That’s a Wrap, All Colonies Are Moved Inside

[@richardnoel3141]

Special moment at the end of the season, made extra special with your daughter giving you a hand! 👊🫶🐝🧑‍🌾

[@InsideTheHiveTV]

Everyone should watch this channel to understand the daily challenges faced by farmer beekeepers. If this doesn’t convince you that farmers deserve our highest priority, I’m not sure what will. Keep up the great work!

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

I’m smiling 🙂 Keep up the good work Humberto, I’m love your videos and the discussion around them

[@InsideTheHiveTV]

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog My videos are nothing compared with your hard work as a farmer. It is my job to make people know the value of a farmer. Looking forward to hear good results form your investments and let me know if I can be useful. Best

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

@@InsideTheHiveTV yes, you can me useful to me by putting more of those “chemical” videos out. There are vast differences with chemical availability between countries. Those differences might be a good place to look for the culprit. Overuse, yes, but application practices, bingo

[@InsideTheHiveTV]

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Ohh DOnt worry about that. That are plenty of things to be shown about chemicals that I beleive people should know to make their own decisions. The goal is to push for better tools and make sure the farmers are proper informed about what those chemical really do. I am on it my friend. Looking forward to meet in person one of these days. Cheers.

[@dcsblessedbees]

@@InsideTheHiveTV You do good work Humberto, don't cut yourself short.👍

[@whoeverit9087]

This must be an early Aprils fool joke. Bees indoors without needing a tractor to rescue the bee truck. What kind of wizardry is this.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Lol

[@russellaymond312]

Glad to hear you have them inside.Great to see you and daughter working together.

[@30farms70]

I am a deer processor way down in Alabama. I started setting my coolers to defrost for an hour every 3 hours years ago and it solved all of my freeze up problems. I've never dealt with your climate, but you will figure it out.

[@hootervillehoneybees8664]

What a wonderful young lady.. y'all have fun deer Hunting.. warm rut last year saved a lot bucks

[@naturessweetbees3033]

What a year…Enjoy your time in the camper with a fire, waiting patiently, knowing the ladies are all inside.

[@dcsblessedbees]

WoW🤨I finished up all of my bee work for the Season and Put the Bees to Bedtime the same week as Ian.🤔Interesting. Ok you get a day off,😮‍💨then it's Time to Start Work for Next Year.😂 That's not just a Happy Beekeeper, that Happy Dad.😁You two make a Great Team, Blessed Days Ian and Family...

[@calvincheney7405]

It will be important to get humidity readings & monitor the progression thru the girls dormancy phase. You may be required to simultaneously humidify. Perhaps a swamp cooler sprayer on the output fans misting the air will offset the dehumidification effect. Wouldn't be hard to make it self regulating to maintain optimum percentage conditions.

[@adamfredrickson7908]

Your coolers will give less stress, less Ian stress, less bee stress!

[@aaronparis4714]

Hope you a good winter from Nova Scotia

[@flyingpigpreserve8562]

As another gentleman said you may want to protect outside units from Ice and excessive snow falling from roof. Just a thought. I've seen things break or destroyed by Ice and Snow coming off roofs. Peace from WV 😊

[@chamberelga1653]

That's a very smart idea to have a refrigerated shed!

[@ruesnow5989]

Wishing you luck. Now the long months of doing evening farm chores in the dark.

[@robertstwalley3662]

Could it have been "Comfortably numb" That would have been so fitting to have wrapped up collecting the last colonies, in the dark, dog tired. Congrats on the Chillers. Hope you get your humidity thing figured out. I am glad to hear you recognized that the bees will need water too. I have a lot of experience in large scale refrigeration system benefits and drawbacks. Since your are keeping your sp above freezing I expect onces you stop the traffic in and out and chill down the bulk of equipment the only heat will remain is the clusters. At that point your room/colonies should stabilize at the rh for the temp. Most people wrongly discount the bulk heat energy brought into a controlled space from inanimate objects. Once your traffic is at zero, you should expect everything equalize in about 3 days. Then those coils should not frost up again. Congrats on the upgrade

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Thx for the feedback

[@TheTubecrap]

