How many POUNDS of HONEY did we Harvest!? 

Ok, I'm so glad this showed up in my feed. When you pulled out your roller and used that to pierce your cap wax, I was interested. I shelved those rollers years ago, but now may have to revisit them. I noticed that at one station your daughter is using the roller, but your mother was also using a fork at another station for cap removal. Are you noticing much of a difference in getting more honey out with one method over another? Last question, why would reversing the rotation result in more honey removal? Thank you for sharing, and I still use your excellent hive tools :) Wishing you all the best!

"In Germany, the cover on the honey extractor is made of 'Plexiglas,' so it's transparent. You might consider replacing it so that you can see what's happening inside the honey extractor even when the cover is closed." "The larger the diameter of the honey extractor, the less it wobbles. My old honey extractor had a diameter of 75 cm (29.5 inches), while the new one has a diameter of 90 cm (35.4 inches). It's incredible how smoothly this honey extractor rotates. I can place 42 honey frames (Dadant US) inside." Herbert

I am grateful and feel blessed to have you and your family share your experiences and skills with us. I could watch your videos all day and everday...such a gift. Thankyou Honestead family!

Nice harvest of honey. We bought an 18 frame extractor last year. Sure glad my wife talked me into the bigger one. How many colonies do you have? I'm at 41 right now.

Thank you for sharing. Gd bless you all. Shalom

Fantastic video! Very informative and helpful!

I really love to see this makes it more real , so happy for you all 🙏❤️☮️best wishes

Huh, I don't know about the left/right thing...I thought the whole point of a radial was that you don't have to flip frames, even if it only goes one direction.......I mean, I just have a 4 frame tangential so I'm flipping frames regardless........But it's interesting.....

Feels peaceful.

Beautiful coloured honey

Mornings are a Splendid!

Great video! If you let the extractor spin on a lower speed for a few minutes and gradually increase the speed, it will help to better balance it before spinning it up to a faster / fastest speed.

Bravo za damu pčelara, prelijepo i organizovano, svaka čas😀❤️👍

Good work and looking lovely lady 🌷

You may want it to stop spinning before changing direction on the motor….

Such a cute video ! 🧡🐶

Wow very interesting my neice has a honey bee operation in Nova Scotia, she has about 15 bee hives and expanding every year, I'm sharing your video with her I'm sure she will learn something from it

Fast house up you shipping containers I've used the shedding I just had to put wood up inside quickway

If you slice caps off you’ll have a more balanced load for the extractor. By having different levels of cells on the frames, it is hard to properly balance. Think of throwing a weight off of a tire. Small amounts make a huge impact.

I'm at 25 colonies and have been up to 50. Our place is not near as fancy as yours. You have a fine apiary and work place. Mine's on a hillside I call th stump garden. And, I do have another on flat land in a pine forest. We got a 12 frame extractor last year. Works nice but, if I had more colonies I'd need a bigger extractor. I bought a Woodmizer hydraulic mill in 1995 and sold it in 2006. Still have lumber laying around. Fun watching you make splits and talking about your turkey. Don't get too many bees ahead of yourself. They can multiply really fast and decline in about the same time if you get ahead of yourself. Not fun to lose 20 colonies. Yes, I did that last winter.

Have you did freeze dryer honey? If so do you have a video?

Great video ❤. Looks like a lot of work 😮. Thank goodness you have Help❤️‍🩹🐝😀, I love Honey 🍯,

Nice, Hello from the Russia 👍 ❤❤❤❤

That was a very informative video. Enjoyed it very much. I make one suggestion for your new shop. You need music. Install some music so you can dance and move around to good tunes while you work, makes the job much easier.😉

Ooo😊🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿 good 👋

Do! Not! Change direction until the motor has stopped. You will burn up the motor.

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The “boy’s” helped too.

Starting out at a slow speed for minutes and increasing every 5 minutes will allow the fuller frames to shed more honey and helps balance

What is the brand name of the honey extractor?

You are such a wonderful bee keeper. I can only imagine how lovely that honey is. When things are done with such care and done well, the end product is always so much better. I am so happy for you!

What brand of extractor is this?

Thank you for sharing , love your videos and love the new barn! One great tip my mentor told me is don't put spouts on all the buckets. They can get knocked and/or just leak. Plus it's an added unnecessary expense. Better to just have it on a few. A couple of days before bottling transfer the honey to a spout bucket. Then just keep filling up that 'bottling bucket' as needed and let it settle a day. The bubbles and wax stay at the top. Or, for bigger operations like yours, have a dedicated stainless steel honey bottling tank with a no drip filling spout.

