crush and strain vs extracted

[Cindi]

Ted, beauty.  I have bookmarked both links.  There will be a time when I will have excess time on my hands, I know that day will come, smiling.  That site that had all the skep videos (and others I would imagine) looked pretty ding dang cool, great, in for some better things to watch than TV.  Beautiful day in this great life.  Cindi

[SlickMick]

That is a fantastic set of videos, Ted.

I can see why you bookmarked them (as I have now) :)

Mick

[TwT]

That is a fantastic set of videos, Ted.

I can see why you bookmarked them (as I have now) :)

Mick

nope not bookmarked slikmick, I have them saved to the hard drive  ;) I have watched them many times and still enjoy them.....

[Shawn]

TwT. Great video. Can people find tose type of hive bodies here in the US? I think it would be neat to have a couple. I guess people were right when saying you dont need a lot of expensive equipment when keeping hives. That guy had a pocket knife, buckets, what ever kind of cloth that was, and the press.

[ArmucheeBee]

Does anyone know what happens to the bees in the skeps?   Where did they go?   I know the Appalachian people who used gums which are similar would have a board on top of the gum log and lift it to remove comb.  But they would only remove 1 or 2 combs and leave the rest.  This insured the bees stayed in the gum.  But with the skep method where do you put your bees?  You have to harvest the whole hive it looks like. 

[TwT]

there is a video that shows what they do, most are sold and some are kelp over winter, follow the links above and watch the video's and it will show you..