Honey Extraction & Contest Winner Announcement 2023 S7E30
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- Extracting the 2023 honey supers, weigh in and guess the weight contest announcement. Enjoy! Channel Supporters:
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Thank you for the chance to win! Congratulations Amanda!
Thanks for watching spider.
I've been waiting for this video! Excited to see what the total weight is! Glad they had a solution for the tank problem! Thank you so much again for sharing your experiences, the opportunity to win, and for sending the gift card! Cheers to another successful beekeeping season! Now to feed and treat for winter lol! Much love as always! 😊
Congrats!!!
@@loricurbo thank you! 😊
Congratulations, Amanda.
@@highlandhoneybee thank you! 😊
Congratulations!! Awesome guess.
Bam. Honey harvest done! Congratulations on a great year. Time to prepare for next year.
Bam indeed. lol. Did my first OA treatment today. Super hot out there. Thanks for watching.
Good video. I like your uncapping tank, wish I had room for one in my extraction room. Yah, my guess was off again as a lot of your subs because we were all hoping you would have a better year. If your honey comb had been filled out more I would have been closer. LOL Next year will be a better year for you. Have a good week out of town.
Hey Russell. That tank definitely sped things up and made them easier. I think I had a few supers that were less full that swayed the weight. Losing those three would have put me a lot closer for sure. I’m super happy with what I got though, considering the rough start.
Very cool video!! Looks like you have he logistics finely tuned to use the least amount of movements between stations to get it all done! That is a lot of honey!! I was closer than I thought I'd bee!! Thanks for filming it so we can see all that beautiful honey get extracted and bucketed up!! Awesome video Jerome!!🪱🪱🪱
Hey Patrick. Yeah, I did a lean six sigma project on the honey extraction process. lol It was a good year considering the terrible start. Last year was my record so far. Close to 800 lbs. Thanks for watching.
@@JeromeBeeFarm I’ve got a master degree in logistics and I was thinking you may have had some Japanese car manufacturer honcho in to lean out your process😂🤣😂
Wow, very impressive. I’ve done a few L6 CPIs in my day. I’m a former engineer and presently work in Logistics for the FAA and could probably use a person with your expertise. I doubt I could talk you out of Florida though.
@@JeromeBeeFarm Correct!! That would be a tough sell to get me out of Florida😂🤣😂
Awesome haul! Congrats the winner
Thanks so much
I have the same extractor,😁 my problem is most all mine are deeps.😮💨
Grats on the harvest, time to start getting them ready for Winter bedtime.👍Grats Amanda.
Thanks Amanda. Yeah deeps in that extractor are a total PITA. I usually don’t have many if any at all. Did my first OA treatment today. I about melted. lol. Thanks for watching.
@@JeromeBeeFarm 🤨It's DC😂not Amanda.
Oh. Sorry DC. lol.
Wow congratulations to the winner also congratulations to you Darren on your bee season. Somehow I missed your last video on the guessing. I will have to go back an catch up on it. You an I were not far off in the weight but I still have thirteen more supers to do but those are light ones . Do you know what kind your honey is . THANKS
Hi Kathy. Thanks. I think my honey is a mix of all kinds of sources. Locust trees, red bud, fruit trees. And possibly some alfalfa. Thanks for watching.
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Thanks for watching Kajun.
Congrats to the winner 😊
Thanks for watching.
Nice setup!
Thanks Craig.
Congratulations on another successful year of honey harvesting. It wasn't as much as what was hoping for, but it's not surprising considering the crazy year we've had. And nice setup. Glad there was a relatively easy solution to the capping tank. Thanks for the info on the buckets. I've had a couple split on me, but thankfully they were full of grain and not honey. I had thought maybe the buckets were old stock, so getting 90 mil from now on. And congrats to Amanda.
Hi Highlandhoney. It was sure a crazy year, I’m super happy with what I have after that rough start on the year. Yeah those 90 mil buckets are the hot ticket. Thanks for watching.
looking good Darren, you are a 1 man band like me!! 😜😜😜😜😁😁
Hey Billy Boy. Yeah not a lot of help lol. Thanks for watching.
@@JeromeBeeFarm i have the same problem 😁😁😁
Congrats to the winner! Well that’s a good honey harvest, especially with the issues you had in the spring. I broke my record this year with 518 lbs. Harvesting would have been faster if I had your set up. Nice! Thanks for another good and informative video. 😊🐝
Every yard is different, and you need to model your operation around your capacity and ability, the only mandatory part of bee keeping is that you enjoy yourself, and above all just keep on smiling.
