Honey Harvest 2018 - Our First Extractor!
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- Quite a change from last year! We pulled 18 frames from three hives (New Package, Balboa, Russians) and extracted the honey in our brand NEW extractor. End result was almost 5 gallons of honey!
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The reason I spun the extractor for so long is mostly about the type of honey in the frames and the temperature in the room. This is thick, dark goldenrod honey. It clings! Also, the room I was in was about 65ºF (16C), not a hot summer day. Honey does not flow when it's chilly. I assure you, the extractor was used as designed. The manufacturer showed me how to use it and was the one who told me he runs his for an hour or more. If you are extracting light honey on a hot day, 5 minutes will probably be fine for you. We are in New England and the heat isn't on in the house yet!
So at what point would you say, dang, I wish I got the 20 frame maxant extractor? Trying to decide. You can't do 15 spin cycles if you have to supers you need to extract That'll take forever.
I don't see myself being that big. After three years of trying, I extracted 18 frames. If I get 18 or 20 frames a year, I'm happy. I'm not trying to be a honey producer. If something crazy happens and my bees start making too much honey, needing a larger extractor is not a horrible problem to have. This suits my needs and will be fine for anyone with up to about 15 or so hives.
Oh, I hope the Russians were feeling calm?
After you pull frames and get ready to extract put a floor heater in the room. Get that room hot and it will flow way faster.
@Terry Melvin Can confirm. Have had it and its delicious!
I’m not sure, after licking the screen I didn’t get any difference in taste between the two...
Did the snozberry taste like snozberry?
Tastes like grease and LEDs
@@BenjaminCronce where is that from forget sounds so familiar
Lol you are funny
Taste like chicken !
Vino Farm Post alert = Stop everything and go watch.
Ha! That honey extractor doesn't even compare to the Binford 2500 honey extractor! V-4 460hp turbo with a bulletproof Allison transmission 6 speed ...0 to 60 mph in 3.75 secs. HO HO HO HO
What we all work for and love. Thanks for taking care of our bees. Great videos. Very well done. Thanks for the work you do to bring them to us.
Beautiful honey. I hope next year with the yard expansion you are able to get even more if the spring honey. It's really cool have the two distinctly different seasonal flavors.
If you are able to make any breads, Mead or other items with the honey I hope you can video. I can almost smell and taste.
Our golden rod is maxed out right now. Can't wait to find a fresh harvest in the next few weeks.
Good luck with prepping for the winter. Thx for Tak ng the time to make the vids.
A big congratulations JIM. Keep on observing your hive and bees. You have a good future with bees. Thanks for all your hard work.
Congrats! So exciting for you after all your hard work.
I don't know how I ended up watching videos about bee keeping, but I keep coming back. haha
This has made my Friday. Bravo Jim! Enjoy the fruits of labor! 👏🇦🇺
Congratulations. Enjoy your honey. I also use the Maxant 3100 and love it. I don't spin nearly as long as you- only 10-15 minutes at most. I also put the extractor and cappings about 100 yards away from the hives for the bees to clean up. They do a great job. Never started robbing. Congrats again on a great beekeeping year and thank you for your time and effort on the videos.
One of the beekeepers where I used to live would rent his bees out on certain flower or fruit crops, so that's what the honey came from, and it was extracted, and my favorite was thistle honey, so light and never tasted any other honey like it! I'm so glad you got a good honey harvest this year!
Congrats on your harvest! Really enjoyed you showing the difference between the two and explaining the taste. YUM Apple and dandelion!
Ah, this was one satisfying video. Here is hoping for a bigger extraction each year!
That's so cool! For those of us who are unlucky enough to have to purchase our raw honey in a store, we had no clue honey comes in different colors/shades at different times of the year. Same with pollen. Didn't know it came in such a variety of colors either! Thanks for the awesome videos!!
