# Bee Vacuum build **URL:** \ **Category:** Equipment\ **Created:** [January 28, 2016, 4:38am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/bee-vacuum-build/4847 "2016-01-28T04:38:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Choate](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/bruce_choate/32/7986_2.png) [@Bruce\_Choate](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Bruce_Choate)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 4:38am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/bee-vacuum-build/4847/1 "2016-01-28T04:38:09Z")
Something I built to recover swarms, it uses 8-frame boxes, so I can use my Flow hive brood box with it. Suction pressure is just about perfect, not too strong to the point that it will hurt the bees. ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/2X/2/2d2ae7a27b318af2a53bb57f155a6861dceffba0.JPG) ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/2X/3/3322477a0a9f2ebccc3fb530f327138831ac1b6d.JPG) ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/2X/9/96792932a61c410345f3574f586c2830bbbb256a.JPG) ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/2X/8/8d8d9cfb76949e31b9a5812c4576e080e8edc018.JPG) ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/2X/1/15b5b5d4f18a314d7748455388cf9600f3d32017.JPG) ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/2X/0/0d510a533441980d44353c6c945d4536c258f3b7.JPG) ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/2X/c/c8fdb00213a6651a05190b953c9c3b58a084d066.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![Gerald\_Nickel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/gerald_nickel/32/1910_2.png) [@Gerald\_Nickel](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Gerald_Nickel)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 5:26am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/bee-vacuum-build/4847/2 "2016-01-28T05:26:42Z")
Bruce, Awesome job n pix’s of that Bee Vac ! Just getting back into beekeeping after long time away. Not ready myself to venture into advances swarm retrieval yet. Did it a lot as a kids but usually in trees n bushes. Again great pix’s ! ---
**Author:** ![Dawn\_SD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/dawn_sd/32/15954_2.png) [@Dawn\_SD](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Dawn_SD)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 5:58am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/bee-vacuum-build/4847/3 "2016-01-28T05:58:39Z")
Fascinating, I am really looking forward to hearing how it works out for you. Please post more! Dawn ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Choate](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/bruce_choate/32/7986_2.png) [@Bruce\_Choate](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Bruce_Choate)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 6:32am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/bee-vacuum-build/4847/4 "2016-01-28T06:32:24Z")
Been a long time for me as well, but now that I’m retired because of health issues, I need a new hobby. At an apartment complex I stay at during the week, we get an average of 2 swarms a season and where they like to hide is difficult to get to without the use of a vacuum. Usually I’d call a beekeeper to recover them and they keep wondering why I don’t do it myself. My reply was as a kid the one job on the farm I hated the most was honey extraction and clean up. With the Flow Hive I decided to give it another go. ---
**Author:** ![Dee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/dee/32/5840_2.png) [@Dee](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Dee)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 11:54am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/bee-vacuum-build/4847/5 "2016-01-28T11:54:11Z")
There was time a few years back when I could have done with just such a thing. Jeff has a video of holding a brood frame over a swarm and they all marched on. Mind you, you can only do that in your own apiary. > [@Bruce\_Choate](#): > > I hated the most was honey extraction and clean up. Do you know…I love that. I shut myself in the sun room, put some music on, don my surgical scrubs and spend a hot sunny afternoon spinning the honey into buckets. Wonderful.The bees gave their lives for that honey…they deserve a little toil in return…just my feeling ---
**Author:** ![Dawn\_SD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/dawn_sd/32/15954_2.png) [@Dawn\_SD](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Dawn_SD)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/bee-vacuum-build/4847/6 "2016-01-28T18:36:28Z")
We brought our home-built honey spinner with us all the way from the UK, so of course we had to have 230V power installed in the kitchen for honey extraction! 😄 Fortunately, Langstroth medium frames just about squeeze into it (they are 2 inches longer than BS frames)!