This channel def deserves a million subs. Very informative. You can tell a lot of work goes into this and we should all support our young people. Let's share with one person and help this channel grow. No better way to show our support.
As a very small time beekeeper, I bought a simple harmony farms uncapper, that was a game changer for me last year. Sped up the whole process and was a whole lot less messy than the scrapper I was using. As for buckets, try Walmart deli section. I bought mine last from them for $1 per bucket with the lid. They are already food grade since icing comes in them and a little cleaning is required but beats $6 at box stores. You may need to explain why you would be asking for food grade buckets, however I have found once they learn it’s for honey they have been more than supportive.
I ordered a china version of the bucket frame rest, waiting to see if its decent or not. I like to watch Natalie because she puts in a lot of effort to explain everything the best she can.
You may be short but still taller than Kamon!!! LOL!! Sorry Kamon couldn't resist. I bought a sink from Ebay that I use for a uncapping tank that works really well. The thick frames of honey makes it really nice to uncap. I would make a mess with a bucket. I sterilize my equipment with vinegar in a garden sprayer after I wash everything. It smalls bad but does a great job on the cheap. Hopefully one day I will need to have a larger extractor. Thanks!
This video cracks me up. Thank you for the tip on the buckets. I have had some trouble with ants trying to get in. These look like better lids. Thanks Natalie.
Natalie, another fine video. I extract mine exactly the same way and use exactly the same tools except I’m still using a hand crank extractor. However, I don’t have near as many hives as you do. I hope you’ve learned how to make the honey caramels like Laurel and Kamon does. I finally made them myself a few times. I told Kamon if I came to the Hive Alive conference weighing 400 lbs it would be his fault because of his honey caramel video. lol
Go to your local Walmart bakery and ask for empty cake icing buckets. They are food grade 5 gallon, here in southern KY they are or were 1 dollar each for both the bucket and lid. The lid also has a big rubber seal in it. Hope this is helpful and saves you some money. Great video thanks
Your parents have got to very proud of you young lady. Outstanding presentation there. I'm a novice at beekeeping and appreciate your explanation of the process. Waiting for the next video.
The valve on the bottom of your extractor is called a Ball Valve. If you go to a plumbing supply company you can get plastic ball valves that have a longer handle on one side to make it easier to open and close. Good Video Natalee. Craig Fr. Virginia / SML Bees
Dear natalie. I just came across your channel now. Your videos are great! I use a heat gun to uncapp the cells and the uncapping fork for the rest. Greetings from Germany
Very informative and helpful. Thanks 😊. Just a suggestion here. Have some low profile bucket dollies with wheels made, to roll out the buckets. Maybe make the dolly in such a way to use an insert able handle to give you leverage to keep it form tipping while moving. So you can handle the buckets easier. Thinking a modification to a two wheel dolly maybe. Thinking a low profile platform dolly type idea. That way you don't have to lift it about 4 inches maximum off floor. 4×25.4=101.6mm. Are 10.16cm I believe that is the correct conversion.
Each year for the past five I've been adding to or updating harvesting equipment. Next time we have a harmony farms uncapper to try out. Mann Lake uncapping tank last year was a good investment!
The bucket you are using doesn't give you much of a "fall zone" for the caps, still, whatever container you use, the sheet will fall off easier if you simply lean/tilt the frame at the top to allow gravity to pull it off the frame as you cut.
Hope all has been good for you NAT and Family. I dont miss uncapping like that. With the new machines and amount tho now it would take forever to do it that way. Take care
Carefull with the Knife. Never direct it towards unprotected skin as You did on video! Keep going! Suggest, that use honey ripeners before straining through the mesh. This way You avoid clogging screen right at the start. Use cold water instead of rubber glows.
