I'm smiling the whole time you're instructing me. You remind me of my Dad, always yelling at me as he teaches me something new. You even resemble him a bit. I think that's part of the reason I love watching you! Great videos, by the way, Mr. FatBeeMan! :) Thank you!

@reefermaker

3 жыл бұрын

HaHaHa! I know what you mean. I can even picture my Dad coming up with unconventional ideas that don't stick to the rules. He'd go around muttering to himself thinking aloud until he'd come up with a solution. People would criticize but it was always his that worked. Kudos FatBeeMan :-)

@Dragon-Slay3r

Жыл бұрын

​@@reefermaker was this to put studs in the veins to open the heart ?

Thanks so much Don. Your videos are well organized and straight to the point. Keep em coming.

I'm smiling the whole time you're instructing me. You remind me of my Son, always yelling at me as he teaches me something new. You even resemble him a bit. I think that's part of the reason I love watching you! Great videos, by the way, Mr. FatBeeMan! :) Thank you!

Great way, very simple straightforward and easy to apply. Great enthusiastic instructor.

I'd swear we"re related the steam roller approach keeps you on the edge learning at a whack Thank you Don. I'll check your series to Donate.

Hey young man; I did the old fishing line install and every frame the bees destroyed the wax foundation along the fishing line. I went to plastic foundation. I'll try new line this year possibly with a starter strip and 2 rows of line for them to incorporate as they build down. Thanks for all your efforts helping us young ones. Best; Tom

@leaschmitt2496

4 жыл бұрын

Here we usuallu use some kinda metal conducting wire, and just put some current on it which makes the foundation melt straight onto it. Works like a charm

I am new to all of this bee stuff. I have watched 3 of your videos so far and I am loving them.

@johnknoefler

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not. This one made me cringe. I grew up in a beekeeping family and community. NO ONE would do it this way. I started wiring frames at five years old and could do 50 boxes before Grandpa would come pick me up to go home for supper. A frame a minute was my goal and they were all tight enough to play a tune on. He doesn't even know how to embed wax properly and he's delusional as he's using almost twice as much wire with his insane method. Saving expensive wire? NO. He's wasting it and doing a poor job as well.

Thanks for this. It's a logical, efficient and robust method of assembling frames and foundation.

@user-pi4td5cj8r

Жыл бұрын

you can teach me how to construct bee hive

thank you friends for the video of making a professional beekeeping box, greetings from me a traditional beekeeper from Indonesia. nice to know you, sir

Fast and furius! Great and very skilled man.

Thank you so very much for your generosity in sharing your knowledge and skills!!! You helped me a lot! Glad I found your channel!

Watched a bunch of video's of building frames and installing wire or fishing line and yours is as about the best and simplest way to do it. I know it's and old video but still the best i have seen. 👍🐝🐝

COOL! been building frames for years and got away from foundation when CCD hit, will try this method, fishing line rules wire always getting cut or pricked.

thanks for the wonderful video..plain and simple

I'm not a bee keeper, but the videos are fascinating. Thank you for making me smarter about the insect that keeps in a wide variety of foods year round.

@jblank4251

3 жыл бұрын

I am starting my first hive this spring,21. I decided to make an investment, an will learn many other skills in just bee keeping. They are marvelous creatures.

this is amazing! i was debating trying to assemble a hive myself and saving $50, but this shows me it isn't as intimidating as it first seems. what might help with seeing the line is a blunt tapestry needle; i use them in knitting to tuck lines away, and you could probably tuck them into the hole like you do the bobby pin.

Hey Don, great video. Does the fishing string provide as much strength as embedding wire? Do you use this for brood frames only or does it also work for honey supers? Thanks

I use a staple gun to attach the fishing line Just make sure pressure is down so it doesn’t cut the line. Great video!

I will try that. Thanks! I use inox wire and I melt the sheet into the wires by heating the wires on a redresor

in my exp glued frames never start to get that side to side wiggle .. as dry stapled ones show over time. Good tip on breaking apart frames tho ... very rare to have end bars split in my exp ... but a good tip none the less. Making a simple box that'll hold 10 or 20 frames will REALLY speed up the frame building process too

GREAT VIDEO!! Thanks ☺️ curious have you ever put a frame together without adding in that extra strip of wood to the top bar?

Hello Don, love your videos, all are so informative. You mentioned making your own foundation. Can you demonstrate to us your procedure of making foundation? Thanks, Ron.

Howdy Don. I have an over abundance of medium foundation. Can I use it in full frames? Also, what do the bees do when they get to the fishing line? Do they just wax around it or do they incorporate it into the comb? Thank you so much for your input. Frank

I have enjoyed your videos and learnt much. I wonder what wood glue you are worried about? Never seen that in OH&S. Also, I use formaldehyde in ponds to keep down algae, it doesn't kill any of the insects, plants or fish or snails.. It is sold as a product well there are many, some use barley straw but they use formaldehyde. One which I use is called GreenAway. "Harmless to all species of pond fish and aquatic life." I have used it for years.

