A peak into a working extraction facility

a glimpse of my extraction facility. Typically I work in the yards pulling honey so I don't spend as much time linguring around the honey house, so I did not get as much opportunity to film the facility as it worked. But here is enough to show you what I have set up!

[@michiwood6856]

Dreams dreams dreams, this is what dreams are made of, well for those of us that want to be commercial eventually. Ian all your videos and knowledge sharing definitely help in guiding the right direction. Thank you!!

[@thehoneybeeambassador6548]

For me this is a typical example of embracing your passion

[@wvmike7008]

Very professional and clean setup. I love how clean your buildings and equipment are kept. Workers wearing hair nets. Impressive. You are truly a pro. I watched another commercial beeks video about his extraction line and it was absolutely filthy. Not sure why he would post a video, after seeing that I would never eat any honey that I knew came from his operation.

[@eugencristianradut7968]

OMG !!! This Guy is absolutely awesome ! !

[@thuffman44]

Fantastic compilation of videos. Thank you very much for putting all of this editing together to share it with us Ian. What a fascinating operation!! You, your crew, & your bees really do a fine job of getting it done! Kudos to your efforts!! Take care. 🐝🐝🐝☮️☯️

[@gorillajackbedroombooster7309]

#1 fan of this farm right now

[@SinicalRevenant]

It's nice to see that you and your crew clean up the equipment and the whole shop so very well

[@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork]

Excellent walk-through! Thank you!

[@jeffharris8787]

Hi Ian, I've only just discovered your videos and I'm in awe! The skill and dedication is truly inspiring, I have a few hives, around twenty, it's a pipe dream of mine to become a bee farmer, doubt it'll ever happen but I have certainly taken note of your advice and will be implementing it the season. One thing that I am very impressed with is the value you place on the bees and I guess you could say compassion, when you first showed the warm room with the boxes I was thinking wow, there's like a swarm on the windows, I hope they don't just kill them or let them die off, you answered my question with a perfect solution to the issue. I'm sure there can't be many commercial bee farmers that would go to the trouble so I take my hat off to you. It's just a shame you are so far away, I'd love to have been close enough to visit and maybe offer some help. Thanks for the videos, I will search out the rest and enjoy watching them while I await the start of the season here in the U.K.

[@richardkuhn8115]

Thanks again Ian. You're the best!

[@naturemaster6252]

great video. thanks for taking the time to make all your videos.

[@CentralBeekeepersSupply]

Thanks for giving us an inside look. Well done!

[@electricengineer624]

Great job , lots of efforts , respect ✊ for loving the bees

[@bigweb0311]

This is on a whole other level!!😱 I don’t know if you made a video of how you started into beekeeping and got to this large scale but a video of how you got to this point would bee AWESOME!! If you do have one please point me to it! Thank you! Truly an awesome operation!

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Michael T kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJeagZaVg890itE

[@KajunHomestead]

love all your videos very informative in the life of a beekeeper

[@tomsutton7453]

Thank you for the video.

[@marlorush3853]

Gosh. Amazing Ian.

[@ianwilson3088]

Loving you videos, thank you for the effort

[@louis5489]

Goals and dreams right there. Started my first hive last month have two going now.

[@keithcoffin9161]

nice clean operation. I am amazed at not only the way you take care of your bees. Also how clean your operation is. GOD bless you for all of your concern.

[@kathyhathaway8823]

Great looking setup . Would love to be able to come up and see it in operation. Thanks for the video of your operation. Thanks Gene

[@justinmills8084]

Great information

[@ssc4153]

Wow....nice facility! I've been binge watching your video's. Bee Keeping is pretty fascinating....and lots of work! Would love to buy some of your honey! I would use it in the products that I make!

[@billcoley8520]

Preventative maintenance... is a beautiful thing

[@camilopoveda2704]

Maravilloso proceso industrial!!! Saludos desde Colombia

[@richardwatchingfromhalifax2122]

Amazing never saw how honey was extracted from the frames. I can see why you love what you do.

[@lennorepowell8012]

I love your operation

[@troyandrus982]

You can burn dry sulfur at the end of every day when you know no one will be going back into the warehouse. A couple cups per room depending on size of room to be treated. Then by morning just open the doors for a few minutes to air things out. Works great but caution no one can go back in the building. The vapors from the burning sulfur when mixed with moisture, like in your eyes and lungs turn to sulfuric acid. Vapors dissipate very quickly and there’s no residua life behind. Usually gone after a few hours. Works great for bee control in a warehouse.

