This brings back memories , my dad was a bee keeper all the years I was growing up , in the fall we would get all the equipment set up in the basement and start bringing in the supers , decapping the frames then in to the extractor, then strain through cheese cloth to filter out small wax particles then into the bottles of different sizes then labeling the bottles , prior to the fall honey harvest we were out every weekend in the bee yards , we had two locations , checking the hives for wax moth and making sure the bees had enough room in there hives , we also removed swarms of bees when they would settle in someones backyard , I've never seen a commercial operation like this , its amazing , thanks .
Allah (God) says in the Noble Quran about bees theses Quranic verses: ( And your Lord inspired the bees, saying: "Take you habitations in the mountains and in the trees and in what they erect, Then, eat of all fruits, and follow the ways of your Lord made easy (for you)." There comes forth from their bellies, a drink of varying colour wherein is healing for men. Verily, in this is indeed a sign for people who think).
It is nice to see a wheelchair user in your operation. I am a wheelchair user also. I will now buy all your honey.GOD bless the owner!!! also. Good luck my brother!!
->I will now buy all your honey Thats about 20 tons of honey a day or about $400,000 a day. Sure you can afford that, and eat that much? But seriously, I picked up on the wheelchair too. +1 for Honls.
This man is especially amazing because every state gives handicapped people a complete whiff, that is, they don't have to work if they don't want to. Imagine a free and easy life, but instead, you decide to be a productive human being, helping your fellow mankind. I cannot find words to express my admiration.
thanks for the video! I put in protective tin sheets/panels on the slopes of my wax melter... It keeps the charcol from building up and makes cleaning the dam thing a breeze! If replaced every year also keeps a nice smooth slick surface for all the sludge to slide down.
hello, I'm a beekeeper in Brazil, I love bees and cough this technology, Congratulations, I have 300 hives today, I hope one day I'll be like you level
@@kubixba4393 there is a buyer in Brazil who buys my produce and from other beekeepers and exports to several countries including the USA. I still can't directly ship, there are a number of sanitary requirements to get FDA, you need power. maybe one day I can. my honey is organic. thanks see you soon.
Great learning video my grandson had to do a school project on honey and he and I learned a lot thank you . It looks like this is a family run business love seeing the young kids working
always fascinating to watch the processing. Never knew how honey was processed and now at least have an inkling. Thank you for sharing this because its so educational.
I used to be an employee for a producer in the 1990's. I delivered to bakeries & meat packing co.My best memory was loading and transporting the package bees from Miss. To Mich. to replenish losses from the mites that would kill off large colonies of hives.Enjoyed watching your video , things have really changed.
Great video. Those girls (or anyone) with long hair, especially in ponytails, NEED to have their hair pinned up and under a cap. Everyone should have their shirts tucked in their pants and probably no long sleeves (around all that equipment and moving parts). I live in Indiana and I worked in a plant and we lost a friend because of some stupid freak accident that no one foresaw or expected. When you see someone you love die,. Have an outside professional safety guy go thru your plant and make suggestions. You don't want to live thru what we did and especially since it is family because it looks like you have a really good family there.
I winced so hard when the first co-owner almost got his hand crushed by the lid of the extractor. Otherwise, super cool video! I bet no one really ever has to wonder who is going to bring the honey for morning tea when you work there. ;)
Wow that's very cool, thankyou very much for sharing this video. I would really like to make a special mention to the fork operater unloading the twin axle truck at the beginning of this video, absolute perfection and maximum attention to detail that no-one has mentioned in the comments I read. I watched the unloading so carefully and that was the best and most awesome control of a fork I've ever seen. I want to say to that guy, I saw you brother and i think your awesome!! Great job mate. 👏👏👏🤘🤠
Nice video! Thank you. Wow! That's a lot of honey being processed each day! I'd also be interested in seeing what this plant does to clean each piece of equipment and the frequency of their cleaning.
Thank God for seeing a video about beekeepers who aren't self-proclaimed experts (the hobbyists). There are so many know-it-all hobbyist beekeepers in my region (full of urban, educated yutzes) that when you start talking with them, you can tell it's all about being the glitzsiest "granola Millennial" in the land.
There is nothing worse that a person who has been beekeeping for 1-4 years. They think they know everything and when ting go working it is the fault of someone else. I have been beekeeping for 9 years and have made a considerable investment in beekeeping education and I still always learn something new.
What a process! You can tell it's family owned by seeing the kids running around. Not many companies allow that unless it's one of the owners sons running around. Then you see the youngin working the machine and it's a dead giveaway! Thanks for sharing what you do and how it's done. Had no idea it was that much work with specialized equipment.