I’m 60 and have paid cash for everything all my life. Debt is no friend. We own our farm, sheep, apiary, egg chickens and rabbitry. Sometimes you just work a little longer to get what you want. Besides that, tell the truth, live ethically and behave morally. The rest of life just figures itself out. Ps: decapping fork
Gloves in the honey house? 2 questions. What do you do to keep the sweet stuff off the rest of your body? How long before you can the gloves and get used to the sticky mess? Get a bucket of warm water that has a pinch of bleach on it and just wash up... Often.
Some people go elbows deep, some wear gloves. I'm on camera the whole time. FDA and health department says I wear gloves. I just wear the thin latex type. As if hives didn't have grass chunks and tree sap already in them or something. 🙄 But not Rubbermaid type gloves. That's not highly recommended with 2500 boxes or more. Lol. Your hands will be raisin'd up, pruny blisters before noon.
@@beefriendlychannel7965 So latex gloves are required starting at what point in the cycle by your goverment agency? Splits? Supers on? Supers off? Just in the honey house? Why at that point and not earlier? What is the governing agency do you call under? Country?
@@wishicouldspel at one end, we're pulling it off the field with some still alive bees in them. Even the decapping machine gets an occasional really loyal one. We take really special care when filling containers, though. The gloves just have a better grip through the whole boxing/unboxing process. It's pretty slimy. Not dropping tools on the nasty floor is a good motivator. It doesn't look good. We have a bucket of sanitizer with about 6 of them and hive tools in there, but still.
My honey harvest ended 2 hours ago. I got just about 30kg (9,25gal?!, with a moisture of 17,5%) out of three hives, but that is okay to me. I left a couple of half and quarter filled frames as winter food. Another factor is that this year was one of a kind: First it´s been much to cold, then by may onwards it just started raining seemingly endlessly up until this day. That´s why we - or I - didn´t have a spring honey harvest at all. I did my honey extracting at our beekeeping clubs house in which we have equipment that is commonly shared. Still nothing compared to the scale many of you over there seem to work at, but if you´re interested: I´ll upload the video as soon as it timely seems to fit in. I´ll try to write the subtitles myself, since I natively talk in german and that might be incomprehensive. Greetings (to all of that beekeeping family of yours).
Liked-Subscribed-Notified. Very nice job with the video! I'm into this hobby for 5 years now, and still got lots and lots to learn. Keep up the good work, and the good videos!
@@BeekeepingWithNatalee You keep up the good work, Natalie. Beekeeping is not only an environmentally correct thing to do - you can also make some $ from it. Keep up the great videos.
@@jeffsea6490 i guess maybe it's one of those regional things. If someone in the extraction room asks me for a capping comb, thats the little bugger I grab for. If I handed them the drywall spreader sitting right beside it, they'd look at me funny. Those are the only two tools in the line besides our hive tools.
I'm curious if your family supports your hobby? I'm kind of tired of mine giving me trouble instead of accepting it. Do other people get this too? Certain people keep telling me, 'don't you think you've got enough boxes?' when they see me building stuff. Beekeeping is fun and good for everyone, good for the environment, nature, and amazing. Its also amazing how heavy those little frames can be.
I like yr video but never cut towards yr hand. A simple easy way is put a nail in yr yellow plastic board and lower it so it is comfortable to cut the bottom 3/4 of the comb then rotate it on the nail then cut the other side 3/4. Then turn yr frame upside down and cut whats left. CUTTING DOWN NOT TOWARDS YR HAND!!!! The reason Im telling you this is a beekeeper ( and a friend )!! many years ago tried to force a knife up through some burr comb and he got through it and cut a slab off his hand from wrist to his thumb. Yr a girl and I dont want you to be hurt :)
I'm just hoping you've transfer those 4 healthy nucs in proper boxes with the right amount of frames ... You don't build up your hives with 10 down then 9 frame boxes above ? Just teasing a bit, not that quite sure lifting full boxes stand the right hobby for me neither ... Those 5 or 6 frame boxes are made for breeding, cause bee will feel rapidly «in the need» to swarm due to a lack of place . I've tried to put 6 frame boxes the one on the other and, they need a proper 10 frame box in the end ... That was old «unsold» boxes the previous owner wasn't able to take care of anymore ... Lot of things to do to get them strait back onto their habits but i manage to keep 2 healthy hive out of 7 boxes ... It makes columns like at this time but brand new boxes on their ways ... I think you could use sack to dry out caps in the extractor ... Take care to place them one in the opposite side the other ... Or just wait till it drips out from . How do you stocks thoses build up clean empty frames ??? Won't you wait few days to bottle it ? Just so that the last tiny bits of wax came to float ... Wouldn't it have been intresting to have it in a bucket you could transfer in a tank with the right tap to ... "dispatch" it ??? You got tap issue, ... I quote it, sir ! Dare, care, ride safe, clean, have fun ... From France, with. Keep up the great work. Thanks.
