A very frustrating few days! Hi everyone, welcome to my channel.
This week has been really hard to work in. bees not happy, they cant fly out to the fields and fields of nectar. but there is some good news on the horizon weather wise!
Apiaries really difficult to work in. Cant get the truck in in most places so i have to resort to carrying hives and supers. hoping things turn around soon.
Hope you have a good season!
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Ole big guns walked right into that nickname.. my friends call me hillbilly.. we have nicknames over here ..
Looking good every day ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
What a great insight and a nice length video.
Richard BIG GUNS!
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Thank you Richard
Maybe get one of those motorized dollies one day Richard
Looking at all options Dan but when you don’t move many hives it’s not a good investment for me
Great video really enjoyed
I need to buy myself a mattock and a pick axe to complete the tool collection but I highly recommend the fiskars billhook as an all rounder; it is an absolute wonder tool to say the least 👍
Thanks for the tip, I do find loppers are always excellent to have handy! Brambles can be really thick!!😮💨
@@richardnoel3141 Loppers have been added to the shopping list 😅
You could do with a wheelbarrow there’s always places I can’t get to so I use a wheelbarrow
Wise move with the Van, there's nothing worse than getting stuck in a field. On the pallets, with the cost of timber now. It's much cheaper to buy them complete, by the time you buy timber, nails, cutting and assemble..
In recent years, I still think it’s a bit wasteful but we usually get 3/5 years out of a wooden pallet but ideally plastic palettes would be a better option but their about 20 euros each here
Man Richard playing with fire on those colonies you moved. I can’t believe you were able to open them without gloves and not get stung, bravo!
I got off lightly this time there is times in the past when I’ve done it was really shitty Bees and I’ve got absolutely hammered because I haven’t even got gloves on and I usually don’t have my suit done up but honestly thank you I know what you’re saying, but I believe you me I’ve suffered in the past LOL
Looks like you had a nice Spring day Richard. Ya that is 1 thing if you put in the work it keeps ya fit.
Richard, how thick are those building stone walls?
Richard, how would u feel if another beekeeper stopped on highway and hung swarm box on your property (apiary) line?
Not overly happy but literally as long as their on a piece of land that has the consent of the land owner there’s nothing I can do. 🤷🏼♂️ It’s interesting this debate, and has come up quite often and I’m actually okay though if I Swarm leaves my Apiary that I rent and goes into someone else’s garden I have to consider that lost property of mine. If someone put a Swarm Trap in the adjacent garden where my Swarm is gone to I think to be honest it’s rude and downright poor manners of that Beekeeper to do that. However, I lose Swarms all the time and most of them just disappear off into the ether and I would prefer they went into a Swarm Trap for someone to use it properly because then it wouldn’t die. Most professional Beekeeper bi know, firstly don’t have time but secondly, wouldn’t dream of putting Swarm Trap‘s around someone else’s Apiary, because it’s just basically extremely rude and morally wrong. If my Swarms go into someone else’s garden and I can retrieve them obviously I will , but the funny thing is, A lot of people don’t know that that if you put a Swarm Trap in the vicinity of someone’s Hives you need to be about 200 m from that Apiary to actually have the best chances of trapping that Swarm. If, indeed, it got to the point of swarming because naturally Bees always like to leave and Apiary and find somewhere else about 200m or further away from where the Swarm was emitted. Not always, but in many cases, that’s what genetics dictate..
@@richardnoel3141 I agree Richard. I thought very rude and in poor taste.
Mostly when Ive had swarms, they first land on a tree nearby, within 50', for few hrs, then later fly off in the sky far away, not to be seen again.
I use a weal barrow my back is not what it used to be
I do too but not this time. It would have been better lol 😊
With all your recent investments in building the business, have you not considered including a Kaptarlift, maybe the electric version, to help moving the hives and collecting supers, and save your back!?
No most of my apiaries are non migratory. There is a palette lift coming up soon that i am ordering this week. The rest I usually have enough help. I may consider in the future. I’ve just been looking at those myself and they certainly are a good tool but I have to spread to the investment carefully size it everything is finished and I can at least to use the building to optimal usage.
Better huffing and puffing instead of effing and jeffing
😂😂😂, there was a few expletives 😂