Maintain your supers! make the bees job easier!
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- Hi everybody, this is how I maintain my supers every year it's a bit of a slog but it means we can use a eight frame configuration in most of a Honey supers. We have to rebuild them on tens as you probably seen in my other videos but this configuration seems to work really well for me it keeps the supers in really good condition and if you wait until later on in the video you will see what happens if you don't maintain your supers properly. They become poorly configured with many cells missing and less efficient and holding honey. Working hard while the nectar flow just kicks in so that I can get the supers back onto the colonies and get them rebuilt with nice clean wax so there any that I find after the summer I will only have to deal with then and not the whole lot I'm doing now.
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Bonjour monsieur
Pour les cadres de hausse baticadre avec pollen.
Je nettoie avec une soufflette et compresseur à air 8 bars
Ça marche très bien... à faire par temps froid 👍
Bonne continuation
Je vous suis depuis des années 😊
Thanks mate, I’d considered using the Italian cages for introducing. Safety video is what it is!
I really enjoy these workshop type videos. Never seen anyone scrape supers off before I have always left the pollen in.
Sirdo, it is so good to have sweet work 🐝ing cut out 4 U.
Just lovely having good hives that is the key so stay healthy to do beekeeping tomorrow 😀👋...
The speed you put that plastic back down lol I learned to Bally Dance when I forgot to zip my bee suite up on a rescue job the other morning haha so glad np pne was filming. As for supering. Try under supering and see just how much faster they build and fill up. I won't tell you as you will not believe me, Its some thing you have to do your self and compare. My gues is you will stand there and say how did they do that so fast lol
Your boxes look good and many for the good flow. The honey shop is a very good addition. Thanks for the video
I'm only in my 4th year of beekeeping and my gear is still new. But it's always have knowledge well in advance! Thank you Richard 😁
Hi Richard,
Have you considered using drone base foundation in your supers? The bees (normally) don’t store any pollen in drone base. It make extraction and uncapping loads easier.
Hi Peter, he’s I have and it’s an option but I would have to go back to wooden frames and buying expensive foundation. There is never a perfect solution!🤷🏼♂️🤓
Apart from a few, all my super are drone base foundation and I wouldn’t go back to worker. The few that are worker I’ll be swapping over but I can understand where you are coming from. 👍
This is so nice to see! 💪 Clean frames in the supers is KEY if you ask me. 👍
I've seen beekeepers use some pretty disgusting frames in their supers... 🤮
Fair play Richard. It is a busy time of year, No matter how prepared i think i have i never seem to have enough time.
You make all the USA and Canadians jealous with your chestnuts I suppose
Thank you Richard
You should just sosk the frames with the crystalized honey and pollen in a barrel of cold water for around 3 days
All the crystalized honey and the pollen will wash out
You then have good drawn comb to reuse
I wish it was that simple Cape bees, you think we have ent tried that?? Soaking the frames does help but it doesn’t remove all of it, may be 50%, a pressure wash removes it all! There’s no substitute for that!
excellent.
Pick those sloes. They make a really good sloe wine. It's really easy to make, tastes good and packs a punch. Using honey as the sugar content should give it some essence of honey mead.
What kind of frames do you use? Is it Dadant or those we call Standard frames. Top bar is 43.5 cm and total height is 22 cm for brood frames. I know Dadant is bigger. I smelted down a lot of older frames. I used 2 old hives on top of each other with a chicken net and queen excluder between so only the wax is dripping down. I use s wall paper steamer that is on the lower hive and after 20 minutes ( 1,5 liter water) then all frames are empty. And easy to scrape off all propolis at same time. I will make a video soon. Been way too warm for 4 weeks, over 40°C everyday and no rain. But got blessed a few days ago. So nothing grew because of everything was so damned dry. Hope you subscribe Richard and only a couple of months before we can see that pretty area you live in. Have a great bee year.
Hay Richard, what size jar did you go with. And it’s good to see you went away from the plastic tubes
Going with mostly the 500g and but got a pallet of 1kg and also a pallet of 250g will see which way the market goes. But over here the 500g seems to sell the best. Watch this space!!
Was going to buy completely biodegradable pots but their more than double than glass which is already recyclable 🤷🏼♂️ very difficult to know the best way to go.
Over here in Ireland as you know from your visit to Ollies, we mostly sell the 230g and 340g but a few are still on the 1 pound jar..
Is the lime tree you describes a lime linden?
Are the chestnut trees the edible chestnuts we buy steamed from street vendors and roast at Christmas, or.are.they the inedible horse chestnuts?
Great video as usual Richard. Thank you What are the plastic cover are they specifically for beehives?
Just really think polythene about 180 microns. The stuff they use fir poly tunnels is the best. It doesn’t tear, just soft and flexible. Thank you 🙏 😊
Hi Richard, could I ask what you use for your plastic inner covers?
I’ve found pollen mites usually turn any unused pollen to dust over winter?
When I had less hives I found the same, now I find it just Dosent clear enough out!
Where do you get the plastic sheets from ? Where do you get it from
My lime tree grows limes, what does yours grow?
Have you ever noticed a difference between putting the empty supers above or below or between the supers already on?
I bought a plastic dadant super frame off aamazon to have a look. The plastic cells are pre-formed about 5mm deep. The plastic foundation from Thorne has a cell wall not mucg over 0.5mm deep and needs careful pre-waxing before putting it on the hive. Richard, am I correct in thinking you do not have to pre-wax?
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