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How to Choose Honey Harvesting Equipment

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You have your hives and bees. Now you need to retrieve the honey.

Difficulty: Moderate
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • Electric Uncapping Knife
  • Uncapping Bench And Tub
  • Jars Or Plastic Honey Bear Containers
  • Large Pan
  • Punch
  • Punch
  • extractor - nonreversible, reversible or radial

    Extracting Equipment

  1. Step 1

    Estimate the number of supers to be harvested, both now and in the future.

  2. Step 2

    Determine overhead costs vs. output of marketable honey.

  3. Step 3

    Select electric or hand-turning extracting equipment.

  4. Step 4

    Choose uncapping equipment. Purchase an uncapping tub and bench and an electric knife or plane for large harvests or a large pan found in the canning section and a punch or capping scratcher for smaller harvests.

  5. Equipment to Prepare and Store Honey

  6. Step 1

    Choose a honey-straining method. Strain from the extractor into a holding tank or straight from the extractor to jars.

  7. Step 2

    Talk to people about the sizes of honey they would be interested in purchasing.

  8. Step 3

    Look at the sizes of honey containers available at the grocery store.

  9. Step 4

    Select jars or containers to store honey.

Tips & Warnings
  • You can use the extractor as the holding tank and strain the honey straight into the jars to save on the cost of purchasing a holding tank.
  • Most honey purchased by customers is in 1-lb. jars or smaller.

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