 One of the challenges that a lot of new beekeepers have is lighting a smoker and keeping it lit. Because the first thing that you want to do is to be able to, number one, light that smoker and create cool smoke for the bees. But the second part of that is keeping it lit. No one wants to be in a bee yard surrounded by bees and your smoker go out. So let me show you how to do that. First thing you can do is get your smoker and of course this one's been well used as you see. And I put a little starter material here. In this case I have cypress shavings because I work my bee boxes and cypress and these are the wood shavings from them. So I'm going to go ahead and light that up, let it burn and as you can see there, you know, it's burning a little bit. I'm going to give it a few puffs and you want to puff it and you want that smoke, that fire going really strong. Because you're just getting it lit right now. So I'm kind of getting it getting it lit and you can use any kind of smoker material you want. If you have pine needles, burlap sacks, almost anything, you want something that's going to burn slow. Well you see this is burning kind of fast. So now what I do is they have these wood pellets that I'm going to go ahead and put in there. I'm going to continue to smoke. So I'm getting some pretty good smoke going now. Put a little more so you can kind of see in there, you know, it's starting to really get going. Don't be in a hurry, lighten your smoker. It takes a little while to get it going good. So it's actually going pretty good right now. So we'll put the top on and you want to put your hand in front of it and feel it. If it's warm you don't want to use it on the bees because you don't want to go and barbecue your bees when you're trying to just check on them. So this is nice cool smoke and that's exactly what we want on the bees.