2022 Layens Honey Extraction with Italian Honey Press 

I'll bet your creak is pretty in the Fall going into Winter. Oh that drawn comb😥it almost breaks a new beekeepers hart.😉😅 Ty for sharing your time, Blessed Days...👍

I didn't know that about not leaving too much honey over the winter for them to heat. Great info!

I ordered and used one of these recently. A couple of comments: Don’t try to smooth it out with 400 grit. You are going to need to start lower, maybe even 280. I spent about 30 min on it and gave up. I may hit it with the sander every time I have it out till it is smooth, but it really isn’t necessary. I extracted much slower than you did. I had full baskets and once I got some resistance I would do 2 or 3 turns then go work on something else for a bit, then come back. Not sure which is a better technique or if it matters. A silicone type spatula normal size is perfect for cleaning the honey towards the pour spout. I put a 2x4 under the back leg to increase flow speed. Not sure if it would be beneficial or even OK to put a light coat of some type of vegetable or coconut oil on the surfaces that are involved in pressing (inside of basket, base and plunger) but they were HARD to clean. I had a LOT of wax bits. I ended up letting my jars settle then used a spoon to scoop out the waxy honey on the top I nto a strainer. This worked well for a frame with plastic foundation I had. I just used a spoon and scraped the whole thing into the basket. Little messy, but part of a pretty good yield! I have a spinner but haven’t ever used it and don’t want to. Cheers and Bee well!

I really enjoyed this. Like you, I just take as much honey as I think my bees can spare. Great video. Enjoy your honey.

Great video! I’m going to start beekeeping next year in Layens hives. Trying to learn from others as much as I can.

Good job

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You could weld a nut to the top of the press handle and carefully use a drill to spin the handle? Thanks for your videos.

Loved this!! Thank you for sharing. This is our first year so we didn’t take any honey. I have a question, we have one hive, didn’t catch any wild and the nuc we got was langsthroth. I chickened out converting the frames this year, not wanting to disturb the bees too much. Is it worth it to convert in the spring or is should we just leave that hive and only use our Layens hives with swarms we catch? Thank you so much for sharing so much info!

Hey brother I really like that Italian press. Do you clean it out with hot water? BTW loved the opening creek shots.

Merry Christmas and peace for you and the whole family. How are you holding up in this weather?

Great! Thanks again for sharing. Do you uncap before pressing and do you filter the honey? If you filter what kind do you use and microns? thank you

Thanks for the demonstration. I'm starting to switch from Langstroth to Layen's only because I'm getting older and the honey supers are just too heavy anymore. Obviously, the Layen's isn't going to be giving the 100 lb. plus honey harvest per hive like I'm used to. But since I no longer sell the honey a little less work will be nice. I like the idea that you're not going into the brood nest to look at patterns or disease. I do have a question for you.... What are you doing for mites? I've heard and read that mites with this system don't really become much of an issue. I'm not buying that claim only because of dealing with mites for years. They've also killed off the majority of our natural hives throughout the country. Also, I noticed an unusually high number of hive beetles on the frames as you shook. What are you doing about those. You're obviously in the south where they're a much bigger problem than here in the northeast. To finish. I liked the press. But are there larger ones for sale?

It seems like every year the farm procures more wild hives, along with transferring the hives into nice townhouse themed honey storage boxes. It has also come to my attention upon purchasing honey from the farm there seems to be a limit on how much that can be purchased every season. When is the farm going to stop withholding its delicious honey from the free peoples of America who don't live with the word limitation as an adjective to describe their lives. thank you.

I'm having a lot of trouble with honey extraction. The honey is too thick. Like super thick. And the spin extractors just don't work for this. I am wondering if the press style honey extractors work better for this and when you have thick honey? Thanks. I also do a lot of honey pressing in winter, not necessarily fall. So when they are cold is even harder to extract.

I lost three hive this winter. Now I know why because of leaving to much honey in my hives. I have ten frame hives. How many frames with honey should I leave in my single frame hive for the winter?

Put a little machine oil in the joints. The extractor is screaming for help

Would you please tell me where you purchased your Italian Press.

Where can I get this machine in Zambia

Crushed honey comb is equivalent to equal amount of honey lost. I love beekeepers who value natural honey comb honeybees made and reuse it for the next season.

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