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Posted: 03 Oct 2020

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Home made honey centrifuge

Home made honey centrifuge

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 Ronald Losure
Ronald Losure club
When I was a teenager I used one of these extractors with my father to extract the honey. Ours was commercially made by the A.I. Root company, but it looked a lot like this one. Thanks for the memories.
3 years ago.
 Annalia S.
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I don't know for sure, but I would imagine the honeycomb gets "stolen" from the bees (which is what always happens when one "gets" honey from them), chopped up up, placed in the center part of the contraption(the part that looks like a cage) and then spun, so the centrifugal force extracts it and you recover the honey from the sides of the bucket. Ingenious, actually!
3 years ago.
 Annalia S.
Annalia S. club
A clever device, Frans! I really like the wooden handle on the spinning wheel. It shows the care for detail that many old farm implements had before everything became industrially made.
3 years ago.
 Keith Burton
Keith Burton club
A fascinating find Frans. This sort of thing is very photogenic. It looks as if it's not been used for some time.

Just out of interest I had a look on-line. There are hundreds of images of this type of machine and they all seem to work in a similar way, except the most modern ones are now electric powered rather than hand powered.
3 years ago.
 Ronald Losure
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You are mostly correct, Annalia. The honey is stolen from the bees. The bees build the comb in wooden frames within a box above the hive. When the honeycomb has been filled and capped, the beekeeper removes the "super" from the hive, taking as few bees as possible. My father would then slice the caps off the combs with a hot knife and put the frames in the extractor. The extractor is then spun, throwing the honey out of the combs into the extractor. The honey-less combs are then replaced in the super, so the bees can refill them without having to rebuild the comb.
3 years ago.

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