Another great video. I tried putting my cappings in my stainless steel fruit press this year. I normally use the fruit press to get seeds out of elderberries and blackberries but wanted to see what it would do with the cappings. I put the cappings in a cheese cloth bag and pressed out another 3 lbs of honey after I had already drained them. I also ended up with a solid cake of wax.
Hi from sunny South Africa! Watched all your bee vids in the last two days! Loved it! My 18 year old son has been bee farming from the age of 15 with my father. Not really comercial but big enough. They sell the honey, but also rent them to farmers like us for polination of onions for the seeds. We love LOVE bees! They are just the most interesting and soooo clever. We have the African honey bee they are not as mild mannered as your bees! Every year we get 5-6 bokses of swarm bees! This year they filled 15 bokses! Was a wet year. So we are very lucky, they don't have to catch lots of them as they just move in on their own. Keep up the good work! And may your farming prosper!
@Zelda Brits, here in the states several years back when I was a kid, the local news made poor sport of African honeybees, because they were deemed “killer” bees based off of a few unprovoked attacks. Of course as a kid you don’t know better, so I had been afraid of them during my young years. Eventually I got to understand they were not as a much of a threat as they were made out to be, though I would not want to wander near a nest.
I get really bad anxiety in big social situations so I put on your videos with both my earbuds in and watch you extract honey, it helps me calm down a LOT!! I love your channel so much!!
@@audix1516 social anxieties are a thing, if they’re severe they should consult a therapist. That being said, none of our business. It’s nice that this video helps them, it’s indeed very calming
There is just something so incomparably satisfying about watching this. Makes me wish I could do this for a living myself. Seems so peaceful and productive a process, with great reward! Good, wholesome work. Great video! :)
Depends on what you want to do. It's worth it for us because we love the honey and we pay our property taxes by selling it. If you just want honey for personal consumption, you can get 2-3 hives to keep the investment low, but it will still be pricey up front.
It is if you care about the environment. Bees are kinda important to that since they, y’know, are the main pollinators of most plants, not to mention Honey can only be made by Bees.
@@fanboygamer3e they are main pollinators... but wrong bees. In the US honey bees are non native species that are out competing native species which are SIGNIFICANTLY better pollinators. But we can't get honey from blue orchard bees, so for some reason we don't care about them.
Make a hat section steel strap drill it to match the handle mtg holes and for a half inch bolt lock the bolt with jam nuts and chuck it in a half inch frill
It's cool seeing how honey gets extracted from the honey combs. I always did wonder how spining it did anything, so this was beautiful. Great videos, probably gonna be some great binge watching material later :)
Angle the frames the other way when uncapping. This will help the capping to fall off on to the excluder. When spinning the extractor, leave the bottom valve open, Less chance of whipping the honey. Nice video
This is fascinating i can see why my grandpa gotten into bee keeping lastyear i always wondered how he gotten the honey out of the boxes which he gifted to the family on Thanksgiving as a Christmas gift with a delicious candybar with it
Good call to harvest the honey outside the shed, on a bright sunny day - the glistening effect off the comb after you carved off the cappings in that angle was delightful.
I would never thought that the honey harvesting is such a tough work. Now I understand why the honey is so expensive. Deserves every penny. God bless you and the bees!
My grandmother grew up in the countryside of the state of Virgi,. She and my great-grandmother used to make pig feet in the oven. It's awesome to see how others on the other side of the globe in a different culture make them. And it's an honor to have you visit our channel, we can discuss more about our experiences in harvesting and building farms.
Great video. I love the slo-mo of the honey spinning off the frames and onto the extractor walls. You're getting so much honey from the cutting because you're frames are really well drawn out. Which is awesome!! Mean I love bees, and honey, and the entire process of raising bees. If I wasn't allergic, I would get into it on a big level. Well, not huge, but like what you've got. Plenty of hives.
Where I grew up our neighbor kept honey bees. My dad always grew a garden. Those pollinating little worker bees kept our melons, cucumbers and squashes in fruit all season long.
Жаль что в российском сегменте ютуба нет видео о пчеловодстве такого качества и формата. Только старики, под которых только спать. Спасибо вам за ваш труд
Wow, you're into everything aren't you, LOL! Sawmilling, building, raising Hogs, raising chickens, cutting trees, Etc. And now beehives! And most of all you love the Lord and your family which I can tell. God bless you brother!
