😮Huge Honey Crop out of a Hobbyist Hive?

[@unclebobsbees4899]

Nice. The ladies are doing great work for you.

[@robinmartin4464]

Wow! that is so much better than i would have guessed. Thank you, Mr. Reynolds.

[@thesidelinebeekeeper-craig6924]

I really like the horizontal hives, think I will try to pick one up at the conference in January. It would be perfect for the kids to learn on and mess with. Thanks for sharing and hope the season blesses you.

[@TheSealedNectar01]

That's amazing the amount of honey you can get out of a horizontal.... Thanks for the video Kamon 😃

[@dadu63]

Thanks for sharing kamon!

[@beebob1279]

Kamon, do you have measurements on that hive. These might be what I have to go with. My shoulders are shot. I can’t lift the big boxes anymore. I have wood around that I can make these and not lift boxes. I want to keep running bees.

[@kamonreynolds]

I will see if I can get some Bob. This hive was made by horizontal bees and I don't want to give out there design without asking first.

[@macsbees5775]

Bob Have you tried a table spoon of honey and a teaspoon of cinnamon in warm water on an empty stomach? The reason I ask is I suggested it to my aunt back in Ireland who had arthritis and her hands were bad she couldn’t do much but when she flooded her system for a month she felt amazing and back to normal it’s a really old cure. I’m not saying it fixes everything but it might help with any inflammation and ease some of your pain. I helped lots of people with that one, so maybe you could find some relief with it and maybe even help someone else.

[@ME_MeAndMyBees]

Bee Bob... I have a DIY Horizontal Hive here in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 made from an Ex Log Box... Tip : Get use to the Frames and Equipment you like. Eg 🇺🇸 Langstroth ..... UK 🇬🇧 National, etc... When you have Frame "Size".... You can then work outwards re Size Demensions : Go Design ! Example : Langstroth Frames : Width, Heights (Brood, Jumbo Deep etc.) If Hive is Deep... you can go a lot Shallower eg Super Frames, mix thru Brood, Jumbo Deeps... So make Deeper than you think ! Small fits into Big but not the other way round ! ..... Can even Run Double Brood Frames, Bottom Rail, and another Upper Rail....] Double/Lower Tier ! .... More Work... moving lots of Frames, but not like Boxes ! 🤭 I like the option of Frame "mix" use. Re Random Drone Comb, Brood, Super Frames (no Wire or Foundation. Just Comb and Honey !) Also remember: Frames that may need to fit into an Extractor Slots (depth) Otherwise be Hand Crushed to get that Honey... (Not my thing, it wastes valuable Drawn Comb !) Build : Measure Frame Widths. Make Inner Wall Panels (Chamber) a tad bigger, so "Lifting Frames of Honey, Bees, with all that Propolis, Burr Comb, Warping, Swollen Wood... can they all be Put In ? And Lifted out with a Hive Tool, handled easily ? After years of use !?! 😎 Next : Height for Frame Use, & Cover Boards & Rapid Round Feeder & Roof Cavity (Storage.) To consider re Inner Chamber, and other stuff above... And most Important.... Lots of Insulation ! Keep Cosy in Winter, and Cool in Summer... Design to Location and Region (!) Next : Cavity : Will you use Design using: Air, Wool, Foam Board, Foil Insulation etc, etc... Next : On Deep Under Timber Rails to be: (off Ground) : Correct Working Height ? : When on Legs.... 👀 Windy, Exposed Location Stable in Winter Weather.) .... To be sure Bees can get out if you have Deep Snow.... !?! Next : Outer Box : Used Scrap Timber / Lumber. (Dumpster) Pallet Wood, Even an Ex Log Box... a dead Chest Freezer... use its inner Cavity and Insulation Material... And hide it in a Nice Timber Outer Finish 🤣.... etc. Memo : Horizontal Hives : Can't be moved easily (they are very heavy !) So plan access, location, how and when conditions might effect its use : Wind Blowing that Lid?, In Deep Snow, accessible ? Ventilation, Re Varroa Mite, Hive Beetle Treatment(s). Where and When you do Inspections, (Store Tools,) all those extra Frames? Use a Mesh Floor ? And be Rodent Proof ? etc. Once you know what Bees 'need' in Working a Hive, means you need to Design Accordingly. 👍 Horizontal Hives, use both Queen Excluders, and Divider Boards, in a Vertical way ! Important. Are they Moveable by Sliding them along ? Can they be Removed when not needed? (Stored at the End of the H.H ?, in a Bee Shed ?) Design needs to take into account the Work and Maintenance of said Hive. Does all thus make sense ? 😏 Here I had loads of free Timber, Bags and Bags of Sheep's Wool (lots of cheap Fleece here ! (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿) To date : Horizontal Hive comes through Winter time and time again.... where Box Hives... fail, or die often. Hope all this helps your 'Project' ! This Video : noted... Kamons H.H. is nice, but Timber is thin (Damp noticed.) No Storage, Inner Cover Boards, awkward to manage (!) Could it tip Over if Windy? Can you Inspect it without Bees flying up ! Easy 'Quick' Visual Inspections? (Maybe use Glass Quilts Boards, or Timber Top Bars with added viewing Holes (Plexiglas)...to see Bees ! Use optional Canvas Inner Covers, Inner Candy Boards. Or Mesh Floor, or for Hive Upper Ventilation (Vents ?).... All these are important elements to remember before buying or making a Horizontal Hive ! 🤞 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Happy Beekeeping 2022. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

