UA-cam has increased your sales I am buying equipment from u and I have gotten honey from u as well your videos are great and a blessing to beekeepers like me I am 1 of those 8 frame people. I cant lift the 10 frame very well. Have a great day Bob
Bob, I used to make smelly soaps from vegetable oils, its a process far different from beekeeping. Many customers requested unscented lard based soaps and it became a very popular product. The reasoning is collagen in your skin is very similar to hog fat. The downside is the soaps are much harder and do not cut as easily with the wire cutter.
It’s sounds like Brexit with this rain, and yes in north west Europe we do cream spring honey directly to avoid Crystallisation, if you do it well it not grainy at all
Great video Bob!! Really enjoy seeing behind the scenes at the bee business. Also love the tips for your bee crews, the last video where you mentioned shaking the bees off the frames instead of slamming them down was a good one. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Ha Bob I received the double screen boards from u they are great very well made I will be dead and gone and they will be here. Thanks for every thing. I sure wish the shipping was not so bad there not much happening here with the flow real bad hoping for a good season my self.
Good to see someone doing well in beekeeping, it's a really hard business, but I loved it and the connection with the environment it brings, it's kinda spiritual
Thanks Bob and team for my three red queens. I picked them up during the rains in Cashiers that you had as well. The team was so nice! I put the new queens out in the bee yard on Friday and fingers crossed. I’d say Good Lord willing and the creek doesn’t rise but the creek has already risen so God willing. Thanks again, Kevin Rowland, Tiny Trail Farm, Cashiers, NC. Let me know if you ever have extra queens these girls look great! Sourwood hopeful in August! ❤
In my greenhouse’s it’s a fact that the faster you move air the quicker you cool it off. Maybe in your warming box try a ceiling fan on low to push the warm air to the floor. They do make special mounts to keep them high and tight so your forklift won’t hit it. Just an observation, you know more about this than I.
Too bad you didn’t have a time lapse video or a security camera on the hive in the store and been able to see them swarm that’s really cool you have that for people to see always a great video and you have so much knowledge and great people working for you thanks for sharing
Hi Bob, I noticed one time I was wearing a black elbow band for tennis elbow and when I get some aggravated bees they go after that brace instead of my face and head. I wear it often now. Thanks for the videos.
I don't know if that's true. If UA-cam allowed pictures, I'd show you many pictures of my daughter wearing leather bands on her arms and she is in saddles, shorts, halter top and a veil working bees.
hoping i was right in making some nucs up this week ahead of this week long rainy pattern we're having in the north. my hives were packed full of bees and brood and i figured as soon as we come out of this rain they'll flip right into swarm mode.
This just might be one of my favorite videos Bob. Thanks for fhe tour of soap room and talking with everyone. Coming to Waynesville in June and hoping to make my way to see yall and maybe buy some of that good clover honey. You are the man Bob. I'm glad I know you. You have a great crew. Where was that country talking boy Seth? LOL. Thanks again for letting us inside your world on this rainy Sunday morning. ❤😊
It would seems like you have a big payroll but you always have other duties for the crew on rainy days that make you money. Very well run oiled machine you have there Bob.
Add me to the folks that would really like to see a detailed, how-to video for the soap making. I’d love to venture into this and expand from just honey offerings for my customers. Thanks Bob and Syleena!
Hello Bob. I have had 3 swarms out of 30 colonies. Hopefully the rest of them doesn't . The main nectar flow has started. We had rain Friday and today is cloudy with showers. The next couple of weeks the weather looks really good. Talked to Molly Friday. Picking up queens and some other stuff the end of June.
Hi Bob 🙂 Where do you get that exact white hat and veil that you are wearing in this video at the 24 minute mark? It’s a white hat with a golden veil. I will be replacing mine and that one looks open and comfortable. Thanks for the awesome videos and sharing your wealth of knowledge and wisdom! Jeff Albright
Hi Jeff. I get those from Mann Lake. The veil is their more expensive version of the square folding string veil with elastic and the hat is the ventilated mesh type.
Great video, you put in several learning points in all your videos. I didn't realize extended rain could cause swarming conditions. Is it less likely without queen excluders? That was kind of the feel of what I got from your comments.
@@bobbinnie9872 Thanks for taking the time to answer, you've forgot more than most people will know. I didn't like hearing that one when I was in the Corps but, coming from certain people, it was true.
Bob do you know if there is a veil out or jacket with a replaceable plexiglass sight window. These old eyes are having a hard time seeing the eggs. The square type veil you wear would be perfect for one of these. Thanks for the videos.
