"Smells like wedding cake." So that's why bees run. Very smart. 😂

Waited to get all the automated equipment and bring Brian who looks like he could have just carried the trailer!! LOL. Looks like a success

The team in action, Mr Ed, Good time Charlie, Wreck it Ralph and now Bring it on Brian. Good work men.

As an old lady, with a lifetime of bad back problems, those tools look like life savers!! This was a fun video!

At first the trailer lift looked awkward, but the more you used it, learned to use it, the better it looked as a back-surgery prevention tool!

From a Scandinavian. Yes it smells like a Swedish wedding cake! Always make me hungry.

Looks like a mini Steppler😊

I've watched for some years now. The operation continues to grow and process. You are one successful bee keeper. Have a nice weekend Jeff and crew.

Boys and their toys... What a neat setup, your back will thank you.

Wow! Another Grandma here who loves seeing this new lift to keep you guys healthy and the bees happy!! I always feel uplifted by your faith, and encouraged by your positive attitude, and the respect you show "the girls" for their hard work! Keep on "buzzing" boys!

What a great team working smartly! All that new equipment is going to save backs for sure. Brian was a fun addition to your normal lineup. Blessings to you, Charlie, Ralph and Brian!

I love the new equipment Mr. Ed. It was good seeing all of the Amigos together again. Im sure the more you use that new lift, the more proficient you guys will become with it. God Bless

That’s quite the equipment setup! Here’s another bee tidbit: Have you ever noticed bees at work? The buzzing hive, bees zipping around like they’ve got places to be and honey to make. That is exactly what it means to be "busy as a bee." These little guys are the ultimate multitaskers, flitting from flower to flower, collecting nectar, and building honeycombs like experts. Being "busy as a bee" means you are hustling, juggling a bunch of tasks like a pro.

I know they were back savers and time savers but I couldn’t help but think boys and their toys 😂

Now those are back savers. You will get more years out of your back. God Bless.

Wowser!! 😂 ya'll are all together, and ya'll got ur shirts on! Nice. That is a kool boy toy. I say lolol all of you guys look so happy. I love this one, and I'll watch it over, too. Mr. Ed, you are some kind of somethin!!!

Glad to see you folks got some mechanical help with those deep supers!!!! A learning curve for sure.....but I bet fewer meds were required after the work was done!!! 😉Great job guys!!!

I am so glad you are getting things to save your backs. I watched this person who is up in Canada who has a boom truck to put his bees on. His thing to pick the boxes is like yours.

Amazing as always! All of you run like a well oiled machine! God bless you all!

Good morning Mr.Ed, we are up having our breakfast with you on the big screen. I'm so impressed with that lifter . Very well organized in this event. We all have had a wonderful spring for our bees this year. I can't wait to find out how much honey you harvested this year. Ya'll, have a good weekend. Yeah, hear!!!!

Those lifts really streamlined the process! Im glad yall got them so your work is easier and quicker!❤🐝

Now that is a lot of hive lifters at work.😆

Very nice setup. Back saver for sure. After a little practice it looked easy. Honey looking good also. Take care and God bless!

So much work and looks as though you had the right tools for the job.That was a good one Jeff and you guys always seem to have fun while you are working.Awesome! Thanks so much for sharing!

My back started feeling sore just looking at that trailer full of deep supers. Then that machine gies abd picks up three at a time! Game changer!!

Thank you Jeff, and the WHOLE bee gang. xoxoxoxo

The new guy needs a name. I suggest "stinger". 😂

This channel with you guys on makes my night thank you god bless

👍🤩💝Interesting & informative. That Lifter is smart & effective.

Now that's a slick operation with the lifts and the way that trailer is setup. Nice to see a new guy, Brian, helping out. I think he could have lifted everything himself. God Bless you all!!!

The big guy is a keeper. He’s got the boom work down pat Brian is the man.

Video started out hot! But Brian looked like he got the hang of the lift at the end of video. Wish I had that lift 40 years ago when I had to carry 40 boxes to the truck.

Jeepers! I don't know where you got Brian (Bryan?) from - but he's a machine on his own!

Both machines and Brian are awesome additions to the Abby

Well that was a resounding success!