[@schlomoshekelstein908]

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[@beebob1279]

@@macsbees5775 Thanks, but my rotators are torn

[@leesbeesapiary]

Great video and great hive! I have a long lang I use as my resource hive up here in WI. I built the lid/roof extra thick with insulation and an internal air gap, it has worked very well so far. But I have noticed the bees do not work sideways as well as they do vertically.

[@dustinpotter8312]

I am currently trying to address that as I live in MI. Completely changing equipment is prohibitive and natural bees like the vertical. I have compromised with the bees. I am using 2 deep boxes and an additional medium or shallow box. I have turned my un-drawn combs vertical to give depth and trimmed my top bars and bottom bars to make a fit with "bee space" between the bars and sides of the of the hive body. I butt the former bottom bars together with black binder clamps (office supplies type) nip off the top bar stubs that used to hang the frame and put a new 3/8" thick top bar that spans the length of the lang' 19 7/8 x 16 1/4 length wise. (just like regular lang' boxes. Vertical stacked boxes (mentioned above) will now accommodate 20 deep lang' frames. Using the deep concept but only going the original lang' 19 7/8" length. Actually it is closer to a larger natural tree cavity. The added 3/8" thick top bar can be cut to mimic European Layens frames or cut to Langstroth top bar width depending on which format you prefer. the bars are attached with 6-8 brass wood screws. (Brass is anti microbial and less prone to rust which may be more bee friendly). My goal is to end up with permanent boxes with 1 1/2 thick hive bodies but right now I cannot afford to abandon my traditional Langstroth hive bodies and the frame style allows me to convert back to Lang's if the experiment fails. The bees liked the deep vertical in a past experiment. But it failed because I could not reproduce square frames well enough and I ran out of season before I was able to buy a new table saw. I decided to use the Lang parts because I had a bunch of them. They are much easier to "square up." Extra deep frames require much more precision and are more prone to warpage in un-seasoned wood. Kiln dried will work but kiln dried and aged for a year or so is less prone to warp after cutting down to 3/8" thisckness.

[@Dr.JsBees-jeffrector]

Great video! Thanks for sharing.