Bloody hell! I had my right one plugged with earphone and left one was free till the end and I started reading the comments once after finished watching the video 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭
i actually wanted to raise bees or keep them, but my husband was against it, so it's in the very far future for me. I have a lot of respect for the beekeepers & went to the beekeepers meetings they have here in my town. I found it very interesting & found the story about the hives that hadn't been tended to for over ten years very interesting. God bless you guys/gals for what you are doing!! ty for the video! Great video!
Thank you for the effort to make this video. Can I Make sugestion? The text disappears to fast for me and probably others. I had to manage the pause button. Not to much of a deal but I like to watch videos without doing that. Great work!
I think the whole point is that you keep the video shorter because the pause button is so easy to use. Instead of trying to guess the reading speed of you tube users.
We learned a lot thought he process of this video. The problem with timing was trying to video record and stay out of their way. Thanks for the comment.
That is correct. Honeybees are hoarders by nature and when the flow is on they will continue to store honey. That is the reason we place honey supers on top of the brood chamber. If we did not add this extra space, the bees would fill up every available cell, and then some, and the hive would become "honey fast". The queen would have no place to lay and the colony could die or possibly swarm.
I saw that too. Dang. This operation has all the safety checks turned off, including the fork truck back up beeper. But it seems to me to be reasonable compromises, actually. The girl with the long pony tail scared me too. Hope they don't let her near spinning drive shafts.
We plan to make other videos of commercial beekeeping operations. There are a lot of hobbyist beekeeping videos but very few videos detailing commercial operations.
Very interesting, in my previous line of business which involves engineering processes of automation it seems there are lots of places and steps that could be improved upon. I love seeing these types of operations utilize automation and up production.
too much automation makes people weak. I need physical work, when comes time to get those boxes from the yard, you need to be fit. especially for that size box. those are back breakers.
I don't know if I could really take being so sticky all day!!! That good they start those kids out young learning and teaching how too work for a living
The biggest reality is that your clothes and hair smell like warm honey and wax from working in the honeyhouse for several hours. It's not a gross smell, it's just a unique scent that you can definitely smell in your shirts.
Greetings from Russia. We are in shock, the shop is just a class, watch and envy! If not a secret, the cost of equipment for the evacuation of honey or the manufacturer. Good luck to you from me a big like!
God bless the bees. God bless all of you that work together in making a priceless product in my own humble estimation! Owning your own company is hard hard work!
Good video, thanks for sharing it. I thought it was interesting you weren't using IBCs. No idea what those "tote" things are, but a similar operation down here would use IBCs to the packer
On a commercial scale this business is on a medium level. So it's not that huge in terms of processing power. It's when you've got 10k and more of behives that's when you got some serious juice.
I'm not understanding the hate for the video. Want to know why they look miserable? Because they are clearly teenagers or young adults who were told to by their parents. It states at the beginning that it's a family owned operation and while the adults (who look at least content, some clearly happy) are harder to compare, the youngsters all look like cousins
Brian Dressel anything is a factory job at mass scale genius what makes bee keeping fun is doing the whole process your self not the act of just saying words makes anything true
When my mother had shingles I bought her a jar of bee propolis that was like 30 bucks for a small jar but worked really well for her. Would love to see how that is produced!
Los felicito es genial gracias por compartir su experiencia me llena de ilusión para continuar siendo Apicoltor , aunque quién sabe si llegué a tener algo Medina mente parecido
My Father Berna Johnston was the President of the National Honey Producers Association for 7 years. We live in New Mexico. He was good friends of the Smoots who I believe live in Minesota also. We had a large production business here as well. I spent many days along with my siblings extracting and going to the beeyards.
..vielen dank für diese einblicke in eure Firma. Ich finde es Klasse wie und mit welchem Elan alle Tätig sind. Nicht so wie andere denen es egal ist. Man kann das Sehen. Bei euch ist Herz mit im Spiel. Weiter so.
They dont they get blended together giving you your general generic honey since the vast majority of this will be from a Sweet Clover and alfalfa. Generally speaking when you see high grade individual honey it's from a smaller producer these guys are sending all of this down to Sue Bee honey probably in Sioux City and they don't really get into the whole different flavors it's just generic honey in a bear.
That may be a commercial operation but there is a whole lot of family resemblance on that line! Seeing the operator in the wheelchair was pretty exciting as I can take care of my bees now but am soon going to be full time in a chair. It’s good to know that life goes on.