Hey Vino....you didn't show it in your video, but a super easy way to clean your extractor up after you are done....put it out in your bee yard. Your bees will clean up all the last little bits and clean it for you better than you could!
hyfy1970 no don’t do this!!! Especially with so many hives! They will swarm and attack each other, and promote robbing from other hives! It’s a good way to lose a good chunk of your bees
please tell me then why families i have known who have kept bees for generations do this every year and have never had an issue of robbing that you speak of?
hyfy1970 because they are lucky and have hardy bees. Depending on your area, the risk of another bee hive swooping down to steal honey and kill bees can go up significantly. Putting out a tray of honey invites those wild hives to approach, and can promote swarming, which can also kill a good chunk of your bees. Many beekeeping manuals go over this topic frequently, and I recommend checking some out if you’re curious :)
I do the same. I have a commercial producer near by and their bees show up on mass to clean up or carry away my open feed but they don't try my hives or my nucs. Only thing that surprises me is the small amount of harvest from all these hives in the videos. I've been watching bee videos for about two years and feeding bees pollen and sugar water in my back yard. Lack of bees this spring made me step up. I bought two chalk brood infested weak hives at the end of June because of our month late spring. I fought with them all summer and the take was 260lb plus I took 2 late season 6 frame nuc splits off of them. Supers came off at the beginning of August so I let them keep and back fill the hive with all the fall flow. I am using single box hive management methods I find it easier to manage. They are pretty much ready for winter now. With my hives at peak performance they should have done 200 to 250lbs each according to commercial producers I know. 5 gallons of honey off of this many hives has me scratching my head cause I got almost 4 times that from two hives. I realize it's not about the honey. Matter of fact I didn't care about honey at all. I wanted to do propagation and let the swarms go. my wife wanted honey so I had to scale back my plans to get the hives up to snuff to make her some. I got to make two storming late season 6 frame nucs so next year if all goes well I get to play.
Congratulations on your harvest! Everything looks incredible!
Hay I love your videos I just got in beekeeping a year ago. You a big help keep the good work up.
Enjoy your honey. I think you done very well this year, looking forward to next seasons videos. from Uk
Congrats on the extractor, and the honey harvest JIm!
Been watching this channel since you started, congrats on your first extraction! 🌻 🐝 🍁
I'm happy for you and it was really nice to see this side of beekeeping too. Now I want some honey!
So happy that you were able to harvest even after all the drama that happened
5 gallon buckets full of honey = happiness. Well done, thanks for the video. :)
Georgous honey. I know what everybody is getting for Christmas 😁. Thank you for sharing.
Exactly...
Clever use of the queen excluder! I like your uncapping set-up.
Oh the deliciousness!!! During the winter, we may require that you do a honey and breadmaking combo recipe!!!😍
That was exciting! We will be doing our first extraction at the beginning of November. We are first year beekeepers with two hives!
Watching this video made me drool on my phone by accident.
I also purchased and love this particular extractor. Great video on it. Thanks.
Nice haul. I had two distinct colors as well. The lighter honey was sweeter and the dark more bold. I still have a bit more to extract of rosemary honey.
I know this old but I would like to know how do you get the different flavors of honey? You said rosemary honey, I've never heard of flavored honey, sounds yummy.
now that's how I like a honey harvesting video, simple and fun! keep up with the good work, my friend. Saudações do Brasil :)
Jim Thanks for all your hard work
So jelly of that motorized extractor. I've got a hand crank and if it isn't perfectly balanced I have to lay my whole body over the top of it to keep it from jumping around my shed. It's quite a sight!
Congratulations!!! Third year is the charm :))
i watch one of these kinds of videos and I'm hooked with at least 2 popping up in my recommended and I'm happy i did
Around 60 pounds of honey, good job and great job bees!
5 Gallons of honey and a massively expanded apiary. Very good year for you, well done.
I found this channel in an acid tripping group. This is great.
So, what about the cappings? Are you going to try your hand at rendering the bees wax?
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You should make Mead now that you have all that honey. I bet if you did a batch of each honey you'd get some interesting results
This is on the list of things I want to do but have no time for.
Farming and having a family can't allow much pleasure time. Still, you never know when you'll have the time
aw yeah, I love mead!