I went to a local Lowe’s several months ago and seen more than a single honey bee at one time in one place in the garden area, told them to install hives and they gave me a funny look. I’ve been in a city now for five or six years and I’m lucky to see any at all, it’s really really sad
To get all the honey out spin the frames for 3 minutes then switch directions. The centrifugal force only ends up getting 2 of the 4. Best to rotate the other way after flipping them.
Wow this is an amazing video. This is quality content. That honey looks so damn good. Some fluffy pancakes with diary butter, sliced bananas, icing sugar and honey.
Why do you use a knife to cut the caps off of the comb instead of something like a fork to scrape them open? It seems like the knife misses quite a few cells, especially on some of the frames where the comb is shaped irregularly.
Came to your channel for the beekeeping videos and stayed for everything else. I feel like your bee keeping videos are the most digestible and enjoyable. Hoping for some new bee videos soon 🤞🏼
glad to see you harvesting and leaving honey for the bees. Shows that you love the way God created the nature in wild-life. thanks so much for the video
Curious thing about goldenrod honey is that it really mellows a couple months after harvesting it. I agree that right after harvesting it has a bitter taste for sure!
Hi there son from Los Angeles,California!!! I want to say thank you for sharing a video of you and how you make magic with being a forger of honey as well as how great it is to see a bee collector in an georgious community and area. You have something unique, rare, and awesome that you do with your time. We enjoyed seeing you at your best. Thank you for sharing and caring for honey bees. May I ask Which region county and state is this?
Will you be making a video on the jarring of the honey...would love to see how much you came out with!! So interesting to watch and learn! Thanks for sharing!
Wow. Impressed you did this outside. I always heat up my shop and do it in there. Bee free. Also I freeze my entire honey super for at least a week to kill any random thing off. Doesn't hurt the honey.
@@biggtrux besides getting the bees off, what would a bee brush do? I freeze because you never know where the random small hive beetle is or anything like that. Plus I'm not in a hurry.
Try using silk fence as a plastic mulch under your hive stands and you won't have to weed eat. Also seemed to help with hive beetles... Just a thought.
Really interesting video. Thank you. You should buy a Chinois for finer straining. Also using your tractor there are belt systems you can buy or make pretty easy that you connect a belt to the tractor and another to the centrifuge to give a motorized spin. You can also buy kitchen strainers that are rectangular and deep that would fit in that plastic tote. They would work much better than the refrigerator shelf. Easier clean up and less waste.
I have a question. That stuff you mash up and let drain. Isn't that more impure due to the black stuff, dust etc, that is stuck to it from the bee's feet as you mention earlier?
Nice video! You could use some kind of fabric to smash those pieces you cut out of the frames. You would get the honey to come out and leave the wax in.
Soooo, that's why honey is the price it is!! My goodness, that's a lot of work, but so yummy!! God bless you and your family!! Love your videos, always!! 👍💞
Beekeeping equipment can be expensive, feeding the bees and other maintenance also increases the cost of honey. Pure honey is premium and the health benefits out weigh the cost. After starting my apiary there was a noticeable improvement to my health.
Love the videos. So what happens to the bees that get caught up in the honey? Can they get free or are they casualties to the process? How do they clean themselves up?
the Tangential Extractor is really cool! I just want to ask a few questions.. 1. I'm rather curious of if its easy to clean or not? 2. do you squeegee the sides of it to get that last bit of honey, just let it drip all down, or just ignore what's left on the sides entirely? 3. I've seen some people make wax candles and such with the wax cappings, is that common practice among many/all bee keepers? or just a select few? 4. how do you know how much honey you should leave for the bees for the winter? is there some sort of math involved, or by general feel?
All you have to do is leave the items that have honey on them near the bees and they will clean it for you and even put it back into the hive that can be harvested again. The rule of thumb is to only take a slide if it is 80% full. Even if they don't have honey left you can still feed them manually, but as he said honey is the best for them. So I assume he just knows his bees well and knows how much to leave them based on intuition
I really miss having beehives. I had to give it up in the middle 80's traveling with work and the having two back surgeries. I would do it again now that I am retired but don't have the stuff to get started and can't afford it anymore. I go thru about a pint or two a month. I don't use sugar, instead I sweeten everything with honey.
It´s been 2 years since i started watching your videos, and i´m proud to tell you that last sunday was my first honey harvest. Got nearly 240 pounds!
jeez i wouldnt know what to do with that much honey
That is awesome! Congrats!
Wow!
Good things
@@alexthegreat5269 mead
Another great video. I tried putting my cappings in my stainless steel fruit press this year. I normally use the fruit press to get seeds out of elderberries and blackberries but wanted to see what it would do with the cappings. I put the cappings in a cheese cloth bag and pressed out another 3 lbs of honey after I had already drained them. I also ended up with a solid cake of wax.