Greetings King Bob from the varroa free subtropics of Australia. I'm a very new beek and just read some articles on caffeinated bees visiting certain plants more as well as living longer (in small doses) I was wondering if this practice is widespread for pollinators (which I wish to break into one day) also how would one mix the caffeinated sugar syrup ?? Just throw in a spoon of instant coffee into sugar syrup??
Hi Malcolm. We don't yet. We're in the middle of having a new website made which should finish in a few months. Everything in our store will be available on that. If you would like to order some soap you can call 706 782 6722 and the girls will fix you up.
@@bobbinnie9872 oh, I know Molly has been wonderful. I buy tint plugs and Sourwood. She is trying to find a way to go visit your store at the end of this bee season slows down during fall feeding with a Florida trip through Tennessee down to GA. 😂 from Oklahoma. Have a great day,
Hey Bob, question for you. I run singles (in Kentucky) and this year I tried to allow the queens more room in the spring by giving them a super to lay in to reduce swarming. When, in your opinion, should I move the queen excluder back under that first super? I know the bees will backfill with honey (hopefully). Thoughts?
@@bobbinnie9872 Thanks Bob! It sounds like I’m behind and need to move them down asap! For some reason I was thinking once the flow calms down but what you’re saying makes more sense. Have to have time for that brood to get worked out! Thanks again Bob!
Thanks for another great video Bob.😉So how does a beekeeper become a millionaire?😆We start with 2🤔oh wait I think I learnt that joke from one of your videos. 😁 Ty for the tip on interducing a queen I had not heard that one.👍Have a wonderful Lords Day Bob and company.
Good afternoon Bob, greetings from Ukraine, I wanted to ask, each hive has its drawbacks, please tell me what disadvantages the langstroth rue hive has in your opinion, I will be very grateful.
Hey Bob! The 5 litres buckets that i am using to feed my bees seem to be leaking a lot, but i have no clue if they are from the seal or their are minute pin holes!! But the problem is accute. I have not opened the seal after i had the covers fixed. Did you ever face such leakage issues, if so, what did you do to fix it ! Regards 🙏
In the past when I removed the bucket lid for filling it was a big problem around the gaskets but now that we only put the lids on once and fill through the tint plug hole it doesn't show up much. If you are not removing the lid but it's leaking around the gasket you might try removing the lid and putting a bead of non toxic caulking on the gasket and reinstalling.
We always have someone that can use the queens here. I've had a lot of trouble shipping queens and when we do it's only overnight UPS which is expensive.
@@bobbinnie9872 Another great video thanks. I bought one Queen through the mail From a seller in Texas, I will never buy one by mail again. Turned out to bee a poor queen in my inexperienced opinion. I lost the hive by robbing by the end of the summer. I did not put entrance reducer on like I should have. The queen just never layed very well. One problem with mailing is WHOS fault is a bad queen. Iv seen how SOME postal workers treat packages A queen is not meant to bee treated like that, so i am trying my best to start getting my own queens through cells or cutouts Then i can only blame my self for failure. I have a drone laying Queen now and doing a cutout today and thinking of pinching drone layer and combining. Easy cutout in a water meter. Enough rambling thanks again.
@@dennisbarney869 Sounds like it was your fault. Don’t take that the wrong way cause you already said your inexperienced. Some queen breeders take pride in shipping but a lot of breeders also say shipping may stress them out. What were the conditions of the hive you introduced the new queen to? You said you didn’t add a reducer, did you have 1:1 in a frame feeder with “honey bee healthy”? Was the intro during a flow? I literally just did this… I almost lost 2 nucs after introducing 2 new queens. @Bob Binnie said it in one of other videos suggesting not to use additives because it could induce robbing! I had to do the wet sheet thing and figure out why…. Also, how do you trust beekeepers you don’t know? How do you know you ordered and received a 2023 queen? 2nd queens have a higher chance of swarming (Bob’s last vid)…. Bees don’t go by the books…. It’s def aggravating sometimes….I was sold 2 queens by someone Bob knows and was originally told he only had 1 23’ queen left and a last year one but at the last minute he said “oh wait, my mistake, it is a 2023 queen”…… in my book that’s a red flag and it’s a coincidence that THAT 22’ queen isn’t producing a 3rd of the other….. Keep asking questions like me…. I always ask even if they don’t respond back.
I really appreciate the mutual respect you and your crew have for one another. Something rare in the business world today.
A small sample of the people holding this country together!
