Our neighbor has several hives and invited us over to watch him extract his honey.
A few of his hives.
Our hives have little frames, his hives have large frames. About 3 times bigger than ours. He starts with cutting the capped wax off the frames.
He put the frames in…
Then turns the hand crank as fast as he can. You can see the honey fly off the frames and to the sides of the bucket.
After turning a few frames, there was a few inches of honey in the bottom of the bucket.
The bucket was then drained into a ….
Lots of honey. And he still had several boxes to do!
The honey drips from the …to the bucket below. The honey will then be transferred to jars and into the cupboard.
We had to taste the honey and it was very tasty!