Earlier on in the week, Paw and I harvested our spring honey crop. We got three supers full of honey. We took off the supers (which are wooden boxes, that have racks in them for the honey) and smoked the bees out. This, however, would still leave a few bees, so we blew the remaining bees out with a leaf blower. We robbed three different hives, then we took them to be extracted. Below is a picture of our extractor, the racks fit down into a little metal thing that hangs down in the middle of the extractor. Then we put the lid on and spun the racks with a drill which slung the honey out of the racks. 
After we had spun all the racks in one super we would pour all the honey that was in the extractor in a big glass jar which we would pour in the bottler. Then we bottled the honey (through a spout in the bottom of the bottler) into glass jars.
After we had spun all the racks in one super we would pour all the honey that was in the extractor in a big glass jar which we would pour in the bottler. Then we bottled the honey (through a spout in the bottom of the bottler) into glass jars.
We ended up with three different colors of honey out of the three different supers. We finished at about 11:00 PM.~Smokestack
3 comments:
Wow, that's alot of honey ;) It looks good!
~Poppy
Good Job. I know you will do well with that. We love to order our natural raw honey here. Our favorites are Wildflower, Gallberry and Tupelo. We might try Orange Blossom next :o)
That looks DELICIOUS!!!!! Wow! OK, when are these jars going up for sale??
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