Try not to get my wax that hot, it tends to darken it. And some of this floaty stuff I don't believe would ever settle out. But yes I have just used water and kept cleaning and putting in freshwater. I have thought about using hot water as it filters, pouring it in with the wax to help keep the wax warm and flush it through. Hopefully I won't ever have this much wax that's this dirty again

I tried them, they plugged fast too. there is fine black junk in it, might be mold spores, that really stop up the filter

sure kept it cleaner from the start

thanks

that is exactly what I was thinking

I didn't keep up on them well last summer, and saw some mites this fall. This year I will be checking a lot closer, and probably use thymol in the spring to also help with chalk brood

@@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 Thanks for the reply Harris it's very much appreciated. It's incredible I saw no mites at all 2024. They definitely worked for me however a lady in Georgia I think she said it don't work..... another young lady said you can't get rid of all mites..... In my case I have the massive number of three 'flow'hives. I am not a liar and I've got no mites.... seeing is believing........ If there ain't no mites on the white board - there's nowt to stopping em going thro the mesh so no mites on the boards means no mites.... I killed 1390 mites off one nuke 2023. Makes me wonder what those 2 ladies are doing wrong?

@@michaelhall7921 there is still a lot to learn about them. I have watched videos about studies that didnt get results, then they tell you how they did the study and its all wrong. the money is just starting to get to the researchers to study OA because no company has funded it

@@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 You are a lovely chap Harris...... there's an awful lot of Bolxxxxs out there & it's a lot like my doctors who seem to want to kill us old uns.........

I have not given them a door mat, but I have thought about it

glad to hear its working for you

I thought sugar was expensive, I would go broke using honey, lol. I did step up to Mega Bee pollen, a little more money, but I think quality control is better

Sure makes a huge difference

glad to hear that

Thanks buddy

Glad you figured out what that pollen was

thanks

4 oz

Would you like that in a 5 gallon bucket?

I have thought of that layering idea with some of the spiral ones. I may play with it one of these days

I do need to find better ways to work my wax, I am using more and more if it

seems to work well.. I need a bigger screen more like yours

@@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 10-4

Cool. I'd never seen the expansion pot before.

the rack works great, he had it set up for like 4 15 gallon pots. you could keep different honey flavors that way

I dont have 3 phase, or I would

I was going to build one out of a morter mixer and attach an auger under it, but I have enough projects now

Probably. It's just a matter of getting enough volume and keeping it flat enough to get it in the hive

I can, but I'm trying to eliminate handling that stuff that much. It takes a lot of time to put 1 lb in each baggie and flatten it. The more I can automate it the better

Thanks

It's the time of year😂he always looks like that...

@@dcsblessedbees That's scary!!! LOL!!!! Merry Christmas Dave If I don't talk to before.

My ex-wife used to call it my serial killer look. She said I look like 90% of the white guys on America's most wanted

You always first in my book Rodney

Yes. That was an experiment I won't repeat. In my climate it draws way too much moisture and just gets gooey and runny. Now they just get straight dry raw sugar. A lot less work, and it helps reduce some of the moisture problem

Thanks Dave. I've got the flatbed. Now I just need to cut it down and get the old bed off. But I'm using these dry days to get other stuff done.

Sometimes in January we'll get a cold snap little drop us down in the upper 20s. We've had years that we had two weeks it didn't thaw, and I've had years I never had a 24-hour period that things didn't thaw out. But right behind or in amongst that cold snap we can get 55° and raining

thanks for watching

it is a love hate feeling this time of year. I wish I could keep working them, I am also ready for the break

now to get them ready for winter

I think it is really going to help the honey extract better

I got as much as I could out for them to clean up

we hit 1000, thanks. I got about 3 gallons picked up, will probably try to feed it back. I have 10 gallons for mead from last year, and will probably add to that this year. I still have mead in my carboy from 3 years ago I need to get out and bottle

more food for the bees

@@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 I hear you!

you are exactly right. the heat was a little high, and too fast. going to warm it slower this time. I saved some of the honey on the plastic, then took it out for the bees. I picked up most of what was on the floor, and will feed it back too

I think the modifications will make it a lot better. I've turned the temps down, and I will try to bring it up slower. And I have containment underneath so any that does come out will be collectible. I did not have any crystallized honey that wouldn't extract, and that was one of the things I was after

yes, lots of sticky

the fan is pulling air from the supers to the heater, and the only place for the air to go is from the heater is under the supers and draw back up through them. that was my thinking anyway, we will see if it works

I set the controller shut off at 115. The thermostat on it was running 106 this morning, but my thermometer I had plugged in closer to the honey was at 80. So I believe if the shut off temp is 115, it will take me a couple days to get the honey up to 102 or 103

Thanks Dave. I checked it this morning, it had increased by 20°, air temp. Probably tomorrow evening I will actually go in and stick at thermometer into some honey, and see what it's coming up to. There's probably close to 100 gallons of honey in frames in that box, it will take quite a while to bring that all up to temp

thanks, hope it works

hope it helps you out

@@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 Harris, I finally located the entrance to the underground nest by going out at night when drones were inactive. Still, freaked me out a bit because they swarmed and stung me multiple times a while back. Shot a good amount of commercial yellowjacket poison spray directly into the nest and used a powder insect killer called Sevin around the entrance. In the late morning, saw no flying soldiers around the nest but spotted what looked like two very large yellowjackets queens crawling around. I dispatched them by foot LOL. Anyway my saga is over, but I am going to use your bait method in the spring/summer to help control potential yellowjacket issues. People do not normally associate New Jersey with rural environments but I live in the northwest mountainous part of the state and where we have yellowjackets, lantern flies, bears and other creatures. Best and thanks again for the lesson on yellowjacket behavior.

the corner just seemed easy, and some of them have a hole there where the boards holding the box up come together

glad it helps

I would be interested to see the research that shows that. Everything I have seen says that nutrition helps. And without treatment there is going to be no control over the varoa in some of the weaker colonies.

I'll have Brian reply to you on here. If that doesn't work I'll get you his number

I have tried a couple of different methods to get my contact information in a reply but the comment keeps getting deleted. Outside of FB the easiest way is email. My email is my first name followed by the product name. Hopefully that helps Brian Speedy-vap company

We bought the Insta Vap. Cut my treatment times by about 75%.