My bees brought something in during the month of July that smelled so bad I thought there was something seriously wrong. This came and went long before goldenrod started opening. During the same time, lots of bright red pollen came in. First time ever. Back to normal. The honey was unaffected. Northern Michigan.
Ya I agree , that’s why I like to run 9’s, it fattens the frames for easier uncapping
Nice slabs. That's what I'm looking for.
This channel def deserves a million subs. Very informative. You can tell a lot of work goes into this and we should all support our young people. Let's share with one person and help this channel grow. No better way to show our support.
As a very small time beekeeper, I bought a simple harmony farms uncapper, that was a game changer for me last year. Sped up the whole process and was a whole lot less messy than the scrapper I was using. As for buckets, try Walmart deli section. I bought mine last from them for $1 per bucket with the lid. They are already food grade since icing comes in them and a little cleaning is required but beats $6 at box stores. You may need to explain why you would be asking for food grade buckets, however I have found once they learn it’s for honey they have been more than supportive.
Beautifull video. I love bees and I´ll have many swarms in my house! See you soon next video!
Great video :-)
Thanks!
It is always nice to see how someone else extracts their honey.
Your communication skills are getting better and better.
Great job!
Maybe tilt top of knife out when uncapping? Might make caps fall off easier
Nice video. Try holding the frames forward to let the wax fall into the bucket as you cut. Be careful where you place your equipment to keep it clean.
Great idea on putting the paint strainer over the double sieve. Sieve always gets clogged with cappings. Definitely will do next time.
Good luck Natalie! I remember me and my daughters extracting honey long time ago. Nice memories for you and your family.
I saw your video with Bob Binnie. Really proud of what you are doing. I was about 14 when I first kept bees. Stay with it. It's worth it.
Thank you! I appreciate it!
We got a pallet of food grade buckets from tractor supply, but with all the apple cider and maple syrup we do it was well worth it.
So cool to see someone young getting into Beekeeping.
We used those combcappers with 5 gallon buckets for years. Great tool. Awesome job with the video. Congrats on the harvest!
I ordered a china version of the bucket frame rest, waiting to see if its decent or not. I like to watch Natalie because she puts in a lot of effort to explain everything the best she can.
You may be short but still taller than Kamon!!! LOL!! Sorry Kamon couldn't resist. I bought a sink from Ebay that I use for a uncapping tank that works really well. The thick frames of honey makes it really nice to uncap. I would make a mess with a bucket. I sterilize my equipment with vinegar in a garden sprayer after I wash everything. It smalls bad but does a great job on the cheap. Hopefully one day I will need to have a larger extractor. Thanks!
This video cracks me up. Thank you for the tip on the buckets. I have had some trouble with ants trying to get in. These look like better lids. Thanks Natalie.
You should also use only glass jars , plastic breathes and it will crystallize faster.
Very cool. I have always found the extraction process fun to watch. You must have a lot of hives to maintain.
УМНИЦА, МОЛОДЕЦ так держать, вам УДАЧИ и УСПЕХА.
great job , keep it up , i use a knife also and i just lean the frame forward and it falls a lot easier .
You‘r doing so well!
Thanks!
Kamon must be jealous!
