HOT knife vs HEAT gun? The WINNER IS? http://www.mahakobees.com/blog Here, we study the claim that a heat gun is faster and generally better for uncapping raw honey frames. Take a look and you be the judge!
There are many ways you can extract a fresh fully capped honey frame. Generally, most smaller home based or hobby beekeepers will uncap their honey frames using a HOT knife (see our tempting closeup Beekeepers Hot Knife Uncapping Video -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iqfW_0EHVw), Serrated Kitchen knife, or the Beekeeping Uncapping Fork. This is sufficient for beekeepers with 1 to possibly 50 beehives. It may get too time consuming to use these methods beyond this number of hives and automation may be a wise choice with semi or fully automated spinning uncapping blades or wires.
There is however, yet another method that has been revealed on numerous other beekeeping YouTube videos and beekeeping websites. This involves the use of a HEAT gun. So, we thought we would give it a try, bought ourselves a ROK Heat Gun and recorded the process and results of this experiment. Our part 1 video examines the results one could expect by using this HEAT gun method, and we compare the results with the more traditional beekeepers HOT knife method. We explain both in detail so you can make your own opinion, and hopefully try and test them yourself following our easy instructions. Both are a valid method, both have their unique benefits and disadvantages and both may suit you depending on your specific application and situation.
In part 2, we will review the results in more detail - post honey extraction. Make sure you don’t miss it. We hope you find our videos valuable enough to share with your family, friends, colleagues and beekeeping associations, subscribe and if you would like to let us know how we are doing, please press the thumbs up or down accordingly. Your feedback is very important to us and we appreciate your time.
BEE nice and have a great beekeeping weekend! MahakoBees
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how’s ur quarantine going? Pieces of our continued #quarantinelife since the beginning up until this morning, minus my severely traumatic July which is NOT anything I’m ready to share…but yeah, We spend most of the days outside, occasionally I get dressed for NO REASON, love watching the animals (mostly me). I’ve learned bees, while they look like tiny fuzzy bears, are not interested in cuddling or getting pet. Very poor communication skills but I’ve quickly learned what “butt in the air” means. Chickens are velociraptors who hide in bushes, they remember things and never attack the same place twice. Very clever girls. The dogs are just as insane as me and the kids ♀️ the kids, husband and I are officially even more nuts than pre-Rona and there’s no saving us. Bye Hope IG doesn’t delete this cuz of the music but I absolutely do not own the rights to the song by Sales - “Renee” #covid19 #coronavirus #outdoorliving #ilovemychickens #beekeeping #familyfarm (at Altadena) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDb_67hndG_/?igshid=1plbv86wrdob0
Terry Parris Jr. created Bee Detroit, a video about beekeeping in the city of Detroit. Proof that you don’t have to live in a rural area to harvest bees.
More than 100 agricultural crops are pollinated by bees, imagine having to do all of this by hand! Honey can help those with allergies since the bees collect pollen from plants around where you live, the small amounts present in the honey you eat (provided you’re eating local honey) can help immunize the body meaning minimal reactions during the allergy season.
Don’t forget the many uses in skin and hair care that honey provides.
