have such a good neighbor 🌻
Its a shame that there isnt some sort of clear section so you can see where the levels are
Hey Justin... I was thinking that too... I mean there is an external clear tube but it just shows the level of the heating water. Plus even if you could see inside, you'd be going through two layers of metal and then heating water. Still love the concept though of being able to see whats inside. Looks like OP monitors by the way he heats and then pours material off.
@@ceruleanfish6703 my thought process was a strip about 2 inches wide of heat resistant acrylic or glass, hell could even use 2 layers so the water can go all around it, have the acrylic or glass beside the tap so you can see the level of where the honey is and where the wax begins.
Just a thought: what would happen when you let the whole batch cool down so that the wax gets hard again while the honey would still be able to flow? This way you cloud easily separate honey from wax. Afterwards you would need to heat it up again to cook the wax. This would take some extra time
@@svenweihusen57 Exactly, it would take extra time. Seeing how this is a money-oriented process, he won't. This recovered honey is clearly not as first-class as one straight from the centrifugal extractor.
Would of liked to have seen his reaction on what you salvaged. Cool video.
We are headed into Spring here in Chile and I am so happy that I do not have to deal with snow or ice. Just cool and wet here in the winter. This was rendering is awesome. Hard good work. Thanks Jim in Chile.
Somehow I missed this video four years ago. Great video and lots of good information.
Thank you for helping a peer with extraction as well as clearly explaining the process.
Lot of work..and a great set of skills you have..tthank you for shareing.👍
Can somebody please explain something to me ? If you're using such a huge kettle type melter, why wouldn't you use a doubled-up cheesecloth or 1-2 oil filters in the wire strainer when you're doing the tapping out ? I've seen a couple other beekeepers/honey producers channels where they do that. It obviously catches a much larger amount of the slum at the outset so there's less clean up later and the cooled wax is cleaner with fewer remeltings needed. Or maybe he has whatever technical reason for doing it this way. I appreciate any replies. I love watching these types of videos.....very relaxing and educational content.
Wow, you saved so much honey and beeswax! This is a good lesson for any beekeeper. I have a new appreciation for beekeepers.
I enjoyed watching the new machine at work. I'm gonna say your friend is going to be pretty stoked on the honey and wax haul
Great video, thanks. It’s all these details that we don’t think about and how much honey beekeepers loose/waist. Makes me think I should reinvest differently.
Outstanding video! An incredible effort on your part! Thank you for sharing.
This is one of the coolest videos I have seen so far, thanks so much for sharing Ian
I could watch this all day. its so relaxing and enjoyable.
This was fun to watch. I hope theirs more like it in the future,
I wholeheartedly agree.. I found it extremely an an eye-opening experience of all the Lost honey revenue.. I'm sure that stainless steel melder is expensivebut I can also see where it wouldn't be too long and it would pay for itself....
I really enjoyed watching this. Another aspect of bee keeping that should not be overlooked. i am also sure that the bee keeper will be so surprised to see what he is missing that he too will invest in a wax/honey separator. Just so you know, I was born in Wpg and worked for Modern Dairies for several years and I even made deliveries to Morden and Carman. Those were the days. I have moved to Montréal for work reasons, but my heart is still back in Manitoba. Have a great day. Tim
Wow! This is so interesting! Thank you for sharing this process, your friend is very lucky you were willing to try this. A lot to be learned from this .
You should get a case of Mead for your service. What a cool family you are part of. The way things should BEE.
That is amazing, great job and great machine! Bottle of Mead wine is well deserved, also helping out a fellow beekeeper. Thanks for sharing, also that close up of the honey/wax layer when you were pouring was very helpful.
Someone's having way too much fun with the new toys. 😀
Nice recovery, I'll bet your friend will be ecstatic.
I love how beaker helps each other out
This was FASCINATING to watch. Thank you so much!!
What a great video!
Very informative and interesting.
Thanks for doing this - it's given me ideas!
Affective. The bees do all that work and we waste a lot of their honey. Good to see someone who has that covered.
Neighbors HELPING neighbors? Wow! That takes me back to my farm days. In the city if you say "Good morning" to your neighbor they think you're a weirdo.
Aww i so want to see his(honey guy) reaction to your awesome work.....
