How we bottle Honey
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2021
- Bottling with a Dadant 850lb Honey Tank
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Here is the Dadant Tank we are using. www.dadant.com/catalog/m00628-bottler-melter-70gal-tank
#goals ... I don't expect any honey this year being my first year .... but you gotta aim high right?
You don’t realize how nice those drip less valves are until you’ve used a gate valve for a while.
You said it!
Attach a chain to a base drum pedal!! Step on pedal , fill bottle?! That way your hands are free for the mandolin!!! Rusty LOL
You so love your wife. Love seeing how much you do for each other!
I found bottleing honey to be the most satisfying part of having bees.
Way to go Laurel, make him work..🤫Honey crop this year is looking really good!!
Love your T-shirt! I long for when I myself can bottle up that much! 🥰❣
Thanks !!
Good process)
Nice system.
Painted basement looks great!
Suggestion: a little bracket that you can move up and down and set your jar down and rest your hand.
That is a very nice tank and it would be perfect for the automatic bottling machine as a holding tank. I have a 16-gallon heated tank that I currently use for bottling but I want to set up my automatic bottling machine as well and something this size probably worked very well as the storage tank. Thanks for sharing.
Great video. Greetings from Northern Ireland
Thanks Drew
Every bottle you fill is cash money. Once I get some property out of state I plan to do some beekeeping, idk how tik tok knew but all it took was 1 video about beekeeping and I've spent the last month on videos of a ton of other beekeepers. Good way to make some extra money while preserving the environment. Seems pretty therapeutic too.
I got a Mann Lake honey keg this winter and will be using it for the first time this week. Warmed honey and that valve should make bottling so much easier. Just pulled my first 52 medium frames of capped spring honey here in Iowa. Let the sticky season begin!
Yes it is sticky!
*Sweet* 👍🇺🇸
Good video. How do you handle the barrel of honey when filling the bottler?
Hey Lamont, watching that video when you explaining that hole in the handle. From the outside looking in you could probably hook that up to a foot pedal😉 you would have to two part it with a little pulley. That way instead of pulling it down 6 in you would only be pulling it down 3 inches with your foot. Hope that makes sense. I watch a lot of your videos but I do not comment a lot. I have been doing a lot of studying and watching a lot of videos but this is my first year in beekeeping. I am known to myself as the bootleg beekeeper LOL I just caught my second very large swarm. They appeared last night and clustered under the swarm trap without going in. I did not want a chance of them resting and flying away so I got my homemade bee vac and went to work. Both swarmz had enough bees for two 10 frame boxes each
Kamon, it was not supposed to say Lamont LOL damn voice recorder and I'm busted again😁😂
A timer in the pocket is the only way I can remember to check something in two minutes... it's the only way I'll walk away from the stove when I cook and I used one when filling water tanks at the farm too.
Hello kamon , I watched a video the other day on your wax tank where you do your hives . I know you said it was purchased for another purpose to start with but I am looking for a tank somewhere around that size or smaller to do hives . Can you send me the size’s of that tank . Width and height and if you still have the information from where you got that one . Thank you for all your video’s I have learned a lot . I am just getting back in to Bee’s. I was a bee keeper back in the 60’s - 70’s . Things are a lot different then they were back then and you have helped out a lot , keep up the great work. Thanks Gene - NC
The tap is way better than the honey gates that are sold on everything 🍺🍺
Good day sir,should I sterile the bottle with hot water before I bottle the pure honey bee?
What are the dims and lumber used for that stand? Thanks
i assume you have some kind of lift to get drums up that high to re-fill the tank?
Hey Dan we have a pump that shoots it right on up. Just have to roll a barrel next to it
@@kamonreynolds neat, that's easier!
Thanks Kaymond. How do you get honey from the extraction area up and into that tank?
Thanks Kamon! How do you get honey from the extraction area up and into that tank?
great videos kamon. how many hives do you think is a good amount to switch from 5 gallon buckets to honey barrels?
Hi Kamon
Is that degree nor harmful for the benefits of honey?Thanks
Hi Kamon. I think I recall that you screen the honey on the way into the drums? How do you fill your bottling tank? With a scoop of sorts out of the drum or some type of lift?
Hey Dan. I have a Honey pump that transfers it from the drums into the bottling tank. Yes we do screen it before it goes into the drums.
With that hole in the handle I wonder if you could rig up a foot switch so you have both hands free.
So how do you fill that tank with your drums of honey? Some sort of hoist system?
Hey T Mart we use a old Kelley Honey Pump for that
Is that a bantam rooster hat your wearing? Lol😉 Maybe that small hole you could run it down to a foot pedal....give you a free hand.✅😁👍🏴☠️🏴☠️
Nice tank. I've got my eye on that one. What bottling system did y'all end up getting?
I have a Ez fill Nassenheider
Kamon, I picked up an EZ-Fill 5 or 6 years ago; a major purchase for sure, but absolutely no regrets. I pack all in one pound jars with one exception - 2.5 ounce bears which can be popular as party and wedding reception favors. Manually filling tiny bears by the hundreds fits my definition of a horror scene. The EZ drops 💦 a precise 2.5 ounces, blip, blip, blip, as quickly as one’s hands can move.
why do they put the valve so high on the tank, seems like there is always alot of honey sitting in the bottom
The valve is at the very bottom of the honey tank. It will get almost every last drop. The reason it looks like the valve is up high on the tank is just because there is an outer tank (all the way around and on the bottom) that holds heated water to keep the honey just warm enough to flow easily. The honey tank is inside of that.
