Harvesting Honey Manually Using a Honey Press | The Bush Bee Man 

Mark put a sieve over the bucket as your crushing it so your doing two jobs in one go..

What a funny, happy man. A joy to watch this guy.

I have been using the same crusher and I've discovered that placing a sheet of baking paper on the bottom underneath the strainer tube, base plate and honey/comb then another piece of baking paper on top of the honey underneath the pressing plate really helped with removing all the components after you've pressed it. When I did it the first time without the baking paper all the components where suctioned onto the wax and I had to soak it water to allow it come apart.

A little spray of vegetable oil on the press thread works better than allowing honey to get on it. Honey greatly increases the effort of turning after multiple pressings, (unless you intend to warm soapy wash everything between pressings.... Press works well with olives as well.

You can put a paint strainer bag ( Bunnings) in first then the wax/honey. It makes much easier to pull out the wax cake later. That dose a basic filter to start with.

Women just think they got it bad...Hey honey I just seen a great idea,"Im gonna bolt my Extractor to the laundry room floor so it don't dance across the floor and tear the hell outta your kitchen floor again" lol GREAT idea. ..😂😂😂😂😂

I might consider putting an extra fine paint filter around the inner screen barrel to filter... one less step later

Hi bush bee man just wanna say i love your videos. Your hella funny. Love from Trinidad and Tobago

Weld a nut on top of the T handle and you could use a battery drill to spin the T handle in or out out. Cheers

What ever happened to your Flow Hive? Did you get any honey? Can you do an update review on it?

Great idea, especially for beginners with limited financial resources. I love the idear.

What I do is fill glass bowls with the comb. Heat in the micro wave. Fill the drum to the top. Then press out. But I really like the powered auger styled press.

Mum the bee man swore. He used that dirty word “Directions”

I got one of these a few weeks ago and had the exact same "difficulties". I laughed all the way through your video thinking "that happened to me to". With mine I'm going to make longer legs so I can get a drum underneath the outlet but it will also stay on the floor rather than lift it onto a bench.

My old mans a dustman he wears a dustmans hat he wears cor-blimey trousers and he lives in a council flat he looks a propa 'nana in his great big hobnail boots hes got such a job to pull 'em up that he calls 'em daisy roots Lonnie Donegan 👍😂

What a happy man. Thanks for the great video.

I believe the crush works better for the bee keepers who have those box hive without the frames

I am smitten with this man! LOVE IT!!!

We used what we called a spindle press. Basically a wooden barrel with a cylindrical acme threaded spindle. The one we had was very functional and easy to use to. We would press the raw honey, into a strainer, then into a filtering. Directly into a jar. We would always harvest the most pristine comb and cut it to display proudly in the jar with the honey. When you was wondering the name of the part it made me think of this. Thanks for that

Excellent.

This might be a good idea for folks running top bar hives who want to extract honey.

I love it!!!! So much more efficient! And cleaner!

ai caint belive ya said "directions" damm near made me ears fall ta the ground,1000 thumbs-up fer the advice,,bee blessed an safe thank ya fer the video

Lovely honey drip slo-mo John. Beautifully done as usual. However, now I've looked, anyone know the history of the family name deCaux? Wow!!

I saw you video and You are more entertaining then bee keeper. Really liked.

The guy is funny, but I just wonder how would he feel if in his next life he was a bee and remembered how much honey he washed off his hands. The bee in its lifetime collects 0.8g of honey.

Well I would say it worked pretty good and that was all you had I think it would get the job done. Thanks for sharing.

I'm not a bee keeper YET , but some sort of filter material between the press & the tap might work better. Maybe line the barrel with a brew in a bag bag. Made of nylon so would not absorb much honey & save the second stage filtering & time. Keep it up , love your videos . I plan on joining my local bee club very soon. Your videos have let me know what I'm in for. I want the honey to make mead.

I would've loved to see the wax that was remaining! I am looking at going this route. Seems more traditional.

Great video, I think I will check in to this press

May I suggest using a pillow case to hold the comb while you squeeze out the honey with your press.

Mrs.Bush Bee man going to get you for messing up her kitchen lol

Great video again!

So I tried both spin extractor and the crush extractor (press). I like the press one better, but maybe that's partly because the spin one wasn't well made and kept having the frames bump against the top any time you tried to make it spin. So with the crush extractor after awhile it gets very hard to tighten the top. And it seems like there's still some honey in the comb. How do you deal with it, and what do you suggest for when it gets too hard to turn the crank? And is it better to try to crush a big load? or to break it down into several small loads to crush?

Wow. You got your ears lowered 😃😃😃👍👍

I noticed the new haircut wife must have commented.

LOL someone but a fire break round the BBM ears, nothing like being careful at the moment, everything wants to burn! That looks like a good way off salvaging honey from the lids. I'd feel guilty if I cut it off the frames and made the girls make wax all over again.

Makes me want to come to Aussie and have a pint with you

Square peg round bucket?

That's cool might have to get me one of those

Subscribed! Bush Beeman do you have a link to this particular model of wax press? I need one of these as having same issue of more combs & old frames. Diesel DS in the States

Oh, my old man's a dustman He wears a dustman's hat He wears cor blimey trousers And he lives in a council flat He works all day and drinks all night And I don’t know what else the song says But anyway

Another interesting episode, I do enjoy your journey as a bee keeper. Keep up the good work As a side note you could try scratch build a drill attachment to speed up the cranking.

I'm thinking if it was me I would use that for adventurous and cheese making

What hygiene rating do you have?

Honey press directly from China made from the finest used X-ray and nuclear shielding Steel still available

Gday BBM and john happy new yer to you and family , this looks like a good idea i bought a extractor of a website and guess what ? its been sitting in sydney for nearly a month anyway , if you did about 30 hives at a time this unit should be fine id say anyway good video take care

Folks that run top bar hives crush their comb to harvest the honey. Nice summer buzz cut. That will keep the girls out of your hair.

the bush bee man I wish I can see you're home office #justlearningallthewayfromSomaliland #makevideoofyourehomeoffice

Mr Been

My Request to your company to supply such Honey manufacturing company in my place Bhubaneswar city in Odisha state in India

LOL. Does your wife know you made fun of her?

I like that - it looks like a great method for users of top-bar hives, who don't have frames to put in a centrifuge. I'd definitely run the outflow directly into the strainer though, to do both jobs in one pass. I'm rather ignorant when it comes to Australian geography, so I hope you are well clear of the fires - my heart goes out to all those affected, as well as (and I hate getting political) being appalled by the attitude of your government, particularly the bogan at the top and his equally loutish cabinet, who muST be replaced by his party if they are to stand any chance of future electoral success. Those putting their lives at risk to save others should be properly equipped with up-to-date equipment and getting paid (and well-paid, at that) for their service - with full pensions to the families of those who have sadly paid the ultimate price. Much more could, should and must be done, like remote monitoring of wilderness areas so that fires can be seen and dealt with early, including bush firefighting in all basic training for military forces so that any not deployed elsewhere can be thrown into the effort in more than a support role. I'm on a disability pension, but have contributed and will continue to do what little I can afford to support those charities that are bearing the brunt of the impact.

"Don't do this in your wife's kitchen... SHIT!!"

And you got a bunch of bee juice as well. At least remove the bees as a good apiarist should.