I commend you for this technique Ian. It's just another example which demonstrates you can run a commercial size operation while being considerate and thoughtful to the bees you raise. I enjoyed listening to you speak about adapting, modifying and implementing changes to a strategy. Designing a 'baby step' approach toward sustainability to maintain a low to no cost expenditure would be ideal. It certainly doesn't happen over night. Keep kicking ass with your bees!!! Watching all your progress throughout the season has been outstanding! Thanks again for spending your time fooling around in front of the camera. Wishing for nothing less but the best of success!! 🐝🐝🐝☮️☯️

It does matter what we think!!! - you're doing a super job! And you're passing it on to the rest of us! Adapt, progress, tweak and pass it onto thousands of others so they can send you their tweaks too!

A highly refined business model that takes constant tweaking, and the ability to adapt to all kinds of life issues, make you a consummate professional in your industry. Thank you for bringing your story to the masses! You are truly a joy to watch! 👍

This video brings to mind the song, "SMOOTH OPERATOR". Team work at it's finest along with some great words of time honored wisdom. Thanks Ian.

Great words Ian. A time, a purpose, and a flow for everything.

But what you think does matter to people like me because we take great inspiration from you. Seeing the details of your operation and hearing from you why you do things the way you do is very beneficial. Thank you for that.

Ive taken your process and applied it. It's made beekeeping very enjoyable. Maybe some day I can walk away from my job and be a full timer. Until then, im building my bees and buying my equipment.

You guys surprise me every time love your simplicity keep that work filosophy just do what you think is right

Thank you Ian for taking the time to share your experience and knowledge... I wish you and your family every success..

Very cool operation.👍👍👍

Great job explaining your operation Ian! I like your "KISS" strategy " Keep It Stupidly Simple" . It works with less stress on your body and your bee's might take an extra step but in the long run works out about the same. I commend you on hiring local kids to instill work ethics which is missing in today's society. As for that PINK J- Hook I got one too for $5.00 on sale blemished paint job works just as well as the $15.00 version. Keep up the great work educating us.

Ian, thank you for all of your videos, they have helped me ( and the beekeeping community) tremendously. This year I switched to running a single brood box on all of my hives like you. Would it be possible for you to do a video on the timeline, preparation and steps you perform getting your hives ready for winter? I try to keep up on all your videos but haven't found one that explains everything you do after you deem a hive "out of production" for the year and make the transition into winter. Thanks again for the videos!

@ryanwakefield9

4 жыл бұрын

@SpyingDutchman I did watch the video, albeit it's been a few months. I will go back and rewatch. I was just hoping for something short and sweet that includes bringing the nest back down to a single box, how many frames of honey is left in each single box etc...

Great operation, By the look of thing you are looking after the bees and you plus crew. Thankyou for sharing.

Bee escapes are the bees knees. I let them set for a few days under full medium supers. I have found that the MAJORITY of the bees in the boxes are drones that are to big to get thru the escapes.

Ian, I have a question if you want bees to grow in autumn. I have honey flow in winter from December to January.if i want colony grow i need feed them pollinate right ? but autumn bees will death

I like your thought process, that’s what I’m working towards, keeping it simple Is the red tape sealing the hole the coffee made in the veil?

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

4 жыл бұрын

Paul Horning Lol!!!

Two thumps up on what you do. Looks like it works great for your operation. I also hate robbing lol greedy little bees

@russiane.lection-hacker2057

4 жыл бұрын

Thumps?

@cornbreadbees5385

4 жыл бұрын

@@russiane.lection-hacker2057 lol misspelled should of been thumbs

Thank you!

Ian you speak is fantastic, incisive

Ian, how do all these bees fit? Too many of them!

Приятно смотреть 👍👍👍

Good stuff! Where do you get your escape boards?

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

4 жыл бұрын

brucesbees Www.lewisandson.ca

Hello, I love bees very much, there is a video of bees that is not right or wrong, please tell me

Just curious why you leave the queen excluded on after taking off the top 2 boxes

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

4 жыл бұрын

Steve Luepke No reason , we will get them next round

Ian, it seems like the tops you have for the three nuc pallets are not the same as a standard migratory top with an overhang in the front and rear. Why is that?

