- I tell you, I was very excited too
when it actually worked.
(chuckles)
I actually put the tubes in and watched the honey come out.
I was sitting there going
(laughs)
What?
- I've cracked the Flow Hive.
It went really well.
I was completely amazed and surprised
at the amount of honey that came out.
It was easy to use
and there was very little disturbance to the whole hive.
I was skeptical at first,
I thought it might set off a frenzy of bees
coming to the back of the hive and rob all this honey.
But it didn't.
There was, there was no interest from the bees
at the front of the hive at all.
They just left me alone and I'm sitting at the back
with my two liter jar and the honey is just pouring out.
It was magnificent.
- Here we're using a Flow Hive
and I've seen the results of how this Flow Hive works.
It's a really interesting design.
A very easy way of actually getting honey out.
Less mess, it's a great idea.
You can bottle it straight in.
- Just streamlining the whole process
and making it so much of a simpler process
for people to be able to harvest their honey.
And not need an extractor and all the
extra equipment that goes with that.
And so like the monetary and time commitment that comes with
traditional bee keeping is just gonna be completely changed.
If you're not getting grumpy bees cause
you're obviously stealing their honey then, yeah
then the kids can really get involved in getting down there
and checking it out and turning the tap
and being part of harvesting the honey they like to eat.
- I've spent hours taking honey out of hives
and this system is just, blows my mind.
- (indistinct)
- It is just astounding.
You can see where it's emptying from out of the hive.
It's just like the frame itself
the honey is just absolutely kind of draining down
on this slightly beveled areas
and draining out of the top ones
and you virtually see the honey running down
to the bottom of the hide and then out of this pipe.
It's the most extraordinary, wonderful
invention.
As I said, kind of grand design
in a box with this just golden honey pouring out.
It's absolutely fantastic.
Very exciting to be here and be a part of that.
Very exciting for the kids here to be
and to see this actually happening.
And the bees are not particularly worried.
They obviously know somethings going on
because these end combs have drained out.
- It's this over simplistic idea of how a hive can work
and yet you've actually accomplished that.
That's, that's amazing.
Yeah, that's just mind boggling really, the concept is.
You know nothing ever works out the same in reality
because you don't foresee the problems
but frankly, you know
I've seen your videos and I've seen this
and I really can't perceive a lot of problems.
It looks like you got it pretty well worked out.
You just saved a thousand dollars buying an extractor
and a bunch of equipment
that you don't need anymore because you can just
go out and drain it out of the hive.
That's mind boggling.
Bee keepers come up with all sorts of little gadgets
and most of them are interesting
maybe they're little helpful
for the most part I find, I've tried almost all of them
and most of them are umm, you know it's a nice idea
but it doesn't really change what you're doing,
it doesn't change bee keeping, it doesn't change
it's not revolutionary.
This is revolutionary.
- And they're still working, that's the really cool thing
they seem totally un-disrupted.
And they're entering and exiting at the front of the hive.
I really can't imagine how this won't revolutionize
backyard bee keeping and beyond probably.
- Yeah.
- It just makes it so accessible for anyone to
to be able to have a hive and reap all the many
many joys of having so much honey.