North Carolina Beekeeper Greg Rogers - part 2 of 4

North Carolina Beekeeper Greg Rogers - part 2 of 4 - Homemade Bee Loader

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Bob Binnie

2 жыл бұрын

North Carolina Beekeeper Greg Rogers discusses his bee loader, trucks and more.

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@thehappycamper5575 2 жыл бұрын

Every beekeepers dream, a flatbed truck with a lift. Someday :)

@kathyhathaway8823 2 жыл бұрын

What great video about two great bee keepers. Those two motor for the leveling are the same motor that are on dump trucks they roll the top tarp that covers the bed of the dump truck load . I really enjoy and learn a lot from your video’s. Thanks

@trungbeetv216 2 жыл бұрын

it so great!!!

@wescadmore5959 2 жыл бұрын

Great stuff, Always learn something from your videos,

@rayjohnson8329 2 жыл бұрын

Very surprised by the noise? I hadn’t noticed it was DIY. NOW IT MAKES SENSE

@dadu63 2 жыл бұрын

I'm a NC beekeeper also. Don't have this kind of equipment tho. Lol. Tell everyone at blue ridge honey I said hello. Love this place.

@kathyhathaway8823 2 жыл бұрын

Looks great . Those Crome motors looks just like the tarp motors on dump trucks by what I can see from here

@davidpatrick1813 2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of a old boom truck we used back in the mid 80's ... with the cleats on the side of the hives... I see you have in the picture. We use to have some of the main body hives have the cleats level with the top of the super... then we could raise the second one and look without it sliding off the back... I did that once ... bizzy sings

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog 2 жыл бұрын

love the loader

@jeffsea6490 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing interesting content Bob 👍🇺🇲

@bobbinnie9872 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jeff. 👍🇺🇲

@joelwhite4963 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video

@mariapiary 2 жыл бұрын

I bought a boom for apijuneda (spain) this spring. It works hydraulic and has self-levelling. It is much more technical. A lot of parts which can brake. So far it is doing great. I hope it will last as long as the selfbuild "beast" ;) in the video.

@johnoliver9885 2 жыл бұрын

Shades of The Canadian Beekeeper.

@ETsBees 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a bunch for this video. Hopefully by mid January I am done with mine.

@hootervillehoneybees8664 2 жыл бұрын

These videos are awesome

@RyanMcDonnough 2 жыл бұрын

Good stuff, Bob!

@tablerockbees4266 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bob! very interesting...

@swackenbeez8781 2 жыл бұрын

I like Gregs truck that’s smart

@davidpook5778 2 жыл бұрын

I've been looking at different versions of hive lifts and this is my pick up to now. The gearbox looks like a differential from a car.

@beekeepinggarden165 2 жыл бұрын

Top Job Bob 🐝🐝🐝💪 Thank you

@carybruton7284 2 жыл бұрын

Great job !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@98honeybees92 2 жыл бұрын

Looks great

@steliandone4078 Жыл бұрын

I like your smoker

@scrotiemcboogerballs1981 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing

@teachingandlearning 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@albeethebeeman5506 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Bob lost candler man made video of the hives I got from you it’s under Albee the bee man just a great day see you at the conference hopefully

@sentimentalbloke7586 2 жыл бұрын

Bob could be a spares supplier for ezyloader lol, yet another job for Bob. lol

@wishicouldspel 2 жыл бұрын

Nice set up for this size operation. May I point out. As one who has had one of these homemade style booms and now has a large version of the ezy loader a large point of difference is the ability of the latter to "level" on the fly. Once the load is on the forks the level tends to shift downhill to the load end side. Being able to level it out on the fly is helpful. Very helpful. ( btw. Use a swinger 1k and a cat 226b also )

@CaliforniaRussianRiverBees 2 жыл бұрын

Great information for a beginner🚧 commercial beekeeper. Great show ✍️🚂 Bob 🛢🛢🛢🛢🛢 looking forward to learning about honey barrels. Thanks for Sharing 📡

@CaliforniaRussianRiverBees 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏🏻

@sentimentalbloke7586 2 жыл бұрын

You could cut some pieces of 2" RHS drill a hole and pack the whole unit up by 2", seems to me an easy way to fix the one box issue.

@brucesouthernsassapiaries8316 2 жыл бұрын

I will have to say, Greg has some good tempered bees!!!

@steliandone4078 Жыл бұрын

The complicated thing is the price of other guys from Australia/Canada who practices big price. I will build one for me.

@framcesmoore 2 жыл бұрын

Ha Bob I enjoyed the video Thank you does he have you tube videos as well have a blessed day

@bobbinnie9872 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Frances. He does not.

@ronnieholloway9109 2 жыл бұрын

You could place hydraulic stabilizers on the corner of truck to level

@ETsBees 2 жыл бұрын

I am building a loader for my trailer and that is what I am going to do. I should have it done in January, I will be posting videos of it

@natserog 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Bob.... you ever heard of beekeeepers open feeding frames of capped honey and how would you do that...Like 300ft away and jut put frames in empty box with lid??