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

4 жыл бұрын

Wade Turner They just have not been modified yet

Is this one section all one beehive? Is there just one queen in? Also, how long do you have to wait until all the bees come down?

Could you please tell me how your bee-excluders are constructed?

Do you build the nucs yourself (or have them built)? .Seems like standard 5 frame nucs x 3 wouldn't be wide enough for to 10 frame supers side by side. How wide are the nucs, and do they hold 5 or 6 frames?

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

4 жыл бұрын

Rob Johnson 6 frames are 11” wide

@rsjohnson2u

4 жыл бұрын

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Thanks

Yes! beautiful! and who are the 12 idiot disciples that disliked this? lol Excellent info / advice and explanation of your developed strategy. You have saved me TONS of time for the future! Thank you!

Are you going to start treatment soon?

at 7:37... Is that Carrie's pink hive tool that she has been looking for in your back pocket. And Ian, you know at some point the world is going to want an explanation about the duct tape on your veil-hood. My first reaction was; Big Oops when lighting the smoker LOLOL, but then I thought better of you and now have my money on; one of the new workers sliced their veil and you being considerate said " I can't make my workers work in unsafe or in compromised equipment, so I will bite the bullet and wear the duct-taped suit like a badge of honor" Am I right, or am I right?. Huh? Work Hard, Be SAFE, and Have as much fun dong what you do best!

@chrism4673

4 жыл бұрын

Glen Copeland 😅

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

4 жыл бұрын

😂

You have probably answered this previously but where do you get your bee escapes? Thank you.

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

4 жыл бұрын

Larry Wedding www.lewisandsons.ca

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

4 жыл бұрын

Larry Wedding They have a cone design unlike anyone else, buy the cones, the frames can be built easy enough

Super! 👍

@pustotnistbitiya

4 жыл бұрын

Доброго дня Ярославе. А можете прокоментувати, що саме супер? То я бачу, робота налагоджена, але чи є від того задоволення... Пізніше гляну по субтитрам, що той пан розказує. Цікава ваша думка.

@zongshunliang9928

4 жыл бұрын

@@pustotnistbitiya please speak English i don't understand Russia language

@savvasfly

4 жыл бұрын

Артьоменко Сергій Сергій, я на рахунок під'йомника - класна штука не тільки для вуликів а й в майстерні така б не помішала.

@pustotnistbitiya

4 жыл бұрын

@@savvasfly дякую

@pustotnistbitiya

4 жыл бұрын

@@zongshunliang9928 then the Ukrainian language. I have already received the answer. successes

Good afternoon, Ian! The car is just agony! Was this crane manufactured individually for the machine? Or are these sold ready-made?

@sunshaker01

4 жыл бұрын

That is an Ezyloader, he has 2 one on each truck. www.ezyloader.com/

@YevgeniyTimchenko

4 жыл бұрын

@@sunshaker01 thank you very much! 👍👍👍

Someone who hasn't done beekeeping before (like me) can understand

Ian how many gallons of sucrose per 6frame nuc?

@russiane.lection-hacker2057

4 жыл бұрын

If you mean for wintering them in, 2.2 gallons Imperial / 2.6 gallons US, minus what they already have stored, for a full 6 frame Langstroth hive. My $0.02

I think a pink hive tool really suits you!!does Carrie know your using it!!😂😊👍🐝🐝

@markbutters5829

4 жыл бұрын

The truth is its Ian's, he only lends it out to special employees

@richardnoel3141

4 жыл бұрын

Mark Butters 🤔🤫

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

4 жыл бұрын

😂

Hi. Very interesting re the robbing covers - How long do you keep the covers on for?

How do those covers stop robbing?

@10peteo

4 жыл бұрын

Bees can't find a Crack to exploit if the cover is over the boxes. He has old boxes in the mix that have bee size holes in them. Same as all of us.

Aren't you worried that when shaking the bees off the queen excluders you might accidentally drop the queen outside her hive?

