The End Of The Pull | 2021 Honey Harvest Day 3 Part 2
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- In this video we're pulling more heavy honey boxes. This is the last of our honey pull for this year. Next up is extraction and bottling.
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Katie is a BEAST! I can’t believe she can lift those deeps!
I agree, I don't use deeps at all.
Wow I didn't realise fume boards worked so quickly
Yeah they're pretty awesome. I'd recommend getting one and giving it a try.
Subscribed!! Looking forward to seeing your extraction process
Just sat down after the second full extraction day in a row. Made a bunch of vids, so pay attention for that! Thanks for the sub.
Looking forward to hearing your final wgt for the season.
Great job! Looking forward to extraction videos!
Yeah, the kitchen, no thanks. lol. I'd figure out something with that two car shed, extension cord and a garden hose maybe.
I would love that too, but that garage is far from bee proof.
Very cool that you are kicking but with lots of honey!
Brett, I certainly hope that your floor doesn’t give away! Maybe you should do the extraction process in your garage on a concrete floor. Don’t make Katie mad at you, the way she handles the deep supers she might sling you down into the lower peninsula! lol. Have fun extracting!
lol, we rearranged the supers to even it out. Yeah, a concrete floor situation would be nice. The garage isn't perfectly sealed off though so I'd be inviting our neighbors bees in for a feast and some frustration. Hopefully next year we can do it in a couple of different rounds, rather than having 90 boxes in the kitchen. Who knows. I do know I'll be truly happy when this honey is out of those frames and my bees are fat and ready for winter. Lots more still to do.
@@BKBees Brett, just don’t make Katie mad at you!
Good work.
Thanks, Robert!
May eat to order out if you want to eat😊. Seems like a very good season… moving, new area, well done👍
Each night after extraction we've cleared and cleaned a path to the sink and refridgerator. You're correct on assuming we aren't doing much cooking this week, lol. As I type this my wife is on her way to the casino down the road to pick up a couple of burgers.
Brett, enjoy your videos and your thorough explanation of different topics. As a keeper wanting to move up to 50 hives I know time management will play a big role. Have you considered doing a video on spending less time in a hive inspection and how to identify overall wellness/swarm potential etc without a full hve inspection?
That's a super good idea. The reality is, I do less on screen inspections nowadays because of the fact that I've streamlined my overall process. I will definitely make a video on this subject.
I get ya there. We're on two different levels lol just an explanation on how you've gone from those long drawn out inspections that beginners need to do starting out and some pointers on how you've grown into that streamline! Greatly appreciate your videos and always learn from them. Look forward to some more!
you have a tough woman Brett - better take her out to a nice supper club!
I hope ya can keep up with Katie
Dude, you need to set up a honey house in your garage. You're going to be cleaning up dead bees, bee poop and sticky honey propalis for ever. LOL
Yep. It's just the way of the end of summer in our house, lol. At some point we'll get something set up to eliminate that, but, I don't think a honey house is next on the list. Maybe. Who knows. Right now I'd just kill for another uncapping tank.
were you at
Uploading a video as we speak.
Looks like controlled caous yall pulled some boxes hell yeah keep up the good videos.
Thanks, Sam.
You two need a honey house separate from the home you live in. LOL Banks have lots of money to borrow!
Katie is your right hand woman, what a good worker she is.
Agreed. Katie is the other half to this venture.
The honey house will have to get paid for by honey. We've gone a long way without borrowing money for the bee operation and I'd like to make that last up until the end. Although it's a true pain in the ass doing it in the kitchen, I'll grant you that.
Where’s the next video? I haven’t seen the extraction yet and it’s been three week I hope everything is ok.
Everything is good. I still have a kitchen full of honey. Uploading a video with an explanation now.
At what point do you not go into hives anymore in the fall?
Recently our flow plummeted. And it feels like the bees are much fiercer and don't want us in there. Robbing at all time high. It seems like its possible to maybe not check at all. Some of the carnica genetics hives aren't doing much with brood now. (But this is semi-arid drought ridden west.)
The hives seem healthy.
Its just having a hard time wrapping my head around it. It feels like I could be doing more harm than good going in the boxes now, but I don't really know for sure if that's right.
You're 100% spot on. Unless you have a solid reason to, there isn't a whole lot of justification for getting into colonies now. My goal is to take honey boxes off and put formic on in mid August, and only open them again if they need spot feeding in early to mid September. So, I'm not getting into my bees anymore this year, and unless you think you have an issue that needs to be addressed, I'd suggest you do the same. Spend this time worrying about their overall weight, rather than the brood nest and all of that.
@@BKBees Thanks so much. You are an amazing guy. you've helped me so much this year w questions.
My wife would probably divorce me if I did that in the kitchen, not the fact of the honey and boxes but the bees lol
I get this kind of comment a lot and it just makes me appreciate Katie all the much more. She's in on it with me. She doesn't look like I'm doing it to the kitchen, it's just a job that needs to get done. We just got done with our second 8 hour extraction day in a row. Probably two more and we'll be done.
lol nice cheers
What are the gloves Katie is wearing?
8mil nitrile. We get 'em in bulk boxes from Amazon.
@@BKBees I have a hard time finding ones that fit.... XXXL
Must be nice having bees 🐝 that aren’t Africanized.
I value my time in the bee yard so yeah, we don't deal with hot hives, much less Africanized bees. I feel for ya if that's what you're dealing with.