If you don't want to spend the big bucks for a frame spinner, you can extract honey for about $2.35. You can use a nylon paint strainer (which is reusable) and common household items.
ItsAlwaysRusty Hey Jeff, yeah, imagine if the hive were at it's capacity of around 20k bees.. the honey would be pouring out of there by the gallon. They definately are a hard working little creature... I will crack open the hive in a couple weeks and show their progress of cleaning up those frames and their filling up that new-found space.
Hey Steve !!! Hey to your Wonderful Family !!! OMG Brother that was AWESOME !!! I have been Waitin for the Honey Extraction , Well worth the Wait !!! Dag On you got a Ton of Honey outa them Frames !!! Looks NEXT Level Yummy ... Thank You so Much for Sharin my Friend !!! Fantastic Video Steve ...
Fritz is Cookin Again Hey Mr. Fritz!!! I know I could have gotten quite a bit more if I had really squeegeed the frames completely clean...or if I had use a device to spin the frames... but I am completely satisfied with what I was able to capture... amazed actually... Been an absolutely fun hobby and I am so glad I found the time and desire to get back into it. Stay frosty my Friend!
I have probably 6-7 full frames of honey to extract. If that is how much you got off 3 frames, oh boy! This shall be a big score for me. Thank you for the extracting video! Very helpful!
That is some of the best looking honey I have seen. I love honey. It's so expensive here in Michigan. A quart of honey is like 15 bucks or more. Thanks for sharing Roy
Awesome!! I have been wondering how the honey was harvested. Looks like your method works perfectly to me. You really got a lot of honey out of just those 3 frames. i never would have guessed that much! Great video Steve! I'm learning a lot about bees from watching your videos! Very interesting!
AVTreasures Thank you Ray!!!!!!! I have already have plans to build a DIY spinner, but wanted to show a budget method... it's easy peasy! Thanks for watching My Friend, I appreciate it!
That is a pretty high yield , more than I thought anyway. Surprised you can remove that much comb and not bother the hive. Good to Know. Thanks for showing
Rusty Glovebox I removed 3 frames out of the 18 that are in there... they have a lot of honey still left...We have a good amount of flowering plants for their pollen and nectar foraging, so they should be completely unaffected. I will check on them in two weeks to see how they are adapting to the larger space and see how well they cleaned up those three frames. Stay tuned.
Scooooooore!!! Niiice!! Just in time for seasonal allergies this week!! Sweet!!! Sweet honey that is.. ;) That is very impressive! Great job bud! Cheers to you!!
Rob Orchard I am very happy I got back into beekeeping... it's very interesting and relaxing for me... and you even get prizes like honey and wax when all is said and done.
The other videos are not your videos with you on them We love watching you show us these things If you have time keep making all kinds of videos for us Thanks thanks thanks
Thank you for sharing that tip with us. I do the same with my tallow ( I use it for soap making). I would love to have hives but I live in the city and everything is congested. If you ever decide to sell your honey and wax please let me know
I was kidding... the shipping to California would be way too expensive... I still can't believe how many he was able to buy... glad he's getting some sold and finding good uses for some as well.
How much would it cost retail to buy what you got out of those 3 frames? Great video. I bet that smelled really good. Did you by chance make a video on what you did with cappings?
Love2boat92 Fresh and raw honey out here aint cheap... really depends on the time of year as to what people charge... I don't even compare the cost to the pasturized junk can buy at the supermarket. I rendered the leftover down to a block about the size of a bar of soap... I was going to, but decided i wouldn't make a video as there seem to be a ton of vids already on YT about how to boil down and render this stuff.
Even though you ruined it for me and you told me what you got on the last video. LOL I am really surprised how much you got out of that! I always thought the reason honey was so expensive was because the yield you got wasn't all that great? Can you take that glob that is left over and reuse as standard bees wax or does it need to be rendered down first?
Mopardude Actually there is a LOT of effort that goes into the final product...remember all the tending to the hive before I could even think about harvesting...and most keepers have hundreds of dollars invested in equipment, frames and hives. With that being said, a healthy and well populated hive can produce a LOT of honey in a season. This wax came from brood boxes and not honey boxes so there was quite a lot of debris and required me to boil it down three times before I could get 98% of the debris out... I could render it a few more times if I really wanted, but it's good enough....it's about the size of a bar of soap.
When weighing the honey, put the bottle on the scale, then press the "Tare" button. The scale will go back to 0 and you can weigh the honey directly. Just make sure the scale can handle to total weight. For your 64 ounce capacity bottles, that postal scale should work, since 64 oz is 4 pounds and the bottle weight is tared out and doesn't count.
Thanks really interesting - will the bubbles rise to the top or is the honey too viscous for them to move? -If they move I assume the honey will appear to darken? Will the combs that you returned to the hive be repaired as new honey comb and they start to fill it up once again or will it be turned to some other purpose by the bees? Can the removed wax be easily be turned in to beeswax now?
Dan Whiteford Hey Dan, I keep the honey in a cool, dry location in the kitchen, and the bubbles still rise to the top. The frames that I returned to the hive will be scrubbed clean by the bees and they will repair/draw cells and put them right to use. Depending on their needs, and the location of the frames in the hive will depend on what they put in the cells. I rendered the wax to remove all the debris from the glob. This was extracted from brood frames so there was a LOT of organics mixed in with the wax. I ended up rendering it three times to get it about 98% clean and that's okay for me. Typically you remove the wax from a honey box (where there is no brood) and you don't get nearly as much debris in the wax. It ended up rendering down to a block about the size of a bar of soap.
The darker comb was not scraped because it was empty and there was no need to scrape it in with the rest of the honey. By leaving it intact, the bees can immediately reuse those cells and will have less to rebuild.
Saw another channel using a rectangle plastic tub with stainless steel mesh suspended off the floor to separate wax/honey, and a drain port to fill bottles.
Awesome. Do you have a use for the beeswax leftover? I Would be interested in a few pounds if you don't. I use it for making bullet lube for my black powder rifles. That honey looks Delicious.
burninpwder76 This pile has rendered out to about the size of a bar of soap...and my kids want to experiment with it. You can have my next chunk if you can hold off till the end of Summer.
WOW, who asked about when the honey would spoil? It doesn't, they found perfectly good honey in the pyramids, I thought everyone knew this since grade 2
Mark Thomas Hobbies This refined down to about the size of a bar of soap... This honey was from brood panels, so there was a lot of debris in it and it took three "renderings" before I got it clean. I didn't do a video of it, because there are plenty of vids already out there on boiling down the wax with water and allowing the solids to sink as it cools... My daughters want to experiment with this chunk...they will likely use it for lip balm or something make-up related.
I don't keep these bees for honey production, so I don't focus on that aspect. With that being said, I do sell what honey I cull from the hives and it goes fast through my local connections. I don't currently have any on hand, but maybe later this year.
I had planned to make one... and have all the materials to build one, I just don't harvest enough honey to spend the many hours it will take to build one. My neighbor has a really nice spinner that I can use whenever I need.
@@yourbeekeeper, hmmm? Now you've got me curious. Some of the designs I saw on RU-vid didn't look involved enough to take several hours, but I respect you enough to wait and see what you come up with next. 💜🌞🌵
Jeff James This batch is all but given away to family and neighbors(gotta keep the neighbors happy..lol.)... I will have more in late Summer if things go well for the girls... I will send you some your way for sure.