[@sherryortiz227]

I didn't use inner covers on mine. I'm using the insulated foil bubble pieces on mine which is easy to remove. It can be cut into strips as wide or narrow as you prefer to have open during inspections. Peels off easy too. I put 1 layer of supers on mine this year during the flow since I have extra drawn comb and the queen in there has wintered over 2x and grows to 7+ mediums each year. I can't reach any higher so she was 1st for a horizontal hive. I built my hive using 2 old deep hive boxes to hold 32 med frames. But I can also put my top bar combs in. I have to make another 2 for my last 2 lang hives currently at 6 and 7 boxes. They've made me some good new queens from these colonies. My back can't take lifting boxes at almost 70 yrs old now and weighing 108lbs soaking wet. All top bars and horizontals by end of summer.

[@horizontalbees]

The foil bubble wrap cover is a great idea!!

[@dustinpotter8312]

Ian Steppler likes the foil wrap but Michael Palmer out of Vermont seems to have good success with canvas. I went to using feed bags from my chickens. I am involved in conversion trying to go long but turning my lang's into deeps (turning my frames 90 deg to make them vertical. Wanted to catch a swarm this year and start them out "virgin with my new configuration. I have had lang' deeps in vertical mode before and the bees did well in them but running tow systems was too much effort. My new set up allows me to use my lang stuff (and even buy parts) to go from lang traditional to horizontal deeps. I am 70 as well. seems like a good move. Lifting vertical Lang's almost ended my working with bees.

[@mtbee9641]

Was that the queen just below center of the frame @ 8:31 ?

[@BlanchardsBees]

The sweet yellow clover is just getting started here in SW Iowa.

[@lindseyhomesteadfarm2653]

That is a great looking colony!! The flow started strong but agree that the flow was/is average. Great content as always Kamon and Laurel.

[@kamonreynolds]

Here is where my Horizontal Hives came from www.horizontalbees.com/

[@originalwoolydragon8387]

You must have better breath than I do. My bees get mad when I blow on them like that!

[@accessthruchrist4843]

Congratulations! I heard you say that was a goal of yours! I just had my new 2 month old nuc swarm for 2nd time yesterday. I'm having a hard time. It's so beautiful what your doing! I attempted to split a hive, tripped over a heavy duty trellis wire and about tipped the whole hive off the shelf. The bees stinging me couldn't touch what I did to myself. Lol. Maybe it's not for me

[@beebob1279]

Give it time. Did you take any beekeeping courses? Do you have a mentor from a local beekeeping club? It can be intimidating your first couple years. My advice is, it’s ok to make mistakes. It’s how we learn. I’m sure Kanin would admit he’s made mistakes too. My students at the school I teach at know it’s ok to make mistakes.

[@russk3931]

Anyone who says raising bees is easy hasn't done it. There is a big learning curve but watching lots of YT's and asking questions will help. By the third year you will start to feel you've gained some knowledge. Beekeeping does have some great rewards and honey is only one of them.

[@horizontalbees]

Hang in there brother we all have bad days.

[@M-SH_Honey_Bees]

This is a great hive, i want to make one hive like that. But 100 pounds are super super 😍🖐️

[@kennylecroy9706]

I would lie to build one of these ,also would a queen excluder help ?

[@chuckt7636]

Hobbyist keeper, I got back into the hobby 3 summers ago after 20 some odd years out of it. I started with one hive of Saskatraz bees. Last year I ordered 2 nucs, one had a POL-line queen which I believe was started with a buckfast line. What blew me away was that they went from a nuc to producing over 160 lbs of honey in months (with a deep super of honey for winter). I ordered 6 doz 1lb honey jars to have on hand and had to order 6 doz more then went to quart mason jars! In Buffalo we do have a large linden/basswood nectar flow in early summer and a huge knotweed flow in fall.

[@johnnyleach7152]

I'm using langstroth deeps with 7 frames as supers, looks like I have 2 or 3 That are near 100 lbs, nectare flow still strong in north Texas.

[@Mountain_Dad]

Like that hive tool. What's it called?

[@dustinpotter8312]

Impressive brood frames. I did not see any drone comb?? Comments about that?

