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I've just about busted a gut extracting honey this spring! The biggest flow in my 45 years of keeping bees has yielded (in honey buckets) 520 lbs**. This is from five producing colonies (I entered spring with eight: one became queenless, one superseded early, one became drone laying).
I have a nine-frame electric extractor and a large uncapping tray but a rather small kitchen - hardly room for SHMBO to help so her duties are confined to steam-mopping the floor after the chaos. Yesterday I extracted 10 boxes, taking five hours.
Now well into my 70s I'm wondering there are any outfits which offer an extraction service?
** I can't help wondering whether my bees are raiding the large sugar factory in Bury St Edmunds - but that's 7 miles away
I have a nine-frame electric extractor and a large uncapping tray but a rather small kitchen - hardly room for SHMBO to help so her duties are confined to steam-mopping the floor after the chaos. Yesterday I extracted 10 boxes, taking five hours.
Now well into my 70s I'm wondering there are any outfits which offer an extraction service?
** I can't help wondering whether my bees are raiding the large sugar factory in Bury St Edmunds - but that's 7 miles away
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