Amazing how that machine works. Revenue made from honey extracted from the wax. Also the wax blocks. Your friend owes you more than a bottle or two of mead.

From a none beekeeper, this is the most tutorial video I have seen on the web about this process, well done, 10 /10

Your friend is lucky to have someone to do this for him. Hopefully he’s able to get his own system for next year, but let’s hear it for neighbours and friends helping friends! I’m in Alberta, and we all still help our neighbouring farms out whenever and wherever needed - good to see that still happening all over in the many different communities. I used to be extremely deathly allergic to bee stings, and still need to carry my epi-pen just in case. As per my MD & allergist’s instructions, I’ve been taking small amounts of natural bee pollen every day for the past six years or so and it has actually helped me to measurably lower my histamine response if I was to be stung. We use honey and bee products for so much at our place - cooking obviously, but our vet uses a honey plaster on some of the wounds our farm animals or our dogs get from time to time, and it helps prevent infection and speeds healing time. It’s truly amazing stuff! I personally use beeswax and honey I buy from from a local keeper in several of my homemade moisture bars & such. I won’t be involved in all aspects of it, but my husband is getting things organized at the moment to start keeping some hives out on our farm starting next spring. You and other KZfaqrs are really helping us to learn a great deal, and it’s much appreciated! Thanks so much

Newbie here...you just opened a new unknown area in a Beekeeper’s life. Thank you so much...so educational & well instructed 🐝

This was an excellent video to show how much was there is in capping. Thank you for your time in producing all these great videos. God bless

Outstanding video! An incredible effort on your part! Thank you for sharing.

Another bottle of Meade, you mean a case of his good stuff!

This is one of the coolest videos I have seen so far, thanks so much for sharing Ian

That is so wonderful how you’re helping your fellow beekeeper.😃 kudos to you!

Cheers Ian! Best wishes for a restful fall and winter.

It’s great to see somebody extract honey and render the wax very thoroughly so there’s no waste. Bravo!

This was FASCINATING to watch. Thank you so much!!

Thank you for helping a peer with extraction as well as clearly explaining the process.

What an ingenious machine! Thanks for the great instructional video of how it's done in the real world. Every time I watch you harvest your hives I'm also awed at how much wax those little guys make each year to encapsulate their honey stores, they sure know what they're about. Thanks.

I enjoyed watching the new machine at work. I'm gonna say your friend is going to be pretty stoked on the honey and wax haul

That is amazing, great job and great machine! Bottle of Mead wine is well deserved, also helping out a fellow beekeeper. Thanks for sharing, also that close up of the honey/wax layer when you were pouring was very helpful.

Wow! This is so interesting! Thank you for sharing this process, your friend is very lucky you were willing to try this. A lot to be learned from this .

a lot longer process than i would have ever guessed. Great video...thank you!

Lot of work..and a great set of skills you have..tthank you for shareing.👍

It's nice you did this for your fellow beekeeper. At least now he can see the benefit of the wax melter, maybe a smaller one, but the benefits are obvious. A bottle of mead is cheap but I'm sure you got help and advice from someone as you were getting bigger in the business. Good video of the whole operation. Thanks

What a great video! Very informative and interesting. Thanks for doing this - it's given me ideas!

It's nice to have such a good neighbor 🌻

Just subscribed, I like your helpfulness towards another Beekeeper, well done and thanks

Absolutely, and completely fascinating. No wonder you have 200,000 views. What I found most interesting is though you are dealing with large weights of honey and wax you still treat the products gently, and your machinery with such care and patience. The world be a better place if we had more artisans / craftsmen / businessmen like you.

This was fun to watch. I hope theirs more like it in the future,

I could watch this all day. its so relaxing and enjoyable.

We are headed into Spring here in Chile and I am so happy that I do not have to deal with snow or ice. Just cool and wet here in the winter. This was rendering is awesome. Hard good work. Thanks Jim in Chile.

Good to see that process Ian Thanks again

thanks so much for the info Ian I am in my second year and just pulled 25 pounds, made 7 splits that look great, your productions have helped me time and time again. Instead of giving the cappings directly to the bees I will put them into paint strainer bags and spin them, because you have clearly demonstrated just how much honey is left to harvest there.

Wow, you saved so much honey and beeswax! This is a good lesson for any beekeeper. I have a new appreciation for beekeepers.

That was just way too cool. It is amazing how much honey and wax was recovered from the toppings. Any serious bee keeper should have such a machine. It is worth it's weight in golden honey.

Cool video. Love the streamlined process. Special props for having the splash bottle for when you drained the water into the catch basin.

That was amazing to watch, educational and really emphasizes the importance of the machine in large scale extraction!

that was awesome. thanks for sharing your knowledge and work.

Hello Ian. Our latest purchase is a junior cappings spinner. We have several buckets ready to be processed. We only have 50 hives but as our operation grows so does our need for simplicity and effectiveness. I just had open heart surgery so I havent put the cappings spinner to work yet but I'm doing fantastic and hopefully the boss will let me process our honey/cappings next week with her help of course.

WIW! That was an education! Thank you for sharing!

Great video, thanks. It’s all these details that we don’t think about and how much honey beekeepers loose/waist. Makes me think I should reinvest differently.