Hi Don, Do you crosswire your honey super frames the same way? Also, have you seen any issue with the line cutting into the guide holes and creating slack? Thanks much for the videos!

Great video don, thanks for the info

Nice tips Don. Thank you.

Thank you Mr. Fat Beeman for the good video

Masterful. Thanks Don.

@fineshooter

5 жыл бұрын

just sharing few tricks

Thanks for sharing your idea!

Hi don, what type of wood do you use for the frames? Do you make your own frame sides or is it a kit?

Great instruction!!!!!!!! Thanks so much!!!

Hola que práctico la clase armar un núcleo del Mr. Felicitaciones ..

merci pour l'info de montage de cadre armé avec cire c'est très instructif pas besoin de chauffage pour fondre la cire alvéoles. je découvre une technique merci encore pour le partage de connaissance Monsieur.

Hey Don. Just starting next month on my bee journey so I'm learning as much as i can from your videos. Hopefully I could get some extra cash to donate. Cheers buddy - from Philippines

@pamelaflirtyskunk7698

7 жыл бұрын

Jan Ray Mikelle Aninipoc Same here! Wishing you luck your first year! I'm excited and have been researching for 3 months now. I've learned the most information right here on KZread and have learned a lot from Don. There are a few other great beekeepers I like as well and follow now.

Thank U so much that helped me a lot ♡

Thankyou very much Don!!

I have followed you for a long while. I like the common sense approach. This year I am finally out of brood foundation. Have lots of unassembled frames. So bought the foundation, and am assembling frames and foundation. I have exactly the same materials you do. I have reviewed the "cleat" with you and will several others. I cannot get any such a "nice" cleat. With a razor set up (just like yours) some say you run the blade down along the groove and off it pops. No it doesn't, or you just "break it off " with your fingers. No, it doesn't. I end up with these little bits and pieces of the "cleat" So I am guessing these is some trick you all do automatically, and forget to mention to us.

Don: First of all love your vids and appreciate the knowledge being passed down; Im in México and about to start bee keeping. Now the question why not go with no foundation frames? just for the honey and time of saving? do you go with foundations to avoid work for the bees and be able to rob them more times?

Sir, Excellent videos. What stapler do you use and what size staples? Thanks!

Hello Don, Greetings from England, I enjoy watching your videos tremendously, they are extremely interesting and down to earth informative. I try to help with conservation in any way that I can, I have few fruit trees and I grow wild flowers in summer. My hope is to keep a single hive of bees in my back garden for both pollination and re-introduction to the area I live in, it's pretty well populated here and I worry that people around me might have a problem with the bees for example during mating swarms, I realise how ignorant some people can be towards wildlife, so do you consider it wise for me to have a go at it? My garden and me are crying out to see honey bees again, I can't remember when I last saw a single one and the surrounding area would surely benefit from their presence. I was contemplating making up a top bar hive, but would I need to have two hives in order to keep them going or what? I'm pretty determined to do this and if you could give me a bit of advice I would be very grateful. Thank you and best regards. John.

@ekkalars yes I do but only on a heavy honey flow. they are more likely to draw worker size cells then. I'll put in some frames in between the draw-ed ones just to let use up the honey.as I want more bees for making splits then making honey. Don The fatbeeman

Thanx a lot!!!! Very helpful video!!

Do you ever leave the frames without foundation so that the bees draw their own comb? Thanks for the video.

Hey don..thank you your so informative 😊

what do you do about the nails when you reuse the frame? Do you pull them out or do you leave them, and put another nail next to it?

Excellent work

Hi Don, What do you do with the Queen cell once the bees make them?

Thank a lot Dad, very important point.

This guy so much reminds me of Lefty Kreh: fly-fishing legend/tier and instructor.

Hey Don, do you make your frame pieces or do you buy them and then assemble as you showed us. Again, thanks for your videos, you are special.

@jumamasai5181

3 жыл бұрын

Very informative! Thanks 🙏

GREAT video. Very helpful. I am caretaker for my mother, so I can't donate,, but I can subscribe and comment.

excellent I have never seen before nice one

Do you have any PDF Instructions sir? I see you're very experienced. Good Job. I like the way how you're teaching / instructing your viewers.

Thanks for idea using fish line on my farms couldn’t get wire thing to work many thanks

@fineshooter

5 жыл бұрын

my idea is to save people money reuse and cheap

I'm new to this, what is that yellow thing u put in the middle of the frame

I did this way comb was built around lines or they chewed holes around fishing line.

my foundation has a bit of a gap on the top, did the shop sell me the right size?