What an awesome that machine is.....Thanks Jeff and stung guy's..... Old F-4 II Shoe🇺🇸 and i am in my 80's now

I'm so happy to see my favourite fellas taking care of themselves. Great manual handling equipment and technique! Welcome Brian. Always great to see a new face in beekeeping. He's not one of the Monks is he Jeff? Asking for a friend ;)

A Canadian Beekeeper has a couple of trucks with a thingy he uses to lift his bee pallets.

Y'all are right in chigger and tick territory; that tall grass.

Don't work harder, work smarter! Looking good guys! Peace and full supers.

Loved the video. Save the back with the lifts and all the crew helping. Needed to wait a few days to view. We entered Canada and no longer unlimited internet 🛜. We have 5gbs for the entire month. Just celebrated Canada Day. Today we are heading up the Trent-Severn waterway. I’ll check back when we have free WiFi again

Helps to have Thor on your team 😂

Friends make light work

I'm SOO glad yall found my hero Ralph BUT you can hire Brian out for a FORKLIFT! No getting stuck with HIM around! Have a Jesus weekend and God Bless ALL Yall respecially the Fisherman!

Those fumes enter the honey on a microscopic level. Even though the honey will need to be uncapped; diffusion is going to happen. "Honey Robber" is a mild concentration of butyric acid with certain scents mixed in so that it doesn't make the beekeeper throw up. In 1974, my high school science teacher opened a bottle of pure butyric acid in the science lab for one minute to demonstrate the principle of diffusion. The whole science lab, and then the hallway cleared out. There was a complaint from the janitor, because even the classes downstairs could smell it. Mr. Kuehnis was not able to do that demonstration the next year; but a lot of students, teachers, and staff had diffusion hard-wired into their brains that day! (Teachers like that were instrumental in my becoming a scientist) It would be my unsolicited opinion that you modulate the amount of "Honey Robber" on your fume boards, and keep the time that they are on the hives to an absolute minimum. People with discerning senses of smell and taste can taste things like where a variety of grapes were grown that went into a bottle of wine. Napa (California) Valley vintners are not allowed to buy bulk grapes from outside Napa County to make their wines- even from Sonoma County. Yes, there is that much difference in flavors and tastes resulting from soils and regions. I would posit that honey tasters with a sensitive palate can taste the butyric acid if it is overused in the harvesting process. It certainly would be an interesting experiment.

Thanks Jeff, it’s always a joy watching your videos brother!

You's should add a little outstop with concrete so you're not having to navigate those posts and roof for loading. Loving watching all your stuff, I'm a new mead maker finding it really interesting where the honey for my brews comes from.

Your videos are so cool and informative

Well done gentlemen! Sending much love and wishing y’all many blessings from Nebraska!

So glad to see those lifts I have watched ya'll harvest honey in the past and what a struggle it was to get them loaded and unloaded and y'all were exhausted and hurting by the end of the day

You have to wonder if the first bee goes running back down saying, ":We've been robbed!!!!"

Omg looks like you guys are all having fun Mr Ed I Finley found one I havnt seen very goof god bless you all

Pour a Good Time Charlie and the new guy getting bit right away great to see y'all that's neat how y'all remove the trays God bless you all❤ that's a great new device y'all have there y'all getting Fancy on me

Great job. Good tools are the best thing. God bless you and the work you do.

TY from Best Jersey! (Ooh gosh, it's so late, it's Monday already. GN!)

A very useful piece of equipment.

Really enjoyed the video. Thanks so much for always making my day brighter.

Work smarter not harder. Yet another thing Mr. Ed has that I'm jealous of. LOL Good thing you're not lifting those deep supers with your back any more! Beautiful honey frames.

Now you need an automated camera so Charlie can help get the bees!!

Show a us detailed walk around of the lift . Looks really good . Thanks

That is a fancy machine you got there Mister Ed

Once you get used to the trailer lift - park it closer to the hives. If there is room, you can even park it behind them. You will then be able to do all the super handling with it and not need the cart - which is problematic on really rough ground. With your current trailer configuration, you can use the front and back notches for lifting - meaning you can place them on the trailer without any manhandling. You could also reconfigure the trailer so there isn't any space between the supers - which might allow one more row. Of course, the current configuration may be sufficient for even your largest yard.