😂
This year i got over 1,000 lbs off 5 hives all supers had 9 frames
That's awesome! Congratulations!
Hello 👋good morning 🙏nice day 👍💙great job 👋regards
Great job young lady! Keep up the good work. enjoyed the video.
Good job Natalie! You are probably the only girl who is brave enough to be a beekeeper.
I love my walter kelley super elevator paired with my 2 wheel dolly with forks. Once the supers are on a the pallet, no more lifting!
You can get quality plastic bottles from U.S. Plastics for great prices and everything is in stock even now.
Natalie, another fine video. I extract mine exactly the same way and use exactly the same tools except I’m still using a hand crank extractor. However, I don’t have near as many hives as you do. I hope you’ve learned how to make the honey caramels like Laurel and Kamon does. I finally made them myself a few times. I told Kamon if I came to the Hive Alive conference weighing 400 lbs it would be his fault because of his honey caramel video. lol
good to see someone use the knife the right way " that's the way I use it cut from the top down lol"
Go to your local Walmart bakery and ask for empty cake icing buckets. They are food grade 5 gallon, here in southern KY they are or were 1 dollar each for both the bucket and lid. The lid also has a big rubber seal in it. Hope this is helpful and saves you some money. Great video thanks
simple process, thank you for sharing.
Thank you for watching!
Muchas gracias!!! Muy útil todo
Great video. Did this myself for the first time last week. Gave the honey away to friends and family, they loved it
Your parents have got to very proud of you young lady. Outstanding presentation there.
I'm a novice at beekeeping and appreciate your explanation of the process. Waiting for the next video.
Thank you very much!
The valve on the bottom of your extractor is called a Ball Valve. If you go to a plumbing supply company you can get plastic ball valves that have a longer handle on one side to make it easier to open and close. Good Video Natalee. Craig Fr. Virginia / SML Bees
A very educational and well done video Natalie. Thanks! And I learned a new way to use my scratcher.
What? Another great video! Great job. This ones not completely uncapped, that’s the one my mom did, lol that was a good one!
Haha. Thanks!
Dear natalie. I just came across your channel now. Your videos are great! I use a heat gun to uncapp the cells and the uncapping fork for the rest. Greetings from Germany
Good ✌️🤗🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Very informative and helpful. Thanks 😊. Just a suggestion here. Have some low profile bucket dollies with wheels made, to roll out the buckets. Maybe make the dolly in such a way to use an insert able handle to give you leverage to keep it form tipping while moving. So you can handle the buckets easier. Thinking a modification to a two wheel dolly maybe. Thinking a low profile platform dolly type idea. That way you don't have to lift it about 4 inches maximum off floor. 4×25.4=101.6mm. Are 10.16cm I believe that is the correct conversion.
Lots of tricks which I'm going to make use of myself. Thanks again for another great video!
Have a 3 gallon pail of warm water to dip your hands in. Start every day like that. Change it out often. You'll thank me later.
Each year for the past five I've been adding to or updating harvesting equipment. Next time we have a harmony farms uncapper to try out. Mann Lake uncapping tank last year was a good investment!
so good,,,,awesome good luck......u r like honey...sweet voice
👍👍👍🐝
The bucket you are using doesn't give you much of a "fall zone" for the caps, still, whatever container you use, the sheet will fall off easier if you simply lean/tilt the frame at the top to allow gravity to pull it off the frame as you cut.
Am looking forward to seeing more creative videos like this one too 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Good job Girl! thanks for sharing!
Hope all has been good for you NAT and Family. I dont miss uncapping like that. With the new machines and amount tho now it would take forever to do it that way. Take care
We really enjoy your videos, keep up the great work.
Thank you!
Invest in a decapoing tank not very expensive nice sturdy plastic with board across to place the frame on
Parabéns
Excelente trabalho.
I use a 18 /9 frame extractor from Mann Lake cheaper and just as good as Dadant .
I got one of those paint roller things with the spikes to try this year. have you guys ever tried one?
