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Title: harvesting honey
Post by: king bee on June 22, 2017, 10:15:45 AM
Hello all beekeepers i would like to share my experience about harvesting honey [/url]https://youtu.be/Y1DujRqMAyQ[/url]
Title: Re: harvesting honey
Post by: gww on June 22, 2017, 11:26:21 AM
king bee
Very nice comb.  How did you clear the supers of bees?  I did a crush and strain yesterday of one double comb.  Got more coming.  A coupe of supers worth.  Kinda dreading the process cause I feel a little inept going into my first time of extracting.
Looks great.
gww
Title: Re: harvesting honey
Post by: jalentour on June 22, 2017, 11:52:27 AM
My wife would kill me if I tried to extract honey in her kitchen.
Wouldn't even ask.
Title: Re: harvesting honey
Post by: Mech on June 22, 2017, 06:43:01 PM
Greetings king bee.
I enjoyed your video.
Looking good.
I used our kitchen twice to crush and strain honey.
Man oh man was my wifey angry!!!
The only good thing was she said I could buy a Maxdant 3100P if I stayed out of the house.
So I walked away happy after just  getting my ass chewed.
Hey where can I buy that knife?
It looks really nice.
Thanks.
Andy
Title: Re: harvesting honey
Post by: BeeMaster2 on June 23, 2017, 08:05:33 AM
Nice video, thanks for sharing.
Please be careful when cutting towards your hand. I recommend that you cut downward first and then turn it around to finish.
Jim
Title: Re: harvesting honey
Post by: BeeMaster2 on June 23, 2017, 08:09:51 AM
Quote from: jvalentour on June 22, 2017, 11:52:27 AM
My wife would kill me if I tried to extract honey in her kitchen.
Wouldn't even ask.
We are making our final move into our new house this week. I also have a new closed in, air conditioned workshop. My wife is insisting we process the honey in the house.  Says it is more sterile. Go figure.
Jim
Title: Re: harvesting honey
Post by: Acebird on June 23, 2017, 09:26:50 AM
I use to extract in the down stairs kitchen.  Now it is full of treasures that come and go.  So now I have to extract in the upstairs kitchen.  I am glad my extractor only weighs about 20 pounds.

Sterile Jim?  New house ... full of formaldehyde out gassing for the first couple of years, maybe some fiber glass insulation dust.  Pitch a tent in the back yard after a rain storm is about as sterile as you can get.
Title: Re: harvesting honey
Post by: bwallace23350 on June 23, 2017, 09:42:04 AM
Can't wait till my honey harvest.