Today, yes today it was my turn! took advantage of the nice warm day! All together from 2 hives, 25 mostly all capped frames, [new pierco deep]
I had a stainless tub, laying around for years and it became handy to fill it with frames, one by one after brushing the bees off. I had the tub in the back seat of the 86 Volkswagen jetta, [nice and warm]
The first hive went pretty smooth, the second, a totally different story, the bees attacked me as soon as I brushed them off, so what I had to do was, I walked around the shed, then into the shed to loose some bees, then put the frame into the car, but at the end it was almost unbearable. I took the bee suit off in the shed, [dark] some bees managed to get in and got me!
After about 5 minutes, I dashed out to the car and one got me there.
[When I put the suppers back at night, [It was too dark] some more got me!]
At home, my son and me, just barely dragged the tub into the house, Kitchen, and the mess began! I cut some capping, some I scrapped with the needle scrapper, I find, its just smearing the Capps all over. When I cut it, [ Bred Knife] sometimes the force of the cutting would gauge out too much honey.
All in all it worked and I have to say, for the small home honey business, the honey is earned every penny, I can see now, the honey is way tooo cheap out there!
Anyway,..... Did I do OK?
Something I like to ask, how do you clean the wax off the wire strainer?
Konrad
I had a stainless tub, laying around for years and it became handy to fill it with frames, one by one after brushing the bees off. I had the tub in the back seat of the 86 Volkswagen jetta, [nice and warm]
The first hive went pretty smooth, the second, a totally different story, the bees attacked me as soon as I brushed them off, so what I had to do was, I walked around the shed, then into the shed to loose some bees, then put the frame into the car, but at the end it was almost unbearable. I took the bee suit off in the shed, [dark] some bees managed to get in and got me!
After about 5 minutes, I dashed out to the car and one got me there.
[When I put the suppers back at night, [It was too dark] some more got me!]
At home, my son and me, just barely dragged the tub into the house, Kitchen, and the mess began! I cut some capping, some I scrapped with the needle scrapper, I find, its just smearing the Capps all over. When I cut it, [ Bred Knife] sometimes the force of the cutting would gauge out too much honey.
All in all it worked and I have to say, for the small home honey business, the honey is earned every penny, I can see now, the honey is way tooo cheap out there!
Anyway,..... Did I do OK?
Something I like to ask, how do you clean the wax off the wire strainer?
Konrad