Very good video. I'd love to see that soap making video, Bob.
We're planning to do before too long.
I think I like you being bored Bob, it has given me a great new view of your operation and staff. Well done
Looking forward to the soap making video!
UA-cam has increased your sales I am buying equipment from u and I have gotten honey from u as well your videos are great and a blessing to beekeepers like me I am 1 of those 8 frame people. I cant lift the 10 frame very well. Have a great day Bob
Good Video as always, I'm looking forward to the Soap making episode, Always interested in alternative products of the Hive..
I like these kind of videos of all the associates. Need to send you northern Michigan Honey for taste test
that was good. nice view into your operation and people 🌻🐝👍
Great compliment from your customer from Georgia. "You've helped me out a lot over the years " Thanks for sharing.
Bob a friend picked up 2 of your Nucs Monday for me and i will have to say they were amazing, u know Nucs. Thanks
Bob, I used to make smelly soaps from vegetable oils, its a process far different from beekeeping. Many customers requested unscented lard based soaps and it became a very popular product. The reasoning is collagen in your skin is very similar to hog fat. The downside is the soaps are much harder and do not cut as easily with the wire cutter.
It’s sounds like Brexit with this rain, and yes in north west Europe we do cream spring honey directly to avoid Crystallisation, if you do it well it not grainy at all
Such an amazing business you have created. It gives many of us something to inspire to. Thank you for showing us around every Sunday morning.
Olly’s bee farm in Dublin won national recognition last year some of Europes best
like the soaps....new to me
I hadn’t thought of smoking my stings. I always learn something from your videos.
Great video Bob!! Really enjoy seeing behind the scenes at the bee business. Also love the tips for your bee crews, the last video where you mentioned shaking the bees off the frames instead of slamming them down was a good one. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
I always enjoy your tours around your place.
Wow what an operation! Thx Bob
Ya, this tropical storm left us last night here in NYC and is not hitting you-lots of rain.
Ha Bob I received the double screen boards from u they are great very well made I will be dead and gone and they will be here. Thanks for every thing. I sure wish the shipping was not so bad there not much happening here with the flow real bad hoping for a good season my self.
Good to see someone doing well in beekeeping, it's a really hard business, but I loved it and the connection with the environment it brings, it's kinda spiritual
Thanks Bob and team for my three red queens. I picked them up during the rains in Cashiers that you had as well. The team was so nice! I put the new queens out in the bee yard on Friday and fingers crossed. I’d say Good Lord willing and the creek doesn’t rise but the creek has already risen so God willing. Thanks again, Kevin Rowland, Tiny Trail Farm, Cashiers, NC. Let me know if you ever have extra queens these girls look great! Sourwood hopeful in August! ❤
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Great Video, can't wait for the video about making soap. Thank You
In my greenhouse’s it’s a fact that the faster you move air the quicker you cool it off. Maybe in your warming box try a ceiling fan on low to push the warm air to the floor. They do make special mounts to keep them high and tight so your forklift won’t hit it. Just an observation, you know more about this than I.
thank you for sharing your knowledge , great channel
I talked to you and saw your crew at hive life 23, and your all so nice, Molly is adorable. I just started using the 2x screen and bottom boards
LOL THEY NOTICE YOUR MOOD HA HA 😂😂😂😂
She got another lunch out of you ;)
I'll bet you wouldn't be surprised to hear she gets lots of lunches. Actually they all do. 😇
Always look forward to your videos !
Hi, nice to meet you. I'm Alex, a Mexican beekeeper. I'd like to visit you.
Too bad you didn’t have a time lapse video or a security camera on the hive in the store and been able to see them swarm that’s really cool you have that for people to see always a great video and you have so much knowledge and great people working for you thanks for sharing
Hi Bob, I noticed one time I was wearing a black elbow band for tennis elbow and when I get some aggravated bees they go after that brace instead of my face and head. I wear it often now. Thanks for the videos.
I don't know if that's true. If UA-cam allowed pictures, I'd show you many pictures of my daughter wearing leather bands on her arms and she is in saddles, shorts, halter top and a veil working bees.
hoping i was right in making some nucs up this week ahead of this week long rainy pattern we're having in the north. my hives were packed full of bees and brood and i figured as soon as we come out of this rain they'll flip right into swarm mode.
lol ,call Mr Ed to remove the swarm
Always good information
Bob, same weather here in Maryland. Right when the black locust pops...several days of rain! 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝
Mother Nature reigns supreme!!
