How we bottle Honey

Bottling with a Dadant 850lb Honey Tank

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[DirtRooster]

You don’t realize how nice those drip less valves are until you’ve used a gate valve for a while.

[yasminnilima]

You so love your wife. Love seeing how much you do for each other!

[horizontalbees]

Way to go Laurel, make him work..🤫Honey crop this year is looking really good!!

[yasminnilima]

Love your T-shirt! I long for when I myself can bottle up that much! 🥰❣

[Allan]

I found bottleing honey to be the most satisfying part of having bees.

[dreww]

Great video. Greetings from Northern Ireland

[rayjohnson]

Attach a chain to a base drum pedal!! Step on pedal, fill bottle?! That way your hands are free for the mandolin!!! Rusty LOL

[massachusettsprepper]

That is a very nice tank and it would be perfect for the automatic bottling machine as a holding tank. I have a 16-gallon heated tank that I currently use for bottling but I want to set up my automatic bottling machine as well and something this size probably worked very well as the storage tank. Thanks for sharing.

[WalkerBeeRanch]

why do they put the valve so high on the tank, seems like there is always alot of honey sitting in the bottom

[timefly]

i assume you have some kind of lift to get drums up that high to re-fill the tank?

[jamesmiller]

I got a Mann Lake honey keg this winter and will be using it for the first time this week. Warmed honey and that valve should make bottling so much easier. Just pulled my first 52 medium frames of capped spring honey here in Iowa. Let the sticky season begin!

[larryschoenberger]

Hey Lamont, watching that video when you explaining that hole in the handle. From the outside looking in you could probably hook that up to a foot pedal😉 you would have to two part it with a little pulley. That way instead of pulling it down 6 in you would only be pulling it down 3 inches with your foot. Hope that makes sense. I watch a lot of your videos but I do not comment a lot. I have been doing a lot of studying and watching a lot of videos but this is my first year in beekeeping. I am known to myself as the bootleg beekeeper LOL I just caught my second very large swarm. They appeared last night and clustered under the swarm trap without going in. I did not want a chance of them resting and flying away so I got my homemade bee vac and went to work. Both swarmz had enough bees for two 10 frame boxes each

[twitchygene]

Every bottle you fill is cash money. Once I get some property out of state I plan to do some beekeeping, idk how tik tok knew but all it took was 1 video about beekeeping and I've spent the last month on videos of a ton of other beekeepers. Good way to make some extra money while preserving the environment. Seems pretty therapeutic too.

[jerrydegroot]

Suggestion: a little bracket that you can move up and down and set your jar down and rest your hand.

[snappingbear]

Why is the valve mounted so high on the tank and not at the bottom? It looks like 15 gallons at least would be left behind.

[mrw]

Looking and looking and looking... Where can I buy your honey???? Can't find it anywhere lol

[bobfanning]

Good video. How do you handle the barrel of honey when filling the bottler?

[dandorosheff]

Hi Kamon. I think I recall that you screen the honey on the way into the drums? How do you fill your bottling tank? With a scoop of sorts out of the drum or some type of lift?

[tmart]

So how do you fill that tank with your drums of honey? Some sort of hoist system?

[donbearden]

Kamon, I will never need a bottling tank that big! Can you please tell me what size jars or boo you were filling in this video?