New subscriber. Love the uncapped. Sure beats the heated knife routine that I've used for 24 years. Your explanation of the clarifier was excellent along with explaining the needed temperature of the honey to be pumped. I used to use my friends honey house. It was certified but just a shed, a sink, and electric. It was small and it took all day to do a few hundred pounds of honey. Now that I'm a hobbyist again, I just scrap the frames in the field into my uncapping tank and go from there. Keep the videos coming. I'm checking out your next one.
I really liked the idea of placing the heated settling tank, or clarifier tank on the structure on wheels, with the suction pump and the filter attached. I'll copy your idea and do the same, it's very practical. Thank you very much and big hug from Portugal
I love your setup! Nice job. I have big plans but no money. Lol. This year I sold over 75 nucs and upgraded all my equipment, increased to 50 colonies and about to break even. Next year, God willing, I'll build my honey house.
Very well done! Getting my honey house together completely change our operation. I have the same 20-Frame Maxant extractor and absolutely love it. I need to add the clarifier and filter setup next.
Let me tell you it makes all the difference in the world because you only have touch the honey once. After you uncap the frames to spin the honey the clarifier and filter does all the rest. A great time saver. If you need help designing something please email me @ bees@woodsbeeco.com.
Wow, great video! This is really helpful as I am upgrading my honey room. Probably not quite ready for all of your fancy equipment, but it will certainly beat the old 3 frame manual extractor and bucket method
Can I make a couple suggestions. I have a lot of the same equipment. I would pull your uncapped tank out a little so that if you drip it catches it. I would plumb your extractor into your clarifier. I have Maxant wax spinner when your budget allows I would add one and plumb it into the clarifier. But you have done a great job so far.
The reason I don't have anything connected is I do a lot of different peoples honey at the same time. So its easier to filter it in a bucket instead of having to clean the entire system. We use the clarifier tank when we do our honey in bulk. Thanks for the good advise
Question: if you have 10 honey frames and you uncap and extract, will the bees draw it out deeper if you only put 9 back in the box? Or will they simply refill them at the thinner depth? Thanks
What did you do to keep your extractor from walking. I put castors on mine too and it walks even with them in the locked position. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
I really appreciate the detail and workflow you have created in the honey house. Great idea in using the unistrut. How do you like working with the increase of honey/wax mixture with the chain uncapper? I know using a knife or uncapping plane produces larger wax chunks and maybe less wax but it appears the speed gain with a chain uncapper is worth it. Is that what you find too? Do you use 9 frames in a 10 frame box so the bees draw out the wax more so you have less shallow areas on the chain uncapper?
As crazy as this is going to sound, I like it better because like you said the wax is uncapped much finer than I could uncap it by hand which makes it much easier to process and clean the wax. Also I use nine frames in my honey super because the bees will build out the comb giving more honey and was. I'm planning on doing a video on processing the the wax in the honey house.
Actually, because we can control the heat it is easy to filter the wax capping's. We are planning on doing another video on rendering the wax we got from the chain uncapper.
what size bottling tanks do you have there? and could you do a video showing the wood block it is sitting on? Do they lean forward or is it to just elevate them?
We use two 16 gallon tanks for bottling and bucket the rest in five gallon buckets. The wooden blocks lifts the tanks so that we can put bottles on the table while filling them.
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New subscriber. Love the uncapped. Sure beats the heated knife routine that I've used for 24 years.
Your explanation of the clarifier was excellent along with explaining the needed temperature of the honey to be pumped.
I used to use my friends honey house. It was certified but just a shed, a sink, and electric. It was small and it took all day to do a few hundred pounds of honey. Now that I'm a hobbyist again, I just scrap the frames in the field into my uncapping tank and go from there.
Keep the videos coming. I'm checking out your next one.
I really liked the idea of placing the heated settling tank, or clarifier tank on the structure on wheels, with the suction pump and the filter attached. I'll copy your idea and do the same, it's very practical.
Thank you very much and
big hug from Portugal
That trailer was pretty sweet though! Subbed. Good stuff. That honey house is bigger than most apartments in Boston and WAY nicer!!!!
