Real Pic of myself. I am making honey tonight.

No, they eat it in the winter, as a bee farmer we have to leave them so much honey just for them to eat all winter and they don't starve.

OP, i have two hives but no extractor how can I remove the honey from the frames?

OP, i have two hives but no extractor how can I remove the honey from the frames?

Just smush them though a wire mesh.

sorry for the double post

if you don't want to buy or make your own, Join a bee club and make friends with someone that has one.

It also needs to be strained properly, so if you don't have the equipment it would just be better to let the bees enjoy it.

I know a guy that has one but I do not trust his criminal behavior and do not like the hygiene in his "bee room" I guess I will look at building one. Can i just scrape the comb and all out?

yes you could,

but

the benefit of extracting it properly is the frame is already built out. You can put it back into the hive and it's less work for the bees to start the cycle over. you also don't have to buy as many frames that way. so the benefits of proper extraction out way the scraping of the frame.

That looks awesome!!!!

A "honey" making "honey!"

Hey - you're all prepared if there's ever an EMP - you'll have "liquid gold!"

UGH double post!

Last Edited by *HAARP Lady* on 08/12/2014 11:55 PM

I am in my bee room and hygiene of the equipment and area should be better than your kitchen table.

Thinking of going top bar. Any thoughts?

Top bar hives are very difficult to extract honey from. If you just want to pollinate, that is fine but the time tested method of keeping bees in the Langstroth Hive. I guess also if you want to do cut comb, top bar would be fine as well.

Sounds more like, 'jail house houch'!!!

Very niceeeeee

I'm not familiar with the top bar method. but I see many disadvantages to maintaining the hives over many years and producing any large quantity of honey. it looks great to catch a new hive every year and enjoy what they do for your garden,

You should change your ID to 'Pooh'!

I have a hive and several friends have hives, we are considering bundling them together, but in South central Alaska, not sure a blanket and wind break will work.

Cool! Enjoy!

I have a hive and several friends have hives, we are considering bundling them together, but in South central Alaska, not sure a blanket and wind break will work.

Do you mean, just put all the hive boxes real close to each other?

You're hot

came for the oil and stuck around for the honey. Impressive

You are only harvesting honey.

You don't make honey OP, the bees do. Give credit where credit is due.

true.

luckily were not all fat asses in our underwear living in moms basement. thnx

very nice

Hey, I don't live with my mom and I don't even have a basement.

Its never a good idea to use the same extractor someone has been using to make hash. Green honey is good, but only when you expect it.