Extracting honey with the Hardin two frame extractor

[@TimK73]

Getting ready to do my first extraction ever. I have plenty of food grade 5 gal pails. Seems to me you can raise that and make it stable by putting bolts through the plywood, then up through 4x4s. With carriage bolts, it should make it permanent but with the bolts sticking up to set the holes on the feet in. Just thinking how I might have to do mine. Thanks.

[@CleanSlateFarm]

Yes you can do that. I didn't because I need to tip the extractor forward to completely drain the honey and be able to store the plywood. I was thinking some kind off hinge arrangement on the two front holes. Now that I'm thinking about it...hmmmmm. Gears are spinning in my head already. Thanks for watching and commenting! Let me know how it works out for you.

[@TimK73]

@@CleanSlateFarm will do. Glad I can get the gears rolling, lol.

[@bcasey101]

What do you do with the frames that you extract in the fall as far as storing them for the winter? We live in Michigan so there is only a spring and fall honey crop. Thanks

[@CleanSlateFarm]

They go back into the hive and the bees will clean up the wax and what honey is left in them. I try to get them back on as quickly as possible or the bees in the hive will start building comb all over the place. I made the mistake of leaving them out on the deck once....wasps and bees all over the place. Put the frames in a tub of some kind to minimize this. Thanks for watching!

[@l.k.b545]

You said you extracted 20 frames. Those appear to be mediums. About how much honey did you get? I will be extracting for the first time in about two weeks and I do not know how many bottles I should have ready

[@CleanSlateFarm]

We took about 110 pounds all told. It was just shy of two five gallon buckets full, each bucket at about 55 pounds. We uses 8 ounce canning jars with smooth sides we bought at Fillmore Container, not traditional honey jars. Thanks for watching and the comment. Let me know how you do. What part of the country are you in?