flemage
House Bee
- Joined
- Jul 23, 2010
- Messages
- 329
- Reaction score
- 2
- Location
- South Devon uk
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 7 ish
Well I finally did it........ in my third year I have taken some honey!
I have an older radial extractor I think it was from swinty originally? It has a white motor and the only sticker which I can read leads me to a German stainless steel manufacture.
Any way I was extracting 10 frames national deeps (brood sized), and two of the frames bust, the first one there was bits of frame wood all over the place, the second it just bust the comb out of the frame. Not sure if it makes a difference but this was at different times during the extraction.
I was advised to operate the machine by putting it on half speed one way first then to go flat out the other direction then go flat out in the first direction. Also to balance the frames within the cage.
Does this happen a lot or am I doing it wrong? Hopefully in the future I wont be using deeps but that’s what I had at this time.
However I still have a bucket full of honey, its just that the strainer has had its work cut out with all the wax etc.
Thanks
I have an older radial extractor I think it was from swinty originally? It has a white motor and the only sticker which I can read leads me to a German stainless steel manufacture.
Any way I was extracting 10 frames national deeps (brood sized), and two of the frames bust, the first one there was bits of frame wood all over the place, the second it just bust the comb out of the frame. Not sure if it makes a difference but this was at different times during the extraction.
I was advised to operate the machine by putting it on half speed one way first then to go flat out the other direction then go flat out in the first direction. Also to balance the frames within the cage.
Does this happen a lot or am I doing it wrong? Hopefully in the future I wont be using deeps but that’s what I had at this time.
However I still have a bucket full of honey, its just that the strainer has had its work cut out with all the wax etc.
Thanks