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1. One of the supers that has been robbed from the hive.
3. We heat the uncapping knife to make it slide, much easier, through the wax.
5. This one is almost halfway done. You can see the honey, now.
7. Our extractor holds two frames at a time.
9. The frames in the extractor.
12. The honey that was spun out of the frames has dripped down into the bottom of the extractor. All that is left to
do is fill our jars with it!
The finished product! We had three hives this year and harvested 50 quarts of honey. We plan to add four more hives in
the spring of 2011.
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2. This frame of honey is ready to be uncapped.
4. Once all the cappings are removed, the frame will be ready to go into the extractor.
6. This frame is completely uncapped and ready for the extractor.
8. When the frames are in, we spin the extractor. When it stops, we turn the frames around and spin, again. This
cleans both sides of the frames.
10. Spinning the extractor
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