HillCo 40" Uncapping Tank Unboxing & Assembly
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- This video I unbox my new HillCo Pro Uncapping Tank, taste some honey from one of my viewers and contest winners, taste some awesome meade and show off one of my nerdy projects I've had going this summer. Enjoy
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About your honey filling ....
If you build a platform for the bottling tank to set on so that it is raised up, you can set the bottle on the table while it fills .... so you don't have to hold it. This does a couple of things for you
1) it bring the bottle up to eye level, so you can see what you're doing
2) it frees one of your hands so you can control the honey gate better (more precision)
3) your arm doesn't get tired... ;-)
Getting on up there Jerome you had a good summer a good harvest God bless you and yours
Thanks Gary. Yes it was an awesome year. Record setting honey and upgraded some equipment. Looking forward to next year. Thanks for watching.
That's great looking tank!! House of mirrors...lol, yes it looked like 6 of you were putting together🤣
Great video!
Thanks B&T. It was hard to get a good picture for the thumbnail, so I went with the box. lol. Thanks for stopping by.
That tank is something I would like to get from Hillco. Thanks for the unboxing video. Hope you completely kick that Covid
Hey Dave, yeah, it's a nice tank to add to the process. I'm tired of this cough business. I'm not as tough as you I guess. Take care.
Nice tank. I use deep stainless sinks with a bucket and strainer under the single drains. Vinegar works well as a cleaner and sanitizer. We used it in the distillery to clean the stills and equipment. Thanks!
Hey Rodney. Thanks for the vinegar idea, I know it's good for not leaving streaks as well. Thanks for watch ing.
I really like the new tank. Hope it works out well for you. I use to raise worms in a box that I had put in the ground. It kept them cool and they could not get away. I used them for fish bait. Keep those videos coming.
Thanks Rob, I think it will work out nicely. Worms make some good fish bait for sure. Thanks for watching and have a nice week.
Great tank! We love ours.
Hi Doug, yeah, it's awesome. Don't know how I lived without it. lol Thanks for watching.
Can't wait to see how the new tank works out.
Hi HHH. Yeah, me too. I think it will speed things up a lot. Thanks for watching.
Great video. I was curious about the legs, they look pretty sturdy. Can't wait to see it in action.
Hey Mac, yeah, those legs are solid and they stiffen up the tank nicely. I ordered some casters last night, so I'll get them on there shortly. Thanks for watching.
Pretty slick uncapping tank - I'm still using a bucket method as I tend to extract in small batches (8-frame extractor) than one big go! On that center bar if they put legs off of each end it could be slid back and forth rather than screwed in place. The "legs" keeping it square in the side tracks and not sliding off the track rail. LOL I'd be on the floor if I drank that half cup of mead! Did the worms on the kitchen counter in place of a compost bucket a long time ago. No fancy trays had a homemade set up... got my worms from the street gutters and from under decaying leaves - they worked just fine. Hoping and praying you have your strength and stamina back soon.
HI Nancy. Yeah, I'm giong to have to figure out where I want that bar. I'm thinking closer to the end, but I'll try it there in the center where they have it first. That meade is pretty tasty with a little kick to it. lol I'll probably drink some today when I process my father in law's honey. We removed three full supers yesterday off of his one hive. He has some awesome forage around there in western OK. I might bring my worms inside this winter so they don't get too cold. I don't want to heat that apartment too much down there just for their sake. I do keep it warm enough not to freeze the pipes though. I'm getting better each day. If I could kick the cough and break out of this daily nap cycle, tha'd be great. lol Thanks for stopping in and have a fantastic week!
I’d like to see how you put your casters on when you get that project going !
Casters are a must !
Hi Frances. I'm taking a week off work and that will be one of my projects. Thanks for stopping in.
Looking Good❤👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks Kajun, have a nice week.
Wine and Mead making is what caused us to move to our acreage. Since then I have gravitated towards country wines and most specifically, Elderberry Wine and Mead. This summer I ended up with two hives with 120lbs of harvestable honey and no experience. I've since harvested and have 10 gallons of Elderberry mead going from my own honey and Elderberries I foraged locally. I'd like to wait a year like what you got but it's hard!
Hi Steve. We'd like to start some grapes and elderberries here, but it gets so dry, we'd have to irregate them all the time. My last water bill was pushing $500, so that's not going to work. lol Good luck with your bees and wine and meade.
I guess it's pretty regular that deer have twins nice trail camera shot thanks Jerome
Hey Gary, yeah, I love having the deer around here. It's fun to catch them on the cameras along with the other wildlife. Thaks for watching.
