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Prepare and Light the Smoker

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Honey Bees: How I prepare My Bees for Winter

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What happens here

Unroll a piece of burlap and light one end using a lighter or matches. Once the burlap catches fire, gently place it inside the smoker chamber. Close the smoker lid and use the bellows to pump air through the fuel, fanning the flames until a steady stream of cool, white smoke emerges from the nozzle. The goal is a smoldering, not flaming, burn, as hot smoke can agitate bees. A small amount of burlap can provide 20-30 minutes of smoke.

Goal: Properly ignite the smoker fuel and get the smoker producing a cool, white smoke before approaching the hives.

Tools and materials

  • Bee Smoker
  • Lighter/Matches
  • Burlap

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to light your smoker so we've got our burlap sack we cut it in half you got our cigarette lighter and we have our smoker we're going to take our burlap stuff it in our smoker just a little ways and we're going to turn it up and light it and it immediately catches up this is why I've been using burlap stuffing in a little bit light a little bit more get it burning good like this got a good flame going there stuff it in my smoker give it some puffs put that flame ketchup feed it some oxygen we're burning good I'm going to turn it upside down a little bit so it catches up and that's how we light our smoker now we got the smoker rolling Cheech and Chong style one thing I may not have mentioned is to

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