I have tiny bubbles on top of my honey, why is that? I did not heat mine when I bottled it.
How do you pump and agitate in the the tank?
I use an old kelley pump. I don't agitate the tank though. The honey doesn't stay in here very long. Possibly a month
Kamon, I will never need a bottling tank that big! Can you please tell me what size jars or boo you were filling in this video?
Hey Don, 75% of all of our honey is sold in 2lb jars like the ones in the video. I like keeping it simple. The jars come from kelley beekeeping. I usually go up there once a year and when I do I load up!
@@kamonreynolds Not sure where in TN you are located but Jason Dodson (931 698 4959) at Dodson Farms in Columbia, TN. stocks a full line of all size glass, most plastic jars and lids at very reasonable prices.
@@bobfanning6816 We have purchased from him a few times and would buy from him more often but we rarely come down that way and we typically are already going to kelleys for other things.
Why is the valve mounted so high on the tank and not at the bottom? It looks like 15 gallons at least would be left behind.
The space below is heated water so it warms it nicely!
@@kamonreynolds Oh, so there is an encapsulated layer below the valve containing hot water. OK that makes sense. Is the entire tub jacketed with hot water or just the bottom?
@@snappingbearyeah the entire tank is double jacketed
How does Laurel get the honey into the tank?
By telling me to do it!
Looking and looking and looking... Where can I buy your honey???? Can't find it anywhere lol
We are working on a website when we get a chance!
@@kamonreynolds thanks man! I was wondering. :) That explains everything.
Unrelated question but gotta ask. BEEHIVE AIR THERAPY. A friend posted and I'm simply perplexed. You all know anything?
How do you get the honey that’s below the tap out?
There isn't any. What is below is the second tank outer tank that is filled with water. This way when the immersion heater heats the water it is a gradual slow heat
Hey Kamon.... just curious...is that fall honey you are bottling? I ask because it is so dark
Yeah this is summer honey. Our early spring honey is much lighter
Hey Kamon, is this the Dadant or ML tank ? I thought I heard both names mentioned
It is a Dadant tank with a Mann lake bottling valve
Kamon, please forgive me, but the thumbnail for this video made me think one of your kids was helping you bottle your honey. I'm sorry! It was the camera angle!
What company do you buy bottles from?
Hey Justin I get these from Kelleys.
Hey Kamon, I'm just a hobbyist and I like squeeze bottles to put my honey in for gifts... Do you know where you can get a good deal on flip top bottles? Everywhere I have found they are like a buck a piece.... That seems crazy to me.
If you buy a big box from Kelley bees like I do they are very reasonable. However, I think there are a thousand in there
@@kamonreynolds Thanks Buddy!
That's where the saying
"Slower than molasses in January" comes from! 😂😂👍
Glad your little helpers are getting big enough to give you both a ✋✋✋✋. 😂😁
You're wearing my shirt.
It is a pretty awesome one.
@@kamonreynolds 😁
Where do u get your bottles?
Kelley Beekeeping In clarkson KY
How do you clean the tank?
Water and soap
@@kamonreynolds I was really asking about the logistics of cleaning such a big container. But thanks for your reply:)
Well you would have to empty all the honey and get a ladder. Or you can empty the water out of it and lower it to the ground.
I am curious about the weight. Do you have a weighing system?
Do you wash jars and lids or just use right out of box ?
We check each jar but unless something is wrong we don't wash them.
So you are basically eye balling it? Here in Germany every hobby beekeeper must use (in theory by law) a calibrated scale -. -
Calibration costs 80€ every second year plus 200-300 for the scale...
First comment.
So apparently you're not supposed to heat honey?
not above a certain temp. Best to keep it 90 - 100 F or below which is normal in a hive
@@kamonreynolds cheers for that info
I find it funny that they call this dripless and yet every person I see bottling with them wipes the valve with the bottle after filling. Sorry.. that's not dripless in my book. They certainly look way better than the honey gates though.
I have a new hive I got this spring and they were very docile and easy to work with at first but now they've so aggressive that I'm thinking about setting them on fire and giving up on beekeeping. I've been trying to ask for help figuring out what's going on and how to deal with them from my local beekeeping association but they're not able to help so far. I'm desperate, they're stinging me repeatedly even through the suit if I even get near them, and I can't even open the hive to mess with them at all.
Where did you get them from?
@@kamonreynolds a beekeeper a couple hours drive from where I live. They were calm and docile until now so I don't think genetics is the problem
Honey is not supposed to pass 100 degrees Fahrenheit unless you want to ruin it
heating to over 140 F will degrade honey... 100 F is fine.
My bees degrade my honey then because when it 100 degrees outside the hive is even hotter.
Can I make a small suggestion, when you send this video on CZcams, could you consider that this video might be viewed by people in other countries that don't use Fahrenheit? It would be a nice gesture on your part if you could display the temp in degrees Celsius, as I've noticed youtubers around the world are doing, we respect your systems in regards to imperial measurements etc. Can we push for a new world way of being considerate to each other. This goes both ways, for youtubers in metric countries .♥️ share the love.
37.77778 = 100F.
CC CC Let the other people goggle the conversion formula.
100F = 37.77r C