What a beautiful honey house and really nice setup. Gives me a lots of ideas.
Very nice! Good looking honey house and great video! God bless!
hi from Greece !
I love your setup! Nice job. I have big plans but no money. Lol. This year I sold over 75 nucs and upgraded all my equipment, increased to 50 colonies and about to break even. Next year, God willing, I'll build my honey house.
Nice setup brother!!
Best sideliner/hobbyist honey house video on UA-cam
Great vid. Thanks
I'm still a beginner at this (starting my 3rd year). Still, A honey House similar to that is one of my goals. Love seeing this, thank you :)
Very nice
Hey man watched your video. Pretty cool set up. I need to build myself a honey house
I love your content bud keep up the vids
Nice job! Looks good.
Great video, I love your honey house such great looking equipment. How many hives do you have?
Very Nice! Wish I could afford one.
Very well done! Getting my honey house together completely change our operation. I have the same 20-Frame Maxant extractor and absolutely love it. I need to add the clarifier and filter setup next.
Let me tell you it makes all the difference in the world because you only have touch the honey once. After you uncap the frames to spin the honey the clarifier and filter does all the rest. A great time saver. If you need help designing something please email me @ bees@woodsbeeco.com.
Nice equipment. I finally have dedicated space for honey and am upgrading as I can on equipment.
Wow! That's a real impressive set up!
Very nice honey house! Gives me lots of ideas. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome set up . I'm a 5th year beekeeper in middle Tennessee with twenty hives and plan to go to 40 or 50 this year Thanks for all the helpful info.
Wow, great video! This is really helpful as I am upgrading my honey room. Probably not quite ready for all of your fancy equipment, but it will certainly beat the old 3 frame manual extractor and bucket method
Nice setup
Can I make a couple suggestions. I have a lot of the same equipment. I would pull your uncapped tank out a little so that if you drip it catches it. I would plumb your extractor into your clarifier. I have Maxant wax spinner when your budget allows I would add one and plumb it into the clarifier. But you have done a great job so far.
The reason I don't have anything connected is I do a lot of different peoples honey at the same time. So its easier to filter it in a bucket instead of having to clean the entire system. We use the clarifier tank when we do our honey in bulk. Thanks for the good advise
Question: if you have 10 honey frames and you uncap and extract, will the bees draw it out deeper if you only put 9 back in the box? Or will they simply refill them at the thinner depth? Thanks
The bees will build out the frames leaving the same amount of space betwwen ten or nine frames which means you get more honey with nine frames.
This is brilliant! What are the dimensions of your honey house and how many hives to you keep?
What did you do to keep your extractor from walking. I put castors on mine too and it walks even with them in the locked position. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
I really appreciate the detail and workflow you have created in the honey house. Great idea in using the unistrut. How do you like working with the increase of honey/wax mixture with the chain uncapper? I know using a knife or uncapping plane produces larger wax chunks and maybe less wax but it appears the speed gain with a chain uncapper is worth it. Is that what you find too? Do you use 9 frames in a 10 frame box so the bees draw out the wax more so you have less shallow areas on the chain uncapper?
As crazy as this is going to sound, I like it better because like you said the wax is uncapped much finer than I could uncap it by hand which makes it much easier to process and clean the wax. Also I use nine frames in my honey super because the bees will build out the comb giving more honey and was. I'm planning on doing a video on processing the the wax in the honey house.
Actually, because we can control the heat it is easy to filter the wax capping's. We are planning on doing another video on rendering the wax we got from the chain uncapper.
what size bottling tanks do you have there? and could you do a video showing the wood block it is sitting on? Do they lean forward or is it to just elevate them?
We use two 16 gallon tanks for bottling and bucket the rest in five gallon buckets. The wooden blocks lifts the tanks so that we can put bottles on the table while filling them.
Did you make the cover for the clarification tank? I just ordered one and it was not offered
Yes, I had it made because it does not come with one. The reason i had it made is so i didn't have to complete everything at one time.
What wheels do you have on your extractor?
www.homedepot.com/p/HDX-4-in-Industrial-Casters-with-Bumper-4-Pack-30260PS-2/203846483? From Home depot.
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What are the dimensions?