Yes they're very quick and efficient much faster than a knife.👍
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Carefull with the Knife. Never direct it towards unprotected skin as You did on video! Keep going! Suggest, that use honey ripeners before straining through the mesh. This way You avoid clogging screen right at the start. Use cold water instead of rubber glows.
if you tilt the frame forwards the wax will tone all by itself
What an awesome video....very good job young lady...you're a natural...very informative...thank you...and i subscribed...lol
i have the yellow bucket tool too good job natallie
I remember extracting like that. Great job!
Great video, very informative for those on the smaller side of the honey business.
I’m 60 and have paid cash for everything all my life. Debt is no friend. We own our farm, sheep, apiary, egg chickens and rabbitry. Sometimes you just work a little longer to get what you want. Besides that, tell the truth, live ethically and behave morally. The rest of life just figures itself out. Ps: decapping fork
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Bonne travaille
Its obvious it is not her first rodeo for the honey or for CZcams. Nice job all the way around.
Thank you very much!
Sir do, 😊 njoyable, I won't do it any different myself thanks for sharing 👋.
Nice!
If you lean the frame towards you the wax will fall off, you were leaning it away from you to show the camera.
Gloves in the honey house?
2 questions.
What do you do to keep the sweet stuff off the rest of your body?
How long before you can the gloves and get used to the sticky mess?
Get a bucket of warm water that has a pinch of bleach on it and just wash up... Often.
Some people go elbows deep, some wear gloves. I'm on camera the whole time. FDA and health department says I wear gloves.
I just wear the thin latex type. As if hives didn't have grass chunks and tree sap already in them or something. 🙄
But not Rubbermaid type gloves. That's not highly recommended with 2500 boxes or more. Lol. Your hands will be raisin'd up, pruny blisters before noon.
@@beefriendlychannel7965 So latex gloves are required starting at what point in the cycle by your goverment agency? Splits? Supers on? Supers off? Just in the honey house? Why at that point and not earlier?
What is the governing agency do you call under? Country?
@@wishicouldspel at one end, we're pulling it off the field with some still alive bees in them. Even the decapping machine gets an occasional really loyal one. We take really special care when filling containers, though. The gloves just have a better grip through the whole boxing/unboxing process. It's pretty slimy. Not dropping tools on the nasty floor is a good motivator. It doesn't look good. We have a bucket of sanitizer with about 6 of them and hive tools in there, but still.
Salam,from Indonesia
So the extractor is made for 20 frames, does putting 37 frames in there not damage the motor as there is added load/weight for the motor to handle?
Shouldn't be a problem, just start it out on a slower speed. I always give mine a good strong push before I flip the switch to help it along.
Thanks you explained the process very well.
Awesome 😎
Keep up the great work!
Thank you!
The position is very awkward. Why don't you put the frame to bed?
the bug!!!! the bug!!!! get it!
So much more informative than KR or that Canadian fella.
Wow! Thank you!
Love your videos!❤️
Hay girl your full of ( GOOD INFORMATION) love your videos. I wish I started beekeeping at your age . 👍🏽🇺🇸
Thank you so much!
My honey harvest ended 2 hours ago. I got just about 30kg (9,25gal?!, with a moisture of 17,5%) out of three hives, but that is okay to me. I left a couple of half and quarter filled frames as winter food. Another factor is that this year was one of a kind: First it´s been much to cold, then by may onwards it just started raining seemingly endlessly up until this day. That´s why we - or I - didn´t have a spring honey harvest at all.
I did my honey extracting at our beekeeping clubs house in which we have equipment that is commonly shared. Still nothing compared to the scale many of you over there seem to work at, but if you´re interested: I´ll upload the video as soon as it timely seems to fit in. I´ll try to write the subtitles myself, since I natively talk in german and that might be incomprehensive. Greetings (to all of that beekeeping family of yours).
Liked-Subscribed-Notified. Very nice job with the video! I'm into this hobby for 5 years now, and still got lots and lots to learn. Keep up the good work, and the good videos!