It takes 18 months and you need alot of honey 20kg and some champagne yeast or similar put it in the cupboard and forget about it for a few months
Dilly Dilly!
Good job love the extractor. For next year order an uncappings roller. They are really cheap and make the prep for the extractor goes much faster. You can roll them directly over the extractor, no more need for a cappings tank. Yes you could buy an electric hot knife but they are expensive and honestly still takes almost as much time as your cold knife.
Congrats on you're harvest!!!!!
Like your DIY uncapping tank, brilliant!
What is the size or item number of the 2 you used?
this man is brave. He's taking the hives apart with no gloves!!! 0:56
YAY I LOVE HONEY EXTRACTION VIDEOS
Very cool! Loved the video.
Good job vino !
Congratulations on your first honey pool looks good.
That honey looks great! And the extractor looks like a quality item, as well. I will definitely have to upgrade
to a motorized unit once i add more hives to the operation. Congratulations on your first "real" harvest!
This extractor will last a lifetime. It's awesome. It felt good to finally "harvest" something.
My grandparents lived in Tampa, Florida. (I'm 65y/o) When our family would go there on vacation, we always had to go to Webb City, a big store. My grandpa would say,"Let's go Webbin'". We ALWAYS had to get orange blossom honey. It came packaged in a gallon paint can which made it awesome for us 4 kids! This is the only nasty thing I have ever done in my life, literally. I was about 10. I took a spoon of Fels Naptha soap (a vegetable soap that looks like thickened honey from the bottom of the gallon can) and told my younger sister that it WAS from the bottom of the can! Imagine her face when she was expecting sweetness and taste soapy! She wasn' too mad. JANET! ! ! ! !
Congrats!
Very interesting , well done , boss I got questions, if I want learn how to make honey from the beginning mean from the hive where shall go to learn from scratch. Thank you
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Not only a color difference between the 2 but it appears that one was thicker than the other. Tells you a lot about how different plant matter and times of year can change honey.
Thank you Vino
Will the honey be available for sale?
great to see that you got some honey. only up from here.
you may want to get a Honey Refractometer to test the Honey Moisture.
I live down the road from Maxant. Good folks.
very interesting, thx for posting.
Great stuff.
You always make me crave the honey!
How about putting the frames in your solar warmer, a.k.a your vehicle, to warm up the frames a bit to extract?
What is the water % on the darker fall honey? It looks very runny.
Before you washed everything did you stick the dirty equipment outside to let the bees clean it off?
Good job!
I may not be a bee keeper but i love watching this whole process. Something tells me if i went with a hand crank extractor I'd figure a way to make it peddle powered. lol
That would not be too hard if you got a treadle peddle and a flywheel to hold the energy you put into it. (I understand the physics of it but not so much the building. But with those words you could get the help you need)
Could you use an empty frame of the same size to fill the empty space to try to keep it more balanced? It would still be lighter because there’s no honey on it so I’m not sure.
That was a nice color!
Wonderful video! Love watching you tend your hives and seeing your finished product, your spring honey was just gorgeous. What do you do with your beeswax?
Nice vid bro
Are the caps all wax that you could make candles with? what is the bees wax that i hear people say they make candles and soap with? Love the vids makes we want to get a hive.
Thanks for the video! Yeah.. the goldenrod does kind of have a "gym socks" smell.. but it is sweeter and certainly not as offensive! :)
Awesome extraction brother. Honey looks great. I can smell it from my house in miami florida. Lol
Nice job Jim, congratulations on your first official honey harvest and a great year in beekeeping. I've got to get things squared away and take some of my honey off as well. My dad passed away last weekend at 78 years old and I just haven't had the time or the
wherewithal to get into it lately. It's been a rough past few weeks.
Brent Aww, Man. Sorry to hear that. I hope you have help and support. Do you have some local beekeepers you could call on to at least start condensing hives and taking stock of what’s going on for you? I know you have a lot more hives. The thought of taking on a huge task like that must be tough with what you’re going through. On the other hand, maybe digging in to a task like that might be what you need. Sorry I can’t help out.
