400+ Pounds of Raw HONEY: How to Harvest Honey 🍯 🍯

[@Hanna-DailyLife]

Thank you for bringing laughter through this video!

[@vadmedia-SlimeASMR]

Please keep going, your videos always make me happy!

[@HarvestDailyLife]

It’s lovely to see the care given to each piece of fruit.

[@Cubrider]

Brandon ive just purchased the exact same spinner here in the uk but our honey frames are maybe half as deep so ive made a perspex plate in the bottom to hold and spin 12 frames at a time with no need to turn the frame half way through.

[@brandonsbees1]

I need to look into that then for my medium frames! Would love to save me some time on the extraction!

[@andrewstancil1723]

So if I heard right you got 400 pounds of honey on your first year? Also how many hives do you have?

[@brandonsbees1]

Just a handful of hives for honey production. The others are used to make more bees. Good question

[@johntiebosch9134]

What do you do with the capping after?

[@brandonsbees1]

Great question John, I drain the honey out of it and then set the wet capping's back out for the bees to clean off. Once that is done, I melt it down to make wax blocks.

[@MattHockenberry-uq7lh]

Wow! Amazing video! The honey looks great!

[@brandonsbees1]

Thank you so much!

[@felipegodoy708]

4:37 poor bee is drowning

[@shamusatha4700]

When you had the camera in slow mo I had to still slow it to 0.25 just to see it fly out the forces that takes is actually quite mad

[@brandonsbees1]

It's very surprising and hard to capture on camera!

[@MKIV2JZGT]

How much colonies and how many boxes deeps and mediums made this over 400lbs harvest?

[@brandonsbees1]

I used a handful (about 5) of my colonies to produce this amount of honey. I cant remember exactly how many boxes it took because each had a different amount of honey... Each medium you would pull off can hold around 60 lbs and deeps hold around 80 lbs. Hope that helped a little bit!

[@HoneyBoard88]

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[@bethmussig4371]

Hi Brandon! Enjoyed your video. Loved yellow board that frame sat in for uncapping. Got to have one. What are they called? Would love to surprise my husband with one for Christmas. Cheers, from Perth, Australia

[@brandonsbees1]

Hello Beth, Glad you enjoyed the video. The yellow frame holder is called a "combcapper" on www.mannlakeltd.com . One of the best things I have purchased, and your husband will love it! Let me know how he likes it and best wishes. -Brandon

[@jovanvujovic3932]

Hohoho😀👍, bravo, čestitke za rad

[@brandonsbees1]

Thank you !

[@BellahWorks]

How hot does the hot knife get? And technically aren’t you heating up a small about of honey when uncapping?

[@brandonsbees1]

I think it can get around 100 degrees F or more but im not entirely sure on the exact temperature it needs to be minimum or the max it can reach. Yeah, technically you are heating up a small amount of honey to get the rest of the honey out of the frame.

[@rickmartin9823]

It’s called bee bread not honey bread,still a good video!!

[@brandonsbees1]

Good catch! I was waiting for someone to say something when I listened back to it.

[@natalieweneck2159]

So much honey!! How heavy are those boxes?!

[@brandonsbees1]

The deep honey boxes can be anywhere between 70-100 lbs depending!

[@JasonEmery9]

Where do you sell your honey? It is too soon to tell, but I think I'm going to have my first big harvest, too big for family and friends.

[@brandonsbees1]

Hey Jason, Usually, I sell by word of mouth, but I also do fairs with my local beekeeping club!

[@rtxhoneybees]

Good video and good information. But the capped honey is not always 18% or less. I pulled and extracted 100 lbs of 95% capped honey that measured 18.4% in the bucket. Pulled another 200 lbs and at least 80% of it tested at 19+% below the cappings. You should always test.

[@brandonsbees1]

Thank you and yes I agree that you should always test and that different nectar has different water content! Overall you cant really go wrong with having a lower than 18% water content.

[@bzhoneyalanb8613]

Great video. If i did that outside near my hives my bees would be on my ass rapid lol

[@brandonsbees1]

Thanks Alan. Some of the big hives know they are strong and like to show it sometimes!

[@cindyhockenberry-lw9gz]

Wow look at all that raw honey!!! ❤❤❤❤

[@brandonsbees1]

Thank you so much!

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