[@kamonreynolds]

We were starting to get short on pollen a few weeks back. When that happens they really slow drone production down

[@dustinpotter8312]

@@kamonreynolds We are in a near drought condition. Sumac's near water are doing fine but on hills the pollen and nectar flow shut right down and are dropping flowers. this time of year is linden/basswood flow and some are shutting down and flowers are turning brown. Same for black berrys & raspberry's. Our dry season is early so probably shutting down my drones too. Thanks for reply.

[@catchemalive]

Kamon, I just checked my horizontal hive yesterday exactly the way you did, checked nearly every frame of the brood side, and when I seen the Queen, she was walking around normal and had layed up nearly the whole frame in eggs like normal and before I could ease that frame back into the hive I noticed a single bee jump on her back and appear to sting her and ride her back for a while so I held the frame and watched to try to learn what was happening and within seconds the queen was stone dead!!! I knew from checking that they didn’t have a single queen cell anywhere already for superseding either??? Have you ever noticed this? The hive is in very good shape, has been there since early this spring and has plenty of food stores and honey and she is a queen from a swarm I caught back in March so not sure on her age but she has been doing outstanding???? Not sure what they are doing. I’m just leaving it alone now because I know they have fresh eggs to work with but wanted to see if you e experienced this before.

[@scottfortune9016]

When you harvest the long give, how much honey do you leave the bees?

[@Lbfarmsllc]

Do you make a crop from the sweet clover?

[@kamonreynolds]

Not really it adds a tiny bit of weight some years but we aren't talking it fills a super or even half. Sweet Clover is very sparse here.

[@jameslocke3069]

Kamon, I'm a second year beek that lives in Tennessee in Warren county. When do you feel that robbing season starts here? I've got a really good screen ready to go!

[@R_Brickner]

James: I pulled honey frames during the previous week and will pull again the first week of July because of the large number of uncapped frames still in the hives. Richard Brickner Columbia, TN

[@Austinr1892]

Not directly related to the video lol, but I’m wanting to switch a few hives to Carniolan.. do you know where I could get good carni queens? I’ve heard Michael Palmer has some good ones but idk got to contact him

[@burleybeeyard]

What is the highest temperatures you’ve treated with Apiguard? I’m in central MS, so below 95 degree July days are hard to come by.

[@kamonreynolds]

I use it up to 90 degrees. At 90 I use 30 grams 3 times a week apart

[@zahrahoneypakistan9798]

Sir my 2nd question is that، In ripe and unmature Honey there is only a difference of moisture level? or they have difference in some ingredients also?

[@rajbeekie7124]

The moisture level is the only difference.

[@dcsblessedbees]

Bees make honey, not sure it really matters what the box they are in looks like, put them in an old dresser and watch what happens.😁 Someone asked if you can make honey with longhives, did they mean commercially? It's looks like to me longhive make BUNCHES of bees and bees make honey. Only thing I see with longhive, they appear difficult to keep from swarming on ya.🤠 Can you run Queen excluders instead of trying to building a honey wall/dome to keep her sequestered in the one end, or do bees like excluders less in the long configuration? Syrup is cheaper then honey, plus don't they actually digest the syrups easier then the honey? Kamon, Ty for sharing your family's time, Blessed Days...

[@zahrahoneypakistan9798]

Hello sir، How are you? This is Muhammad sultan here from Pakistan، sir kindly answer my two questions۔ 1) Recently we have harvested some wild Honey and all hives were completly sealed but the Honey was still very thin۔ Can I say it mature Honey?

[@rajbeekie7124]

Capping is important, but testing the moisture content with a Honey Refractometer is the best indicator of honey that will not ferment. Generally, moisture between 16%-18% will not ferment.

[@zahrahoneypakistan9798]

@@rajbeekie7124 Thank you soo much sir

[@patrickconnor5143]

New smoker in the last few videos?

[@kamonreynolds]

Yeah it was sent to me for free so I thought I would give it a try. Hard to beat a Dadant