So nice

Where are you guys located? What part of the country?

Are you going to the Kentucky conference

im begineer, in this year im harvested some honey from my 2 beehives, it was great. Good luck to all the beekeepers

Best honey year in Western Montana in awhile...three days of rain this week and the spotted knapweed bloom is blowing up....

Why do they put that huge extractor on four spindly legs?

Homesteaders of America Beekeeping Workshop- homesteadersofamerica.com

I love to have my tea in the morning outside on my porch, watching the hummingbirds, the birds singing, chipmunks and squirrels running around and my bunny, Miss Brownie, coming to say good morning to me! I love your channel and you have been a huge influence on my beginner apothecary that I have been working on diligently for the last 2 1/2 months. Blessings from Maine

Hi again! My two cents... In order to prevent much wiggling(wobbling) try to put frames with same amount of honey on opposite sides. I have similar extractor for 20 deep frames and I always try to balance before I put it to work. It saves me lots of energy for "holding it down". :)

Awesome harvest!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

Your so lucky to have your grandmother,mother and your daughter to help you what a wonderful family memory. You gran is such a kick just love her. Well of course your mother too she is a jewel.

My mother used to take us out on the front porch in the summer when we were like 3 1/2 4-1/2. Years old and pray with us and she called it “touching the morning”. Fond memories. !!

Very fun to watch and learn. Thank you!

Thank you so much for taking us into your harvesting process! Although I am not planning on being a bee keeper, I do enjoy learning about them. Thank you for providing insight and knowledge about their world! 💛🐝🍯

Four generations of remarkable women! ❤

What a beautiful harvest. Congratulations! 🎉

Thank you for sharing.. I watched a video yesterday in Australia they have hives that have funnels you don't have to interrupt the bees! Chris Evans is involved! Love watching your video's Men are always so busy doing the stuff men do glad we have different roles.. echinachia flowers are pretty as well behind you.. sounds beautiful! That makes so much sense they work so hard.. music is nice and relaxing!

We harvested 475lbs from our 6 colonies! That was a huge harvest for just 6 colonies. Our 14 from last year didn't do that well.

🐝 Thank you for sharing ✌️💞🤟

4 generations of woman spinning honey, too cool, how blessed you are

You are a beautiful woman !

What are the white buckets with the honey gate on them? And what brand is your extractor? If you don’t mind sharpening

Great video informative learned some things I knew nothing about loved it. You’re talking about bolting the spinner to the floor I can understand why, but would like to make a suggestion. My recommendation would be to get a heavy duty reinforced pallet. Pour a concrete slab on top of the pallet then tile it. With it being bolted to a concrete slab on a heavy pallet, you will be able to move it around the shop no problem it will be solid and not go anywhere and if you have to transport it, you pick it up with a forklift and go. With it being tiled, it will be easy to clean any spills and messes also being able to move it around the shop, you’ll be able to clean all the areas behind it with much more ease. And if the layout of your shop changes in the future, it will be no big deal moving in around. It’s just something I would probably do.

Wow! God is good ❤

Put sand bags or other weights on your stand to weigh it down, and start spinning slow and increase every couple of minutes. Stop when it start to wobble and let it spin for 2-4 minutes and then you can increase a little more. To speed things up, you are going to find the double sieve plugs up too fast. Take a 5 gallon pail and drill a large hole on the bottom on the side. Put a cone of window screen over the top of the pail going close to the bottom of the pail. Then dump the in the screened pail to catch the large bits of wax and then strain it as it comes out. You get more time out of your strainer before having to clean it.

Congratulations on your giant harvest and the expansion for more honey products.

You are honey. ...

waking up in the morning with nature is the one of most beautiful things in life❤❤❤

You are such a sweet person. Thanks for sharing.

This video made me smile and realize how far behind technology we are. We have a two frame hand crank honey separator. That new machine of yours looks awesome.

You have a great operation!! Bees and honey production is so miraculous. One of Gods gifts!

Having a saw mill to cut up just what you need is so nice. My husband has a Woodmizer too. Having a lumber pile on hand is great for building everything that is needed for a homestead ❤

Y'all are just incredible. I really appreciate how you care for the bees. You show how it's supposed to be done. Very interesting to see how you process the product. And how clean your new room is. So far. Can't wait to see the progress. God bless!