This just might be one of my favorite videos Bob. Thanks for fhe tour of soap room and talking with everyone. Coming to Waynesville in June and hoping to make my way to see yall and maybe buy some of that good clover honey. You are the man Bob. I'm glad I know you. You have a great crew. Where was that country talking boy Seth? LOL. Thanks again for letting us inside your world on this rainy Sunday morning. ❤😊
Seth was working in his own shop assembling equipment on that day. Ask if I'm there when you come in.
@@bobbinnie9872 oh yeah I always ask to see you.
Oh new warming room.👍
How do you keep your workshop so clean? It constantly amazes me 😂
Good employees.
@@bobbinnie9872Wonderful people. And that little Christmas tree(!)😅💐
It would seems like you have a big payroll but you always have other duties for the crew on rainy days that make you money. Very well run oiled machine you have there Bob.
Add me to the folks that would really like to see a detailed, how-to video for the soap making. I’d love to venture into this and expand from just honey offerings for my customers. Thanks Bob and Syleena!
20:21 video of the soap with recipe would be great!!
We'll have a detailed recipe in the soap video we put out. The process is as important as the recipe.
Hello Bob. I have had 3 swarms out of 30 colonies. Hopefully the rest of them doesn't . The main nectar flow has started. We had rain Friday and today is cloudy with showers. The next couple of weeks the weather looks really good.
Talked to Molly Friday. Picking up queens and some other stuff the end of June.
See you then. 👍
Must have lavender soap!
Email me your address.
Hi Bob 🙂
Where do you get that exact white hat and veil that you are wearing in this video at the 24 minute mark? It’s a white hat with a golden veil. I will be replacing mine and that one looks open and comfortable. Thanks for the awesome videos and sharing your wealth of knowledge and wisdom!
Jeff Albright
Hi Jeff. I get those from Mann Lake. The veil is their more expensive version of the square folding string veil with elastic and the hat is the ventilated mesh type.
Is that the square nylon folding veil or the reg square folding veil with elastic? Page 95 on mann lake magazine?
Great video, you put in several learning points in all your videos. I didn't realize extended rain could cause swarming conditions. Is it less likely without queen excluders? That was kind of the feel of what I got from your comments.
All correct. Thanks.
@@bobbinnie9872 Thanks for taking the time to answer, you've forgot more than most people will know. I didn't like hearing that one when I was in the Corps but, coming from certain people, it was true.
Good Morning Bob !
Good morning sir.
Bob do you know if there is a veil out or jacket with a replaceable plexiglass sight window. These old eyes are having a hard time seeing the eggs. The square type veil you wear would be perfect for one of these. Thanks for the videos.
I have seen one with a plastic window but I don't know who carries it.
A great rainy day episode Bob.
Did y'all ever get that swarm off of the building?
Thanks for sharing
It was just yesterday and I'll see if it's still there in the morning.
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Hi Oscar.👍
Greetings King Bob from the varroa free subtropics of Australia. I'm a very new beek and just read some articles on caffeinated bees visiting certain plants more as well as living longer (in small doses) I was wondering if this practice is widespread for pollinators (which I wish to break into one day) also how would one mix the caffeinated sugar syrup ?? Just throw in a spoon of instant coffee into sugar syrup??
Hi Daniel. I have to report that I have never heard of this. 🤔
Lunch is always good
Lunch is always good!!
Bob you could always call a Beekeeper to catch your swarm.
One that will climb a ladder LOL
Where is DirtRooster when ya need him
Okay, Bob my wife said you didn't have any soap for sale on your website!!!!
😂
Hi Malcolm. We don't yet. We're in the middle of having a new website made which should finish in a few months. Everything in our store will be available on that. If you would like to order some soap you can call 706 782 6722 and the girls will fix you up.
@@bobbinnie9872 oh, I know Molly has been wonderful. I buy tint plugs and Sourwood.
She is trying to find a way to go visit your store at the end of this bee season slows down during fall feeding with a Florida trip through Tennessee down to GA. 😂 from Oklahoma. Have a great day,
@@OklahomaBeekeeper Let Me know when you're coming.
Hey Bob, do you run a “honey tasting/judging day” with the ladies of the front office being the judges?
They try most of the varieties before anyone else. I value their opinion.
Thanks Mr Bob. With Miss Selena in charge of soap making, is she still on the bee crew? Lots of new faces in this video
Yes, she makes soap on rainy days.
Hey Bob, question for you. I run singles (in Kentucky) and this year I tried to allow the queens more room in the spring by giving them a super to lay in to reduce swarming. When, in your opinion, should I move the queen excluder back under that first super? I know the bees will backfill with honey (hopefully). Thoughts?