Congrats Ian. I think adding this refrigeration to the shed is going to be a game changer for you. Both in time management and less stress on managing the bees with whatever Mother Nature throws at you. I think your mental health will be much better. A thought.... going back to something you said a year or two ago. Could you use the new shed to your advantage with mite control? I recall you saving bees and mites have different tolerances for CO2 levels. Now that you don't have to rely on fresh air intake to keep the temperature level set, could you: 1) turn off the fresh air intake 2) let the CO2 level increase to a level that is lethal to the mites (monitoring of course) 3) After a sufficient amount of time to where you think mites have been killed, restore the fresh air intake and refresh the shed You know more about this kind of thing than I do. Curious if it could work.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Maybe , yes

[@carloscrenz9433]

Hola muy lindo trabajo vamos el café ☕☕

[@FrankfurtFury]

Looking good Ian, even with super high temps outside. You def. got it figured out. Hope it'll go as planned. One thing though, would you mind sharing the power consumption in a later video? would be nice to know how much the running cost is. Sure totally weather depending, but still.

[@jackwaau]

Have you thought about protective mesh on the outside condenser coils?

[@10peteo]

Its been a year with the bulk bee splits, and im curious as to how well they did. Did they winter well ? How did they do making honey ? I bet its a joy to have your daughter working with you.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Resounding success

[@hootervillehoneybees8664]

Top level channel now.. only thing I'm worried about all that vibration.. I'm sure I'm just a worry wart .. heck I'd just keep building barns start renting out space... daughters going to need space for her bees .. jump up 2500 her on the job now

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Not as bad as sounds . One only running during warm periods

[@wadebarnes6720]

Your babies are growing fast before you know it they will be grown ups I know mine did really fast

[@hughreynolds6183]

You might have expected, for that price, he heat exchanger would have a surface mounted thermocouple that would tell you when it was icing up... 5:48 Tell them to come back and fix it...!?

[@ke6gwf]

Usually the defrost cycle is just set for the conditions and it's not an issue

[@weslypype1]

What do you generally want your relative humidity range to stay within inside of the unit? And is that range the same inside of the hives as well?

[@ke6gwf]

How's it feel, not having to worry about temperature again until spring? ;)

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

The way I’m running it, is only when needed, so warm spells it’s on, cold weather, I use fans

[@ke6gwf]

Ok ok, so you still have to watch the weather and flip switches, BUT YOU HAVE A SWITCH TO FLIP NOW!! A switch that converts bank account contents directly into stress reduction... Lol ​@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

[@brendanquinn6894]

It's 27 degrees Celsius in Australia where I am today.

[@lenturtle7954]

Braggart

[@skipsandvig8888]

I would worry about the bee dander clogging up the evaporator coils.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

I might put a filter on back

[@skipsandvig8888]

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlogI would run that by the refrigeration guys first. Those coils are designed for specific air flow through the coils and too thick of a filter would mess with capacity. Dirty coils would begin to show itself by freezing up before your scheduled defrost starts.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

@@skipsandvig8888 something like a furnace filter

[@Drewjober]

Did you use the scale to check hives weights as you move them, did you figure the dry weight of a empty skid of 2 hives? i have a little hoist on my truck for oil drums and hives

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Yes, they went in 5-10 lbs lighter than I’d expected. We kept the feed to them right to the end

[@claudesully]

I like observing your methods evolve over the years... AC FTW💯... also 🎶 The fact that your children are exposed to Pink Floyd, tells me there is hope for us all...🤓 I force fed my sons with the Eagles, Floyd and Zeppelin and I think they turned out OK...🤓

[@lenturtle7954]

Do you have each cooler defrost at a different time ?? So only one is off at a time ? The heat pumps i have on 2 rental houses defrost automatically

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Staggered 3hr, 25 min

[@andrewk1191]

Do you have backup generator Incase power goes out? If so, how many watts would it need to be?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

I’d fall back on a forced air run off generators

[@illumi-Nate]

Better leave one hive outside of shed for a control colony

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

I’ve finished outdoor wintering a long time ago :) good riddance

[@larrybanachowski2852]

Does the cooling system justify the cost of electricity? How is your profitability 📈 with respect to honey sales. Or, is the pollination and bee survival rate more important?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Cooling only when needed, so this past weekend, some of next week(as forecasted) and whenever a warm spell hits through winter. Otherwise cold outside air.

[@JohnPetr-u1e]

will the continuous noise affect your bees?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

It’s actually quiet , no different than the vent fans, which will be managing the shed most of the time

[@josephchianelli3623]

What happens if the power goes out?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Same as before , generator and fans

[@srae1503]

15c is warm and it looks really light out. Are you leaving many bees behind?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Zero bees behind

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