Hi from sunny South Africa! Watched all your bee vids in the last two days! Loved it! My 18 year old son has been bee farming from the age of 15 with my father. Not really comercial but big enough. They sell the honey, but also rent them to farmers like us for polination of onions for the seeds. We love LOVE bees! They are just the most interesting and soooo clever. We have the African honey bee they are not as mild mannered as your bees! Every year we get 5-6 bokses of swarm bees! This year they filled 15 bokses! Was a wet year. So we are very lucky, they don't have to catch lots of them as they just move in on their own. Keep up the good work! And may your farming prosper!
for your a farmer in south Africa i pray for your safety, I heard they are killing the white farmers in SA
Waar is julle Zelda?
Ek stel baie belang in beekeeping.
@Zelda Brits, here in the states several years back when I was a kid, the local news made poor sport of African honeybees, because they were deemed “killer” bees based off of a few unprovoked attacks. Of course as a kid you don’t know better, so I had been afraid of them during my young years. Eventually I got to understand they were not as a much of a threat as they were made out to be, though I would not want to wander near a nest.
@@stormyaudio9969 That not true thats just Neo Nazi propaganda
@@stormyaudio9969 also pray for the black abused farmworkers while you at it
A moment of silence for all the bees lost @15:43
Absolutely love these vids btw. Been binge watching the whole honeybee playlist
And at 5:00 to any who might not have gotten out between the frames... can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs...
and at 19:57 when he was pouring out the capping honey
@@samvalentine3206 mother of all omelettes here jack, can’t fret over every egg
@@vbgvbg1133 the exact phrase i thought of
thank you
I get really bad anxiety in big social situations so I put on your videos with both my earbuds in and watch you extract honey, it helps me calm down a LOT!! I love your channel so much!!
take the headphones out and stop looking at your phone in public and you wont be so anxious
@@audix1516 not how that works dunce
@@audix1516 social anxieties are a thing, if they’re severe they should consult a therapist. That being said, none of our business. It’s nice that this video helps them, it’s indeed very calming
There is just something so incomparably satisfying about watching this. Makes me wish I could do this for a living myself. Seems so peaceful and productive a process, with great reward! Good, wholesome work. Great video! :)
I couldn’t agree more!
It's amazing how much honey comes from the cappings. 🍯
Beekeeping looks like a lot of hard work and a lot of capital invested is it worth it
Depends on what you want to do. It's worth it for us because we love the honey and we pay our property taxes by selling it. If you just want honey for personal consumption, you can get 2-3 hives to keep the investment low, but it will still be pricey up front.
It is if you care about the environment. Bees are kinda important to that since they, y’know, are the main pollinators of most plants, not to mention Honey can only be made by Bees.
Understatement of the century fanboygamer
@@fanboygamer3e honeybees didn't even exist in the Americas before they were brought over from Europe. They are Not the main pollinators.
@@fanboygamer3e they are main pollinators... but wrong bees. In the US honey bees are non native species that are out competing native species which are SIGNIFICANTLY better pollinators. But we can't get honey from blue orchard bees, so for some reason we don't care about them.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
The slow-mo watching the honey get slung out of the combs is a cool shot.
Watching the cappings being cut off is so satisfying!
I was wondering a few videos back if you were still beekeeping - glad to see so.
6:13 Bee 🐝 screaming on Mic 😂😂
No matter how many times i've watched you harvest honey, they're still my fav videos on this channel
Make a hat section steel strap drill it to match the handle mtg holes and for a half inch bolt lock the bolt with jam nuts and chuck it in a half inch frill
i like your words, magic man
I always feel bad when boxes are being re-stacked, knowing some bees will have been squashed. :(
Those bees are stupid. They'll fly into anything and get themselves stuck.
Have you seen the wax video?
Their fault for not getting out of the way
Such is life
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few
Fascinating !
I've been watching videos about harvesting honey and I never grown tired of it, Great video, Great Job 👍.
So mesmerizing watching someone extract honey!
It's cool seeing how honey gets extracted from the honey combs. I always did wonder how spining it did anything, so this was beautiful. Great videos, probably gonna be some great binge watching material later :)
Hats off to that one bee watching all of that honey being poured out, he was PISSED
I love all your videos, but it is the bee updates are my most favorite. It is what brought me to your channel years ago.
Cool! Thanks for watching!