Someone's having way too much fun with the new toys. 😀 Nice recovery, I'll bet your friend will be ecstatic.

thanks for showing that whole process so well!

Wow, i mean, just wow. Good work. Love you'r vids.

Would of liked to have seen his reaction on what you salvaged. Cool video.

That was a great video. Very interesting. Thanks

How generous, nice work

I really enjoyed watching this. Another aspect of bee keeping that should not be overlooked. i am also sure that the bee keeper will be so surprised to see what he is missing that he too will invest in a wax/honey separator. Just so you know, I was born in Wpg and worked for Modern Dairies for several years and I even made deliveries to Morden and Carman. Those were the days. I have moved to Montréal for work reasons, but my heart is still back in Manitoba. Have a great day. Tim

I love how beaker helps each other out

Excellent video! Thank you so much.

Very interesting and informative, thank you!

As always-awsome video-seen for the second time

Accepting payment in mead? It better be a barrel of mead.

Awesome video, I really enjoyed it!👍👍

You need to put that melter on a pallet or something so you can lift it on your forklift, that way you don’t have to crouch all that time working the tap.

What a great video! Educational and wonderful. You should get a case of meade

I'm no bee keeper but the process is interesting to me so ... great video and very informative :)

This is so freaking cool. So what can you do with the left over black stuff? Garden compost use maybe

Awesome job!

This was so intriguing

An excellent and informative video, thanks!

Great video thanks for sharing. Texas

Aww i so want to see his(honey guy) reaction to your awesome work.....

That’s just amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Mead?? Awesome. Great Video, Great Editing

Hello i was wondering what you do with the slum. i find your videos fascinating. i'm in Perth Western Australia the weather conditions you have to contend with are quite amazing. Very informative and interesting great work.

Pretty amazing process.

Thanks for sharing! Great video. When I have more hives I will look into getting a wax melter.

You should get a case of Mead for your service. What a cool family you are part of. The way things should BEE.

So, if you hadn’t been there to help him, all that recovered honey would have gone to waste? He’s lucky to have a friend like you. He needs to take steps before next year if yields will run consistently high like this one. Good job 😎👍👏

Fascinating!! Thanks for sharing!

Excellent video.

That's pretty amazing!

You are a hard worker man I wish you all the best

Must be nice to be able to see some rain...and wear a jacket! Looking forward to both here in GA lol

Very interesting. I never knew that you could get that much honey from the wax. Amazing process.

It is great that it works out for both parties. Everyone works together

i enjoyed watching thanks, from a 3rd year beekeeper

Nice one Ian: I have an Alto Shaam cook and hold oven. Radiant heat, retains the moisture. Think I'll look around for some pans and stuff. I only have two top bar hives.

Another great video that wax melted is a slick rig. Apparently it dont just melt wax, thanks for that video

Good stuff!

That was really interesting!

That was outstanding Ian!! When you did the first video on the wax melter with very little narration, I was a bit confused in the process. With this video you showed us exactly how the wax melter works! With my 2 first year hives and 30lbs of extracted honey, I could easily see how much honey was left in the cappings! After straining the cappings for a couple of weeks, I had about 3 more lbs of honey!

This video is great! Love the explanations, how do you know how much water to put in?

That was cool never seen that before thank you 👍👍👍

great video, thanks so much for posting this. So can you put the slum in your compost or garden?

Amazing how much honey you captured without darkening it!

Well? How was the mead? Getting every last drop of wax and honey. Love it. You are a great neighbor to do that for him. It must be a solid friendship

What a nice neighbor 👍🏻

Superb video... very very informative instructional and useful for beekeepers. Btw, I'm based in Dubai,UAE and originally from Mumbai, India. Keep the videos coming bro, great work.

Superb video And if the mead is any good it should be like a fine liqueur Nice trade And thanks as always for the video!

Not to sound greedy but the work we just witnessed is worth at least 3 bottles. You're a great friend for only 1 bottle.

I am impressed with how much you got from all of that...🐝

Ian awesome unit, love videos. My suggestion make sure brass draw off is lead free or change it to Stainless. Residual lead will appear in the honey over time.

Awesome video

Good video. Amazing how much honey is left in the cappings. You just needed an excuse to play with the new toy.

I just started but was unaware there was honey in the wax. These videos always amaze me.

Definitely due more than another bottle of mead for all that work! Sold me on purchasing that machine if I ever get that big!

Good show and information

i happily did this exact thing all winter, very small scale using a slow cooker, with several big buckets of cappings that a local beekeeper gave me- they usually threw them away. got a cupboard full of beautiful raw honey, and made the rendered wax into a zillion one ounce cubes. was the most satisfying, even theraputic thing way i had ever passed a cold winter in my life. did it for several winters, until i eventually moved to a warm place.

Very enlightening video.

That was a lot of hard work and patience - I can see you being quite busy helping beekeepers from losing a lot of revenue. One question, that last product you had which had no wax but was crumbly (crumbly slum) - can you use that for something like fertilizer or soil enhancement?

Excellent video! I really like your jacketed tank with the added ability to run water in the center for even heating. Would you mind sharing what model / manufacturer this is and / or where I might find a similar one? TIA

I’m curious-once it’s gotten to this state, is it possible to process it through that spinner (you showed in another video); or is this the most efficient method?