🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

[Apis mellifera]

I need some information about rendering wax. It might be too late to build a solar melter, and I don't want to do it on the stove, for safety reasons.

Yes, stove top wax rendering is dangerous. Fine filtering rendered wax in the oven is fine. I always used a double boiler outside until I made a steam wax melter. The problem with solar is they only work okay here in the peak of summer when I don't have much wax to clean. Steam wax melters are too expensive for what you get, same with solar wax melters if you don't build them yourself. I'm sorry I didn't build a steam wax melter in my earlier years, it works great, and you can render a lot of wax quickly.

 

[drstratton]

Yesterday's honey haul.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

Major... I'm Rockin this look better than I thought.

OOOOHKAY!

 

[5Australorpasaures]

Weighed the 5 gal buckets of finished honey one 63.2 lbs the other 59.9 lbs. Two lb coffee can packed tight with nice white wax. Bees are cleaning up 30 frames and decapping tub that I hope will give the one hive enough to finish off a last med super that was only about 65-70% capped. Since it's honey should just be a pack and cap for them. I'll check it in 2 wks.

 

[drstratton]

Weighed the 5 gal buckets of finished honey one 63.2 lbs the other 59.9 lbs. Two lb coffee can packed tight with nice white wax. Bees are cleaning up 30 frames and decapping tub that I hope will give the one hive enough to finish off a last med super that was only about 65-70% capped. Since it's honey should just be a pack and cap for them. I'll check it in 2 wks.

Awesome, sounds like a very successful harvest. So you'll have one more extraction?

 

[Sally PB]

Weighed the 5 gal buckets of finished honey one 63.2 lbs the other 59.9 lbs.

how many hives do you have?

 

[5Australorpasaures]

Awesome, sounds like a very successful harvest. So you'll have one more extraction?

Hopefully the last medium, will probably pull it regardless because I run 2 deeps over winter.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

how many hives do you have?

I have 3 but one is the split I made in the spring and I'm not taking anything from it the first yr. It has done well. If all goes well through the winter I will be making another split in the spring. For some reason our fall flow is more productive than our spring. I don't take much from them in the early summer because of our hard dearth. I get some carry over into the late summer I guess which is fine as I like the mix of left over and fall honey more than the sweet spring honey that the family likes.

 

[drstratton]

Hopefully the last medium, will probably pull it regardless because I run 2 deeps over winter.

We're planning to run 2 deeps over winter also.