Radial or Tangential

[Liam C Ryan]

.Which is the best to use Radial or Tangential extractors?

 

[Winker]

With only 2.5 hives I would just borrow your local associations extractor and save the cash.

But to answer your question I prefer Radial so as not have to swap the frames around from one side to the other.

 

[Hivemaker.]

Radial with screens,you then have the option to use it as a tangential if needed.

 

[hedgerow pete]

radial every time

 

[drstitson]

I'm with HM - radial with screens.

I went from 12 framer that can manage LS brood radially and jumbos with the screens.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Radial with screens,you then have the option to use it as a tangential if needed.

I have a great value one from AgriNova

 

[Rosti]

Radial with screens,you then have the option to use it as a tangential if needed.

an uncharecteristic level of agreement here!

 

[drstitson]

it's peri-xmas (see other thread).

 

[Poly Hive]

If you are not intending going to Heather then there is no need for tangential.

PH

 

[YorkshireBees]

I agree with all the above.

My best purchase this year was a new 9 frame radial electric extractor with screens.

I have put it to good use this year (mainly OSR crop) and even used the screens for some brood sized frames that I needed to clear!

 

[Nic Rhodes]

I think most of us do radial with honey supers but like the option of screens to extract that odd deep jumbo frame. Paricularly useful if you draw out brood frames as honey super initially. The option to have both is very useful.

 

[drex]

Two threads with all in agreement. Must all be going soft!

Bah humbug.

I myself like the Giordan radial + screens.

However an extractor is a big expense when you first start out.

 

[Into the lions den]

OP did not say just what was intended to be done with the extractor..........as Polyhive observes, if heather is involved then the advice to go radial is not sound. Insufficient info from OP I'm afraid, although that very lack of info perhaps says it all anyway and a radial would be fine.

 

[Ross]

+1 for radial with screens, I find the screens useful if the honey is slightly granulated in the frames and won't come out easily when extracted radially.

 

[oliver90owner]

.Which is the best to use Radial or Tangential extractors?

I resisted earlier as my answer was to be 'They will both do the job in most instances'.

Horses for courses. Price range, number of colonies (present and potential), type of honey (heather), are all factors.

Fewer blown frames with a tangential if there is any granulation. Radials are quicker, but frame sizes will be more limited.

I would say an electric extractor is the best.

So an 'elecrificated radial with tangenteral screens and of generous (at least adequate) size' might be the best option, but that costs most money than a simple single option..

There are loads of extractor threads if the search facility is used.

My manual nine frame radial with tangential screens cost a couple hundred quid a decade ago, so they are probably better value now, what with the wider choice and more competition.

Neither is really appropriate (or necessary) for the TBHers!

As usual, it is a question of where to stop with a thread like this. Just like the thread asking for a 'yes or no' answer regarding extractors recently, going to 3 pages or so.

RAB

 

[mazzamazda]

I don't do honey but intend to when I finally move to Portugal.

What is the difference between the two extractors?

 

[drstitson]

"What is the difference between the two extractors?"

the names. which describe the orientation of the frames.

 

[Monsieur Abeille]

The cheaper end of the market tend to be tangentals. Otherwise as everyone else, radial with screen attachments for larger frames