That’s awesome. Glad to hear you had a good year. I’ll take what I got this year considering the rough start. Thanks for watching.
Congratulations D!
Thank you!
Congratulations Amanda!
That tank looks like it made the whole process go smoother. Happy retirement to the taco plate😄. Great harvest Darren!
Thanks Dijon. Yeah that big tank worked great and having it down lower helped a bit as well. I didn’t think I would like it that low but I actually prefer it now. I’m not sure where the taco plate went. lol. Good riddance. lol. Thanks for watching.
Cool Season as usual!
Thanks for watching.
As always, another entertaining video. I like your equipment setup sequence. I’ll be using my 2 items from HillCo. A motorized extractor and uncapping tank.
Curious as to how much honey you wound up with from your uncapping tank drippings…. AND how far away from your hives do you set your empty frames for clean up by the bees?
Thanks for your efforts in documenting your extracting process as we will be setting up in our honeybarn kitchen area as well.
Tommy Burt
Hi Tommy. I probably got close to 5 gallons from the uncapping tank. I finished off that last bucket with it and filled another about 1/3 and I had one large pull off of it mid way thru. I put my empty boxes around the back side if my barn. I’d guess it’s about 400’ from the hives.
Good stuff Darren. God Bless you for entering all those guesses. That's a lot of time to do that. If you can mount casters on that cappings tank, you could roll it out into the heat of your barn and probably get another 10lbs off of those cappings. You mentioned you let the bees clean the frames. A year or two ago, you stored them wet. I don't think I heard you say how that went. I tried putting them over an inner cover this year. Happier with that than the free for all that resulted in ragged comb and wax bits everywhere.
Hi RTX. Yeah I keep that apartment at 86 deg, but the barn does get hotter. I bought some casters for that thing, but didn’t have time to get them installed. That might be a winter project. His new ones came with casters. lol. Yeah I decided to set them out this year. Only for two days and then I stored them after dark on the second evening. A little bit of mess, putting an inner cover underneath is a good idea.
Congratulations Amanda! And congratulations again Darren on another successful year!
Thank you so much!
This has noting to do with beekeeping but I really love the wildlife clips that you usually have at the beginning of your videos. Now about beekeeping, next year, put a few supers on with 8 frames of drawn comb and see how you like it. They obviously have to be drawn comb and equally spaced. I think you will enjoy uncapping much more. Also, A trick that I have had success with is when loading my extractor, I place successive frames on opposite sides, inside the extractor. Of course, with 9 frames as you have it would work better to go, 1,4,7 (2,5,8; 3,6,9). It works for me because the bees seem to fill the frames from the center out so successive frames are of similar weight. Also, I place my catch bucket (out of the extractor) in a fairly large plastic tub. That makes recovering from “over filling” a bucket much more pleasant!
Hi Bob. I slowed in the wildlife intros a bit as these last couple of videos were on the long side. I’ll get them back going again. Wildlife has slowed a bit these hot months, except for coins and no one wants to watch trash bandits. lol. Thanks for those tips, a secondary containment is a good idea. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Congrats Amanda! Enjoyed the video Darren. Thanks and take care.
Thanks GEEZBEEZ
I am a new bee keeper. I have a double strainer like you. Will that filter it enough? I don’t want junk in my honey but I do want the good stuff. I like the thought of not over filtering
Yes, it does just fine. I use a hot knife to uncap, so I don’t have a lot of wax particles. If you use a scratcher or other mechanical methods that makes a lot of wax particles, it will clog that top screen up pretty fast.
I meant to go back to make a guess and I forgot. Oh well, you snooze you loose. 😄
Oh well, thanks for watching. MoMH
dang almost counting on 3 more buckets could come out of the wax spinning. Jeff was prolly the most accurate counting all the comb, bees and the wax for sale.
Hey Tomahawk. A few supers were a bit light. Thanks for watching.
@@JeromeBeeFarm excited to see more
Looks good! I like your process. I think if you were on the other side of the uncapping tank since you are right handed the cappings would drop right in without having to knock them off the brace. I tend to tip the top of the frame over where they drop so when I cut them off they drop right in. I put the bar with the pin off to one side instead of in the middle as well to allow more frames to be queued up. I have watched for along time and I was surprised we had a bigger harvest than you, but every year is different and you still had a good harvest! Thanks for sharing.