Do you have a video on how to make that wax foundation? Or is there a specific mold that you can get for it?

thank you Mr. FatBeeMan. i don't raise bees. i got into your video by accident. Wish you were in the Philipines teaching carpenters how to make frames.

good vids , impressed

I have a hive that is very strong, I put my suppers on and they are some what fiing. I when through it. I found that the top deep was about was about 85% honey, about all capped. the bottom deep was mostley brood and so on. So I moved my queen excluder on the bottom and moved my suppers down. I sell comb honey. So would this be an ok idea for a few weeks? I would of corse move the top bottom back after removeing the suppers. Thank you for all you do. new subscriber.

What kind of wood are you using?

Don, where do you find top bars that have cleats on them ? Most of what I have ordered just have a groove in them like the bottom bar. You cant break it off like you show. My Dad made every bit of his equipment years ago and he had a cleat, but it seems hard to find anymore.

@gregtabithacundiff9357

4 жыл бұрын

The ones I buy are called Wedge Top

Excellent video

Great video. Have you ever thought of making hive's out of PVC board?

Great teacher.

YOU VEDIO IS VERY USE FULL TO ME FOR HOW TO MAKE BEE FRAME.THANK YOU.

Hey fat bee man, if the foundation has wire in it do you still need to use the fishing line? I'm new to beekeeping and trying to learn everything I can.

@otiliam2306

4 жыл бұрын

No :)

Hi Don just joined your page we're new to bee keeping was wondering where you get your frame pieces from? Kevin

Great video.

How do the bees react to the fishing line? Do they draw the combs out and work around the line? Have u a frame that has the combs drawn out with the fishing line, to see how the line works with the bees? I have found your videos very instructional

@Caleb_W91

3 жыл бұрын

I'm interested as well! Was told with wire the queen would leave a X and now lay in the cells with the wire, be interested to see how she does with fishing like

Great thanks from Kenya

Hi Don ...do you use this method in your honey supers or just in the brood box ? Im totally new to bees and got my first hive last weekend and i want to use your idea in the future i will be using deep frames in the supers and was just hoping i can use this method thanks for your time and hello from Cessnock Australia

@fineshooter

7 жыл бұрын

yes you can use it that is why I do videos

@bradsimpson4511

7 жыл бұрын

so you use the fishing line method in the honey supers ?

Wow it's amazing 👌👌👌

Size of each parts details

ty don im new to keeping bees I will be getting my fisrt hive in late May and I cant find bees for sale but there are two bee keepers with in a half of a mile and I hope to draw there sworms to my new hive , i went and got lemon grass oil to try and get them what else would you suggest me to do to draw them from that far away

thanks

Thank you

Don do you still run your frames this way?

Hello ... what if i don't have that yellow thing that you have put in the frame? Is it necessary?

i like you video. very good!

@fineshooter

6 жыл бұрын

thanks for watching

thank you

Are the staples you are using 18 gage?

What about melting the wax? What if I wanna melt the frame in steam or under sun. I guess fishing line can not stand it.

Do you sell your frames with the wax foundations? If so what is your price for the 9 1/8 with shipping?

You can tell this guy has done the wiring a thousand times and over many times. No patience for nonsense, haha!

thanks i want to make it in my country

Интересный метод. Как обстоят дела потом при откачке меда?

I really appreciate this but I definitely recommend sliding the foundation into the bottom first so it’s not all puckered up.

@fineshooter

6 жыл бұрын

if that is easy for you do it I show many ways of doing things my self

thank you sir.

What exactly is the purpose of inserting the bobby pins?

Thanks!

Hey Don was wondering if you can write a book on bee keeping , make as long or as short as it needs to be, I'd be happy to buy one of your books in the future

@fineshooter

6 жыл бұрын

I wish I had time to write a book just on common sense beekeeping

*Does the fishing line get in the way when it comes time for the bees to build?* *What about when it comes time for you to uncap the comb, doesn't it break the line?* *Wouldn't the bobby pins get in the way of the bees construction?*

@trentmcnair7600

5 жыл бұрын

Wondered about this, as well as a hit knife - does he get plastic fishing line in his honey?

thank you for the very helpful information. where is the donate button?

how i do a foundation and what material do you use

Hey Don, I like your idea of asking for donations, I wonder how I'd go doing that here in Australia, lol,,,,

@theeffectivecoach

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Jeff. I agree. Have you tried to ask for donations? My pc and phone went down and I lost your number. Wouldn’t mind a catch up. I like Mr F. Beeman videos too. How’s the family?

HI! from Ibiza, I would like to know the name of the stapler machine. thanks!

Hi Don...following you right from Kenya.You are such wonderful instructor.Just one question.How can i join you in a weekly chat? Keep up good job!!!

@fineshooter

6 жыл бұрын

go to my web page there is a link there=DixieBeeSupply.com

@PatrickRutto

4 жыл бұрын

Following too from Kenya..