The Honey Factory

[nao57]

I never thought about an entrance into the supers until you mentioned it. I like that idea.

This idea does work for a lot of people.

But people usually need to put bee escapes up over the top entrances during dearths and robbing season.

 

[jerryse]

Hope you can post a follow up on this later!~ I hope it works out for you!

I did see some videos on the internet with people experimenting with 2 frame nucs through the winter, and they did get them to survive!

So its possible~! And a fun experiment!

I could talk about bees all day!

Yes I think treating it as a nuc might work . I hate to lose any . Glad mine are gentle enough .

 

[R2elk]

The bright side of this years honey crop was my not needing to buy an extractor.

IMHO, this is a heckuva buy for a motorized 20 frame extractor. A bit of an overkill for our situations.

https://wyoming.craigslist.org/grd/d/gillette-honey-extractor/7194044673.html

 

[jerryse]

Good buy but overkill for us . Hey I watched guys do 2 queen hives to boost weak hive . They put a layer of newspaper , then queen excluder , then weak hive on top . By the time they chew through the paper the queen smells have merged and bees work both hives . Boosting the weak hive . About 3 weeks max , then separate . I will remember this if I get another late or small swarm .

 

[nao57]

IMHO, this is a heckuva buy for a motorized 20 frame extractor. A bit of an overkill for our situations.

https://wyoming.craigslist.org/grd/d/gillette-honey-extractor/7194044673.html

So...what do people do before they can afford all these cool toys for honey extraction?

 

[R2elk]

So...what do people do before they can afford all these cool toys for honey extraction?

What I did was to scrape the comb off of the foundation, put it in cheesecloth and squeeze the honey out by hand. I would also hang the cheesecloth ball over a bowl to catch the dripping honey since it was not possible for me to squeeze it all out.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

So...what do people do before they can afford all these cool toys for honey extraction?

My dad used to use gravity and then squeeze it out by hand. I use a 2 frame hand crank that is manual that @R2elk thinks is medieval.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

So...what do people do before they can afford all these cool toys for honey extraction?

https://www.dadant.com/catalog/extr...85-economy-stainless-steel-extractor-imported

 

[R2elk]

My dad used to use gravity and then squeeze it out by hand. I use a 2 frame hand crank that is manual that @R2elk thinks is medieval.

Not medieval but takes too long for me when going through 50 to 60 frames in a good year. In those years my 3 frame extractor takes too many hand cranks.

 

[jerryse]

I have looked on eBay and you can get a electric 2 frame reasonable . Not sure of the quality but I might do it next . This year I have so little I scrape and drained . Only took 3 deep frames from the June swarm .