We like to do it just before or just as the flow begins. Of course we need at least three weeks before harvest to make sure all the brood is gone.
@@bobbinnie9872 Thanks Bob! It sounds like I’m behind and need to move them down asap! For some reason I was thinking once the flow calms down but what you’re saying makes more sense. Have to have time for that brood to get worked out! Thanks again Bob!
BOb you have an excellent group of ladies working for you at Blue Ridge Honey.
I would have to agree. Thanks.
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nice shop .Do you have an on line catalog .
Not at this moment but we are currently working on it. Hopefully soon.
Thanks for another great video Bob.😉So how does a beekeeper become a millionaire?😆We start with 2🤔oh wait I think I learnt that joke from one of your videos. 😁
Ty for the tip on interducing a queen I had not heard that one.👍Have a wonderful Lords Day Bob and company.
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Good afternoon Bob, greetings from Ukraine, I wanted to ask, each hive has its drawbacks, please tell me what disadvantages the langstroth rue hive has in your opinion, I will be very grateful.
Hello to Ukraine. I don't have any experience with other types of hives so I can't compare.
Hey Bob! The 5 litres buckets that i am using to feed my bees seem to be leaking a lot, but i have no clue if they are from the seal or their are minute pin holes!! But the problem is accute. I have not opened the seal after i had the covers fixed. Did you ever face such leakage issues, if so, what did you do to fix it ! Regards 🙏
In the past when I removed the bucket lid for filling it was a big problem around the gaskets but now that we only put the lids on once and fill through the tint plug hole it doesn't show up much. If you are not removing the lid but it's leaking around the gasket you might try removing the lid and putting a bead of non toxic caulking on the gasket and reinstalling.
@@bobbinnie9872 thanks Bob for the suggestion. Will try it. Regards 🙏
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can't stop them swarming?
Bob, do you have a specific formula/ratio for the soap making? Thnx in advance!
Yes we do and we'll post it when we do a video on that.
i could not find your soap on the web site.
Question: will a virgin queen go on a mating flight prior to assuring all other virgin queens and capped queen cells are destroyed?
Generally after.
Does that mean you can ship the queens that don’t sell? I’ll buy a few
We always have someone that can use the queens here. I've had a lot of trouble shipping queens and when we do it's only overnight UPS which is expensive.
@@bobbinnie9872 Another great video thanks.
I bought one Queen through the mail From a seller in Texas, I will never buy one by mail again. Turned out to bee a poor queen in my inexperienced opinion. I lost the hive by robbing by the end of the summer.
I did not put entrance reducer on like I should have. The queen just never layed very well. One problem with mailing is WHOS fault is a bad queen. Iv seen how SOME postal workers treat packages A queen is not meant to bee treated like that, so i am trying my best to start getting my own queens through cells or cutouts Then i can only blame my self for failure.
I have a drone laying Queen now and doing a cutout today and thinking of pinching drone layer and combining. Easy cutout in a water meter.
Enough rambling thanks again.
@@bobbinnie9872 Ok understood. Thank you for responding.
@@dennisbarney869 Sounds like it was your fault. Don’t take that the wrong way cause you already said your inexperienced. Some queen breeders take pride in shipping but a lot of breeders also say shipping may stress them out. What were the conditions of the hive you introduced the new queen to? You said you didn’t add a reducer, did you have 1:1 in a frame feeder with “honey bee healthy”? Was the intro during a flow? I literally just did this… I almost lost 2 nucs after introducing 2 new queens. @Bob Binnie said it in one of other videos suggesting not to use additives because it could induce robbing! I had to do the wet sheet thing and figure out why…. Also, how do you trust beekeepers you don’t know? How do you know you ordered and received a 2023 queen? 2nd queens have a higher chance of swarming (Bob’s last vid)…. Bees don’t go by the books…. It’s def aggravating sometimes….I was sold 2 queens by someone Bob knows and was originally told he only had 1 23’ queen left and a last year one but at the last minute he said “oh wait, my mistake, it is a 2023 queen”…… in my book that’s a red flag and it’s a coincidence that THAT 22’ queen isn’t producing a 3rd of the other….. Keep asking questions like me…. I always ask even if they don’t respond back.
@@Xray.71 Thanks for the reply.
Is it Molly or Mollie? And is she single? If so, do you, Ben, need an employee? 🙌
Maybe you should sell swarm traps and put one outside to catch yours.