@gregorycalzada5264 2 жыл бұрын

BOB ROCK ON 😎😎😎

@OklahomaBeekeeper Жыл бұрын

Was wondering about his pickup truck. He said that he used it for feeding bees. It looked like a half ton f150. So apparently it isn't a full tote he carries. Was wondering what and how he feeds.

@bobbinnie9872 Жыл бұрын

Hi Malcolm. He takes his big truck to a sugar outlet in Charlotte, NC. and picks up three totes of sucrose syrup at a time. He then brings it home and empties them into empty totes on the ground and uses it as he needs it. He has a gasoline driven pump for moving syrup around. In late summer he dilutes it to one to one and in fall uses it straight which is approximately two to one. He does use his small truck with partial totes for feeding and gravity feeds into a bucket which is used to fill the hive top feeders.

@OklahomaBeekeeper Жыл бұрын

@@bobbinnie9872 thanks, I was just wondering when he said he feed with the smaller pickup, if he used different size containers. I have really enjoyed the videos he's been in, those 4 plus the two he did for the club. I also enjoyed the mann lake guy from Pennsylvania office. I have watched them several times each. I run both singles and single & a medium here in Oklahoma. I already paid for one of your timing boxes with Brian. I ordered plugs earlier this year and I just wanted to let you know your people were very nice to do business with and helpful. As a business owner I thought you might like to hear good things about your people. See you for the 3rd Hive Live Conference. Thanks for your valuable time and May God bless your business as well as your family.

@markbooth8458 2 жыл бұрын

Hello Bob. 500 hives would be a lot of work for 1 person.

@bobbinnie9872 2 жыл бұрын

That was my size when I worked alone. I went to 700 one year but it proved to be too much.

@davidpatrick1813 2 жыл бұрын

How many hives do you work? Interesting I am in southern oregon. What do you use in the smoker?

@bobbinnie9872 2 жыл бұрын

Although here in Georgia we are traditionally a 2000 colony outfit, our numbers go up and down do to colonies sold and colonies produced each year. When I was in southern Oregon (the Rogue Valley) I worked for a beekeeper for three years that ran 2200 and then went on to run 500 alone.

@MrVsBees 6 ай бұрын

Is it possible to know the material size of the boom on Greg's crane. It will get really expensive to guess wrong.

@bobbinnie9872 6 ай бұрын

You might search for "Haw Creek Honey" and email Greg directly for that.

@russellkoopman3004 2 жыл бұрын

Bob, I have an idea. Your helper (Tommy?) that want to start out on his own some day could make some easy quick money making up a couple hundred double dividing boards and selling them at the Hive Alive conference. I know I'd like to buy a couple.

@bobbinnie9872 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Russell. I believe Byran Farris is going to have some there.

@andrewsherwin2664 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Bob. This comment has nothing to do with this video although I do like it, as I do with all your videos. I was just wondering if you have footage of Chris Werner’s crew doing their paraffin dipping. I’m interested in starting that and doing it as simple as possible really appeals to me.

@bobbinnie9872 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Andrew. He has several 55 gallon drums going at one time with band heaters on low. Each one soaks for 8 minutes while he loads and unloads the rest. He gets the right number going to match the eight minute cycle.

@andrewsherwin2664 2 жыл бұрын

@@bobbinnie9872 thanks Bob. Really appreciate that!

@user-qt3bn8qg2j 2 жыл бұрын

这个要多少钱可以出口中国吗

@Nik00gfdsa 2 жыл бұрын

Lots of limitations. Expensive. Slow.. It is a beekeeping technology from 70s. I have 50 y.o. Babcat 610. Receive semi on evening, unload with helper, then me alone, spread 500+ hives to the yards and finish job by morning.

@bobbinnie9872 2 жыл бұрын

In the video he explains why a Bobcat and trailer wouldn't work well for him.

@Nik00gfdsa 2 жыл бұрын

@@bobbinnie9872 i used to have a same arguments like him. When he will switch to Babcat with 5th wheel and strait mast he will never think to come back to..

@886014 2 жыл бұрын

Always enjoy you sharing the ways of doing things up there Bob, thanks. FWIW here in Australia most guys I know load their loaders across the bed of the truck using ramps. The forks fold upwards to bring the loader within the legal max 2.5 metre width. From what I can see the Federal Limit in the US is even wider, at 2.6 metres, so putting a skid steer or articulated loader across the bed wouldn't present a problem at all. I worked for a company that ran larger loaders and we hung them off the back of the truck by their forks and sitting in a cradle. I don't know of any medium or larger operator here who would tow a trailer just for a loader. They may tow a trailer, but it's then a large trailer to increase the Combined Mass of the vehicle to carry more hives

@bobbinnie9872 2 жыл бұрын

Although not as common here, I know of several guys that load their forklift across the bed. Thanks.