It's a bit long(25min) and it's all in German but it's quite nice to watch anyways.(it's in the upper right corner of the webpage).
http://mkat.iwf.de/iwf/do/mkat/details.aspx?GUID=544D412D0000000000000000000000002CF44C867428550EFC000000631A53B7&Action=Schnell&SearchStr=skep (http://mkat.iwf.de/iwf/do/mkat/details.aspx?GUID=544D412D0000000000000000000000002CF44C867428550EFC000000631A53B7&Action=Schnell&SearchStr=skep)
That's pretty cool. Some serious swarm action going on there at the beginning.
I don't understand how it was supposed to work when he gathered the swarms and then just ladled them out into multiple skeps - seems like either they would fight or end up queenless. Then it looked like he was sorting through and finding several queens in the same bucket-o-bees. That can't be right can it? Maybe it was a bunch of swarms poured in together.
Cutting out swarm cells and putting them in mating nucs I get. Tearing open swarm cells and releasing the queen back into the hive I don't get. I guess they aren't as delicate as I think.
The bee Keeper looks to have permanently swollen hands. He must be getting stung a lot. If it was a he.
I thought that skeps were a lot more hands off than this looks like.
Anyway, thanks for sharing. Cool video. Lots of beekeeping videos out there, but unfortunately only a few are very interesting.
Hey, new sub-forum idea. GOOD bee keeping videos.