@@JeromeBeeFarm you're on the ball quick reply
@@garydungelman6530 I just happened to be on line at the time. lol
Darren, HillCo has some good looking uncapping tanks. I had actually looked at them a few months ago and thought about buying one but I really don’t need one that big. I’m about to the point if I buy one I’m going to have to build or buy me a honey house. Maybe 12x20 to extract honey and store some of my bee related items. Have you ever thought about setting your bottling tank on a pedestal? I use a medium super with a piece of 3/4 inch plywood and set it back from the edge of my table, then I can slide 1 & 2 pound bottles down the table under the filling spout and it seems to work a little better for me than letting the spout hang out over the edge of the table. I sold a man a bucket of honey to make meade and he gave me a bottle to try so I think I’m going to try and make some myself. Thanks for the video!
Hey Don. Yeah, it's a nice tank. Those Mann Lake ones were ok, but I outgrew them. That's a good idea on that pedestal, I'll look into it. Good luck making meade. I don't think it's that hard. Like anything else, you have the up front equipment cost. My friend has been brewing beer and making meade for a long time. Have a nice week.
That’s a great looking tank! I would not have thought our Honey would have been so similar, yours should sell fast at that price. God bless y’all
Hey Keith. Yeah, I was really surprised at how close they tasted. My fall honey tastes completely different, and I was expecting yours to have a different flavor. I think yours was a little stronger sweet with that little spearmint/peppermint flavor right at the first. Thanks for sending it, that was a cool thing to do that taste test. Hopefully some other folks send me some. Thanks again!
Congratulations on your great looking tank . I think you will get a lot of good use out of it and it will speed up your operations. Your worm Ben looks very nice. My son is into the worms deal real big . . Thanks for the unboxing. THANKS
Thanks Kathy. Yeah, I'm looking forward to using it next year. The worms are cool. I need them to make more worms though, so I can start another one. lol Thanks for watching.
That thing is so shiny and reflective it almost looked invisible when it reflected the floor! It will be interesting to see it in action next year! Very cool worm farm we have one in our shed and feed them mostly banana peels and coffee grounds. The more moist the vegetables you put in the more juice you will get! May work good filtered and run through your irrigation system as fertigation.
Hey Brian, yeah, I shot a thumbnail by the tank, and you couldn't hardly see it, so I switched to one with the box. lol I like this worm bin thing, maybe I will expand like bees. lol My problem is keeping them warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Thanks for watching.
Man, loving the game cam entrance. Marvelous harvest! Now darn it, put that uncapper abutting your extractor (floor drippings) :)
A worm tank? Fantastic!
Hey Mike, those fawns were from different does. Mrs. Slash was off to the right out of picture. That doe I named Isis. That was the first I've seen her since she's gave birth. Yeah, I had a nice harvest, and promise to move the uncapper by the extractor next year. lol I thought I'd give that worm thing a try. Been something I've wanted to do for awhile. lol Thanks for watching.
Loved the worm farm. I hope you will show us more as time goes on.
Hey Bee Witch, I'll try to keep up to date on it. I ordered some more worms for it to get things sped up. Thanks for watching!
Moving on up God bless you Jerome
Thanks Gary, have a nice week!
Like the video. Wondering were you get the mead. 🍺
Hi Jennifer, I got it from a friend from work that's in a brew club, and one of his friends. Thanks for watching.
I really like the tank. Nice price also. Hillco has quality items and good prices. You going to be at hive life this year? Thanks for the video. Take care.
Hey GEEZBEEZ. Yeah, Hillco is a really good company and good products reasonably priced for sure. I'm kicking around the idea of hive life, but haven't decided. We'll see. Thanks for watching.
That tank is too good looking to use and get gunked up.
I know! I’ll be cleaning it with windex. lol.
great video except I couldn't understand you after you drank that mead words were all slurred😁😁
Ha Ha, it had a little kick to it. I guess that's 25 proof. Tasty stuff. Thanks for watching.
Nice tank! I was already jealous of your other tank. What video editing software do you use?
Hi Richland. Yeah, they are both nice tanks. lol I use Adobe Premier Elements. Thanks for watching.
where you at the last video I have was 8 days old hope you are feeling OK
Hey Bill. Alls good. Just been really busy and bee things have slowed. I harvested my father in laws honey this weekend, so that took all day Saturday and my wife bought five fruit trees that I’ve been working on planting. I’m hoping to shoot some video this week and have something for this weekend. Thanks for asking!
The width of the bottle,
Stepping up your game, nice looking tank of the 2 I'd have gotten that one also. I'd buy that big one from ya, shipping would suck though. How many misses?🍯😋I've though meed was similar in some ways to a hard cider. Lee @Kodiak Bee Farm makes his own meed,🥴he has some real cool bottles he keeps it in. 🤨glad ya added "not to drink" 🤮I might have had to stop watching ya. Jerome🪱farm, go🎣fishing.👍
Darren what is your spinner? I am looking at buying some used equipment and the spinner looks like it's the same as yours maybe smaller.
Hey DC. Yeah, drink the meade, not the worm poo. lol I don't recall the brand of that spinner, it's foreign. there's a link down in the video description. I think it's at Blue Sky Bee Supply, but the motor is a little different now, but it's the same design other than that. Thaks for watching.