Labrax
New Bee
- Joined
- Aug 7, 2012
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- 6
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- Location
- Port Talbot, South Wales
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 2
One of the large Beekeeping paraphanalia retailers has UniMel SS Tangential three frame extractors for sale @ £160. Does anyone have experience of this brand and is it a good price.
Also I did see mention of importing extractors from abroad somewhere on this forum (Germany I believe) but I'm damned if I can locate it again. Anyone gone down this route and with any advice? Are the savings financially worthwhile for manual extractors?
Finally, we borrowed an extractor for our (small - 54lb) honey harvest last year and an uncapping fork was the tool that was also provided. I notice that there are also rollers available for uncapping - they seem, to my inexperienced beekeeping eye, to be a better way to 'uncap' - pros and cons for either.
Any other 'Top Tips' (appreciate the top one will be to do the extracting in a bee excluding zone) gratefully received.
Cheers
John
Also I did see mention of importing extractors from abroad somewhere on this forum (Germany I believe) but I'm damned if I can locate it again. Anyone gone down this route and with any advice? Are the savings financially worthwhile for manual extractors?
Finally, we borrowed an extractor for our (small - 54lb) honey harvest last year and an uncapping fork was the tool that was also provided. I notice that there are also rollers available for uncapping - they seem, to my inexperienced beekeeping eye, to be a better way to 'uncap' - pros and cons for either.
Any other 'Top Tips' (appreciate the top one will be to do the extracting in a bee excluding zone) gratefully received.
Cheers
John
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