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

4 жыл бұрын

Russ Ian E. Lection-Hacker The excluder is still under the escape

@russiane.lection-hacker2057

4 жыл бұрын

​@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog I knew there had to be something. :) I'm not using excluders that intensively, guess that's why I didn't figure that one out for myself.

@russiane.lection-hacker2057

4 жыл бұрын

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Do you notice any difference in the drone cycle when using excluders? I have the impression that workers start kicking drones out sooner when I'm using excluders in a hive.

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

4 жыл бұрын

Russ Ian E. Lection-Hacker I have no experience without using excluders

Ian just curious it looks like you end up with more bee than they can fit in the brood box; how do you manage the bee overcrowding after you harvest the honey supers ?

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

4 жыл бұрын

markspc1 The old summer bees are close to dying off. Next week they will fit if not already

@markspc1

4 жыл бұрын

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog I see, thks.

What 9 knuckle heads would give this video thumbs down??!!

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

4 жыл бұрын

C Mooner 😂 cheers man 👍

How long do you wait with that bee escape in there before you remove the honey

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

4 жыл бұрын

Darren Bigboy 2-3 nights

Funny I know like all the answers to all these questions people are asking . Like a stalker or something.. all about timing.

I can't believe some people use a leaf blower with exhaust fumes... Just drives me crazy how little some think about contaminating the honey.

@mikeries8549

4 жыл бұрын

Electric fumes are the worst.

@oneshoo

4 жыл бұрын

If you choose to take the blower route, there are wayyy to many battery operated blower models out there to choose from. Certainly no exhaust.

@George-nx5lo

4 жыл бұрын

One Shoo does an Eletric blower produce exhaust?? Obviously not that is why I said exhaust fumes. Seen a lot of commercial keepers use gas powered

@George-nx5lo

4 жыл бұрын

Mike Ries no shit that is why I said exhaust fumes

@oneshoo

4 жыл бұрын

keeper01 What do you mean by exhaust?? Do you mean air blowing out at high speed produced by a fan in the unit??? Or the exhaust produced by an internal combustion engine???

hello winch engine 12 volt mu.of road winch engine can you give me information

Blown away.

Pipipipipip

Me gustaría ver los videos con subtitulo en español

Podrías traducirlo al español??

So, Ian. Are you willing to divulge How many pounds of honey you harvest this year? Or an average of pounds per colony? I know it's your business and understand if you wish to keep these numbers close to your vest.

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

4 жыл бұрын

George Higdon I’m not done yet 😊

@allsmilz7234

4 жыл бұрын

I'd bet his avg. will be above 300 lbs.per colony this year.

@zongshunliang9928

4 жыл бұрын

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Ian i want to know you last year product, how many honey ?

@mikeries8549

4 жыл бұрын

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog I try very hard to keep away from certain honey customers because every time I see them they're asking the same accounting questions. Goes straight to... "How many dollars per bee do you make on how many bees?". I laugh and say something stupid like, "first I have to name them all and put their ID tags on. Will be doing that this Saturday morning if you're interested in volunteering some time". "You won't get stung much".

@zongshunliang9928

4 жыл бұрын

@@mikeries8549 You know, if I keep bees like Ian, like 2500 boxes to 5500 boxes or even more than 7000. Then you have to know that production can make money, beekeeping like Ian, and I can say that making a lot of money here can make you rich quickly, and you can go all over the country to release bees, and every season has nectar. If the output is 100 to 200 tons, I can have three seasons, one winter flow , two spring honey flow , one summers, if latitude can be winter, it can be two blossoms.and winter flow honey is expensive, and it's delicious.

can you help me

hello sir

Vídeos en español por fabor gracias ok

Грабёж средь бела дня ПАКЕТЫ СУШЬ КОРПУСА И МЕДОНОСЫ ПЧЁЛ ЗИМОВАТЬ НА ЮГА ИЛИ ПРОДАТЬ ПО ДЕШЁВКЕ

Eu mesmo nunca comi mesmo verdade ele já veio vou falar