[@426superbee4]

Thats a funky lift! Need to put a electric hoist on it 12:50 > I like your respects for the bees to perform and live a productive life >> Very good ideal. Cheers

[@jimmcdougall3750]

WOW nice set up

[@michaelmueller8976]

Thanks for sharing!❤️✝️

[@suepeterson5675]

This is very interesting ! I’ve never thought so much went into making honey. At what stage would bee powder be made ? Your place is very clean , very impressive .👍 thank you for sharing. Now I can catch up on past & future videos. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

[@georgemgm5]

I watched it Completely!!! Great video, thank you

[@margepalmer5316]

Peak is the top of a mountain. Peek is a quick look.

[@callmeishmael7452]

A few properly placed steam nozzles inside the centrifuge would help minimize your cleaning complexities. Of course the wax flow would need to shunted to another tank.

[@rajkumarkandasamy7991]

AMAZING.....HONEY PARADISE..... Wishes from INDIA.....

[@user-ep2xp6jk7w]

Все супер, молодцы!!!

[@mcriser]

You should put one of your separators in that window so that the bees can leave the hot room

[@Bushman4]

You need a roller ramp for the empty boxes from the uncapping end to the finished end...

[@moogiesretirementhaven2265]

Nice set up, Boxes look great, Do you wax your own boxes?, if so can you make a video of that process please

[@juju55488]

It looks like a very efficient production...Did you work from pm to am? Looked like the sun was coming in the windows. Thank you for this informative video

[@sinaiyicus]

I would like too know how the hives have wetherd the polar vortex lol that hit this year.

[@jcs6347]

Ian, hobby guy here in North Carolina. What brand are your escape boards and where do you get them? Next question, many of your boxes do not painted. Are they hot wax dipped, western cedar, or just raw wood? Thanks!

[@Chrisbuildsstuff247]

Do you use queen excluders to keep supers exclusively honey and not brood or do you separate manually out in the field I’m assuming you use queen excluders if you process on this scale?

[@The_JEB]

Do you guys use the knife style frame cutter thing because its faster? Mr Ed on Jeff Horchoff Bee's uses a chain style frame cutter because it cuts the comb evenly so all the cappings get cut off and all the honey can get extracted from the frame.

[@msioug]

QQ - while moving the boxes on and off the trucks - how do you know which sup has the queen?

[@SA-xj1cs]

Where do you buy those little plugs used in the cover, what are they called? Thanks!

[@geraldgm1217]

Awesome!!!!What's the size of the Honey House building in sqfeet?

[@gr8belayr]

Ian, have you considered putting a one way bee exit near the window to let the bees out? Maybe a hive outside for them to relocate to?

[@drrota]

Just a thought - Make a special widow frame that has a bee escape in it.

[@jeffbrooks6491]

Hey Ian. We run a mini Lyson extraction line down in North Carolina. Looking to get away from having to run our honey through any kind of micron strainers. Does the Cook and Beal Wax separator do a good job at separating any impurities/debris in the honey so that it can go straight to a holding tank and be bottled for use?

[@sphinxrising1129]

Do you harvest (collect & resell) all the bees that make it to your plant?

[@jimmcdougall3750]

Hi Ian is it a purpose built honey house, have you got drains in the floor for all the water to go. Great video

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Jim McDougall Yes, specificity built for this purpose

[@daviswaldner7102]

Like wat I see a special when it's -40 outside

[@osbaldogarcia6623]

Where can we buy that kind of equipment? Is there someone with a link or the name of the Company that manufactures all that stainless steel equipment

[@PaulDrummer1]

Thanks for the video. Do you have any tips for storing honey in buckets and jarring later in the year, when the honey is already crystallised? Also how do you clean/rinse big amounts of jars?

[@NikiCanotas]

Paulius Chockevicius heating blankets are what I use

[@keithcoffin9161]

how much honey did you gat from this harvest?

[@donotcare330]

I finally had to say goodbye to my CNB separator. They are nice. But space for where we moved to. Was too much size constraints. Pat and shane from C& B are REALLY nice guys and if you are in the business of bulk honey, i'd see him about one of these units. They are a good machine. But they wont make anything smaller.

[@jimreichert327]

do you have to buy the drums, or does the packer supply them for you?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Jim Reichert Supplied

[@TimberTramp]

Do you haul ‘in house’ too?

[@dave_from_mo]

My uncle had a cone of window screen that he would put in his window to let the bees escape.

