Extracting Honey

Here we are using a simple two frame tangential crank extractor. It will take deep, medium, and shallow frames.

I can see the value in a radial extractor. You do not need to remove the frames to do each side and there is less stress on the wax comb, which we want to save and reuse. As one side's honey is slung out the weight of the other side (regardless of how many wires you run wants to tear out. So a certain level of patience and observation/skill is necessary.

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[manvilletrain]

hey can you plz tell me where you got the extractor?

[CarriageHouseFarm]

This was from Dadant. While I think this is a great affordable extractor having used it to extract nearly 2400 pounds of honey this I find it a bit fragile.

If you wanted a system like it but more rugged I would go with a similar style one in stainless steel.

[CarriageHouseFarm]

It does the job just fine.

I am up to 28 colonies right now. I probably will not upgrade for another year.

So far I have extracted about 800# of honey using this extractor over the last 12 months...give or take.

If you are a hobbyist and run only a couple colonies look no further. Bets the heck out of crush and strain.

Its also nice to keep on the side to extract small amounts of specialty honey if you are running a 9/18 type radial or larger.

[CarriageHouseFarm]

I have found the value of the radial design over this tangential one. Even wired I have blown out frames as the weight of the honey on one side of the frame wants to tear through.

I am not too sure that putting a drill on it would help much.

I did avoid blowing out frames by switching them around twice rather than doing one side and then the other. THus taking a lot of weight off that other side before the other side is completely extracted.

Just a couple comments from my experience.

[TheVinceson]

mmmm... that bee vomit looks tasty

[captianusa]

How deep is it & how do you clean it ?

[rijashbk19]

good

this video seems to be terrific

[jldurham6]

where can a person find this extractor? I can only find extractors in the 200-500+ range.

[hethen57]

Where did you find an extractor for $100? Is this the import model that many bee supply places sell, that people say won't last very long becasue of plastic gears? It looks like it would get the job done for a backyard quantity of hives.

[WSAMPL00]

I have the same extractor too. I did the same thing and used a $15 Harbor Freight drill to run it. I could spin it so fast the plastic foundation would pop of of the wooded. The extractor runs $100 and the drill $15. I expect this extractor will easily last more than 5 years.