@@vinofarm Thanks, no there aren't any other beeks around that I know of. I'll get it sorted out eventually or I won't. All my hives seem to be in pretty good shape at this point, I just haven't gotten any fall honey harvested yet. Whatever I don't get will be fine left on the bees, they'll just have extra stores. I still have 500+ acres of beans to harvest and 500+ acres of wheat and cover crop to go yet this fall but I have a couple of weeks yet before that starts so maybe I'll get the honey taken off and the bees set for winter yet. We have a little more time over here in MO than you all do.
Gym socks? lol!
Maybe what people are smelling is the influence of bee bread.
Did you test the water content?
What do you call that red tray that you removed the excess honey from called ?
Very interesting!
If it ever gets to that point, I would like to let you know i would 1000000% buy Vinofarm brand honey.
how long does it take to extract the honey from both sides?
the warming light underneath is a great idea
So cool! Can you tell me where you purchased your uncapping bin? They are so expensive!
your video is very good keep it up
I saw a video where the beekeeper instead of using a knife to cut the cupping before the extraction he uses hot air from a hair dryer to melt the honey comb cups and hence he avoided the knife altogether. Are you aware of that?
how long did you have to spin deep frames?
I wonder how many beehours that went into that
i've always been curious, what do you do with the wax? are you gonna make candles in a future video? 🐝💕
Thanks !!
That is so awesome! You might want to look up your local laws before trying to sell any of your honey, but you probably already know that.
Hey vino! Beginner bee keeper here and I am really enjoying your vids.
It would be nice if you were to do a video on what frames you use, what brand of supers, just general information that will really help out beginners, and maybe even pros. Thanks 👍
For woodenware, I usually shop at betterbee.com or brushymountainbeefarm.com. I have found the quality of the wooden boxes and frames to be best at those places. I go with the best deals I can find. I really like Brushy Mountain frames, but I try to wait for sales. Stock up when you see good deals.
I love your video
Nice. That spring honey may be more than just dandelion and apple. I had a major flow of Linden Trees in June. I am sure you have Linden trees where you are as well. The Linden (aka Basswood) has a very distinct aroma and the honey is light with the slightest hint of green.
There are light honey years and dark honey years here. Due to that big basswood bloom our spring crop looks like what we normally get in the fall. Tastes great...less filling. lol
What brand and model suit are you using? I need one like that!
My Italians produced 3 supers worth but I kept one for them. Being it’s august there’s still goldenrod for them.
Thank you for another great video. Two questions; where did you purchase the 600 micron filter and how did you store the spring frames until you were ready to extract. TY.
darnbunny1 I have the filters linked in my amazon links: www.amazon.com/shop/vinofarm
As far as storing, honey doesn’t go bad as long as pests don’t get into it. I just had the frames hanging in an empty hive box in my living room all summer. Nothing special. Just keep mice, ants and moths away.
When do you start the Mead series? I mean you have to do something with all that hunny.
Eat it on toast! Nomnomnom!
Congratulations on your new extractor! This is the most honey I have seen you harvest so far. A couple more years and you should have about a one thousand hive commercial operation right? Seriously though, you have really grown by leaps and bounds since I have been following you. Do you have any plans on creating a warm room? Or perhaps using some other method of bringing the temp. up a bit more?
Sixty-five isn't all that warm, but I'm no expert. Are you considering blending your honey? I took half of a frame from my hive so far. Being my first year, I'll leave the remaining honey for winter. It will probably be too much, but better than not enough. I am going to consider a press because it is a Kenyan Top Bar and the whole comb has to be taken. I have you to thank for my bees doing very well so far. I've learned a great deal from you. My only regret is I should have gone with the Langstroth design, but I only have one hive and a swarm box. I think it is great that the extractor manufacturer is so close to you. Thanks again Mr. Vino. Regards.
Thanks so cool
Is that the Oceans 12 soundtrack in the background?