www.australianhoneybee.com Australian Honeybee is a small commercial beekeeping operation in Australia of 600 beehives. The operation currently manages 150, 10 frame langstroth wooden beehives and 450 Paradise Honey Beebox EPS beehives, We established our first 100 Paradise Honey Beebox hives in 2012-13 which we ran alongside our original 10 frame langstroth beehives. The initial 100 hives were established to evaluate the viability of the EPS beehives in Australian conditions. During the season, we kept records of the amount of honey produced per hive and we discovered that the EPS beehives outperformed the traditional wooden beehives by 35% on average throughout the 2013 season. Since then we have expanded the quantity of the Paradise Honey Beebox hives to around 450 and we plan to fully replace our wooden beehive with the EPS beehive as soon as possible. We again in the 2014 season recorded significantly strong yields of honey and improved bee health from the EPS beehives.
Love your videos, little confused by 2 things, 1, you use a combination of single hive and pallet system, would like to here you explanation on how you marry the 2 together. 2, using emlocks/ straps on those hives? I understand they key together? I’ll take a guess and assume the lids may be inclined to blow off.
They are better then a bobcat yes for beekeeping but used both in soft conditions. Bobcat doesn't get stuck as easy... hard to believe but bobcat is waited better. Rear of multi one sinks. That's were all the weight it.
So you can ship these things from USA and back? That would be great idea if you are going to for 2 months to see the country, especially if you can ship a fifth wheel rv too
Hey Victor Thanks for the video & sharing your tips & tricks! Why are the bags hanging so low in the bins (Really long hooks?)? Did you need a hand to get a bag up into the bin & on the hooks, or is it a one person job?
We have found that our Bee's will NOT use or clean plastic foundation cells that are full of wax. How do you prevent was from filling the cells up? Or do you fill them and your Bee's are working harder than ours??? Thank you for your time.
Hello !! My name is Geani and I like to have your telefon number.I got few question about these poly boxes.My number is 1 586 615 2840 USA.You can call me on WhatsApp.
Very interesting , I never grafted before , watched heaps of videos on it tho, so I did a split yesterday queenless and just had a go at doing one grafted cell to see how it goes rather than do a whole bar, I took the smallest grub I could see , bit excited just to see how it goes, if they like it I’ll let them raise it and se if they got other queen cells as well. Good video mate, it’s that time of year . Happy bee keeping. 👍
I am looking at getting a used 5.2 to move my bees. Are you still using this machine and like it? Any issues or things you would do differently? Any particular reason you chose Multione over Avant? Any other words of wisdom or advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
@@nathanemmins7961 I bought the 5.2. Works great. Don't have the counterweights yet. Wish I did for almond season last year. If I'd do it over again, I'd get the 7.2s for greater lifting capacity and speed. But I am happy with the machine.
Hi. How are you? I am a Turkish beekeeper. I can not speak English well. sorry. pollen commercial turkey no substitutions. Unable to shop on the internet. can you give pollen substitution recipe that will bees of interest? Also, take information about the feeding of bees with essential oils. I would be grateful if you help. thank you so much.
That only happens in the never-never country. If you seclude the bees only in the box below they swarm and go cold in winter. The laying bees, they need those small boxes 2. And the plastic so that the boxes do not stick what? This seller is only interested in putting their boxes outdoors, without further ado. To spoil and buy more.
It unfortunately looks like that book is currently out of print Victor. Would be nice if you were to revisit how that software turned out. I thought this was a particularly good video.
Belle from Oz yes, unless you have a ready supply of high protein pollen, 30%+, feeding them will make them stronger and they will live longer. You can buy a 5kg bucket. You can also buy bee ‘patties’ ready made.
Ha ha ha! How to apply wax to foundations if you happen to have 100 lbs of wax and a huge barrel to melt it in. If you have all of that, by golly it's easy!!
you're throwing the Propolis on the ground, do you know how much it's cost ? one kilogram for 1 thousand Euro , you're throwing a treasure. use your mind think a bit.
Hey Phillip, thanks for your comment. You can purchase the beefeed from our website, www.australianhoneybee.com.au/products/product/custom-bee-feed-5-kg, we offer Australia wide shipping.
If you can't figure it out without commentary, you probably shouldn't bee using hot wax, you'll almost certainly hurt yourself. So, in this case, think of the bad audio as a good thing (in your _Special_ case)
This video is stupid good. So many awesome tips for understanding what resources are available for your bees. And shooting down branches for identification? Honestly, that tree had it coming.
Nicely done, thanks guys. Do you raise all your own queens? Although very new to beekeeping I’ve become very interested in the Queen rearing side of things, hopefully I can give it a basic go this season.
I will possibly be in the market for a machine like this in a couple of years but would have otherwise gone for a skid steer. I already have a Bobcat excavator and can't say I'm overwhelmed with some of the build. This video has caused me to rethink skid-steers and now consider mini-loaders instead. Thanks Victor. I don't know if you've seen this video, I thought it was an interesting addition. A simplified mast only could probably be added to the Multione and would make handling individual supers easier at the end of a long day. No connection with this company (indeed would probably fabricate my own). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nGrfUpqtIWc.html
Hi Pete, We always used Bobcats (my Father had about 2500 hives). What i like about the minloader over Bobcat is you can operate steadily at very low RPM whereas the Bobcat needs high RPMs to work properly. Maybe the latest Bobcats are different but the Bobcats we had would buck and kick if you tried to run them on low Revs. We can unload and load beehives at idle during the night very smoothly and without making a lot of noise. Also, the weight to carrying capacity of the Multione is much better than a Bobcat. Our 5.3 can lift around 800kg and only weighs 1000kg. Also, The Multione provides 360 degrees visibility when operating the machine where as the Bobcat has front facing visibility only.
Australian Honeybee Thanks, great feedback. I think the machine you have is perfect for your operation. For general work I’ve always assumed skid steer is the way to go, but now I’m rethinking. Skid steers are hard on the ground and leave a hell of a mess behind. Keep up the great work guys, much appreciated.