Angle the frames the other way when uncapping. This will help the capping to fall off on to the excluder. When spinning the extractor, leave the bottom valve open, Less chance of whipping the honey. Nice video
This is fascinating i can see why my grandpa gotten into bee keeping lastyear i always wondered how he gotten the honey out of the boxes which he gifted to the family on Thanksgiving as a Christmas gift with a delicious candybar with it
Good call to harvest the honey outside the shed, on a bright sunny day - the glistening effect off the comb after you carved off the cappings in that angle was delightful.
I would never thought that the honey harvesting is such a tough work. Now I understand why the honey is so expensive. Deserves every penny. God bless you and the bees!
My grandmother grew up in the countryside of the state of Virgi,. She and my great-grandmother used to make pig feet in the oven. It's awesome to see how others on the other side of the globe in a different culture make them. And it's an honor to have you visit our channel, we can discuss more about our experiences in harvesting and building farms.
This is back-breaking work. Kudos to you.
Great video. I love the slo-mo of the honey spinning off the frames and onto the extractor walls.
You're getting so much honey from the cutting because you're frames are really well drawn out. Which is awesome!!
Mean I love bees, and honey, and the entire process of raising bees. If I wasn't allergic, I would get into it on a big level. Well, not huge, but like what you've got. Plenty of hives.
Where I grew up our neighbor kept honey bees. My dad always grew a garden. Those pollinating little worker bees kept our melons, cucumbers and squashes in fruit all season long.
All that honey out of those castings...that was amazing. Nice video
This is amazing, great work !
That’s a lot of honey
Nice reward from the bees 🐝 !! I love honey on buttered 🧈 waffles 🧇 😋 and pancakes 🥞 😋 😍
Thank you that was very informative and captivating process to observe.
YUMMMY!!!!!! liquid gold. Well done 👍👍👍. Thank you for sharing. Be safe 🇨🇦
The slow mo of the honey being spun out was so rad to watch.
Жаль что в российском сегменте ютуба нет видео о пчеловодстве такого качества и формата. Только старики, под которых только спать. Спасибо вам за ваш труд
I was just thinking about your bees!
Wow, you're into everything aren't you, LOL! Sawmilling, building, raising Hogs, raising chickens, cutting trees, Etc. And now beehives! And most of all you love the Lord and your family which I can tell. God bless you brother!
The Beeeez. This seems like a wildly relaxing and satisfying endeavor.
That honey glistens so nicely in the sun.
Best bee keeping channel and u take great care of your bees 😊
An exciting harvest from those hives there.
That honey looks so good!
Sweet Gold, Love the honey harvest vids
I went to a local Lowe’s several months ago and seen more than a single honey bee at one time in one place in the garden area, told them to install hives and they gave me a funny look. I’ve been in a city now for five or six years and I’m lucky to see any at all, it’s really really sad
To get all the honey out spin the frames for 3 minutes then switch directions. The centrifugal force only ends up getting 2 of the 4. Best to rotate the other way after flipping them.
Beekeeping is so cool. You care for them, they care for you
Nice haul! You really are lucky that didn't turn into a robbing frenzy spinning it outdoors. 😊
VERY lucky and irresponsible.
Love the idea of Bees look awesome! 😊
I'm not sure why, but I find watching this very soothing.
I'm so glad I found this vid I was always curious how people got honey from bee hives
Well I'm happy to see that someone else catch weeds and grass around their hives as I do
I think it’s so funny that you can actually hear the bees bumping into & hitting the mic/camera
Excellent content
Wow this is an amazing video. This is quality content. That honey looks so damn good. Some fluffy pancakes with diary butter, sliced bananas, icing sugar and honey.
I think it sounds cool with all the bees and banging on the mic and all hahaha. That Amber honey is going to be good
Honey videos are my fave! 👍
That was a tasty and very informative episode. Yummmm.
Nice harvest of honey.
Love just the lil thumping sounds of the bees bumping into the camera
We all have problems. The way we solve them is what makes us different.
Love these videos
Why do you use a knife to cut the caps off of the comb instead of something like a fork to scrape them open? It seems like the knife misses quite a few cells, especially on some of the frames where the comb is shaped irregularly.
Thanks for sharing!
Never seen this process, thanks very interesting...from so cal.
Came to your channel for the beekeeping videos and stayed for everything else. I feel like your bee keeping videos are the most digestible and enjoyable. Hoping for some new bee videos soon 🤞🏼
Thanks!
glad to see you harvesting and leaving honey for the bees. Shows that you love the way God created the nature in wild-life. thanks so much for the video
Tranks! Nice haul!