Hi Brian, I thought about putting it down closer to the end, but the holes down there are only on the top and don’t go thru. I could drill them out pretty easy. Not sure why they are that way. This was pretty much a rebuilding year for me starting with 16 of my 30 original hives. It was a really strong flow so that helped. Thanks for watching.
Hi Darren, some nice light spring honey you got there. You got me freaked out about my buckets I have been buying from home depot for years now. They say 70 mill on the bottom and I have them stacked 3 high now with plywood scraps between them. That would be a complete disaster! I have some of those heavy buckets I bought years ago for collecting maple sap but they are expensive. Congratulations Amanda!
Thanks James. Yeah I think those Leticas were 62 Mil. I had 3 or four crack on me. I got those 90 mils for about $60 on Amazon for six each I think. There’s a link down there.
I haven't worried about putting a wood spacer when I stack them because the lids are really sturdy. I don't go more then 3 high. As you can see with all the crap in my barn, I don't have a lot of space. lol
Look at all that gorgeous honey buddy. It is so cool to see you cut the caps off like that. You definitely have a good setup now. So the caps you cut off fall in that bottom and you still use the honey that drains off? I heard you say about rolling the caps around so the honey comes out.
One of these days I am going to get me some bees. I need to just do it. I ate some of that Cowboy Candy you sent me for lunch today. So good!
Well, I came back to finish the video after lunch break lol, I see you draining the honey out of the rack holder thing I was asking about haha. Congrats to the winner. You had a lot of entries!
Hey Ronnie. Yeah that cappings tank works great. I got all that wax melted down and cleaned once. I need to remelt it now and filter it. Thanks for watching and have an awesome weekend.
@@JeromeBeeFarm You do the same buddy!
Nice honey harvest setup you have got yourself this year. Just wondering what you do with all your cappings? I appreciate that you let the bees clean out the wet frames, and some people also allow the bees to clean up the cappings too, and I even believe that you can get a special insert for the extractor and this way extract the honey from the cappings. In the end I suppose it all depends on how many hives/frames/cappings you have and whether or not you can justify the additional cost of extra equipment etc.
Thanks JF. I melt down my cappings and filter the wax. Make a few candles. Most of it goes back on frame foundation. I don’t let the bees get into the cappings. It puts too much junk in them to filter out. The little bit of honey that doesn’t make it out of the cappings isn’t worth trying to get out. The honey goes out into the water when I melt the cappings and I put that honey water out and the bees collect it. Thanks for watching.
🤨Why did he not notify customers of the defective tanks.😒All it takes is tracking the purchase number and an email.😮💨I wouldn't be waking my brand new piece of equipment with a mallet (how much did it cost) less impressed with HillCo.
Good point, I wasn’t pleased myself, but it worked out thankfully. I don’t remember the cost but it was significantly less than others that size. I would imagine others are a lot heavier gauge.
Congratulations Amanda!
Also really appreciate the honest update on the HillCo uncapping tank. Frankly, I purchased four wooden telescoping covers that were so snug I couldn’t remove them from the box’s, plus they were 3” vs 2” on others on the market which made using the upper entrance and handle’s difficult and due to being too deep. I wish I had a better experience with HillCo and the response I received was not worth buying from them after quality controls were ignored by such an experienced beekeeper. Sadly I won’t be recommending HillCo anymore
Hi Reignbeooks. The tank works good now that I got it worked out. Sure made my operation go a lot faster and easier. Thanks for watching.
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I appredciate your comments, and thanks for sticking with me.
Thank for your videos! I really enjoy your content.
Where do you get your 5 gallon pails? 90 mil?
Thanks! There’s a link in the video description down below.
Congrats on a good honey harvest year. BTW, do you run 9 frame deeps to match up with the 9 frame super in order to prevent wacky comb on the frames?
Thanks Bee Lady. I run ten frames in my deeps and nine in the supers. There's no wacky comb issues, none that I've had anyway. Thanks for watching!
Looks like both your uncapping tank and spinner are mini plus size lol ........ have never tried to get honey from a mini plus. lmao keep smiling buddy.
Works good for my size operation.
How do you store the frames to keep wax moths out?
Hey offshoot. I stack them inside my steel barn and treat with paramoth every four supers. I use the FDA approved treatment.
Didn't see my name on the list.
You replied in gallons (53 gallons), the contest was for weight. Your guess in weight would have been approx 280 lbs.
Or you could just buy a spinner that takes full sized frames, here you couldn't give away tiny extractors like that.
Bet that doesn't beat my daughter name she's got four names. And I was over wait by 250 or so congratulations to the winner
Thanks Andrew