Bee-Keeping On The Move - Made by The National Film Board 1947.

Chiefman · December 02, 2014, 08:30:20 AM

What a great little short film on beekeeping in Australia around the mid 1940. Check out these guys lifting 3 story hives with no lifts

Link: Bee-Keeping On The Move

Made by The National Film Board 1947. Directed by Shan Benson. Migratory beekeepers move their hives around the country, following the blossom. This film follows two apiarists from the Bega region of New South Wales, who take their bees to a stand where the trees are flowering. They set up their hives and the bees are released to take their store of honey from the surrounding bush. The keepers themselves go bush while the bees are on the job. The honey is then extracted from the combs on the spot by means of a portable extractor. After a few weeks, when the stand has been worked out, the beekeepers and their hives move on.

Rmcpb · December 02, 2014, 07:26:09 PM

Yep, its a great little film, a real flash back.

GDRankin · December 03, 2014, 02:04:53 AM

Great stuff indeed . . . Thanks for share'n

Jow4040 · December 03, 2014, 02:14:16 AM

Great video. I wonder how viable a lifestyle like that would be these days? It's a nice day dream from the confines of an office.

kalium · December 03, 2014, 07:16:28 AM

My back is sore just looking at that.

Interesting to see what has changed and what hasn't.

mikebrg · December 03, 2014, 05:34:15 PM

Thanks for the share ! That was a great insight but i'm guessing workcover would have a field day in todays enviroment.

markmack · December 13, 2014, 10:31:08 AM

Loved it.... thank you for that post :)

RayMarler · December 13, 2014, 11:19:48 PM

I liked the extractor, much easier to flip the frames than on the tangent that I have now. Great little film, thanks for posting.

Richard M · December 14, 2014, 02:13:17 AM

Quote from: Jow4040 on December 03, 2014, 02:14:16 AM
Great video. I wonder how viable a lifestyle like that would be these days? It's a nice day dream from the confines of an office.

It would be viable but it wouldn't have many takers these days.

Different people then; they never had much to begin with (although most had what they really needed) and they'd suffered the privations of a world war, a Depression and then another world war. For people who'd gone through that and survived, bush living, bath in the river in big knickers with hundreds of hives and no PE would have been a doddle. As long as they had a proper china cup for drinking tea out of, naturally.

I don't reckon the boss would get away with chucking rocks at his apprentice these days either - safe systems of work etc.

Watching movies like that from wintry wet miserable Manchester as a kid was what made me want to live in Australia - why even the bees didn't sting! (So I ended up in Tassie).

Geoffk · December 31, 2014, 10:14:10 PM

Well done Chief,
really enjoyed that movie. We really do live in a wonderful time (in Aus) when we can have the fun and interest of beekeeping without all the hardships and then go back to our comfortable lives - with electronics of course.
Regards Geoff

max2 · January 18, 2015, 12:06:56 AM

Great movie!!

Before SHB!!

Jim134 · January 18, 2015, 12:38:49 AM

I did like it movie I did not know.
Australia has small hive Beatles.I do believe Australia is one the few places in the world that does not have varroa mites yet.

BEE HAPPY Jim 134 :)

BeeMaster2 · January 18, 2015, 05:37:52 AM

Thanks for sharing.
Jim

Richard M · January 18, 2015, 07:53:13 AM

Quote from: Jim 134 on January 18, 2015, 12:38:49 AM
I did like it movie I did not know.
Australia has small hive Beatles.I do believe Australia is one the few places in the world that does not have varroa mites yet.

BEE HAPPY Jim 134 :)

Tasmania doesn't have SHB either.