Very Cool! I've never seen this done before. You could probably use a salad spinner to extract from your capping's.
Curious thing about goldenrod honey is that it really mellows a couple months after harvesting it. I agree that right after harvesting it has a bitter taste for sure!
Hello
The little donks when they hit the mic are everything to me.
I find it very entertaining listening to bees ram into the camera for some reason
great show man love it!
Looks like you got some new queens coming your way.
Hi there son from Los Angeles,California!!! I want to say thank you for sharing a video of you and how you make magic with being a forger of honey as well as how great it is to see a bee collector in an georgious community and area. You have something unique, rare, and awesome that you do with your time. We enjoyed seeing you at your best. Thank you for sharing and caring for honey bees. May I ask Which region county and state is this?
Hello from Boston massachusetts. I love your accent🙃
Bees must love that wacker
your voice is so soothing 🐝🍯
Will you be making a video on the jarring of the honey...would love to see how much you came out with!! So interesting to watch and learn! Thanks for sharing!
No plans for that now, thanks for watching!
Very well spoken
Wow. Impressed you did this outside. I always heat up my shop and do it in there. Bee free. Also I freeze my entire honey super for at least a week to kill any random thing off. Doesn't hurt the honey.
Save yourself the wait and just use a bee brush.
@@biggtrux besides getting the bees off, what would a bee brush do? I freeze because you never know where the random small hive beetle is or anything like that. Plus I'm not in a hurry.
The leaf blower usage is genius!
Try using silk fence as a plastic mulch under your hive stands and you won't have to weed eat. Also seemed to help with hive beetles... Just a thought.
😎 love the channel
I love these videos :) does anyone else twitch every now and then when a bee gets really close to the audio? Lolol.
Been watching for tips as the UK isn't very bee proud, so I'll be starting a bottle/mason jar for them next year
Really interesting video. Thank you.
You should buy a Chinois for finer straining. Also using your tractor there are belt systems you can buy or make pretty easy that you connect a belt to the tractor and another to the centrifuge to give a motorized spin. You can also buy kitchen strainers that are rectangular and deep that would fit in that plastic tote. They would work much better than the refrigerator shelf. Easier clean up and less waste.
Love these videos well done to you & all family. Hay I’d live in that chicken pen meself 😂👍
All I can think about is the honey trials from Bee Movie ever time I see bee keeping videos.
I have a question. That stuff you mash up and let drain. Isn't that more impure due to the black stuff, dust etc, that is stuck to it from the bee's feet as you mention earlier?
Nice video! You could use some kind of fabric to smash those pieces you cut out of the frames. You would get the honey to come out and leave the wax in.
Soooo, that's why honey is the price it is!! My goodness, that's a lot of work, but so yummy!! God bless you and your family!! Love your videos, always!! 👍💞
Beekeeping equipment can be expensive, feeding the bees and other maintenance also increases the cost of honey. Pure honey is premium and the health benefits out weigh the cost. After starting my apiary there was a noticeable improvement to my health.
The have repairs should be ASMR videos ngl. The bee sounds are so calming.
Love the videos. So what happens to the bees that get caught up in the honey? Can they get free or are they casualties to the process? How do they clean themselves up?
When looking for honey in the hives, would a beekeeper normally check just one frame or every frame in a given box?
the Tangential Extractor is really cool! I just want to ask a few questions..
1. I'm rather curious of if its easy to clean or not?
2. do you squeegee the sides of it to get that last bit of honey, just let it drip all down, or just ignore what's left on the sides entirely?
3. I've seen some people make wax candles and such with the wax cappings, is that common practice among many/all bee keepers? or just a select few?
4. how do you know how much honey you should leave for the bees for the winter? is there some sort of math involved, or by general feel?
All you have to do is leave the items that have honey on them near the bees and they will clean it for you and even put it back into the hive that can be harvested again. The rule of thumb is to only take a slide if it is 80% full. Even if they don't have honey left you can still feed them manually, but as he said honey is the best for them. So I assume he just knows his bees well and knows how much to leave them based on intuition
great video
I really miss having beehives. I had to give it up in the middle 80's traveling with work and the having two back surgeries. I would do it again now that I am retired but don't have the stuff to get started and can't afford it anymore. I go thru about a pint or two a month. I don't use sugar, instead I sweeten everything with honey.
Dang that honey looks good .. I buy it near me that it harvested locally and they put it in glass canning jars …. 🇺🇸👊🏼👊🏼🇺🇸✌🏼
Beautiful🐝🍀🍎