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  • Why Do We Keep Bees? [+]
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    • Removing the Supers
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      • Uncapping
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        • Honey Extraction video
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This ca 1920s engine-powered uncapper sitting on top of a radial extractor would have helped to speed the first part of the extraction process.

This ca 1920s engine-powered uncapper sitting on top of a radial extractor would have helped to speed the first part of the extraction process.
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This ca 1920s engine-powered uncapper sitting on top of a radial extractor would have helped to speed the first part of the extraction process. Regardless of the size of the beekeeping operation, all honey houses maintain equipment for extracting honey from comb frames.

What's in the Honey House?

Click here to watch the Honey Extraction video

The honey house may be a car garage temporarily set up for honey processing, or a large commercial factory. Either way, the honey house contains the equipment needed to get the honey from the hive frame to a container, and all the steps in between.

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