Next time I process I will extract on a different day than I pull. I only had 54 gallons but I was working into the late hours of the night.

Maybe a concrete ramp with landing pad would work for unloading, so you don’t have to unload under the awning. And just drive your cart up the little ramp and into the honey house:)

Very smart move to use these tools...My back is gone, damages from my old job :(

I was thinking of building like a loading bay to site my hives so I could back my vehicle up to the loading bay, or building risers for the boxes to sit on, this would be cheaper than a lift and make it much easier to load supers. I noticed when the fume boards were spayed that some of them hardly got any of the honey bandit and some of the supers were still full of bees as a result, I saw one super whos bottom was festooned with bees.

Who needs a boom? I think Brian should just come up and lift all of my suppers.

Dream Big brother 🙏

I dont have anywhere near enough hives to justify one of these, only two for now....but i still want one lol.

Awesome guys ❤😊😊😊

Awesome

Thanks guys!!!!

That reminded me of lost in space show......"danger,danger Will Robinson ".😅

Liquid smoke boys.

Why do I foresee an extension to the concrete porch of the honey house for unloading the honey.

Always alot of fun to watch your videos Mr Ed, greetings from Sodom and Gomorrah (Amsterdam) ✌🏼🇳🇱✌🏼

Outstanding channel. 👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Heh. None of us are getting any younger. That lift is a great help! You were putting empty supers back to replace the ones you took, right? As for a raffle, a quart jar with comb in it would be nice!

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog, you need a trip the Louisiana to show these guys how to really use the lift. ;)

This Video shows how ineffective these tools are. used. Go closer to the hives,took the crane to lift the supers, one man took the honeysuper ,one man took them over the bord. Much less time . The repellent seems to function very good. With greatings vom Germany. Thomas the beekeeper

Hello Jeff, Many many many moons ago in one of your older video's you had some details about the type of gloves that you use when your doing a removal and scooping hand fulls of bees with you hands, can you please list what those where please? Thank you and please keep on making more Osama.

Hello Mr Ed,que perfeição de favos de mel em,e essa engenhóca que vocês fizeram pra facilitar o trabalho com as caixas,ficou formidável em parabéns pelo bom trabalho, que Deus abençoe a todos.🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

work smarter not harder.

GUYS! The stings in the first minute! Y’all have to get “The Bug Bite Thing”!! You put it on your skin where you were stung, pull back, and it sucks the venom out. It really works! I was skeptical until I used it. No swelling, redness or itching. Keep it with you when you work the bees!

them lifts make it so nice and i think you will get abot 2100 lb out of them box god bless you all

Does it change my shorts?! 😱😝🤪🤣👍👍🇺🇸

Nice 'toys'!!

Hi guys

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Bees got angry about 14 minutes into the video. Bet it smelled like bananas😅.

Can you provide a link for the first lift you were using. Not the one with the truck. Please!😊

You didn’t watch Kamon Reynolds’s video about uncapped honey… the flow is over and they won’t cap it. My capped honey in central Louisiana is 19-20% moisture. Dehydrate it…

I want the money 😂😅😅

you guys were manhandling those things!

I'm curious as to why you didn't put the empty supers on your best producing hives. There will be another nectar run coming, right? Stay Blessed

Lookin good!! Why couldn't you pull the trailer and lift a little closer to the hives and just do one move of lifting with the trailer lift instead of using the hand lift and then the trailer lift???

Hello again my friend. Thanks for the informative content. I'm surprised you don't use 9 frames in your supers? Also, in regards to your fume board spray, I've used one product that smells like almonds and another that smells like vomit. I've had better results with the later (Bee Go). I have never used Honey Bandit, can you describe the smell by chance? Also, with my fume boards, I notice that I have some bees head up and gather under the fume board. Someone recommended off setting the FB to allow top escape as well as downward movement of the bees. I also need to use my blower to clear the supers completely, partly because I haul them in my station wagon.

Styling now Jeff.

That is an awesome system you have there. What happens to the stragglers that hitch a ride back to the abbey? Do they join a new colony or do they make their way back to the original hives?

Work smarter, not harder. Like Charlie on camera duties!