Huge Record Setting Honey Harvest (Part 1) Pulling Honey

[@chopper.-.]

Have a nice day buddy

[@donbearden1953]

Bruce, those girls worked hard for you! With a lot of wooden ware and a lot of Queens you could double the number of colonies you have because those boxes are bursting with bees!

[@brucesbees]

True but I am about maxed out with what I can physically do. If I retire from my full-time job maybe I can examine a bit more.

[@GrowCookPreserveWithKellyDawn]

Excellent harvest! Just incredible to watch.

[@brucesbees]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@adamsoutdoors]

Great video Bruce. 200 boxes that is Amazing.

[@brucesbees]

Yes. A big day!

[@keithspillman]

Fun to watch!!!!! GREAT pull Bruce!! Congratulations!! Time to get sticky!!!!!

[@brucesbees]

Oh yeah. That video will drop as soon as I can get it ready! Good times…

[@jessicafairfax_Bens_Bees]

What a harvest 👍😁🐝💜🌼🍯 kudos to your ladies for all their hard work and also to you and the crew that helped you. Thanks for sharing.

[@brucesbees]

Absolutely. What a great day!

[@TracysBees8713]

Awsome harvest

[@brucesbees]

Yes! Good times🍯😎

[@TracysBees8713]

@@brucesbees can’t wait to pull some next year. 🐝

[@brucesbees]

@TracysBees8713 hopefully your supers will be full and you will have a nice harvest!

[@brianbennett4374]

Good stuff 😊 Thanks for sharing 👍

[@brucesbees]

Thanks for watching!

[@RePetesBees]

So awesome! Great teamwork! Excited for the extraction vid :D

[@gingerbrimer8486]

Great video. Glad you had all the help

[@brucesbees]

Oh me too. Could not have done it alone.

[@EileenClarkWhatley]

Loved this! New Beek in South Central Florida. My In-Laws were from Dothan and my Mother-in-law's Maiden name was Brackin!

[@brucesbees]

There ya go! It was a great day. Stay tuned for the extraction video. Should e dropping later this week as soon as I can get hit edited and uploaded.

[@DrAudet-eh7hp]

Congratulations Bruce.

[@brucesbees]

Thank you!

[@sonofthunder.]

Awesome harvest

[@brucesbees]

Yeah it was a good one. Lots of work. But also lots of fun.

[@kennith.]

Bruce, some of those hives were packed with bees. Wow I am happy for you. Glad you got some help, can't imagine trying to do that alone.

[@brucesbees]

Would have been impossible alone!

[@brettellis1837]

Just got 50 full depth frames. 300.00 plastic insert. Use down 8mm or 12 took out plastic placed dowls around insert placed in swarm vertical trap first week 19 drawn out bloody fast so free bees and comb.😂 very happy .

[@brucesbees]

Hey that’s great news. Awesome!

[@beekeepinggarden165]

Great job Bruce 👏👏👏👍🍾🎺🐝🐝🐝

[@brucesbees]

Thanks Sebastian. It was a great day.

[@matthewsweeney2577]

Good stuff Good crew 👍

[@brucesbees]

Yes! A great day!

[@ShalomShalom-d5c]

Omg, Im just finishing a jar of Farmers Daughter honey!

[@brucesbees]

Awesome! Thanks for watching!

[@hamburghoney]

Thats alot of bees in the air!

[@brucesbees]

Yes it was a wild day. But so much fun!

[@royboyd717]

Unbelievable, Bruce. I only pulled 30 supers by myself in 90+ temps and had moneys all over my back.😁

[@brucesbees]

Yep. It was awesome. What a great crew and fun times. Still have one yard to go. But what a day!

[@651journey]

How do you get the Michael Palmer bees? I'd like to have some for next spring.

[@brucesbees]

I was fortunate to get the referral from Kamon Reynolds. I was lucky.

[@jasonpinnix1905]

I don’t care as much for the honey as I do just preserving the Honey bees 🐝.

[@brucesbees]

That’s the beautiful thing about keeping bees. There are so many reasons to do it! And each has their own purpose and “why?”

[@mkirkland616]

Wow

[@rudolphdavis2387]

Hey Bruce good help is hard to fine😂

[@brucesbees]

Yep. We had a great group!

[@garycorlew2080]

I watch Brakens channel also! I sure never expected to see him on your channel!

[@brucesbees]

Yes! It was so much fun! Would love to get more folks in from other areas but logistically it can be tough.

[@aaronparis4714]

You better feed them boys

[@brucesbees]

I did lol!

[@jasonseaward8506]

What a great haul. How many hives do you have now?

[@brucesbees]

Total of around 140 I think. 95 to 100 production colonies. I think we pulled from 75 or 80 that day.

[@dcsblessedbees]

Busy days Bruce.

[@brucesbees]

No kidding man whew!

[@grantsimpson9211]

How many hives to produce 200 supers? Good looking hives!

[@brucesbees]

75 or 80 give or take.

[@jasonguerra3763]

I didn’t realize you had so many hives nice work I don’t know how you’re keeping up with that all by yourself between my job and my wife jumping on me about spending to much with the bees I can barely keep up with 20 hives awesome video keep them coming

[@brucesbees]

Yeah it’s a lot of work. I justify the time spent by the money the bees bring in. It has actually been a profitable endeavor for me.

[@jimallen1176]

Congratulations on a good honey crop, Bruce! We had a bumper crop in S.C. as well. How did you get so much help pulling honey?

[@brucesbees]

I have some great friends that are willing to go through the torture haha. But is a great time!

[@bradyjames2786]

how long do you leave the escape boards on per box? I've always been told 1 day per super

[@brucesbees]

These were on for 2 days. I would hesitate to leave them on more than 2 or 3 days here in the south.

[@jimwaldele9084]

great video,, with that amount of bees then stripping all supers giving them no room ,,now,, do you worry about swarming or will add them boxes back on to give them room back,, thank you awesome videos ty,,

[@brucesbees]

No shouldn’t be a problem. We are going into a dearth.

[@MrTillerman22]

Im from Massachusetts so im not real familiar with the process. When to take the hives to get the 🍯 dont u leave anything for the bees

[@brucesbees]

Yes there is still some left for the bees. Here in Alabama if there is too much space or honey left in the hives the pests can get the upper hand.

[@aaronparis4714]

Why was that queen above the excluder ?

[@brucesbees]

Not sure. Beekeepers error. I think we found 3 that way🤷🏻‍♂️

[@aaronparis4714]

@@brucesbees you had a army vet on one video you give him a swarm how is he doing ? I like that you are helping him out 👍🏾

[@brucesbees]

@@aaronparis4714he is ok. Those were bees that were in a water meter on his property.

[@wadebarnes6720]

I wish you would wait till after the debate to start

[@brucesbees]

Yeah probably would have been better. Fortunately folks can watch after the debate if they want.