Congrats! Not a local so I hope I can get some of your honey!

You do know honey losses it's minerals and nutrients and enzymes when honey is heated and filtered right. Do your research, so you can produce a better quality of honey and healthier honey for the immune system. Pure raw wild honey is what helps your body.

Not sure if anyone else has mentioned it yet, but you may want to put 2x4's or pieces of plywood in between the buckets so that all of the weight isn't on the center of the lids. While I've never had a problem with it (because I don't do it), I have heard of some that have. Nice harvest!

I love seeing couples gushing over each other & working side by side in the same direction!!! Especially when society seems to see that as foreign? ❤❤❤❤❤ Yes, song birds in the morning can’t be beat!!!! I call it God’s good morning musical chorus of blessing to start the day out right!

Enjoyed watching this again. Swinging the honey brings back the old days.

As a diabetic I love honey straws! They are great for carrying for a lil pick me up in case of emergency

I loved the cute little dresses you wore running around building the stand and working. We don't have any hives yet but we are taking a local class with the parks in the area and we just join a beekeeping club in our area. We want to get as much knowledge as we can before we start. Love your videos they are a big help and full of info.

The centripetal force of the honey extractor is expelling, the honey out of the honey comb on to the sides of the wall which drips down to the honey gate.

So excited to see this video. My husband got me a complete bee hive a few years ago. Don't have any bees yet. I do have many wildflowers & fruit trees.

Super excited! We are getting a full hive soon. Our first 2 nucs left :( You live and learn. Ya'll have a blessed day and thank you for all of your wisdom ❤

I am happy you had a great flow this year. I love the new equipment and cannot wait to see the straw machine in action. Take care.

Oh, awesome. A Straw machine is super cool. This has been a great season so far. Enjoyed to video Kaylee.

I feel the love in your voice while you’re sitting in your garden. It’s so heart warming 🫶🏽

Beautiful honey ❤ Thanks for taking us along ❤

One of my favorite things when I visit my remote cabin, is sitting on the porch in the mornings and listen and watching how alive the wooded site becomes. To bad it is 8 hours to get to it.

Even now you need to take out every frame, flip it with upper side down and inner side out. Nice work, lot of healthy honey.

You would do well to buy a new or used honey tank to let the wax rise to the top and then run through a double sieve. It would involve pouring partial buckets into the tank, but it will greatly reduce the time to filter without having to constantly clean the sieve.

Congrats on harvest. You have a radial extractor so, you don’t need to change directions from left to right. All the honey will spin out. Good luck with your bees.

Was interested in where you got the frame tote. You mentioned a friend who designed them. I'd love to know more about them. ❤ thank you for all of your awesome content!! Your mom is a hoot!!😂 I appreciate you all!❤

Good morning, how are you? We have had little honey this year. And how were you?

Just a thought, I see you have your freezer on an uninsulated outside wall. That is a bad idea. Don't ask me how I know.😁

thank u for posting!

Found them at Mann Lake. Thanks for sharing your experience.

Great looking video - fun to watch people who love beekeeping and share their journey. Keep it up!!

Oh my goodness!! I've never seen this done! I always wondered how you got the honey out! Very cool!!!

you remind yourself you love him 3 x a day

You should never run it at high speeds until 65% of honey has extracted then increase speed .

What kind of extractor do you have. Bees really connect be to nature. Morning is my favorite time to visit my bees while they are still sleeping. I have a hammock near mine.

look at all the progress you have made in that barn! sweet! Go you guys!

Wish had 🐝 to get honey, wanting to get into it but never think about it tell it’s to late in the year, glad you and your husband help each other out

Wow, well done ladies!

I really enjoy early mornings in spring and summers listen de bees an wind noise

Congratulations Kaylee on a great harvest! I think I got about 20% of what I got last year and I’m grateful and thank God for what he blessed me with! I never started beekeeping to earn money, I did it for the love of bees and fresh honey for my immediate family.

I stopped pulling honey August 1 st 2023 THEN began Oxalic Acid fogging the first round, then fog again 14 days later because more bees emerge with mites on them. It from all the full buckets and 1 pound containers filled already we might get over 1,500 pounds. Just got 1,000 pounds last year.. That is only a drop in the bucket compared the the Canadian bee keeper Bob Binie in Georgia. I'm wanting to slow down and sell half my bees. With 12 helpers my bees out ran all of us this year.