Seems like for the second melt, you could set your melter to about 65 degrees, allow the wax to fully melt and float on top of the honey, then turn the unit off and let the wax solidify. I'm guessing the wax would stick to the sides of the melter and stay in a block on top of the remaining honey. Then all the honey would then easily tap off the bottom and the wax could then be processed to completion. That would all the honey to render to the bottom without heating it to 90 degrees. Just a thought.
Heat treated honey is no good.
Where is the heat element?
Pipe in the middle?
That is so wonderful how you’re helping your fellow beekeeper.😃 kudos to you!
Cool video. Love the streamlined process. Special props for having the splash bottle for when you drained the water into the catch basin.
Cheers Ian! Best wishes for a restful fall and winter.
I'm no bee keeper but the process is interesting to me so ... great video and very informative :)
That was amazing to watch, educational and really emphasizes the importance of the machine in large scale extraction!
WIW! That was an education! Thank you for sharing!
that was awesome. thanks for sharing your knowledge and work.
Really well worth a bottle or even two.
I did not know that there was that much honey wasted in the old fashion prosess.
However, i would like to know what the very end product was, if its not honey or wax what is it and has it got a use.
The interesting thing for me was the wax, as i am sure it has a whole lot of uses as well as being one of the best polishes going for woodwork.
I use to make furniture polish for people which in fact is only bees wax pure turpintine and what ever and smell, like lavender,,orange and rose, and with a slab like you showed you can make a lot of tins of polish from this.
Its incredible what these small insects do and the amount of work they do that most people never get to know about, so this video was very good and informative, thank you very much for taking the time to make the video.
It is great that it works out for both parties. Everyone works together
That was outstanding Ian!! When you did the first video on the wax melter with very little narration, I was a bit confused in the process. With this video you showed us exactly how the wax melter works! With my 2 first year hives and 30lbs of extracted honey, I could easily see how much honey was left in the cappings! After straining the cappings for a couple of weeks, I had about 3 more lbs of honey!
Hello i was wondering what you do with the slum. i find your videos fascinating. i'm in Perth Western Australia the weather conditions you have to contend with are quite amazing. Very informative and interesting great work.
Very cool. I hope you got a few bottles of mead. You spent a few work hours and a decent amount of electric power to do this project.
Another great video that wax melted is a slick rig. Apparently it dont just melt wax, thanks for that video
What do you do with you "slum"? Is it good to put in the compost bin? Dose the garden like that? Do you know what kind of plants would do better with it? Would worms like it? So many questions sorry.
I would think it wouldn’t have any nutrients in it
some use it for fire starters i have heard and yeah you can just put in into compost bin. quite good for that too. for plants.. no idea
It usually has enough wax left in it that it can be pressed into shapes, which can be used as excellent fire starters. Considering it's composed of all the crap left on the bees' "feet" as they come crawling into the hive, it's probably mostly organic matter, so yeah, it'd probably be okay to put in the compost, too.
Some of the smaller bee keepers that I know use the "slum" for compost. It does have nutrients in there for the plants.
Mix it with saw dust and/or dryer lint and press it into blocks to use for starting fires.
Good to see that process Ian
Thanks again
i happily did this exact thing all winter, very small scale using a slow cooker, with several big buckets of cappings that a local beekeeper gave me- they usually threw them away. got a cupboard full of beautiful raw honey, and made the rendered wax into a zillion one ounce cubes.
was the most satisfying, even theraputic thing way i had ever passed a cold winter in my life. did it for several winters, until i eventually moved to a warm place.
Amazing how much honey you captured without darkening it!
Not to sound greedy but the work we just witnessed is worth at least 3 bottles. You're a great friend for only 1 bottle.
Ace_OneShot
😂
Good video. Amazing how much honey is left in the cappings. You just needed an excuse to play with the new toy.
Very interesting to hear you talk about the grades of honey (ie light, medium dark). I had often thought that darker honey was more concentrated in flavor but not so. Honey is almost like olive pressing where the first extraction is the purest and has the more full taste. With honey the darker and I assume has had more heat applied honey has a different taste to it. Enjoyed your post. Regards ~
Cerulean Fish
No, light med dark, meaning heat treatment, not colour grade,
The light will be salvaged, the medium and dark will need to find specific markets
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog mead is where I’d put it🤣🍶
This is so freaking cool. So what can you do with the left over black stuff? Garden compost use maybe
You should pour the melted beeswax
into molds the size of soap bars and
sell the wax bars. Beeswax is good
for waterproofing and conditioning
Knife handles and cutting boards.