[@brianterrill9587]

When you pull a board you don't worry about crushing any bees when putting it back?

[@miklymick5]

most likely those are acceptable loses cause if your too careful about every single bee you will spend way too much time on 1 hive when their a lot more to do.

[@billcoley8520]

When you have a stack of boxes let’s say 6 high. How many queens are in that stack? And is each stack of boxes a different hive?

[@streamoflillies2345]

I have been watching more hobby beekeepers than professional, but one stack is a hive. A higher stack essentially means a bigger/more productive hive. And one hive means one queen, unless there is a problem with the queen and the workers are making another.

[@rebeccaocker6834]

Would it be better to vacuum them

[@johnrogers1678]

Upper entrances? Illegal or not worth it?

[@michaelfox3979]

how much honey do you harvest a year

[@WinstonCorneilius]

7:48 I would have done the chicken dance 😂😂

[@v206896]

Do you sell wax in bulk?

[@markkarstad2899]

Thanks again! Qurstions: what temo is yout hoy room? Also i found that I was left behind many more drone than females using an escape board. What is your preportion of drift bees?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Mark Karstad 30 degrees Celsius

[@zlatkos4121]

Hi. If you put nucleus with queen near window all bees will get in the nucleus.

[@drpk6514]

They look like astronauts working

[@Draintheswamp2024]

put a bee escape on the windows!

[@wtechboy18]

at 3:50 you had a whole bunch of bees stuck to the top of the window - do you ever crack that open just to let all the bees out? or do you vacuum & release, or what?

[@wtechboy18]

well, I guess I really should have watched a little further in the video before asking questions huh.

[@marcinmatelski5465]

Ian, have you thought how your honey extraction process might change if small hive beetles find their way into your area? Hopefully that never happens.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Chicago Bees I’ll cross that bridge if it comes

[@MrHoneybeeScratcher]

I would be concerned about the # of frames with uncapped honey or nectar & the high moisture content.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

jim cooley Cappings have very little to do with moisture content. This honey is running at 16.5%, very dry hot weather

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Remember honey is hygroscopic

[@jeffharris8787]

a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog, I did see you use a refractometer too, one thing I have learnt especially with Oil seed (Canola) is that if you wait until it's all capped you'll struggle to extract it.

[@joshuaschmidt7683]

How bigs your building

[@keithcoffin9161]

You do such a good job of processing and cleaning your equipment. can you reply in email and tell me just where I can buy your honey, So pure no bad additives. You are a great operation.

[@whataguy7032]

The name is right on the barrels that go out on the trucks......"Bee Maid Honey" You can buy it from them over their website. Case of twelve 8.8 oz. jars for 47.40 + shipping I assume.

[@tangsu7128]

7:21 frame with 0% caping?

[@RippleAffect]

On average how much honey do you produce off of 1 Hive per year?

[@gorillajackbedroombooster7309]

he manages 1200 to 1500 and normally get 800 drums per year

[@RippleAffect]

@@gorillajackbedroombooster7309 55gallon drums?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

out of all honesty, 325-350 drums on an average year

[@RippleAffect]

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog thanks for the honesty and you do a great job on keep your honey house clean, you do most of the work alone if your not pulling honey?

[@RippleAffect]

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog well i guess i should ask how many hives do you think 1 or 2 people could manage realistically?

[@brianterrill9587]

What about using a shopvac to collect the bees? I've seen them used during wasp removal.

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

Robovac, but unlike the video of the link here, the input hose needs to be silky smoothe in order to have zero casualty... kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2OVmJ6gi5icp6M

[@TheBoxingBee1]

Hi Ian, How do you heat your hot room?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

I heat the room through floor heat, electric boiler

[@shaeshae9831]

that's why instead of making one person do all the chores you should have everybody that works on a station they clean their own station before they leave

[@standstrongforus3427]

I wish I could do this but I am allergic to bees. I have always wished I could do it though.

[@tysonwalde7916]

My boss has never cleaned his wax spinner and he has been running it for 4 years.

[@johnensalaco5012]

Why not bee-vac the bees that get loose in the facility? Seems it would be more thorough, and less trouble.

[@buckstarchaser2376]

18:00 I cussed in solidarity with your misfortune.

