Feeding a commercial honeybee yard - Our 12V electric pump setup

[@MyALevelMathsTutor]

thanks for showing your setup...i enjoyed watching your approach

[@Ashby_Farms_NC]

You’re welcome!

[@KajunHomestead]

Great video love the pump for the feeders I’m still doing the bucket method but you have a great idea Thanks for the video

[@Ashby_Farms_NC]

Glad to help

[@andywhite9932]

Hey Mr Ashby. Just started watching your channel. Hope youve got a tote for hauling syrup by now. I attached a male banjo coupler to the bottom of my mixing drum then to a trash pump which pumps finished syrup into tote

[@Ashby_Farms_NC]

Still working out of two barrels. The f150 can only hold so much weight ~1,200 lbs. (Me Cori Sugar, water) which limits us to feeding 3-4 apiaries at a time before having to return home to get more sugar. Don’t like the trash pumps because they’re gas powered. I agree w Bob Binnie that the on-demand electric pumps are the way to go.

[@andywhite9932]

@@Ashby_Farms_NC i gotcha. I dont use the trash pump for anything other than filling the tote which is in back of pickup and hooked to on demand pump

[@PeabodysApiary]

Hey Ashby! Does this pump need to be primed I see the hose on top goes into drum . Do you just turn pump on and good to go?

[@Ashby_Farms_NC]

Correct. It just has a check valve but doesn’t need to be primed

[@aidenrowland8077]

Great video!!! 👍🏻

[@Ashby_Farms_NC]

Thanks for the compliment!

[@slightly_buzzn]

What is the model of that pump?

[@Ashby_Farms_NC]

They sell them at Agri-Supply. Flo-Jet 4.0gpm is the one I use. About $200

[@ngf5077]

Don’t they move the unused sugar water into the honey? What percent contamination is okay? I think our honey is diluted 10%

[@Ashby_Farms_NC]

Not really. You forget that strong colonies consume quite a bit of sugar daily for carbohydrates