Among other things.
Just subscribed, I like your helpfulness towards another Beekeeper, well done and thanks
That was a great video. Very interesting. Thanks
Canadians are such nice people. Because that is alot of work just to show his friend that he should invest in better wax rendering equipment. Again thats alot of work. Cuddos to Mr steppler for your hard work and patience. !!
Melter honey is used for feeding the bees in the winter
nikolaos stavrou thanks for that info I never knew that fascinating
You mean the dark honey? What if it solidifies due to cold?
You can make it in to suroup for the bees to eat
you can heat it up
iirc honey that goes over 60c becomes toxic for bees
What a great video! Educational and wonderful. You should get a case of meade
i enjoyed watching thanks, from a 3rd year beekeeper
You should be getting a few cases of mead for all that work. Mead is easy to make.
mead is easy to make, very hard to make well.
Also some of the most expensive sugar inputs in all of fermentation
I just started but was unaware there was honey in the wax. These videos always amaze me.
I sincerely hope you did get a bit more for all your time and effort then a meager bottle of mead. I found this process very interesting to watch. Thank you for showing.
Mead?? Awesome.
Great Video, Great Editing
Even if you darken it a bit it is still good for other uses.. like one person said you can use it for Mead making..or sell to bakery's ..or feed to your hives
Well? How was the mead? Getting every last drop of wax and honey. Love it.
You are a great neighbor to do that for him. It must be a solid friendship
That was a lot of hard work and patience - I can see you being quite busy helping beekeepers from losing a lot of revenue. One question, that last product you had which had no wax but was crumbly (crumbly slum) - can you use that for something like fertilizer or soil enhancement?
It is mostly cocoons, with bit if propolis and debris. No idea if it would have any value as fertilizer.
How generous, nice work
Very interesting and informative, thank you!
What a nice neighbor 👍🏻
Very interesting. I never knew that you could get that much honey from the wax. Amazing process.
thanks for showing that whole process so well!
Nice one Ian:
I have an Alto Shaam cook and hold oven.
Radiant heat, retains the moisture.
Think I'll look around for some pans and stuff.
I only have two top bar hives.
It's amazing what can be extracted with gravity and just letting it sit in a vessel with a drain spigot.
It might be interesting to see the friends equipment for processing slum. A couple minutes of Google searching reveals slumgum as a mediocre feed component for rabbits or chickens which implies also for cattle. Trying to decide if slum was more valuable processed for wax or as a feed for wax moth larvae for bait. It's probably too small volume to pencil out but the bait thing might be a good kid business.
That’s a lot of honey left on the table as you said. As hard as you guys work it’s well worth the effort.
Can’t get enough of your content! In your opinion, do you think heating the honey to 55 degrees degrades the quality of the honey? Do you put it in the same category as the honey you extract straight from the comb?
Dustin Mastro
It has seen heat, a test of it would be in order but by the loom of it, that first stiff is fine
Superb video
And if the mead is any good it should be like a fine liqueur
Nice trade
And thanks as always for the video!
Wow, i mean, just wow.
Good work. Love you'r vids.
Bees can carry 0.6gm/ml nectar in their crop.Water content reduction is about 30%. 6 x 20L pails /0.6/70% is 300,000 flights.
So throwing away 300,00 flights would have been a waste of energy i.e. actually used other honey to make the flight.
Definitely due more than another bottle of mead for all that work! Sold me on purchasing that machine if I ever get that big!
Superb video... very very informative instructional and useful for beekeepers. Btw, I'm based in Dubai,UAE and originally from Mumbai, India. Keep the videos coming bro, great work.
Excellent video! Thank you so much.
What happened with the mead , were you able to walk the next morning ?????
Hi. I hope and trust that the financial reward for completing this process is more than the cost of your labour and of the electricity used in it. Seems like a lot of work
Peter Hicks
Honey is money
Wax is cash
It’s what we do man !
So what do you do with the slum any use for it, like adding it to fertilizer??
Ian awesome unit, love videos. My suggestion make sure brass draw off is lead free or change it to Stainless. Residual lead will appear in the honey over time.
Steve Lawrence
Yes , lead free
I am impressed with how much you got from all of that...🐝
Do you have cooperative organizations in Canada where a group of beekeepers could invest together in technology like this?