[@carriemartindale-wetherup5243]

I hate to say how much I miss extraction at this point.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Carrie Martindale-Wetherup I have a good feeling about this year. Emily is back in May

[@carriemartindale-wetherup5243]

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog I have plans, I would like to do more queen rearing and nucs... All those five frames shouldnt stay empty... Yay for emily! Is everyone else coming back?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

If there are lots of bees to play with, rock and roll. Gotta make sure we protect the base production to ensure that honey crop. Going to look into late season nucs, except it’s a tough time to mate queens

[@carriemartindale-wetherup5243]

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog lol of course, all we need is a F tonne of drones and good weather for late queens.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Carrie Martindale-Wetherup We might incorporate an after flow package bee system. Might buy in mated for this. We will run a trial on it first.

[@luisbito8391]

como la hacen para que vuelva esa abeja ya esa bee no tiene hogar

[@NoBullNate]

isn't it peek?

[@zpan6268]

she is a princess and the drone instinctively attracted to her.

[@user-tc1ln8lw9t]

Здравствуйте. Хороший у вас цех по откачки меда. Я так понимаю все рабочие уходят и вам достается самое тяжелое, почистить все оборудование для следующей откачки меда. У нас в Украине очень плохие дела у пасечников, правительство не признает вообще что есть пасечники в стране и никак не помогает и не поддерживает, в бюджете государства не закладывается ни копейки для пчелодства и развития его. Никакой защиты от потравы и никаких прав пчеловод не имеет. Монополизированая система закупок меда от пасечников, закупщики договариваются между собой по какой цене принимать мед и никто не может продать мед по нормально объективной цене. Для примера хочу привести вам сегодняшнюю цену в Украине на мед это 37-38 гривен. Курс доллара у нас 28 гривен за 1 доллар. И цена меда по которой скупают весь мед составляет 1.35 доллара. В общем в Украине полный бардак в пчеловодстве. за видео вам лайк. Hello. Good you shop for pumping honey. I understand that all the workers leave and you get the most difficult, clean all the equipment for the next pumping of honey. We in Ukraine have very bad deeds for beekeepers, the government does not recognize at all that there are beekeepers in the country and does not help or support in any way, the state budget does not allocate a penny for beekeeping and its development. The beekeeper has no protection from injury and no rights. A monopolized system of honey purchases from beekeepers, the purchasers agree among themselves at what price to take honey and no one can sell honey at a normally objective price. For example, I want to give you the current price in Ukraine for honey is 37-38 hryvnia. The dollar exchange rate is 28 hryvnia for 1 dollar. And the price of honey at which they buy all the honey is 1.35 dollars. In general, in Ukraine, a complete mess in beekeeping. Like the video you like.

[@talinskiy]

Почему то как вижу коментарий украинского пчеловода он или про потраву или про 1.35 доллар/за килограмм. Не пробовали картель создать и экспортировать мед без участия перекупов?

[@user-tc1ln8lw9t]

@@talinskiy У нас народ не дружный, вот и проблемы постоянно из за этого. Природа украинцев такая...." моя хата с краю, я ничего не знаю". Вот и попробуй с кем то договорится и совместно что то сделать.

[@antonkyiv6835]

@@user-tc1ln8lw9t Канадские пчеловоды тоже в розницу стараються продавать. Те, кто держит по 200-300 ульев, несколько тонн уходит на фермерских рынках, магазинах и прочих площадках.

[@perthcorrespondent5812]

peek?

[@matteedstrom]

Not a "BLOG" It's a "VLOG"

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Matte Edström It started a a blog 15 years ago

[@matteedstrom]

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog But now it's in VIDEO form therefore a "VLOG"

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Lol, vlog sounds silly ,

[@catclark9488]

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog haha but it's not a blog now, it's a vlog. I'm old and even I know that !!!

[@user-wg3ch3su5g]

Рамки не запечатанные ни хера. Как они влажность меда проходят???

[@MissRebekah1974]

Just a gentle word of correction. A Peak is the top of something. Like A Mountain Peak. Peek is to look quickly. Like playing Peek-a-Boo with a baby. I just want y'all to Bee the best, even if this is not a Spelling Bee. Aunt B

[@Hardeepsingh-wk5yh]

I am from Punjab in India. I want to come to Canada You help me at the honey work. Please help me.

[@lewissmith6500]

That's peek not peak

[@kalebgigar8337]

How can we reach you from Ethiopia please send us your email.

[@philais]

"Peek"

[@shawbros]

"Peek", not "peak".

[@schroeder7984]

Really?. . . Go back to your parents basement.

[@shawbros]

@@schroeder7984 Yes, really. Stop promoting illiteracy.