Bee Chat: Harvesting Honey (Video)

[MrILoveTheAnts]

Bee Chat Harvesting Honey

Here is a video I made about what a backyard beekeeper needs to harvest honey.

[JP]

Looks like some pretty good honey you have there. The thing you describe is a frame holder. A fully drawn ten frame deep of honey weighs around 90-100 lbs just thought I'd mention.


...JP

[MrILoveTheAnts]

Oh thank you JP. I got all that from 2 deeps worth of frames. I've never gotten 78 jars from that before from just two hives. I guess 100lbs is right but is that just Honey or does that include all the wax and wood work? 200 was in my mind for some reason anyhow.

[JP]

90lbs or so for the deep with ten fully drawn frames of honey. Your bottles are 16oz? If so, two deeps worth would yield around eighty bottles.

That's roughly 5 gallons per deep.


...JP

[G3farms]

Nice video.

One thing I did notice and it will help you out on extracting, next time turn your frames around OR spin the basket in the opposite direction. The bottom bar should be the leading edge to help the honey out of the cell instead of pushing it into the bottom of the cell.

Just a thought.

That is some very nice looking honey, you should be proud of it!

[MrILoveTheAnts]

Well according to my video hives don't have lids either. Oh well.

As for honey extracting, I've always wondered where the honey goes. I do flip my frames around both ways and do maybe 5 minutes on each side.

[hardwood]

Thanks for sharing! Keep 'em coming.

Scott