Beekeeping | When And How To Add Your Honey Super

I’m a 1970 baby, but close enough to have all the same memories. I miss those days 😢

“Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale…” David, I’m 68, grew up in small town Illinois, and totally identified with your Coffee Time. We had a guy who worked in a hardware/lumber store who was the TV repairman. You’d call him (four numbers), tell him what the TV was or wasn’t doing, and he’d bring ONE tube! I’m a first year beekeeper and find your videos essential. Thank you!!

Your bees are so calm. Mine act like they want to kill me 😂. They are well on the aggressive side.

Remember the tennis ball game? We were never allowed in the house except for dinner time as it would have been too crowded! Also it had to be cleaned without us kids in it. What a different world.

Love your reminiscing, that's exactly the way we were and that's the way it was ,thanks for the coffee time ,always enjoy it

God bless you

It was great growing up in the 60's & 70's, my dad was a TV repairman, I learned so much from him, I even helped him by working on radios.

Loved your coffee time! I think you might have been a little bit off on the price of gas back then. I was born in 78, got my first car at 15 in 93 and gas was less than a dollar a gallon. I remember being stationed in Virginia, traveling back home to Arkansas on leave and finding gas for 60 or 70 cents and feeling like you just struck gold 😂 When gas started encroaching on 2 bucks a gallon, I remember how pissed everyone was 😡

Divinity Mary Ann, early 60s, 27 cents a gallon, neighbors friend’s 2 mile walk, Best Friend and companion an old yellow Dog. We drove kids into the house in an attempt to add mom the driver. The words were “sit there and shut up”migrated from “seen and not herd”. Moms mobility started a new world.

Thanks David! This was very helpful!! 😁

As a new beekeeper I thoroughly enjoy your videos. Your knowledge and experiences are informative and extremely helpful. I appreciate each and every video.

Those were the good golden days!!😊

Awesome to reminisce with you

Thank you for making this video. You are definitely a great source of information and I really appreciate that. Your coffee time was good that reminds us of times pass. Our trials and tribulations in life should build our endurance says the Bible in the book of James. Thanks again. Bob McDougal

Very wholesome

I think you hit it when you said to put a super with a queen excluder when the second deep has five frames drawn out. Things happen fast when that second deep is half way drawn. I was taught beekeeping by a pollinator and a college professor whose big thing was beekeeping. The thought at the time was to only super up from a deep to the second deep when only two frames were left to draw out. When it was time to put the honey super on was the same thing. There was a process of moving frames from the outside to the second and ninth frame position, blah blah blah. But when the second box was drawn eight frames was when the honey super would be put on. No queen excluder because the bees wouldn't go through it. With your five frame idea I'm seeing how it might work with an excluder. I have a lot of full hives and it's only the middle of March and have already supered up for the maple nectar. But, I'm going to be doing splits to slow them down a bit. It'll be a good time to experiment with your second deep idea using queen excluders. I think I'll give it a go.

Yes it is sad to really think that we can never go back to that time in our history. It was simple and good people were caring and friendly. Summers were hot and the popsicles were cold it does hold a very special place but we have to move on God wants us to experience life.

You are awesome too David 😎 Thank you for your bee lessons 🐝🐝🐝

I look forward to coffee time! My boyfriend said why are you listening to that guy talk about his childhood 🤣😂 I told him aside from your great and awesome knowledge of bees, your coffee time is the best!!! Thank you so much for making me feel I am enough. I will get through this day and the past is the past. I needed that.

Banana Splits; the Monkees and so on. Ahhh, they were the days :)