And the grand total is.... 200lbs!! That's a lot of honey. I spent saturday afternoon at Sweet and Simple Apiaries for the extraction and got five five-gallon buckets of honey. Now I'm in the process of getting it filtered and bottled.
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This is
the uncapping machine: it's kind of like a giant electric bread knife
that slices the wax caps off the surface of the honeycomb so it can go
into the extractor.
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Here's the extractor filled with frames of uncapped honeycomb. I think this one held around 30 frames.
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| The honey pours out of the extractor into these plastic bins that have a filter on top to catch chunks of wax and debris. I think I filled three or four of these. |
The proof: my receipt for the day's work. The guys were having fun joking around that I'd produced almost double my weight in honey!
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| My haul: the buckets were so heavy that I had to use the wheelbarrow to move them around. |
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After
I lugged the buckets home, I started filtering the honey in this bucket
which then can be used to fill other buckets and jars.
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