Harmony Hollow - 2nd Story Soffit Honeybee Removal
Hit that subscribe button! YouTube says that 98% of the viewers of my channel are not subscribers! 2018 - 2nd Honeybee removal of the season. These bees look to have been in place for about 2-3 years from the darker color of the comb. Once the trees fill out with foliage, that portion of the roof-line is shaded, making it a decent spot for a home. Squirrels had chewed open the wood - exposing the space for the bees to move in. Great demeanor of bees, solid brood pattern, and already placed in the bee yard. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEhwqgEhkW8
Beeswax Wood Conditioner by Harmony Hollow. Made with food-grade mineral oil and natural beeswax. Fantastic wood sealer for wooden items such as: butcher's blocks, kitchen utensils, cutting boards, salad bowls, wooden spoons, and much much more. Seals the wood and highlights the natural wood grain.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fCHmT14oMg
How To Make Chai! A quick demo (and blooper section at the end!!) on making a very basic chai. (Spiced tea). This batch is made with coconut milk.
Other "milks" can be used - such as Almond, Coconut, Soy, or Cashew (some say that cashew tastes the best of these alternatives to dairy milk)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYyj2DcJGGY
About 10 days worth of comb built. This video is a bit longer, but shows some of the opening/construction aspects of honeybee removals. These bees were very docile (but I suit up anyway).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa343pMpgyg
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A customer contacted me to purchase honeybee colonies, woodenware, and hive stands for a property.
The location was too muddy initially - so had to stage the cinder blocks and landscape timbers until the field had dried up enough to not get stuck.
The hive stands were setup, then woodenware brought - and finally - the colonies were brought in and transferred to the 10-frame woodenware.
Part 2 is here:
https://youtu.be/CvzLGtBfnLA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p863ZBLcWEg
These bees were entering the gap between brick and the trim ABOVE a 2nd floor arched entryway. (so effectively a 3rd floor soffit in height). After reviewing the heat signature of the bees between the inner sheathing and the brick (1-1/2"-2" space). This removal included (2) queens - and by the time the removal was done, the attic space was VERY hot. (guessing 150+ degrees for about the last 20-30 minutes that I was in there).
Forgive the lack of video - but it was just too confined, messy, and hot to spend much time filming.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtcmUta9wl4
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12-12-2017 - This bee removal was from a tree that had fallen in a golf course in a storm last week. If you like chainsaws.. look at the video. Love making the sawdust fly. ;) The rest of the tree was already cleared away - but the course maintenance crew wanted to make sure the colony survived - so called me for the removal. The comb was already teeming with small hive beetle larvae, and there was NO brood or eggs (we are near Winter Solstice) - so they are vacuumed into a collection box, and put onto drawn comb and pollen/honey in a small nucleus hive body to overwinter.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V3OGZAH8Qc
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This old ProSource UG2600 brushless generator has been giving me problems. Sometimes it would power a tool, sometimes it would not. Research showed it was likely the capacitor that excites the field windings to enable the AC voltage and current to be generated.
My replacement capacitor is a 24uf 350v capacitor. I bought (2) - so that I could have a spare in the glove box of my truck - just in case of emergency in the field.
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Links:
ShawnMrFixItLee:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0IrzO4Kt_90jUzK1udpwgA
BohemianUtopia - http://www.BohemianUtopia.com
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTOhvUwlJsg
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This video shows the extremely simple DIY process of making your standard honeybee frame feeder - which is known to drown bees - into a no-drown frame feeder.
The goal was to improve equipment I already own - with materials I already have - so the only additional expenditure would be my labor time for putting it together for it's improvement.
Be sure to watch to the end for a few bloopers and outtakes...
If you have any improvement ideas - give the video a "thumbs up" and comment below!
Enjoy!
Rex S.
HarmonyHollowApiary
BohemianUtopia.com
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnQtEdMYrhM
Re-made video here - that shows correct way of installing the hold-down plate.
https://youtu.be/RdPunUOBp5Q
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Rebuild - Reassembly of cleaned injectors for the rebuild. This video shows assembly only, and not disassembly or cleaning. ***** NOTE ***** At 20:45 in the video - the hold-down collar was installed 180 deg. from what it should have been installed. This has been noted in a few of the comments below. I had followed another person's rebuild instructions (George Tergin) - and he also has it incorrect in his video.
My fix for this mistake is shown here: https://youtu.be/bu0rav5MVz4
External O-Rings and copper washer will be a separate video.
Navistar 7.3L Diesel engines in Ford F250 and F350 PowerStroke SuperDuty trucks (and vans).
Also shown is shimming of the poppet armature plate and solenoid with shim kits available online. Tools and the rebuild kit were purchased from BitterRoot Diesel. The shim kit was purchased from eBay from a seller called "TruckRental".
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJRT09x1kEA