Thank you!
@@BeekeepingWithNatalee You keep up the good work, Natalie. Beekeeping is not only an environmentally correct thing to do - you can also make some $ from it. Keep up the great videos.
That little doohickie with the handle and long teeth is called a capping comb. It looks like a pick, but its a comb.
Cappings scratcher* 👍
@@jeffsea6490 i guess maybe it's one of those regional things. If someone in the extraction room asks me for a capping comb, thats the little bugger I grab for. If I handed them the drywall spreader sitting right beside it, they'd look at me funny. Those are the only two tools in the line besides our hive tools.
@@beefriendlychannel7965I've fou.nd the uncapping roller does a better,faster job with less comb damage
@@jeffsea6490 I've heard it called a fork, too. Doesn't matter. Bees fix it up, and always make more wax.
Very interesting 👍
Bravo! Merci pour cette vidéo, d'un apiculteur du centre de la France.😊
Another great & informative video!
Thanks!
Great Job….
Thank you!
I can’t tell but is your extractor bolted to the pallets? Or just sitting on top? Great vid it’s always exciting to see that golden goodness!
Great video! Keep up the great work!
Thanks!
I love you
I'm curious if your family supports your hobby? I'm kind of tired of mine giving me trouble instead of accepting it. Do other people get this too? Certain people keep telling me, 'don't you think you've got enough boxes?' when they see me building stuff.
Beekeeping is fun and good for everyone, good for the environment, nature, and amazing.
Its also amazing how heavy those little frames can be.
I like yr video but never cut towards yr hand. A simple easy way is put a nail in yr yellow plastic board and lower it so it is comfortable to cut the bottom 3/4 of the comb then rotate it on the nail then cut the other side 3/4. Then turn yr frame upside down and cut whats left. CUTTING DOWN NOT TOWARDS YR HAND!!!! The reason Im telling you this is a beekeeper ( and a friend )!! many years ago tried to force a knife up through some burr comb and he got through it and cut a slab off his hand from wrist to his thumb. Yr a girl and I dont want you to be hurt :)
Where can we buy your honey?
I do not know what to say . I just love you 🙊😍😍😘🤗🙈❤
I'm just hoping you've transfer those 4 healthy nucs in proper boxes with the right amount of frames ...
You don't build up your hives with 10 down then 9 frame boxes above ?
Just teasing a bit, not that quite sure lifting full boxes stand the right hobby for me neither ...
Those 5 or 6 frame boxes are made for breeding, cause bee will feel rapidly «in the need» to swarm due to a lack of place .
I've tried to put 6 frame boxes the one on the other and, they need a proper 10 frame box in the end ...
That was old «unsold» boxes the previous owner wasn't able to take care of anymore ...
Lot of things to do to get them strait back onto their habits but i manage to keep 2 healthy hive out of 7 boxes ...
It makes columns like at this time but brand new boxes on their ways ...
I think you could use sack to dry out caps in the extractor ...
Take care to place them one in the opposite side the other ...
Or just wait till it drips out from .
How do you stocks thoses build up clean empty frames ???
Won't you wait few days to bottle it ?
Just so that the last tiny bits of wax came to float ...
Wouldn't it have been intresting to have it in a bucket you could transfer in a tank with the right tap to ... "dispatch" it ???
You got tap issue, ...
I quote it, sir !
Dare, care, ride safe, clean, have fun ...
From France, with.
Keep up the great work.
Thanks.
Does everyone's hives have the honey smell kind of sweaty? Or is that just mine?
Sounds like goldenrod to me.
My bees brought something in during the month of July that smelled so bad I thought there was something seriously wrong. This came and went long before goldenrod started opening. During the same time, lots of bright red pollen came in. First time ever. Back to normal. The honey was unaffected. Northern Michigan.
Good
Thanks!
Is your Instagram ID or Facebook ID?
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А теперь то же самое и по русский
Работает с мёдом, а волосы под платок не убрала! 👎